skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So only one person instead of two has to suffer through a dreadful commute, you need only one car instead of two, one parent works close to where the kids go to school, etc. If you live in the middle, everything is far away for everybody.

That doesn't mean it's not viable to live in the middle, but I think these are some pretty good arguments why it's often preferable to live close to at least one partner's workplace. Obviously it's not going to work for everybody, but if you're thinking about where to buy your house, this may be worth taking into consideration.
I lived in London, UK for 11 years (renting) before the pandemic so never bothered learning to drive, the public transport there is so prolific it's almost seamless (tube, bus, overground, train, uber etc)

Since moving back into a midlands city and purchasing a house, it quickly became apparent that *not* owning a car was detrimental to quality of life, there's a lot of aspects of home ownership where having a car just makes sense. Going to the DIY store to buy bulky items, going grocery shopping to do a "big shop", moving stuff around etc.

So I got my driving license at 36 years old a few months back. It's kinda awkward learning to drive at this age but I think I took it more seriously when I learnt a little bit at 17.

I'm still in the honeymoon period so quite enjoy the novelty of driving, the independence etc. I guess one advantage I do have with working remotely is I don't commute to work, so all my driving is 100% leisure and I don't drive during the peak/rush hour times.
It's also a way to keep them on, but give them a lower salary increase.
Friction for sure. In most cases (other than trying to find parking where that's difficult) having a car means most of the friction (cost, maintenance) is decoupled from each ride. With other options like train, Uber, etc. most of the friction (cost, waiting, planning) is coupled to each ride.

We tend to take more rides in the decoupled model, I'd think.
No they aren’t. Even the article admits that public transport is shit.

It’s not even about the fact that it’s inefficient or you’re limited to specific routes or that it’s slow.

The core reason it’s so shit is because some trash person can just come on the bus and chef you up for looking at them funny. I don’t have to deal with trash people in my comfy lil car.
geez. how did everything get so crappy
imho, the best resource for this is unix-network-programming from stevens. i would recommend that you start with his tcp-ip-illustrated-vol-1 first, and then progress from there.

other resources are more of a 'tactical' nature, while what you need is something more strategic.
> As I've argued before, the issue here is that invading Ukraine doesn't really make any sense from the Russian perspective.

In the mode of lay person channeling Russian leadership...

Russia is facing a demographic crisis. Their population pyramid is going the wrong way ( https://www.populationpyramid.net/russian-federation/2020/ ). They are on the path of losing population.

What's more, the ethic Russians are declining faster than others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia#Future...

> The ethnic demographic mix of the Russian Federation is projected to change far into the future. The majority population, ethnic Russians, who have been in slight decline since the 1950's will decline further due to a below replacement fertility rate and population ageing. In 2010, rough population projections from Ivan Beloborodov projecting to 2030 estimated that the percentage of Russians within the population would decrease to around 70 to 60% of the total population.

So... how do you fix this? You appropriate a country that is ethnically similar to Russia. If this isn't done willingly, while acting as an occupying force, you deport (import?) the children to Russia which could have the effect of delaying the fertility decline of ethic Russians. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156500561/russia-ukraine-chi...

I fully admit that this is a just so story ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story ) for the reasoning behind Russia's policy towards Ukraine. It is a last ditch attempt by a the ethnic group in power to prop up its future majority in a country that is losing people and if nothing is done to rectify its future will become an (even more) sparsely populated petro-state fracturing on ethic lines where the current leadership would be in the minority... and eghads is that ever a run on sentence.
Resuming work on a stale project
What did those people switch to? I can't imagine browsing without ubo, what other options do I have?
I think that outside of the US the reason is that _in most cases_ you just don’t need cars. They’re more of a hassle and take up a lot of space.
Yeah, I just went check for a new Honda Civic, it's what I think of when I think of "average car" and it's in the 26/27 range.

So it's gotta be partly because preferences have gone towards trucks and SUVs that are not only larger, but more expensive.
Does this affect Firefox on iOS too? Just yesterday I tried to add a website to my home screen but couldn't find the button.
I wish I was the one who cared strongly about this. The people who care most strongly are the ones who like to bring up this topic, and endlessly debate it, even in comments on articles (such as this one) that have nothing really to do with it. You yourself seem determined to provoke a discussion on the subject, here and elsewhere, even though it’s not particularly relevant to my comment or to the article.

I agree that no topic is off limits in principle (and in fact I did not say that this topic should be off limits, contrary to what you suggest). However, some topics attract an overwhelming majority of bad faith participants in the discourse. I have already seen quite enough dispassionate debates on HN on the subject of what exactly is wrong with gay and trans people. I have no wish to fan the flames of another one.

It would be more interesting to debate the causes of heterosexuality. (It’s interesting, for example, that people tend to suggest ‘gene mutations’ as a possible cause for homosexuality but not for heterosexuality, even though any genes underlying human sexuality have presumably mutated many times over our evolutionary history.)
So... China which tries to stop capital flight for some reason also secretly supports technology that results in capital flight and dollarization?
If the point is that those earning more should pay more taxes, that is already achieved by using a relative measure like percentages.

To be honest, I am not exactly sure what the original goals behind progressive taxes are? Is the goal to discourage employers from giving out exorbitantly large salaries? Is it to equalize salaries? Or simply to collect more taxes from those who can afford it? Or something else?

I agree having better criteria around the goals we want to achieve like you suggest should drive our taxation systems. But if we say no taxes for food, is it organic food? What if someone is allergic to common food (gluten, lactose...) and price is significantly higher?

How about basic comforts? By virtue of being significantly taller than average, I have to pay the premium for larger cars simply to be able to fit inside (I still drive a sedan and not a SUV: they don't get more space inside). And need custom beds, taller kitchen counters... All of this is more expensive than mass-produced furniture or smaller cars. And even for "luxury" items like flying long haul, you can't tell me it's fair that for the same price, some people get 4" in front of their knees to the backrest in front, and I get my knees stuck into that same backrest. I understand that from the sellers' perspective, but to get the same comfort, I need to pay more for premium economy.

Basically, progressive tax is an attempt at some form of equalization, but I wonder which one is it, so I can have a better opinion of how we can achieve fairness.

But saying how those who earn more should pay more, when they already do, is simply silly.
Stocks are better for that in every way. If you buy a house you are dependent on political will to arbitrarily keep house prices high while for stocks the political incentives for growth are guaranteed to go in your favour.
Are you using a recent version of F-Droid fennec (which may be fenix instead), and if so does this one support arbitrary plugins? Did F-droid manage to modify it for that?
> If you want to depopulate the country and put everyone in tower blocks in the city - leaving the country for the rich - then just be honest about it.

I don't want to do this. But the fact that you immediately go to the suggestion that I do is emblematic of the "war-on-cars" mentality. Just so much as mention wanting to improve public transit and you get a screed that concludes that I'm an evil person with ulterior motives.

No, public transit doesn't work everywhere. I'm not going to even try to pretend that it does. And consequently, I'm not going to attempt to propose it in places where it doesn't work. So why do the "war-on-car" people so vehemently oppose public transit when its proposed in the places where it very obviously works?
Nothing against you, but...

> "it'll likely create a different level of optical stimulation"

...is a hilariously politique way of phrasing finding someone hot.
Only a small subset of extensions are allowed on mobile. If you use the nightly version of the Firefox app there's an elaborate process you can go thru to allow access to all extensions.
I think the difference lies is how pleasant the tooling/build process are. In the case of C, Go, C#, and other non-web languages, there are comparatively few gripes — the most common being “building takes a long time” with Rust and Swift for example, which is a fairly mild problem. The negative parts of the experience for these languages more often than not get fixed.

With JS, it seems like many of the negatives are much more sticky and refuse to go away. Not sure why. Perhaps it’s related to how that ecosystem has a tendency towards cyclical reinvention of the upper layers while foundational/structural issues get considerably less attention, and so they get swept under the rug more often than they’re fixed, leading them to rear their heads every so often to remind everybody of their existence.
Well the whole point was that there wasn't supposed to be any money in building it. That's why Mozilla is a nonprofit (in theory at least). Originally the idea was that enough companies and individuals would donate to support its development as a common interest, because obviously people want a good private browser, right? Now the status quo has shifted to a big corporation making money off of peoples' browsing habits via closed-source components, and then paying the nonprofit to have a consistently worse browser to prevent a full monopoly.

Mozilla now is best described as a vassal.
Its almost the same everywhere. 90/10 rule, 80% incompetent and 10% somewhat competent
There’s a difference between police investigations and civil/normal entities.

The key thing is to have a policy or practice. If your policy is to purge texts after 7 days, that’s a defensible position. If your behavior is to throw your phone in the river around the time of your communicating about a matter of interest to a litigant, that reflects poorly.
Average car price doesn't make sense to compare to marginal car price. A new Corolla is still 21k.
I created a mindmap of all my tech content
The Rust language in general. Half the time you don't even need to go to the documentation, the compiler hands you relevant chunks.
One of the biggest landlords in Los Angeles just defaulted on $755M
There probably will be intense discussions and debate over this. In a way it's already started. However, in the end $$$ will end up driving all of it's decisions. And I'm not optimistic they will be the right ones.
There are plenty of reliable 15-year old cars. (My wife drives a reliable 18-year old, 225K mile car. We took it on a 1600 mile roundtrip for the winter holidays this year with no particular fear that it wouldn't run like a top for the entire trip.)

The idea that cars are only reliable for 5 years and 60K miles is, IMO and IME, quite out-dated. That was more true in the days of carburetors, points-based ignition, and mazes of vacuum lines. A modern (meaning post-1996 at least) electronic fuel-injected car with electronic ignition and closed-loop fuel control tends towards very reliable for 15+ years and 200K+ miles.
Downsizing personal items can be just a snap away
The After Party: Refactoring After 100x Hypergrowth
The situation is only getting worse, as bootloaders are increasingly locked-down and internal hardware pairing is a thing (hello, Apple, but even AMD has joined that game with Epyc processors getting locked to motherboards). And then there's the soldered-in hardware that can't be replaced without a lot of expense and risk. Preservation at this point is going to be VMs and emulators.

And, in all honesty, while a working PDP-11/70 would be kind of neat, by today's standards it's dreadfully underpowered in speed even as it sucks down the kWh, and requires a lot of space, while SIMH on a modern SBC would run circles around it. A museum is a better place for it than a living room.
It's also meaningless to talk about these things without considering the other costs at play. Even if the car : income ratio remains the same but if the housing : income ratio changes that's going to change if people are buying cars.
All TelCos in all countries have backup of the SMS messages. The key part is for how long and what details.

In the US, for example AT&T is only a couple of days; Verizon, 3-10 days for SMS contents. Everything else like subscriber info, call history, tower location, tower dumps, range-to-tower can be years.

In EU similar patchwork.

(source: me half century in field)
Gitpod self-hosted is back as a community project
Isn't that inevitable given that the vast majority of people aren't autistic?
They don't even sell the old LX trim, it starts at Sport now.
I highly doubt you're going to be running a modern Linux on any hardware connected to a SysV filesystem. You'll want to use an older Linux that can run on 386's with 8MB of RAM, or similar vintage. And those older Linux's aren't going away.
Cool to see the Cilium plugin mentioned!
Read the error message. In full. Google unknown terms, relevant phrases from the message. Don't fix the bug unless its cause is understood.
yeah, it's not clear to me whether the proper way to call the United States is the United States or United states.
hi, author here
happy to answer any questions

another approach that works great is to use `create type`[1] with an `input_function` and `output_function` to build on top of an existing scalar type. For example, using that method would allow semver to be persisted as a string natively. The only downside to that is you have to be superuser.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtype.html
You're correct, for at least a large fraction of the sponsored videos I've ever seen.
Hence, the article...
Tidying up your $HOME with Nix
They weren’t claiming that they had an issue with the article talking about an issue that affects men. They were taking an issue with the framing of the commenter that changed the framing into a “mens issues vs womens issues” thing, which is very distinct from just talking about an issue that only affects a certain subsection of humanity.
> It's yet another sign the standard of living is declining for the young.

Or maybe a reflection of higher expectations? Housing, healthcare, and vehicles are all examples of things that both cost more and are much more advanced than the same version previous generations had.

Also young people are living in cities more than previous generations and those cities are denser. The value prop of a car, price aside is less than it was for previous generations.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here but - If you control the people that run the capital flight operation, then you control who can flight capital. That may be appealing to you if you're a high enough power and want to be able to move your capital but not let the peasants do it.
In the dark of winter, while I work to fill the hours, I troll ebay and Craigslist...looking at the $200 Macs and $400 amigas and $800 Apple ][s and $2000 complete NeXT stations, think it's another hobby that's gotten more expensive faster than I have the stomach for.

I also realize I'll get 95% of the enjoyment by just hitting the emulators at archive.org.

I gifted myself an Amiga Mini500 for xmas and once you play the games, and mess with Amiga Forever for an afternoon, and Amibian for ANOTHER afternoon...that scratch is pretty well itched.
Ha ha good luck with that. Dealers don't actually stock the cheap base models, and most are charging additional mark ups due to limited supply and high demand. If you want to actually purchase a Corolla Hybrid today then your total price out the door including taxes and fees will likely be over $34K.

There are cheaper new cars available, though. You can get a little penalty box like a Mitsubishi Mirage or Nissan Versa for much less.
I think allure of cars for the young has always been that you can drive to where the 'scene' is.. the interesting things.

For GenZ the 'scene' is mostly online. There's no reason to go to a particular place to hang out with friends, meet new people or see something cool, interesting, and different.
Even in the US, cars have an additional expense when living in the city: parking. I didn't even include parking fees in my monthly car ownership expenses calculation. In some US cities parking can be $20-$40 per day. I happen to live in an area where I can purchase parking for $80 per month, but as I said, that's an additional expense you have to tack on to the list. That makes owning a used car a proposition costing over $800 per month!
I remember hearing of someone that had blown out their inner ear and had balance issues. The issue was solved with a gyroscopic plane that sat between their molars and covered the back of their tongue.
This article disagrees with you

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/374-seatt...

“The median gross pay among SPD’s more than 2,000 employees last year was about $153,000, not including benefits, with 374 employees grossing at least $200,000 and 77 making at least $250,000, according to a Times analysis”
I've seen "Into the Inferno", which I assume is one of the films your professor was in (is he Oppenheimer?). Visually spectacular, but Hertzog's commentary overlay and approach made it just...odd. He's a weird dude, but very talented.
plenty of public employees get paid a ton of money - that hasn't gotten us any better people in those positions.
Completely new codebase yeah. The old codebase is known as Fennec and is directly based on Gecko (the browser engine that powers desktop Firefox). All the same advantages. The UI wasn't excellent, but it did the job perfectly well.

The new codebase is known as Fenix and is instead based on GeckoView which isn't an actual browser but rather an library version of Gecko that is intended to replace Androids own System WebView (it was first used in Firefox Focus which was this tiny trackerblocking microbrowser that they offered).

The difference sounds tiny but it feels just... way clunkier to use and there's a bunch of features missing since a WebView browser isn't made with those in mind the same way a regular browser is.

There's just... loads of features missing or not available and the team working on Fenix is blatantly either mismanaged or underfunded. It's so feature-poor that you still can't actually set your homepage to a URL[0] among many other bugs and missing features. It appears to have gotten so bad that they moved the entire issue tracker over to Bugzilla and moved the repo to a new GitHub repo to hide just how feature poor this browser is.

Firefox Fenix is terrible, has been terrible for the past 2 years and I don't understand why they're still developing it instead of shoring up Fennec properly.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551
Oh yeah I wouldn't recommend anyone try this themselves, just find it hilarious that the bank fell for it and that it even held up in court. One of those things that could have only ever happened in that country, I suppose.
Both have roots in Platonism so makes sense they would have significant overlap.
Ah, yes, nothing like running an unaudited application as root for security! Especially love the part where the developer signs with a 1024-bit DSA key and then uses ssh as root to deploy to a public webserver the sparkle updates:

> scp SlothAppcast.xml root@sveinbjorn.org:/www/sveinbjorn/html/files/appcasts/SlothAppcast.xml

The references to "Mac OS X" (now over 10 years old) are the cherry on top.
This is the one I remember (it was lots funnier when I was younger):

Police: Good evening, are you the host?
Host: No.
Police: We've been getting complaints about this party.
Host: About the drugs?
Police: No.
Host: About the guns, then? Is somebody complaining about the guns?
Police: No, the noise.
Host: Oh, the noise. Well that makes sense because there are no guns
or drugs here. (An enormous explosion is heard in the
background.) Or fireworks. Who's complaining about the noise?
The neighbors?
Police: No, the neighbors fled inland hours ago. Most of the recent
complaints have come from Pittsburgh. Do you think you could
ask the host to quiet things down?
Host: No Problem. (At this point, a Volkswagon bug with primitive
religious symbols drawn on the doors emerges from the living
room and roars down the hall, past the police and onto the
lawn, where it smashes into a tree. Eight guests tumble out
onto the grass, moaning.) See? Things are starting to wind
down.
Yes, at least in respect to their status as "privileged beings", the special category we reserve for things which need to be treated as if they are independent beings.
This is just another reason why shared ownership and vehicle as a service is the way to go. It frees up so much resources, I think it has to be the better solution once a critical mass of users is hit.
Also Vanmoof and the BMW of the bicycle world, most people who ride them, do it in a super annoying way.
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HN is different, it seem separate from the rest of Reddit. The comments are almost always informative without karma farmers popping crowd pleasing jokes
Some key facts, like the one you mentioned, aren’t visible if you don’t have a WSJ account.

It’s just a bait headline for a normal cycle. They even say it is just more people included in the 10% because of strong recent hiring increasing the total. What a weird article.
That moves the monthly cost from $780 to $650. That's still an expensive proposition.
I've moved between jobs every 1-2 years for the past 10. I've never been more than an hour away (and that was one job that was particularly far away). In most cases, because we have a good public transit system, I'm within 10-15 minutes by subway or 30/40 minutes walking. I don't even consider it too much. Never moved house.
I've tried a small handful of different bananas (maybe a half-dozen?) and nah. Cavendish is above average. Certainly there are better, and more varieties being available would be awesome, but Cavendish is nowhere near the bottom of the pack.

Red Delicious apples, now, those belong in the dustbin of history :) Perhaps we can do to banana varieties what we did to apples and have nice wide variety to choose from at the store.