skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in the US my whole life and even _I_ think America's car culture is bananas. Here are a couple of loosely-related rants.

Almost everywhere in the world, cars are a means to get around and occasionally carry things. But in the US, cars are status symbols first and transportation second. We're conditioned to buy as much car as we can afford via advertising, cultural pressure, and low-interest loans. Or even to buy cars when we don't actually need them. (If you live in a city with a subway, you don't actually need a car, you just want one. Your family probably does not need a car for every member of the household. Etc.)

Our mass transit is in a shambles because of the insanity of car culture. Except for a few HCOL cities, mass transit is essentially considered to be a service for the poor.

Gas prices in the US are embarrassingly low. They are subsidized by the government in various often invisible forms, at the behest of the oil and auto industries. The auto industries have an interest in keeping gas prices low because it means they can convince buys to pony up for ever-increasing vehicle sizes. The "true" price of gas nowadays is somewhere north of $7-8 a gallon and that's not including the inevitable cost of cleaning up the atmosphere, whenever we decide to get serious about that.

Where I grew up in the 80's and 90's, you were either a Chevy or a Ford person. Weirdest form of brand loyalty ever. I didn't even know foreign brands sold cars here until after I graduated high school and started seeing more of the country. I never moved back but I visit every few years and there are still no foreign dealerships outside of the major cities.

I really want to like electric cars (and trucks, sure) but I don't like that you don't really "own" them. I don't know of any that you can buy that don't require signing up with the manufacturer and having to install an app on your phone, or have the car permanently connected to the cloud via mobile network, just to drive and charge the damn thing.
Hopefully this prompts some battery alliances to form. Rather than everyone going out & certifying their own packs, there should be a couple standard form factors, that ebike makers pick from & use.

A year ago, Honda Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha teamed up for a motorcyle-scale battery effort, under a new company name Gachaco[1]. Their first effort seems to be based on the Honda Mobile Power Pack battery. That's a partial example. But just making a real standard, that anyone can use, still seems far off here. But now seems essential to keeping costs under control.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/honda-kawasaki-suzuki-and-yam... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30874219
Thanks!

Alex, cofounder here, 100% agree with you on the link sharing and that was the feature for us that was always missing.

We've got big plans for this, so we're really excited to get this beta live and start receiving feedback.
Yeah, distributed systems at the global scale are very very difficult - at least with the Heroku style problem, you'd be looking at scaling in a single datacenter I think - deployments to multiple datacenters wouldn't share dependencies.

I do wonder however if they'd be better off using less l33t tech - do almost everything on Postgres vs consul and vault, etc. Scaling, failover, consistency, etc is a more well-known problem and there are a lot of people who've ran other DBs at tremendous scale than the alternatives.

Simplicity is the key to reliability, but this isn't a simple product, so idk.
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> If your complaint is that you need to be a millionaire to get basic housing, it's because you live with other rich people.

Hawaii would like to have a word with you, unless you suggest every single non-rich local would just have to move to the mainland. I believe the cheapest home I've seen available, where the neighbors aren't cooking meth, is probably in the $500-600k range and going up.
> I'm saying if they're breaking shit in patch release

You just assumed this, but this isn't true. Bevy uses semver like most of the rust ecosystem.

The warning is just telling people that the breaking changes will be frequent. It doesn't mean they will be in a patch release. I don't understand what's to be confused about here. Bevy never specified any custom release strategy because there isn't one, it's just semver like almost everything else in rust.
> Not recognizing that they are the problem.

How are they the problem? They bought one house and occupy it as a family. That's fair play by anyone's measure, I'd think.

If more other people want to move into the town than there are units of housing for them and, as a result, bid up the housing that's available, it's not the fault of the people in the town who bought one house 10 years ago and have lived in it for those 10 years.

We bought our place in 2007 (and lived in it continuously). It's worth roughly 2x what we paid for it. That's a CAGR of just under 5% per year. Was that a good investment? Hard to say, but let's look: The S&P total return was a CAGR of 8.5% over that time, but would have been 8.5% CAGR on X (downpayment amount) or about +2.4X. The house was 4.8% CAGR on 5X or about +5.4X.

Along the way, we've spent around 0.8X on repairs, improvements, and maintenance that I can think of and around 1.1X on taxes and insurance. Mortgage interest (after taxes) was another several X. Our house is vastly more pleasing to live in than our old apartment was and we've had two kids and a dog here comfortably for 15 years. The non-financial aspects dominate the financial aspects, but for a property that's appreciated about inline with inflation, it's been OK financially and great psychologically.
Sometimes they'll be modtracker files (a handful of short samples + playback information)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
Virginia didn't offer them much, except Arlington County, which through a few hotel tax breaks at them.

VA got the nod because it's right outside of DC and the Pentagon. AWS wants that GovCloud money, and Bezos wants to be near the Washington Post / Congressmen. And for that reason VA didn't have to pander too hard.
even simpler, I have always wished that JSX/JSX-alikes would serialize to something like a tuple like `(tag: string | Component, attributes: Record, children: List)`, so your example would start looking something like this:

<div class="example">
<h1 id="heading">This is an example</h1>
<h2>creating React markup</h2>
<AnotherComponent foo="bar">
<li>
<a href="http://whatever.com">One list item</a>
</li>
<li>
Another list item <hr />
</li>
</AnotherComponent>
</div>

would translate to something like this:

["div", {"class": "example"}, [
["h1", {"id": "heading"}, ["This is an example"]],
["h2", {}, ["creating React markup"]],
[AnotherComponent, {"foo": "bar"}, [
["li", {}, [
["a", {"href": "http://whatever.com"}, ["One list item"]],
],
["li", {}, [
"Another list item",
["hr", {}, []],
],
],
]

and that all Rux/JSX/hyperscript/whatever would compile down to that
Replace 'computers' with 'open source software' and you are something closer to an uncomfortable truth. Open source has been critical to the advancement of our world but people who go out of their way to use and encourage open source past the basics (even fdroid or Firefox not even getting to hardware and full software stacks) are treated as oddballs even by the tech community.
Lots of pseudo-truck SUVs have horrible stiff suspension all the time. Moreso when coupled with fashionabe low profile tires.
Yes we think they pair well together too. I believe the ball is in your court though. ;)
If someone is not already using the holy trinity (AWS/Azure/GCP) there is probably a reason.
I learned Rust (and frankly, most of programming) with Bevy :) It was a good experience, although I definitely recommend learning the basics from the Rust Book as you go to reduce frustration and confusion.

In simple game code you don't need to write your own traits, use unsafe, and like laundmo says, the borrow checker pains are way easier than in most Rust codebases because there's already a nice architecture in place.
I really wish this left join into union all optimization was applied automatically. There have been multiple discussions on the mailing list over the years, and no movement last I saw. It is such a performance cliff for the type of queries people expect to write when they hit an issue.

Having to decompose and rewrite as a union all manually, frankly sucks. I've got a number of these in my application and had to find each and every one by hitting a pathological data case where things started to fail.
According to https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-acknowledges-10-cpu-usage... it looks like a telemetry plugin called NvGSTPlugin.dll is responsible.

I killed the container and moved the file and the problem seems to not be recurring. My next step will be to find a solution that rips all telemetry out of the nVidia drivers.
But you don't consume content, that's meaningless. When you consume something, it is used up and disappears entirely.
Show HN: Shedio – gamified music learning app
Hi all,

I started Shedio in the middle of COVID lockdown two years ago. As a full-time software engineer and a former full-time musician, I decided to make something helping me stay motivated practicing and that included a collection of tools I used in my daily routine.

I shared it with a couple of friends, but eventually stopped working on it and never got too serious about it.

Over the weekend a friend wrote me that he's still on it, so I decided to share it here; maybe it helps somebody else staying motivated
Describing a set of societies that featured large scale human sacrifice as in any way communal or egalitarian is bordering on deranged. Even examining them purely economically, they were often heavily based on extracting and centralizing resources from weaker communities subjugated through violence.

Hämäläinen's book is widely thought of as trying to stretch a pretty weak and biased historical narrative, and presents a far from universally accepted view of history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/05/indigenous-c... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/arts/indigenous-continent...
Nix journey part 1: My grand unified theory of Nix documentation
Honestly the "insider" even talking about "protecting" people from trolling and state co-ordinated misinformation(?) in the same sentence as protecting them from csam makes it very hard to believe it's something genuine.

Sounds like the people who say all the petty things they dislike about someone on the internet and then finishes with "he's a pedo" to add gravitas.(yes elon does fall into this category)
Sounds like you need to try getting a hold of someone higher up then? Could work.
> […] but every time I need to carry trash or dirt, make home depot runs, or move furniture I wish I had a truck.

If you actually read the article, you'll see that—going by usable length—pickup trucks are generally no longer thing-haulers but people-haulers, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of their form factor.

If you want general hauling space/volume, your best best seems to be a (mini)van.
The EFF's 2020 take on this is still pretty good:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/tiktok-ban-seed-genuin...

In addition to that, I think its hypocritical, with how much the U.S. (rightly) goes on about internet censorship in other countries. And its a terrible precedent.
I've been building a Javascript server that implements Hotwire/Turbo lately powered by JSX templating (not React!) and minimal client-side JS. Its a wonderful dev experience but this might make me port those ideas back to Ruby. The rest of Rails is just too good to pass up.
New York City. New York State, once you get outside the city, is a fairly average state with a lot of rural area that has moderate-to-low cost of living.

I would venture to say that more land area of California is in the "unaffordable to average people" range than that in New York, either as an absolute or as a percentage of the state.
Clownish from apple people to complain about other companies protecting their engineering secrets.
Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perk
Do you have a guide in mind?

If it's sorting and sifting and clicking a bunch of stuff in the console, that's not painfully simple. If it's some easy cli commands, I think that's in the ballpark...
Only if you assume a fall would be the first encounter with this UI element on an Apple device, that is extremely unlikely.

Though a return to a little bit of depth in interface design would help. Even plain tappable buttons often have zero affordance these days.
It was, thank you!
One implication though, is that LLMs can currently come up with novel mixes of existing ideas. It might be a good blender, integrating different pieces into a new whole.
This is so true. My company uses an Excel-Macro like tech in the product that empowers our customer-care and presales people to actually create features themselves for the user - it is awesome. Not because of the tech itself, but because they understand and can make it so much simpler, faster and iterate 5 times with the customer through the first week of the pilot. For the cost of _asking_ a developer how long it would take to do. What do you think, who gets the contracts even with better margins?
It sounds like they need more money to scale the shared stack
... while avoiding unprocessed foods and sugary drinks.
Learn stuff don't "consume content" FFS
You'll make more at any big tech as entry level engineer.

I made ~190k on my W-2 after first year at Microsoft.
The sad reality of it is such expensive neighborhoods as we see on east and west coasts, don't actually _feel_ luxurious - there's barely enough infrastructure and convenience associated with them, compared to living far away. The standard of living just isn't as high as the price.
9 million books and 10k students - Unrealistic.
Thanks for the precision
but that's the issue. most sims are designed after american cities
What keeps Twitter up as a major social network is not %99.99 uptime. It's strong network effects in play.

What will sink Twitter is not %99.8 uptime. It's those network effects fading away.

For example, if people stopped using MySpace, Facebook, etc it was not because of their availability.

Again, I'm not saying this is cool. Im just saying if that extra %0.2 downtime (in short term) costs you 80% of your work force costs, a business manager may consider that acceptable.
As with all these articles, the title and main premise are misguided and/or imaginary, but there are some worthwhile nuggets.

The superposition of possible attitudes is a good one. Even if that's not the way LLMs "actually" work, it's descriptive of the possibility space from our perspective. And the dive into narrative theory + the stickiness of opposites is nice. Narratives have their own momentum in a "stone soup" kind of way - everyone who hears it participates and adds fuel to the fire. Even rejecting the narrative gives it validity in a price anchoring / overton window way.
The work-around is to use the 5-Eyes strategy[1], instead of my friend in Florida reporting about DeSantis and his evils, I can do so quite safely from Indiana, in turn my friend can write about the idiots in Indianapolis on my behalf.

The 1st Amendment might not apply within the state of Florida, but it certainly does across state lines. (For now)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s...
I asked Bing AI to write a story in the tone of famous writers
The results were hilarious yet impressive..
Here's a post explaining how they do it https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
> You appear to have no vested interest in someone who claims to have benefitted from therapy, and it’s very apparent you don’t see a therapist yourself.

I could replace therapy in that sentence with chiropractics or acupuncture and it would express an equally meaningless platitude.

> Suggesting that the recent decades of funding and research in the general psychology domain haven’t yielded good results is humorously ignorant.

And yet if we look at populations (as we do to benchmark real medicine) in much of the western world deaths from despair are up, depression and anxiety are up, population happiness is trending down. What a testament to those decades of research.

> From this perspective, you “having a problem” with it makes you look like a sociopath

This is a clear violation of HN rules, I suggest you take a look at them. What I have a problem with is people being duped into spending tons of money by charlatans. People in need spend money on tons of things they are convinced help them (supplements, psychics, acupuncture etc), that isn't evidence of their utility.
20 years of DoD led wars -- and another uptick because of Ukraine and supplying them -- means that there is a lot of $$$ for NoVA tech workers.

Like, the recession happened... but Iraq or Afghanistan didn't stop...
Mid-size trucks like the Tacoma and Ranger are fantastic imo. They are perfect for 95% of "truck stuff".

The full-size category has really become about excess, which I think this article is getting at.
As the web business model is based on ads user experience isn't that important. I'm curious on the monetization model of new prompt based search engines. Ads dominating first pages of search won't be possible anymore. The adoption of new engines also wouldn't be as fast as many think, people habits die slow. So they still have time to think of a way to make money. Alphabet needs some competition. They became stale in the last 10 years.
I'm struggling to see their POV on that. The deal got them $54 for their options, which is a much better deal (probably by more than 2x) than they would have got anywhere else.
I'll throw in the 180K mortgage interest and the mortgage insurance which I also forgot and wager I still come out ahead. Rent would be somewhere between $750K to $1M over that time and none of it is returned.

Since we control our mortgage, we paid it off early, at around 15-16 year mark (due to my wife making me realize the importance of it). We live rent and mortgage free the rest of our lives thank God. I only wish I'd kept either of our 2 former houses instead of taking better job offers requiring moving ultimately to the bay area where we couldn't afford to buy a home. Texas is nice though!

My Dad always said, buy a house as soon as you can.
In all but the most remote places you can rent a truck or van nearby. Home Depot rents them for $20. They’ll have a much longer bed than your truck. I usually get one with a ten foot bed, flip down sides and ramps built-in. I did the math and to make a truck more affordable than renting I would have to be hauling things almost every single day.

When I need to buy furniture, we get a u-haul box truck which is really the best for moving that type of stuff. You can do it anytime of year, in any weather, it’s huge, and everything is easily secured.
Carbon and environmental externalities get displaced along with the manufacturing/industrial base.

If you buy "stuff", you participate in the exploitation of nature.
They're repeating it because it is the truth you don't want to hear or fix and that's the problem.

It has been 7 years since Mastodon has been around and it is no better than where it was before since little to no-one has bothered to stick around or even know where to sign up. Twitter had beyond 10 million+ daily active users in 7 years, yet with Mastodon it only has spikes of users that don't stick around for years.

Like Facebook, it looks like the Twitter network effect has never been more strong; even when it goes down.
Generally I agree with this statement, but this comment seemed a bit off:

> I never moved back but I visit every few years and there are still no foreign dealerships outside of the major cities.

Of the 10 most popular cars in the US, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10 are foreign brands:

https://insurify.com/insights/most-popular-cars-2022/
The entire city of pittsburg has ongoing lead in tapwater scandals. To a lesser extant so has the entire state of Milwaukee.

That is already millions, but...

Flint still has problems. Brady Texas has radium, Washington DC has intermittently had Lead. It is entirely on well owners to test and maintain their own water. New Jersey leads the country in BPA in water, some of which is safe, but the advice is to check with each municipality if it is safe....

And so on for all kinds of places and reasons. We just don't take tap water seriously as a country even though it wouldn't be a hard problem for us to solve.
We love cars because when we travel, we want privacy. Mass transit might be good but it is something which goes against American individualism. I don't want to smell someone else's body odour throughout a 5 hour journey.
This idea is well over one hundred years old (closer to two!) [0]. Back when it was conceived of, solutions were proposed alongside the problem.

To use more in-vogue economic terms, the increase in value of housing is typically a result of positive externalities. The government adding taxes to the system to allow it to account for the externality is a very reasonable method of dealing with this problem.

It doesn’t solve the problem for everyone who bought into the pyramid scheme, though. Personally, though, I don’t have much sympathy for people using homes as more than a home.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearned_increment