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What is your goal? Why is that your goal?

Why criminalise long commutes, specifically?

Have you considered other factors which lead to long commutes?

- Low development density.

- Poor transit alternatives: inconvenient locations, intervals, amenities, service hours, costs, transfers, crime, ...)

- Low walkability and bikeability.

- High cost of housing.

- Low personal transportation costs (vehicles, fuel, registration, insurance, parking, maintenance).

- Poor employment options and lack of adoption of remote or flex-time schedules.

- Overly centralised employment and/or manufacturing.

- Numerous economic, political, and cultural dynamics incentivising wasteful and inefficient lifestyles.

In many ways, growth of the private automobile was based on or accelerated these tendencies, sometimes through criminal collusion.[1] During early industrialisation, streetcars and commuter rail (often electrified) extended the reach of towns from a mile or two across to many miles in extant. Commuter rail enabled "bedroom community" suburbs 25--50 miles from downtowns (40--80 km). On-premesis dormatories were also common (and remain so in places such as China), see the Fuggerei in Augsburg, Germany.[2]

Generally, if you want people to do less of some thing, the best way is either to make that thing more expensive, or to make its alternatives less expensive and/or more appealing. COVID-19 did this, in the noneconomic sense of making tightly-packed offices a health risk and remote work through phone, Zoom, and cloud-based computing a more attractive alternative.

Think though what you want to achieve and how you might best get there, though.

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Notes:

1. E.g., the General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...>

2. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei>
I agree, but note that a lot of this is solved by having a pen with buttons.
In a world where the next quarterly earnings report is king, small strategic moves like this take advantage of that leverage.
The ability to support GC'able DOM references in browsers through integration with the host-side GC is absolutely being worked on, it just took several years to stabilize because it's a tricky feature. It will also allow GC'd languages to target standalone runtimes more easily. The developers just didn't want to block the early 1.0 spec, early toolchain and software support, etc. all on that. It was just easier to ship the C/C++ style memory management model because a lot of existing code could immediately be reused and it was easier to implement. But it was always planned from a very early phase to have GC integration, at minimum, since web usage was always a big priority.

The string story is a bit unfortunate (how to handle conversions between modules in different languages). Until the component model is fully fleshed out I don't think there's a clear answer here besides things like bindgen-style interfaces, but I agree it's a sore spot.

I don't know what a rewrite of the spec would achieve at this point since most of these things would be impossible to get right on the first try, I suspect, and the current one is actually pretty good for the cases it does support.
It's not "on Android", it's whichever keyboard came with your phone. On iOS extremely small number of people use non-standard keyboard(it was later allowed), but on Android the keyboard was always an app and there are many.
The paper isn't particularly mass-dependent. it contemplates AGN masses down to the 10 M_sun stellar black hole in a previous paper by the second author and others.

In general stars, stellar black holes, and bigger black holes have random spin axes. Central black hole binaries exist but their spins can point in random directions compared to the plane of the binary orbit; and the plane of the binary orbit is not necessarily aligned with that of the host galaxy (if discoid). As you say, galaxies can merge and in ellipticals the dominant rotation curve may be radial (blobs of (possibly star-forming!) hydrogen gas and the like cycling in and out rather than around some axis).

Black hole-star binaries exist (with stellar multiplicities up to perhaps five) too, and rotation is faster with greater multiplicities, but the spin axes need not be aligned or anti-aligned, and the several stars need not all orbit in the same plane. This is an active area of research in galactic evolution.

Consequently, the spilling of gas from a star to a BH companion, especially in a triple+ (and especially considering intrinsic-variable stars' structured outpourings), could lead to an accretion disc that is highly non-equatorial and/or retrograde. The paper press-released at the top contemplates the forcing the innermost part of such discs onto a more equatorial and prograde orbit, and how that warps, tears or ablates the disc compared to a "gentle" picture of a uniform disc in prograde equatorial orbit around a slow-spinning BH.

> does frame dragging cause misalignment

No, Lense-Thirring torques "cure" (parts of) a non-equatorial accretion disc by pulling inner elements of it into the equatorial plane.

Going a little further than above, a non-equatorial disc could arise when an eruptive-variable companion spits out matter that sails just above or below the pole of its companion BH, even if the spin axes of both were completely parallel. Probably even more likely is that a large eruption spits out lots of matter and the near region of its companion BH only subtends a fraction of it. That might lead to a complex accretion structure that might settle into multiple discs. Lots of observatories are looking for that kind of thing. :-)

ETA: Bardeen & Petterson (1975), The Lense-Thirring Effect and Accretion Disks Around Kerr Black Holes ends with: "We remark that both Shakura (1972) and Katz (1973) have made the suggestion that tilted disks may form in binary systems if the optical star rotates around an axis which is not aligned with the system’s orbital angular momentum. Wilson (1974) has pointed out that an asymmetric supernova explosion may change the direction of the orbital angular momentum." This also gives you an idea of how old this idea of LT precession "untilting" non-equatorial accretion discs is (I believe it originated with Bardeen & Petterson). The broad question, even older, is "why are accretion structures around stars and Saturn essentially always equatorial? Does that apply to black holes too?"
He hit a bus before probably. Are we talking about internal or universal serial?
That's not how the real world works. A lot of manufacturing equipment and test stands were developed using LabView and used NI cards to control equipment and take data. The people who developed all that stuff are long gone and the new people neither understand the old stuff nor do they have time to spend many months spelunking into the guts of the old software to maintain it. Their managers are also very reluctant to change anything since it means very expensive downtime for an entire assembly line. Downtime can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. Everybody wants to keep the old stuff running as long as possible -- generally several decades.

I have no experience in the banking industry but I do hear the same considerations I see in manufacturing exist in banking software. Any change is fraught with major risk (millions of dollars in loss) so change is avoided as much as possible. I see lots of people on HN talk about how change and churn is avoided in banking software ... the same applies to manufacturing.

The Rasberry Pi comment is laughable. I'm not talking about toys for hobbyists. I'm talking about computers running software controlling cards costing tens of thousands of dollars running physical equipment of equal or greater expense. Nobody will hire a hobby hacker to light a few LEDs with a Pi when doing factory automation.
It's simply something so tiny and irrelevant (unless you have a special interest in libertarian experiments) that it doesn't warrant major or minor media articles - from the pictures it looks like the officials enforced a building regulations issue for 2-3 tiny cottages/sheds that somehow involved (but clearly couldn't house) a community of 19 people. Like, that's not news - the outcome of that thing was as expected, no surprises there and such things are routine - every day there are multiple building code enforcements on larger, more significant buildsites. Why should general media care about this one in particular?

I'd assert that demolishing some illegally built sheds in the backyard of some locally popular actor, politician or businessman (I'd assume Croatia has hundreds people each of whom are more widely known there than Liberland is) would be far more newsworthy than this, but still likely not newsworthy enough for most media, perhaps only as a filler for some celebrity gossip yellow press.
> A good person will refuse to hurt others no matter how badly they want to.

Does this include or exclude killing in self defense? Would a good person allow themselves to be killed rather than harming the attacker? Imagine that the assailant would be rehabilitated after serving 10-15 years for your murder and live a productive life with family and kids, does that change the equation? Is absolutist pacifism the end goal or is there an arbitrary line you are willing to draw?
I think it may be a pun since the cursor and the menus are invisible (or hard to see) under the problems described :-)
Some random historical notes coroutine stuff which are perhaps of interest to some:

1. You can implement "stack-free coroutines" in C with some really entertaining macros https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

2. Does anyone remembers Cilk? Its still the fastest stackful coroutine models I know of.

Having implemented and used both before (for different purposes), I like both, but with a mild preference for the stackful version. Largely because you don't have function coloring problems, and you can actually get a proper stack trace and is so significantly easier to debug when things go wrong.

It is also good to differentiate coroutines from async (they seem to be very interleaved these days). Coroutines are a mechanic to achieve mutual recursion / generators. And that is fine for expressing certain algorithms and systems in a much cleaner fashion. Note that parallelism is not necessarily implied by "coroutine".

Async is a mechanic to "doing something else" while waiting for IO. Fibers or state machines are both different solutions to this problem. Certain coroutine implementations can help with this, but I think it is massively overused. Rust due to the function coloring problem, ends up requiring almost everything to be marked "async". And some golang code I have read seems to overuse goroutines unecessarily. I think use of async should be narrow and minimized, and localized to only the places where it makes sense.
Long as in distance or long as in time? If a road is closed so you need to take a detour (either in car or bus) have you committed a crime that morning?
It's worth remembering that being able to head back out is itself a bonus. It just so happened that another asteroid happened to be in the right place for the spacecraft to get to.
It’s funny, as I was writing this comment I thought, “it’s almost like they need to make a blackberry for the smartphone era - oh wait…”
On the contrary, I think it's excellent. Turn up, show your ID along with your ticket, and you have not been screwed by a scalper.

Need a refund? Log on to the site, get a refund, and your ticket goes back into the pool for a round 2 public release.
Not bad. I like KISS concepts. I personally run old Cacti instance for monitoring here. Not that simple as uMon, but not very complicated either. And even wrote
cacti_con CLI like graph viewer, to see specific port of that fat 100+ ports campus switches I had at work :)
The person alleging he hit the daughter is his ex wife and her own sister testified she is a recurrent liar.
That's quite the imaginary scenario. I don't see the relevance
I think I'd be happy in life if I believed in god and thought I was going to some happy place after I die and that any of this meant anything at the end of the day. I can't will myself to believe in Christianity or Scientology or Islam or Judaism however. Does that make me cynical?
Could give us the run-around with circular receipts, or millions of back-and-forth receipts.
There is a big spectrum of possibilities between "everyone having a typical American suburban home with an extra room for their office" and "pitch a tent in the open space". Walkable dense cities is one such example. It is no surprise that NYC's carbon footprint is 11 MTCO2 per person while the number for the overall US is ~14.5 MTCO2. Or, NYC gives you almost one-fourth reduction in the carbon footprint per capita.
I think you may be “annoying the fuck” out of yourself here. Your reply is full of strawman arguments.

The comment I replied to asserts that the government incentive to reduce healthcare expenditures improves workplace safety, and consequently in the context of this article would have prevented silicosis/PMF in these patients.

I highly doubt most HN commenters are aware of whether undocumented migrants are covered in the Canadian system as they are in California, certainly the person I replied to was not, so I explain differences in coverage.

Consequently, the argument doesn’t hold water as the financial incentive for the government is stronger in California than in Canada as it relates to this study population.

> The metric "well, they don't provide it for undocumented persons" is a weird one, as is the use of California as a counter-example.

I'm not providing any counter examples, undocumented workers in California are the subjects in the article we are commenting on. Where in fact there happens to be socialized healthcare that you seem to think I'm arguing against.
My prediction is that once Apple has their own modem IP working and is not dependent on Qualcomm, the next release of MacBook Pro will have a builtin modem. This why I am asking about the patent/royalty situation and not making assumptions or apologies about Apple's process.

Would someone like to bet against this? I would like to invest in a prediction market for this.
> Some researchers credit Cortez with bringing the seeds to Europe in 1519 for ornamental purposes.

I really doubt they (particularly the Spaniards) weren't eating tomatoes from the start. The confusion emerged later, the premise of all Europeans thinking that tomatoes were poisonous is wrong; some of them did but others did not.

Related popular food myth: Lobsters being gross. Lobsters were known to be delicious by Mediterranean people since Roman times. The premise of lobsters being disgusting poor people food developed much later, in America, when immigrants from inland regions of Europe encountered lobsters for the first time, had no cultural background with them, and prepared them poorly.
Why wouldn't the fine also come with instructions to "stop that"?

If you shoplift and get caught, you don't get to keep the stuff.
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> nor do I agree with the minimum wage, which is a similar overstep from the government into employer-employee relationships.

Read up on the history of the minimum wage in the US. It was demanded by striking workers who were tired of working in sweatshops for terrible pay.[0]

By the way, the 40-hour workweek also came about due to worker strikes. Would you prefer we all go back to working 7 days a week?

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_S...
Also might help that welders have a culture of PPE use; ain't nobody welding without a mask, gloves and sensible clothes.
In the US the civil courts dole out rulings requiring the injured party be paid by the offender when enough evidence has been presented. It’s not perfect-money can’t right all wrongs and the valuations can be problematic-but it can act as a counterbalance. Making it a law would mean a company would risk losing their ability to continue as a business following a successful conviction. In the US this has been turned into rarely indicting companies as the government doesn’t want to destroy whole companies that way and give other companies undue market power, or something.

Feels like an area that could be handled better.
Libertarianism does not preclude a self-defense force nor measures against bears. Get real.
Agree. I could understand if the expense of a DNA analysis sufficient to identify only the victim could be more than the county could afford for a battery case. But not trying to even identify it as blood, let alone human blood, just seems lazy. Here's what the prosecutor gave us in place of that: "If it smells like a skunk, it's a skunk, you don't have to see it." I was thinking that I smelled one and was looking at it.
weed through these search hits for something that fits your student bodies. Many might be above a lot of them, but a quick looks showed a few for the younger people.
https://www.google.com/search?q=math+problem+sets&rlz=1C1CHB...
I mean these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Interdental-Original-0-4-1-5mm-effe... The problem is that when they encounter a sharp edge, they get torn or cut off. I doubt there has been any research on the ingestion of nylon cuttings, which is why I would prefer to find something as effective but known to be safe.
Nightshade plants are funny. Apparently, repeated exposure to poison ivy can make you also react to cashews- my dad had to stop eating them for quite awhile after he'd had a few particularly bad exposures a few years in a row.

Aside from the notable tomato and potato, there's also cashew, eggplant, tobacco, chili and bell peppers, gooseberry, goji and huckleberries, and a few others.
One of the reasons for the strike is that EVs can be built with fewer workers. But they will also require a lot of power grid upgrades to operate without fossil fuels. Is there some way for the UAW to expand their scope? In some sense, an electric vehicle still has an "engine" to build, but it's geographically distributed.
The rollout of the national fibre network, "NBN", was eaten alive by politicking and conflicted interests.

C.f.: Renewable energy.

Neoliberalism has done/is doing terrible things to the public services in this country.
And if I could breath underwater I wouldn't need a scuba tank.
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Can't see that happening any time soon, browsers/users love render speed.

If one is concerned about this as an end user, I've seen some extensions that block webp and try to request a png/jpg/etc. version from the host.

I can't attest to how effective it is as I didn't use it long. But it worked with some of the big image hosting sites like imgur.

For me, this was just so I was able to download images in a usable format. Most OSs can't treat webp like normal images, like generating thumbnails or opening a preview app.

That was a few years ago though so maybe things have changed.
My perception of the history of long-distance American railroads (not ones that were built for a specific task like connecting a mine to a market) is that many of them -- maybe even most of them -- were failures in their first iteration. After going bankrupt and ruining a lot of investors, others bought the assets at fire-sale prices, and the opportunity to avoid the massive capital outlay of actually building the lines is what made them profitable in the long run.
There is certainly a difference between "lawless" and "not MY laws" or "not the laws I prefer". In my view the parent comment is framing the situation in an incorrect or at least incomplete way. The residents of Liberland were not conducting activities that would be considered obviously criminal by most societies. And I don't know the details of their legal system but "complete anarchy" seems unlikely.

The Darien gap, China & Myanmar border region, central Africa -- these are "lawless" areas despite having clear territorial ownership.
I'm all for small-scale social experiments, but trying to run an "independent" society between two Balkan states doesn't seem like the right way to do it.
"A smartphone is like a computer with a one-button mouse "

Not quite. A touchscreen can detect many fingers, that can do many gestures.

The problem is, exept zooming (pinching with 2 fingers) and moving around (swiping with 2 fingers) the potential is pretty much unused.
That insane amount of stuff was just par for the course back in the day. I still have my old spreasheets and technicians toolkit of 5.25" floppies with all the old school utilities (check it - I forgot about it until I came across my old suite of floppies while moving a few years back)
Maybe workers will strike for... more detailed information about each worker's individual profit margin?
I'm not trying to be a Dick, but it's called hyperbole. Not everything is meant to be exactly literal. Based on the tone of the original post, I think they are being a little silly.
> "I’ve been working here for 40 years and I haven’t received a raise in 10 or 12 years"

> "We made a lot of concessions in 2008, but now it’s 2023 and inflation is skyrocketing, everything is through the roof, and we’re just asking for something back. We didn’t even ask for more than we had before."

> "We are defending our way of life, trying to get enough money to take care of our families and stay in the middle class. They work hard here, six days a week, 10 hours a day. We don’t see our family, and we have to work longer hours to earn the same as what we did 20 years ago"

I suspect that a lot of Americans are watching their standard of living decline and seeing their kids have to struggle in ways they never had to at that age. It's no surprise that employees will try to fight to keep what they have, and it'll be interesting to see how much more effective unionized workers are at that.

I imagine that a lot of companies are terrified that if these unions succeed it will lead to the creation of new ones for non-union employees looking for the same thing.
The union(s) of power grid workers probably wouldn't be happy with a sudden influx.
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It's the exact opposite

There are no benefits from ingestion - it's actually harmful and linked to a series of terrible stuff (cognitive development issues and neurological problems in primis).
The only benefits are from topical application.

Source: my parents fed me fluoride pills for my entire childhood
Not sure if you are kidding, but death is bad. I assume you don't want to die now, so why would you want to any other time? And don't say 'because I'm old', because obviously aging is part of the problem. Being 20-30 forever is the goal.
It's not sweet tea if you put sugar in cold tea. It's tea with sugar.

Or so I've been told by my southern relatives. I can't really taste a difference.
This is really interesting. I'll probably reference this blog post for a very long time.
Also a million transistors is approximately an Intel 80386 (actually it's a little bit more).

275k for a 386. 1.2M for a 486.

(I just noticed the Wikipedia article on the 386 is wrong --- it gives both 275k and 855k, with the latter a citation to a set of presentation slides that doesn't even contain the numbers "855". Perhaps that's where the misinformation came from? But I strongly remember the 275k number from early Intel marketing material.)
What is zirp?
A Simple, yet Effective Cost Optimization Framework
I wish I could block high volume submitters here. I've begun looking at profiles, and seeing high karma posters regularly making the front page, HN is just as bad as Reddit, now.
A cleaner policy would be to ban cars. Probably need a transition in between, but that's definitely the destination. In the year 3000 our asses better not be sitting in traffic in single-passenger vehicles w/ 3 seats empty still for some reason.