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your opinions in this thread have been flagged so many times I can't vouch for them anymore.

you really need to take a class to improve your poor reasoning skills.
UX decisions are not humanitarian crises. Full stop.
Howard Buffet’s Oligarchic Playground in Small-Town America
>> Why is that relevant?

It was relevant to me, I was reading the other thread that dang brought up and it reminded me that I had read this article yesterday and it seemed like something that would be interesting to other people also which is why I posted it.
I have a prolific block list on Xitter. An automated tool to find and block the inherently blockworthy is welcome.
A web app in Gatsby. They force you to throw away half of what you know about programming and rely on their crappy mental models for developing websites
> Experienced developers understand that programming languages are just tools each with their own trade-offs.

Which is literally what the article said.
I spoke to the owners of the last 3 Airbnbs I stayed in. All of them were converted from long-term rentals. The landlords in all 3 cite much higher profits from Airbnb as the reason for conversion.
I didn't even think it was realistic to get above 200k CAD in Canada, but now it's not even realistic to land a job. Strange time in this country. Beautiful summer here in BC though :)
> why did you loose an interest?

Two reasons:

1. The posts I'd find most interesting in the site are ones related to astronomy and applied machine learning. If there wasn't anything on astronomy (or physics) then I probably wouldn't use the site in the long run.

2.HN is a news aggregator. Most links that reach the front page have something interesting to offer. If I can't access the part of the site I find interesting, then I'll like go back to HN and find another post. (This isn't something I'd love to admit, but oh well.)
It seems you are a decade ahead of Switzerland, where the most common heating system is still an oil/gas furnace and installing a split AC unit requires permissions from the municipality. In some places they are even subjected to restrictions on operating times,as a tenant you can forget about AC unless you move to a very new Minergie unit. Now people are warming up to heat pumps but it seems the wider public fails to understand split AC units are nothing but mini heat pumps
My intuition is that it's not possible to have an open platform like substack where the majority are making enough to live off. Imagine that was currently the case. People would see the platform as easy money and jump in. The quality of the median writer would drop, as would the median income, until the perception that it was easy money reduced enough to stop people joining.
I’m not a doctor, but you should see one if you’re shitting in the street.
I wonder how Singapore never gets into this list with their maids and helpers and builders living in dormitories.
Magic Earth
Reflective Paint Brings Down Scorching City Temperatures
I’m pretty sure that homeless folks are the main reason some areas (generally urban) have few public restrooms. If someone decides they’d rather hang out or sleep in your restroom than on the street, the headache associated with offering a public restroom rises dramatically.
Right, and instead of companies promising safety they can't deliver, it would be better to just be honest about the fact that it is hard.

And again, to take it a level further -- I would absolutely use a company's software under one, and only one condition -- indemnity/warranty.

Any company that is willing to go "If you get breached, we will pay for the harm" can absolutely take my money.
“Boosting engagement” is a phrase makes me want to barf
Sadly Frayn will always be tarred in my eyes having been subjected to Spies in GCSE(? A-level? It all blurs together) English.
I’m thinking more about how to build something out of wood that’s interesting, but I love that speaker idea. Headphones do get tiring pretty quickly for me.
You're confusing a prohibiton on speech with behavior you can get in trouble for.

Let's say you put out a fraudulant ad selling a bridge. You can be sued, the FTC can sue you, and there could (unlikely) be jail time for you.

What the Government can't do is say you're prohibited to take out an ad until they approve it - which is exactly what happened with covid. The Whitehouse abused it's power to prohibit speech being made - it didn't sue someone for eg selling a false cure.

Part of the problem is the process. When I sue you for fraud, we go in front of a judge. I have to prove you're engaged in fraud - the burden is on me. If we prevent any unapproved ad from being posted by Government power, there is no due process and the burden of proof shifts to you that you aren't breaking the law. That's not how our justice system works.
> Effective October 1, 2023, the CMP’s new yearly limit on M1 Garands will be 6 per calendar year.

Fascinating.
Well, except for Hong Kong, Singapore and Tel Aviv. Which is to say, while it's definitely a problem in the Anglosphere, it's not limited to it.
i bought a gas water heater this year. my old one was leaking with no way to stop the leak without turning off water to the house. to put in a heat pump water heater ($5-6k) and get the subsidies ($4-5k) i would also need to hire an electrician. and get permits. to run a high voltage dedicated line. this would have taken weeks to schedule and complete and cost nearly $10k upfront with maybe half getting paid back later. not exactly a good solution with leaking water

i paid $2700 and had it done the same day
Not depressed but just makes me question the value of our existence. If we are truly able to create machines with our intellectual potential, where does that leave us? Do we compete with the machines in a rat-race for a chance at happy existence? Or will we create a utopia where the machines do the difficult work and allow for an enjoyable existence for all. The people who are rooting for LLM's are hopefully working towards the latter but not sure if that is just wishful thinking.
Might you be using an unusual configuration, like having changed an OS privacy setting where the weaker default is relied on by the app for a persistent session, or is this bug a consensus among all users?
Where is evidence that the government suppressed discussion about aerosols?

The article you linked about speaks only about believing.

Yes they didn't believe it but that is a very different situation.

Also I will point out that a huge portion of people believe the lockdowns were ineffective which is the only solve for aerosols.

EDIT: I will agree that the origin story was suppressed too much, given the uncertainty and some questions without disinformation in them were removed in the cross fire. But I hadn't heard heavy handed responses to aerosol theories.
Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost
How about 'none of the the above'.
Flagrantly violating a multimillion dollar bond agreement 3x by tampering with witnesses and therefore being unable to access digital equipment to prepare your case? Subsisting off bread and peanut butter and running out of ADHD meds because of same said violations of the terms of your pre-trial release? Still being given access to highly competent legal representation, access to a computer, and given multiple hearings to renegotiate your pre-trial re-release despite major violations the first time?

No, I don't think many people fall in that bucket.
So they lose a bunch of money on transaction costs by billing daily…why?
The latter. To think otherwise is to ignore thousands of years of human history that has consistently proved it through many different forms of government. Whatever the initial idea of any new system of government might be, after a few generations it degenerates into serving the elites first and foremost. The problem is human nature.
On the one hand, there are always going to be changes with upgrades that break things, even if not intended -- especially when apps inadvertently rely on undocumented API behavior.

But on the other hand, that's a well-known difference between Apple and Microsoft philosophies. Microsoft bends over backwards to support old software (e.g. hard-coding old buggy/undefined behavior for specific legacy apps), while Apple fully expects app developers to maintain their software and upgrade it as necessary with each new iOS release, using new versions of libraries etc.

I don't think either is "correct", they're just different philosophies. The Microsoft way leads to incredibly complicated OS behavior that must be hell on the Windows devs. But if you develop an iOS app, you should know this going into it, that you'll need to budget for a certain level of occasional maintenance or risk that the app breaks.
Sorry, but as I approach 40, 20-23 years ago does seem like a long time. It went by in the blink of an eye, though.
Thank you. Yes, I agree that it's a good idea to look for companies that create divided systems based on RISC-V. It's primarily these I've had trouble to identify :)
My Guitar->microphone->audio recording app model of music production doesn't even require knowing what a "DAW" is, yet works fine for me and others.
Now, where's the "It's like HN, but for hackers?"

:)
That's like saying that I have a visa because I can just make sure my next job has a visa.
And you can get a lot more creative than that. Even paying them, verifying your identity for them, etc. See the thread from the last time I mentioned this for a few ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32862891
Depending on age, some Hawking would be good
A Samsung 55" Curved - they stopped making them as I suspect they moved their production capacity over to higher margin curved monitors, but it's great if you can find one.
More people should talk about carbon negative concrete.
No, the issue happens because it is not one of the top cryptocurrencies, so few people withdraw that asset. It is not isolated to a random person it is connected to specific low liquidity assets.
Wireless keyboards solve exactly one problem: needing to type far away from a machine. That problem is extremely narrow and doesn't apply to 99% of cases where you need a keyboard.

My keyboard doesn't move often, and only a few inches across the desk. The wire isn't a problem.

Mice, however, I will always take wireless. You have to drag a wire around, and it always gets snagged on the crap on my desk. Wireless mouse actually solves a real problem you see in most setups.
> now the site is not even up

Well, we're up, no worries

> than just going to HN

This is true, but HN is not focused on science
The housing market is highly interconnected, as people sell homes in expensive areas and thus drive up prices when they compete for homes in less expensive areas. This creates a ripple effect as those new markets show price gains, and owners in those areas can sell their homes and move to other further-flung areas.

So yes, there are regional differences but they impact each other and can broadly be considered a single market.
New construction in Germany is insanely well insulated -- by law. But we have a huge existing base of old construction that takes ten times as much energy to heat up or more.

You can't just hear all that down, and improving the insulation is expensive, more expensive than just installing a new heating system. Think at least 50k EUR for a small house, five to ten times as much for a typical inner city large, multi tenant building.
Is it really the "film camera" or might the reaction to a DSLR be similar?

(Carrying anything more than a smart phone.)
Who are they going to sell to for more at 8% rates?
I don’t know what to say other than that is obviously and completely incorrect and anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history should know that.
I am a bit torn on this.

I feel like we often complain about companies making money via ads and that we should pay for what we use, and yet when a company tries to do exactly that we turn against it?

There is a lot to be said about Twitter and Musk and just how bad it has gotten. But to react in this manner seems... kinda elitist?

I agree that there are a lot of people who subscribe and seem to be those that want to spread certain opinions. But I don't know how much of this is really a hard rule or not. Why does this need a plugin to go this far when if you see it you can just block them yourself.

Edit: Also this is just going to further incentivize Twitter getting rid of a legitimate use of blocking, those that are actually sending you abuse. So I guess we have these campaigns to thank or that.
On Desktop GUI Minimalism
I really don't think it's that hard to work it at the federal level.

The issue is at the municipal level (mainly), and the provincial level (less so).

Look at what California has been doing in the last 2 years. You force constraints on zoning regulations down on the lower level entities. You force permitting time limits and acceptance rates. You force a minimum level of multifamily lots per population.

It's really really really not as hard as it's presented. It's just in political gridlock.
Yes that’s correct. The heat pump is more expensive to run than the gas boiler it replaces, and can’t match the output.
Not necessarily. Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC) are a thing. My admittedly overly simplistic understanding is that the higher the valuation of your house, the higher line of credit you can borrow against it, thus the incentive to keep valuation high even if it's unrealized.
Ok was popular way before computers became a thing, as I grew up in a small Asian village before either computers or cellphones were a thing. Maybe it's the other way around. Ok is so used in computers because it is familiar to everyone
Somewhat tangentially, that quote seems likely to be from a financial advisor named Gary Shilling [1], rather than Keynes.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
I did exactly this about 4 - 5 years ago

I bought spring-based (not electric) height adjustable legs / frame and then went to home depot with a friend and cut a 70" x 30"ish x 1" piece of wood. Added a rounded edge to one side, sanded, stained it, then screwed it into the frame.

I love it. It's huge compared to a typical desk, and although I haven't done anything unique with it, it's been solid.

I dont really know what I'd add to it that would be worth giving up desk space, tbh. The conveniences / tools I use work fine being on the desk rather than part of the desk
This was posted a couple years ago. Make sure to check out the first pic:

https://blog.luap.info/drafts/i-built-a-lay-down-desk.html?h...

And discussed on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24687458
It's like saying no one deserves anything but an hourly wage, and damn anyone that actually builds something.

And yeah, it was "easier" yesterday than today, given today's knowledge of the winners. Today is easier than tomorrow, if you know tomorrow's winners.

The internet / pop-culture narrative of "everything is against me, I'm too late, and there's nothing I can do about it" is actually great for people that want to go out and do something about it. The competition is sitting around bitching on Reddit.
Yeah, I’ve never encountered this issue outside of an urban area.
> Lol, you are over the edge.

Most Canadians don’t share your position. Most Canadians see that TruKKKer QUANONvoy for exactly what it was: an alt-right, racist, ChristoFascist fringe movement protesting its slide into irrelevance and loss of special societal rights.

Hell, when 62% of Canadians oppose the convoy, and almost 50% strongly oppose it, the 17% that strongly support it (only one in six!) is very much in the minority.

And good riddance. Canada has no use for their ilk, and no place for them either. You want Christofascist totalitarianism? Go to any red state in America. They have exactly the kind of brutal oppression of anyone not white, cis, male, or Christian that you could ever want.
as far as I understand, the challenge with heat pumps compared to traditional boilers is that they operate on a much lower heat. now older homes will often have radiators that are too small to dissipate enough heat given lower-temperature water. in newer setups, this is often solved by using bigger radiation surface (i.e. floor heating)
You can size up your heat pump, but you still need to bring the temperature into your room, which requires a big enough surface for the heat to move from the water to the air.
The "ABC Principle". Always Analyse (A) the problem first, only then start Building (B). Finally, don't move onto the next thing until you have Checked (C) that whatever you've built matches up with your analysis.

Applies to more than engineering as well.
hi. happy to sponsor you a free height adjustable frame. pls email me at duy@autonomous.ai

ps: i lead the hardware + software labs at autonomous (autonomous.ai), a smart office company. super excited to see what you’ll build!
None of this changes the basic fact that you need medical attention if you are shitting uncontrollably in the street.
> This is the problem. Putting so much of the burden on the consumer and hardly any on the manufacturers, companies and so on.

Between space heating, transportation, water heating, and cooking, about 42% of energy-related emissions are things that consumers have some control over in their homes. We have to decarbonize both the supply side (which is happening super rapidly with wind/solar) as well as the demand side (which is much harder because it requires coordinated action across millions of people). And we have to do this incredibly swiftly to keep a livable climate.

Source: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/pace
FYI, after a DoorDash driver marks a delivery as complete they cannot see any new messages from that customer.
Not a big amount though for city governments. They do tend to overspend anyways on building such facilities.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-20/san-fran...
Really? Name one.

I’ve looked into Regs in a number of countries, and they all either outright ban nearly everything unless you work for the gov’t, or have the same issues.

The US just has massive amounts of complaining and BS going on in every area, so it’s more visible. In Switzerland, for one example, you’d just hear some griping from dude at the range, not be able to link to a an hour long YouTube video on it.

The tricky part here is the US is essentially 53+ different entities legally, with large and meaningful differences between each of them and some overlap.

Less than an hours drive can take you from ‘no magazines over 10 rounds or years in jail’ to ‘60 round drums on sale, don’t forget to pickup a few up after renting a couple machine guns and sending a few thousand rounds down range’. With no real border in between.

In the rest of the world, those are national borders, with customs inspections.

You can pay some folks in Vietnam to be able to shoot RPGs no issues, and Finland/Scandinavia is generally permissive with firearms for instance. And if you know someone in Russia (especially Chechnya I hear) and have money, no issues getting pretty much anything you want and the paperwork to say it’s all good.

Good luck doing that in their neighbors or as a normal Joe though.
I would assume this stems from Zig’s commitment to ‘No Hidden Control Flow’. By nature, syntactic sugar for reference counting will involve the calling of functions inside the code the sugar is standing in for. This would then require adding the RC constructs as language primitives and hard code their implementation into the language. As such, I don’t think adding RC and a ‘painless’ syntax to use it is likely to be a feature Zig picks up or settles on for memory management in the language.

This seems to be a hard line for Andrew, I don’t think he is unable to consider adding primitives to Zig, but the sense I get from his recorded presentations is that the primitive collection in Zig currently is very unlikely to expand as Zig moves to 1.0.

NOTE — I am not affiliated with Zig and don’t know how the process of language design works for them outside of A. Kelly’s being assumed to be BDFL and having final say.
Try the free FPVSIM drone simulator[1], you can train there!

[1] https://store.epicgames.com/p/fpvsim-2a20cb
Lol of course you can.
I don't want to underplay the housing crisis in the US; the problems are serious. But the situation in Canada is like taking all of that and tripling it.
As always, us Germans have a great word for that: Der Vorführeffekt. Curse of the Demo is the closest English equivalent I came across so far.
Good thing that US three letter agencies would never do such a thing. /s
There's filters, there's search, there's buttons to toggle various things. There are tabs for different views. This all takes up 2/3rds of the display.

When I go to HN, there's a simple top bar, and then a list of articles. You are straight into what you came for.
People who pay to promote their tweets usually don't have much of value to contribute.
> If there wasn't anything on astronomy

Okay, gotcha, I think I have an idea how to fix this :)

> Most links that reach the front page have something interesting to offer.

Synthical has this functionality (I mean, "Top articles") in the right bar, but yep, I understand what you mean
100% correct take and it’s no surprise you’re downvoted with no replies.

I understand why people cry that “corporations are the problem” but I can’t believe that deep down they believe it.
We are so far from exhausting usable land that this argument is ridiculous. There will be more cities. 3rd tier cities will become 1st tier cities (and probably vice versa). Go invest in a city or town wisely (and don't forget to be lucky!) and you will be rewarded.
.Your opinions have been voted down so many times this thread is filled with your dead comments and not a single person has vouched for you other than me. I can no longer vouch for you.

Also youre flame baiting which is a clear violation of HN policy. @dang

You probably need to take a class on improving your poor reasoning skills and as another poster said: seek mental health care.
100%. I keep saying, big companies are missing why they REALLY SHOULD WANT THIS model.

"Hey, you want to run or pay for your OWN twitter-like thing -- outside of Elon or whoever's control; kind of like you do email and your website? This is that! No more Eli-Lilly situations for you!"

(I like Mastodon's model, but I gotta say I'm kind of meh on the actual people who are there now; many can't seem to distinguish between extreme capitalism and mere commerce)
Believe this refers to per person. Otherwise this would be quite the robust program to only move 6 deadstock rifles a year.
When hackerone adds a news board
> UK and Germany has a hang up that they need to reuse the existing radiators, so you sometimes need to do extra work

Air-water heat pumps are a thing
Correction: It's the end of the [unlimited] subscription era. All-you-can-eat is no longer sustainable. Long live subscriptions with monthly tokens that do not roll-over. For example, binge watch all you want, you can but up to 6 a month but you'll pay for > 6. Payment will always be required for Premium content or content augmented with AI.

Micropayments and tokens will gain more adoption but it'll be more like a Costco Membership.

Companies still love the fact that subscriptions give them longer lead time insight into consumer behavior. That part isn't going away anytime soon as investors love that data.
> Do you see the term “immunity” anywhere on the CDCs sight today with regards to the Covid vaccine?

No, but that could be because individuals like you have extremely opinionated views of what "vaccine" and "immunity" mean, and they don't want further confusion to spread.

> Are you disagreeing that the Covid vaccine looses almost all effectiveness after 6 to 9 months?

OK, I was open-minded and willing to examine evidence that you provided, but you instead provided zero evidence and responded in a hostile manner. It's clear that you're not arguing in good faith. We're done here.