skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably most of European citizen live in 6-story high cities, aka Paris, Barcelona, Lausanne… and 6-story is the optimal density for having a lot of choice of officrs (second floors), a lot of commerce (ground floors), and a lot of housing (the rest). With that, you walk or bike to work while still working for a high pay.
And they're using it to TRACK us!

/r/StallmanWasRight
We should set our aim higher than hundreds of millions of people spending six+ hours doing math that IRS has already done. Why not go for a pre-filled return at that point? 90% of the population won't need to do much of anything beyond that.
The goal is not to be able to marry all women that ever existed. The goal is to marry one.
I don't think you even have to analyze that deep.

"Mainstream buyers", who in this day and age, mean CUV buyers - will go to a dealership and lease a new CUV every 3 years. As you said, these are the ones that make money for the manufacturers.

Not the enthusiast who waits 5 years to buy his dream sports car used.
I'm glad people like you are advocating for this sort of thing! Very important for quality of life and helps the environment tremendously.

I also worry about the pace that you mention, it's unfortunate that social change is so slow. It's also good that we have potential solutions that do not require it.

I think the right framing on this might be to treat it as a "friendly competition". Can urban planning enthusiasts beat the electric car industry at reducing carbon by 2050? Or something like that.
I don’t understand what internet users not willing to pay for published content has to do with creating a browser that’s just a browser.

Like Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla did for a long time.
For one thing, it's common for enthusiasts to replace stock components. A serial number stamped onto the frame isn't useful all the time, especially if the frame itself is secondhand. If someone takes your >$2,000 carbon wheelset then you're SOL, likely no matter what.
Good point, let's do that too.
Williams Sonoma always feels like the sky mall catalog; overpriced and basically as crappy. It’s quite annoying to find actually good products- it’s usually still possible but takes some serious digging.
There's a lot of people saying solid wood furniture is more sustainable. I seriously doubt that though. If you like solid wood, and you make sure to take care of it, then I think it's a good choice. As long as not too many of us do it at the same time.

Imagine how much hardwood you'd suddenly have to cut down if everyone started buying these instead of IKEA furniture.

You can use the price as a rough proxy for resource consumption. In my experience IKEA furniture lasts a good fraction of a lifetime. You can buy several for the price of one of these solid wood furniture, and I think you can also buy several before the resource impact is the same as well.

I'm honestly quite impressed with the engineering they're doing with cardboard these days. We have a coffee table and two wall shelves mounted below a TV.. and we have kids. They get treated badly, and they can take it. I hope to replace the coffee table with something nicer one day, but the IKEA one can get a second life in the basement.

The only thing I would have wished was solid wood is our dining table. The veneer is a bit damaged from moisture or heat. If it was solid wood we could've sanded and treated it.

I think the sustainable thing is a combination of IKEAs approach and solid wood. Every solid wood furniture bought will hopefully reduce the amount of trees we cut down over the long term, if they're well taken care of. Eventually it'll reduce the amount of IKEA-style furniture that has to be made. But right now that the population is still growing so much, and we need so much new furniture for new households, I suspect the best thing is to use the fastest growing wood and use as little as possible of it in the furniture.
Indeed. The equivalent Norwegian letters are æ/Æ, ø/Ø, å/Å (in the correct order). And you wouldn't call those umlauts either.
So, brownouts are about to happen?
> How do we upgrade the local grids to have this amperage in each home?

Anecdote alert: The solar panels on my roof generate more power than I use driving my EV. Maybe the future is distributed.
Safari? I don’t know what counts as ‘this bloatware crap’ but if you haven’t looked into it perhaps it could meet your definition.
This seems like a surprisingly fix easy for politicians to swallow compared to the real issue (Intuit and H&R block constantly lobbying for a complex tax code). If a free alternative is available we can slowly suffocate those two bad actors until they lose the money to lobby with and then implement a real solution.
Average commute pre-pandemic was 40mi. Two cars x 40mi round trip is a low enough draw to charge overnight with no rewiring of anything - grid draw is already much lower an night anyway. Mostly this is a grid issue of providing night time power. Ideally as storage offsets from daytime renewable generation.
Plus the ice maker industry would start booming!
Just be sure to scan the in store barcode and make sure it’s not cheaper on target.com; it often is and they you have to ask for a price adjustment after purchase.
I am a Firefox user, and I think it better than the alternatives I'm familiar with, and I think I at least partially know what they are talking about?

I think the "opens tabs all the time telling you how much Big Browser care about your privacy" is primarily referring to the tabs that are sometimes opened when you restart the browser for the first time since a new update has been installed, telling you the sort of stuff that is in the new update, or sometimes talking about other projects they have.

Or like, "hey, try colors" or whatever.

I disagree with their insinuation that the push of their VPN etc. is for a nefarious purpose due to their receiving some funding from Google.
> Googling the stack overflow [...] every time

Don't look basic Unix stuff up on the web. Look it up in your Unix environment. The documentation is self-contained, and accessing it internally is way, way more efficient.

So instead, try one of these:

- use `man lsof`, search 'EXAMPLES' to jump down to the examples section, and search for the word 'port'
- search directly though examples: `tldr lsof | grep -A2 -i port`
- look through your shell history with grep or CTRL+R
- type the first few letters of the command and let history-based autocompletion hint the rest to you

Those options may seem strange if you're not used to them. But if you're not using techniques like that, and instead going to your web browser to look up CLI usage, you don't need to learn the CLI— you need to learn how to learn the CLI. Once you do that, a ton of things will become much easier and quicker for you to deal with.
Sure. This has been a shit show since inception.

And just looking at any US city outskirts is telling.

Also, let’s remember the position of the US in both early WW1 and Ww2.
Faschism & racism are not new additions.

But is it getting better?
How is the trend in regard metrics like Gini coefficient and wealth repartition?

What is better before ? Yes, until the 80s, the IRS and middle class were still a thing.

I wonders what will happen to channel future discontentments. What would be the outlets.

My concern is that once it’s become absolutely clear that upward mobility is broken for most, what will be the recourse of the folks left over in the dust?
What could go wrong?

https://youtu.be/T71cVhxG_v4
https://youtu.be/5r-yN8SugWM
https://youtu.be/_8YClwsWTyU
https://youtu.be/tnNqBgOeCUQ

Might be a few things to iron out...
> Majority of housing in the US is single family homes. Some jurisdictions have mandated EV charging installs at multi family/apartments. More can. Tesla places superchargers in lots of places at grocery stores (conveniently allowing you to charge while you shop)

The US is so backward on EVs it can't even agree on a plug standard for fast charging and there's nothing convenient about incompatible chargers.

If the US wants to be serious about EVs then all chargers must charge all brands all the time on a common plug standard. Tesla's goofy "magic dock" is a half step available on some US Tesla chargers. It would be much better if Tesla switched to CCS type 1 Combo altogether in the US.

The European Teslas are better cars purely because they're on the common plug standard and can charge on any charger with no adapters.
R&B is another good one, added to the list. And yes, local woodworkers are a great option!
Rare is it that I am envied.

Obsidian I've enjoyed, but find it difficult to become fluent with it.
Why do we need AI for this when remote controlled operations would work just fine, especially terrestrially?
Microsoft Announces Q3 Earnings
I think we should have 3 security levels in the browser: Level 1) Static content, no scripting allowed 2) Scripting allowed (like the current state but more restricted) Level 3) App like where you can allow the app to access certain resources.
The TSL shield/lock could have a number in it 1-3 where 1 is the highest level of security. And you have to manually click it to go to level 2 or level 3. Sites would have to use the noscript tag to beg users to enable scripting abilities. Most websites that are not app-like should consider rendering their content statically. Browsers would start out with level 2 as default, but like what has happened with web sites without https/TSL/SSL they would be "shamed" by the lock/shield icon. Unless the site has a security-level 1 header, then the site should load with highest security.
There's nothing less to expect from these fucking commercial browsers from giant companies. For the last 5 years+, I've been steadily noticing how they start small and "innocent", and once they reach a userbase, they will keep coming with shit baked in hard that will leak you to the world, invade you on your face, become a spy in your digital life, or just completely entangle you and make you a product of their open market.
This year I found ustaxes.org (AGPL) which could handle federal taxes. For state I used the same method I've heard Stallman uses. Downloaded the form(s) I needed as PDFs (weirdly hard to find, after getting lost on the official site, I found them on another site that just collects and hosts tax forms) and modified them with xournalpp. The remaining gotcha is that I didn't know how to e-file in a libre way, so I had to print off the documents to mail them. I would very much like to see things improve more in this space. I believe I had very simple taxes, and I didn't much care about how much I got back. I would gladly give up the potential return to not have to do this at all.
1) The differences between transit and car oriented places aren't as great as you think. Poland has 7% fewer cars, France 20% fewer cars, Germany has 24% fewer cars, etc. Poor countries have much fewer cars, people with money generally like personal vehicles.

2) Public Transit will benefit immensely from car electrification. Batteries for busses will get better because of investments and economies of scale made for car battery manufacturing.

3) Buildings and cultural habits have generations-long duration. Even the shittiest houses last 100 years. Cars last 10-15 years, so the vehicle stock will be renewed many many times faster than memes like "rebuild our cities"

4) Autonomous EVs will likewise also arrive far sooner than "rebuilding cities". Cruise operates 24/7 in SF. Their "Origin" EV will be the basis for surface-level public transit in the future.
Best Buy (!!!) has great deals on appliances especially clearance.
Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
> replacing IKEA furniture every 2 years is still a more attractive deal for many people than replacing some higher quality stuff every 15-20 years.

Especially true for those of us living in apartments and moving residences every 3-4 years
Broom > Blower for garage. Blower > Broom for uneven concrete sidewalks and surfaces.
Can I ask what determined you to move away from Zim? I'm currently using it and finding it quite good.
In my recent experience, when IKEA sells a product that is predominantly made of solid wood it tends to be durable, which is how I define quality. The particle board stuff is definitely hurting their brand from my perspective.
The website is Technology Review. If course it's an ad.
Gotta say, while I respect the hell out of repl.it and the product they've built, I simply cannot fathom how they justify a $1.1B valuation for what is at it's core an online coding platform/IDE

In a parallel world, repl.it is a bootstrapped, open source, dev-friendly platform that generating $10-30M ARR in revenue, but in our universe, it's more likely that they'll soon start going the way of once-great tools like Postman, who raised at massive valuations and then had to build out silly "enterprise" features and became much more sales-led companies, all but abandoning their dev-tools roots
>> “pedophiles are the explanation for everything unfamiliar or different from my childhood”

No one said anything even remotely like that.
9 hours and it's still true?
People pay for Windows, MacOS iOS and Android based devices. Presumably they’re also paying for the software that runs those devices, ie the OS. And does anyone think that a web browser is not a core part of an OS today? Certainly MS doesn’t.

So yeah, MS is being paid for their browser. But a trillion dollar valuation is simply not enough.
I'm sure it works great when you're travelling /s
no, you are missing the usary aspect of market forces, where getting more talent giving fewer privileges for $PAY is the stated objective. People who practice skilled work are blind to business motives to abuse skilled work specifically, because "why would you do that." The commoditization of replaceable "skilled" work roles, with increasing oversight and metrics, is absolutely a factor in high tech.
The only tractable Prisoner's Dilemma is the iterated one...
Would be interesting to see expert analysis, but I imagine it's really hard to know how every player will react.

As (if?) likelihood of a demand collapse increases, I imagine some fraction of potential suppliers with ~easy/cheap oil left would have a healthy incentive to open up the supply for as long as it takes to force everyone with ~hard sources to wind down, leaving them to price-set the long-tail?

Hopefully the price of any PoW crypto is sufficiently low that it doesn't make marginal economic sense for any players to extract-and-mine?
Yeah, the Bolt was the closest "domestic" vehicle to what I wanted (yesterday-ish), but I smartly figured to hold out as I thought the writing was on the wall as the last "Voltec" platform car (all of GM's newer EVs are "Ultium" platform) in GM's stable. (Ford has no plans for a car and Teslas all look like Oldsmobiles in a over-sized "land yacht" way to me, even the Model 3.)

I got excited and added myself to the Aptera waiting list to at least hope for an underdog in the US to mix things up. But family keep wondering if I should get something more practical like an imported Polestar 2 or Hyundai Ioniq 6.
how do you do that, also through qodem or ?
There does seem to be a lot going on right now on the solid-state battery front:

https://www.electrive.com/tag/solid-state-batteries/

In particular, more on the sodium-ion battery discussed by Munro:

https://www.electrive.com/2023/02/23/hina-launches-sodium-io...

The ICE will probably go the way of the Stanley Steamer for cars and trucks in the relatively near future. Those fossil-fueled steam engines were surprisingly capable, incidentally:

> "A Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile (28.2 seconds) in 1906. This record (127 mph or 204 km/h) was not broken by any automobile until 1911" (wiki)
A former employer still insists on using Xmodem-1K even though Ymodem is almost the same and provides so many quality of life improvements with the header block. It was endlessly annoying to have to manually tell the receiving end the file size and name when a simple upgrade would obviate the need.
No Gomer Bolstrood?
The fact it's decentralized isn't the issue. Everything is decentralized if you look close enough. It's jure pure network effects. Twitter has like 20 competitors right now and none of them is outshining the rest, including Mastodon. This confuses people and makes them stay at Twitter.

If there was JUST Mastodon, and one decent client for each platform... well... there wouldn't be Twitter anymore.
why would I want my furniture to last 20 years? My wife will cycle pieces after 5-10 because she wants something new.

We also have moved ikea couches multiple times and they are fine. It is easy to get replacement cushions when the kids spill stuff on the couches and when the wife decides she wants to get rid of it, it doesnt bother me. We have had our ikea for 6-7 years now, but before that we had very expensive louis shanks furniture and when her tastes changed to modern we got rid of it all.

She wants to change the dining room furniture, but at 1K per chair with 12 chairs that is not happening.
No, the ideal interview is to ask them questions about what type of problems they've solved before and ask them to walk through what they did. Also, have a conversation with the person to get to know a little bit about what they're looking for in a job/company. It's an interview, not a tryout.

Metrics like a 10 minute task, or a 30 minute task is all relative. Do they know they language, the IDE, the operating system, the documentation, any experience in whatever abstract problem topic you choose, and personal comfort levels will all come into play.

If you want to filter someone to do a very specific thing then post to hire a contractor with the specifics of what you need. If you want a developer that can grow within your organization then pop quizzes area good way to dismiss good candidates.
That is comprehensive, but I believe I benefit from the current system in the US.

There is no one single professional, bureaucrat, or representative that understands the simultaneous and interrelated parts of the tax code.

And from I can tell, telling people what compliant thing you found almost guarantees that it changes.

There is an incentive to let the rest of people operate in ignorance and disbelief, while they squabble over “fair share” without defining what that is.
Microsoft hasn't been serious about charging users for Windows in a while. Free upgrades to Windows 10, free access to ISOs or tools to generate ISOs, and the penalty for an unlicensed install is no desktop background and a small watermark if you can't manage to trick windows into thinking it's licensed.

Yes, OEMs pay for Windows; probably businesses pay for Windows. It's pretty clear they've gone to an ad-supported model whether they're honest about it or not. And of course, paying for the product doesn't mean they won't suplement invoice revenue with advertising revenue.
I bought a similar website on transferslot sometime ago for $15000. Later I realized I dont have time between day job, kids and general family life to pursue this business further. I let it die :(

Luckily, for $15000 I figured out I am bad at business.

Lesson for you: Unless you have done some amount of business/customers/sales/marketing before, dont spend such a big amount of money on your first venture.
Firefox has some foundational bugs, one of which was not being able to keep my bitwarden session in the extension in Private Windows.
Respectfully, I disagree. Google and Bing both deliberately pollute their own search results based on advertising and SEO. This is a user-hostile practice that they can get away with because of inertia and oligopoly. At some point, they will become so user-hostile that an alternative will become appealing.

For example, a search engine that made a good-faith effort to filter out SEO-optimized junk like listicles and slideshow "articles" would be extremely interesting to me. Bonus points for allowing me to permanently blacklist entire domains from search results.
This is a typical code snippet:

final class Gtk.Label : Gtk.Widget
implements Gtk.Accessible, Gtk.Buildable, Gtk.ConstraintTarget {
/* No available fields */
}

What language is that in?
Having a code review policy is like having speed limit signs on the motorway.

Without enforcement, you can make the argument that speed limits don’t save lives because everyone drives as fast as they can anyway.

Same thing for code review. If it’s not policed by management, then it does nothing.

I saw one place that would send alert emails if a commit was approved too fast, assuming that someone must have had it insta-approved by a friend as a favour.
Well, sure, but these are two different things. I agree we should do both.
> A very large chunk of the country moved to mining towns in the 70s and 80s to take advantage of the Soviet Union equivalent of FIRE[1]. Those pensions are a crushing burden upon the government

Sources?
In particular, what proportion of the population?

When were the attempts to reduce the pensions?
Don't forget your gas bill. My 2013 truck gets 13 MPG. An EV plugged into my house with 100 KWH costs about $14 to fully recharge -- roughly 3 gallons (39 miles!) of gas' worth.
He means Goodenough
popular isn't necessarily decent.

The decent part was inherited from 20 years ago. The new UI changes have generally been detrimental.

It got to a point where I'm contemplating (but too lazy) to switch my gaming PC to Linux
These are, unfortunately, luxury goods. I don't want them to be. There was a time when they weren't. But they're now luxury goods. The masses have to suffer Ikea - it's all we can afford. The above stuff is for the upper classes.
They didn’t have groceries and they weren’t quite as “upscale” and were busier, if I remember correctly. But I don’t mind them much. Except for pricing stupidity.

Also toys are much bigger now because Toys R Us died.
> Earlier this year, Apple launched a feature allowing residents of participating U.S. states

The state has to participate… The article lists 3 states, and a bar isn't a state.
why did what we would presume are fairly professional level engineers and scientists at JPL (at least not working for TV "documentaries") write a whole paper called "DEFENDING HUMAN CIVILIZATION FROM SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS" which has all of its emphasis on Yellowstone?

https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/sites/default/file...
I'm not sure about this approach. From what I have seen, most researchers have no idea how to get their data in a format which can be efficiently analysed.

Once you have that, it's trivial to do any kind of statistical analysis. In R, a regression is simply lm(y ~ x1 + x2 + ... + xn).

You can always look up how an API works, but thinking about data in terms of structures is what hinders effective analysis in most cases.
Does this also release the port? I sometimes have an application listen on a port and when I kill it, the port is still reserved or blocked for a minute or two.
Poor people don't need professional help. There's certainly any industry telling people that they need professional help, but honestly, poor people just take the standard deduction, and if they have kids the Earned Income Tax Credit.

If you can read a W2, and can do basic arithmetic, you're done. As my parents said years ago, "You think it's really that hard when they just grab a bunch of people off the street, stick them behind a folding a table call them H & R Block?"

It's only when you start having to deal with itemized deductions, self-employment, multiple investments, and all the stuff that quite frankly poor people can't afford, do you start to need help, and even then, the filing isn't that big of a deal. It's the structuring to reduce taxes prior to tax day that's complicated as hell.
Bone chilling.
System76-Scheduler 2.0
it's almost never a simple function of population. One example: between 2010 and 2020 population of Latvia dropped by about 10% while the house prices have doubled.