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> A car-centric lifestyle is incompatible with a livable planet.

No it isn't. We just haven't figured it out yet. Those aren't the same thing.
> The only way that's even remotely possible is to heavily subsidize EVs (probably honestly just providing free swaps)

I think that is in contradiction to your initial statement,

> building the future around cars of any kind is completely unsustainable. We cannot reproduce the rates of rich world car ownership in the developing world without mass catastrophe…

Subsidizing car ownership will only make these goals harder to attain. Swapping the car out for free for an EV bike, that would be great. Subsidizing only the people who need a car, ok (ambulatory issues, etc), but we should not subsidize car ownership in general.

The other part of this that I’m becoming more aware of as it’s researched more, is that the Air Quality in an area is actually more effected by dust and particulate matter from tires, brakes, and roadways than greenhouse gases (this is different from Climate impacting Greenhouse gas effects). What this means is that EV cars won’t fix the Air Quality of an area, but EV bikes definitely would.

In short, I agree with your initial statement, but it’s how we get there that needs some adjustment. Leverage more transit and bikes as solutions rather than subsidizing car ownership.
Well, the average real estate agent is also a shit negotiator on your behalf. The incentive structure makes it so irrespective of the skill set. The agent’s primary job is to sell themselves to you when they get the listing not to sell your house at max price. On the buy side they are also incentivized to close the deal rather than make you do a wise bid. That said during a bidding war, if you are a buyer and your agent is a rando or you don’t have one, the seller agent almost certainly will give the last word to their buddies in the industry so you’ll lose the bidding war. That’s about the only value I’ve seen an agent provide.
you mean like the Plains Indians in America? yeah, ugly.. they "solved war" that way.. Almost all the "great nations" of the modern times did exactly that to minority language groups, at some stage of development. Many Wrongs Do Not Make It Right -- it is what happened, however. I would add that many genocides occurred in the longer time frame of history, which is the alternative to mass forced migrations, in the eyes of the Great Powers.
A little more leetcode could have prevented this outcome for this division of Amazon.
If I did, do you think I would have made the joke, and then also written that exact statement asking the question.
I honestly have no idea what's taking them so long. It's tempting at this point to build a custom integration for Home Assistant that just uses function calling to trigger various actions.
>The ebike costs less than they pay in insurance a year, much less maintenance, gas, etc.

Let me just get on my eBike and cruise the streets in the 4+ months we have snow, and 6+ months it's cold.

We don't all live in California.
Barring difficult to foresee circumstances like an expensive medical procedure, a debilitating injury/illness, or a devastating lawsuit, most of the circumstances that lead to a household going bankrupt are directly attributable to mismanagement.
What would we replace it with? Fiber? Quantum entanglement? Telepathy? Ethernet itself is the common-sense design you would arrive at if you needed to move bits from point A to B. Of course, things like the connector form factor could have evolved radically differently. Maybe in a parallel universe Ethernet uses something more like a unidirectional USB plug.
Like BlueTemplar wrote, it becomes confusing. That is why 'vehicle' caught my attention, and it may be worthwhile to not use 'ebike' and 'vehicle' as the same.

Driving an actual vehicle on a rec path will likely be a big problem for anyone who is not engaged in approved rec path maintenance. Riding an ebike on a rec path may be encouraged.

Maybe IRS tax code considers an ebike a vehicle for some deduction?
You understand the utility of trucks, what they're for, what is good and bad about them. You rattled of the elements of a known aesthetic it seems to me that you do in fact understand them even if you don't personally like it.
Hire experts and have it be reported as "waste" and hear complaints in Congress about government waste.

We want government to be cheap. You get what you pay for.
Totally, it’s only the cars you don‘t like that are to be banned.
Depends how you view them. If you consider them to be each rather separate ecosystems with limited exchange between them, they could perhaps be two monopolies?
Electric passenger vessel taking off [video]
There are 4 ad blocking extensions in the top 25 extensions which together represent over 150+ million installs, so the product category itself is pretty popular as far as extensions go.
Armin from Sentry here.

> I don't know why they wouldn't further extend their custom SPDX identifier to include the "2 year" rollover

Unlike the target license of which there are two to chose from, the two years are not variables in the license.
> a meter's

There were multiple meters, the intent was to pluralize "meter." Which makes "takes" incorrect (vs "take"). Maybe I should get out more.
This is consistent with our findings in the OneBusAway project, an open source real time transit app that is hugely popular in Seattle, and used across the world, including in San Diego, Washington DC, Boston, Tampa, and New York.

We’ve been appealing to our end users for funding to help keep the development of the mobile apps going, which you can contribute to, as well: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/donate/
Tell HN: "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L" opens LinkedIn if you're using Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262536 - Nov 2023 (9 comments)

TIL Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win+L is a Windows shortcut that opens LinkedIn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579856 - Sept 2023 (5 comments)

If you type Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Win-L, LinkedIn will open in your default browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37511201 - Sept 2023 (2 comments)
Seriously, just download Guild of Heroes, I have guys in a chat room on a mobile game repeating everything they capture on natural language processing for 3 years now.
The omission rules are what I see bungled most these days, as well as typographical things like the wrong version of the smart apostrophe appearing in the wrong place.

Errors like "They want to outlaw Christian's" are easily avoidable; just stay away from Facebook comments.
Yes, it would be basically like an oil rig. Floating, but anchored.
> I don't think it's really about taking away peoples choices

OP of this comment tree is explicit that it is about taking away choice. But I think it should suffice to make the alternatives more attractive. People are open to renewables, but not a drastic reduction in their quality of life. We should not demand a reduction or stagnation in quality-of-life for developing countries either as it's inhumane. Ostensibly they would be just as interested in pursuing renewable tech if it can help them grow.
kill the curly quote
Reading you both...

I am 45. Last year, before I moved to a new house, I decided to run CAT8 Ethernet everywhere. Some people told me that they consider this excessive, but compared to the cost of the house, the extra cost was negligible and I hope this network will do well into the 2050s.
Well, if you're an alcoholic you have to wait until you're sober until you can drive, I guess. Lol. IDK. It is a poor analogy IMO, kind of more "absurdist" and doesn't totally convey the point properly.
Hm, why do you think that is? Do programmers just respect each other less than they respect baristas?
I though you are talking about a village with 200 residents, so I had to look it up and oops, it's quarter million city? You gotta be kidding.
> Just stop. It's a hobby.

But why should they, if they can turn their hobby into a job -- there are many very valuable companies that have been built on top of open source projects.

I think donations is a bad way to handle it though. If you don't want to do the full SaaS model, another tried and true way is consulting and training.
People will just stop using Android if they aren't able to block ads. Simple as.
This event still pisses me off. WebExtensions are straight worse than the XUL we had before.

I wish Mozilla would stand up for their vision of the Web instead of being Google's controlled opposition.
Does "The tank is too full, fill it with fewer water next time" sound correct to you?

"Fewer" typically refers to countables, "10 items or fewer."

"Less" is used for things that don't have a plural form or are not countable, "there's less water in the pool this morning."
The Us heavily looked into mobile land based missile launchers but they really don't make sense. For transportation that uses infrastructure (road based, rail based), most of that infrastructure is built close to population centers and is critical - you don't want to make it more of a target than it already is and security would be a nightmare. You can build lots of infrastructure in the middle of nowhere but that's super expensive. For off-road vehicles you have to develop such a mobile launcher with all its technical difficulties, you limit the size of your missiles, and you need to set aside much larger areas of land than a missile silo field - basically you're just making a worse version of naval deterrent. The most economical option is silo fields with just extra silos that you periodically transfer warheads between, but the cost of transferring the warheads back and forth regularly is more than just having a fully functional nuke in every silo, and dummy silos make arms control verification nearly impossible.

Perhaps some of the assumptions underlying these rationales have changed in the intervening decades, but I don't see any of these options getting more practical than they used to be.
> Earthbound as a curiously mature JRPG for the time. I like to cite it as an example of a game that is more about the journey than the destination.

I could never put my finger on what made that game so compelling. The "Yakuza: Like a Dragon" game had a similar vibe. The working title for it might as well have been "Friendship is Magic."

> making sure to stop and take a coffee break every now and then

The lesson you were supposed to take away from it was to stop and call your dad every now and then.
I think my use of the word “monopoly” is causing people to miss the forest for the trees.

My clients have employees who essentially have two ecosystem options when buying a smartphone - Apple or Google.

I, as a developer, then have to bend to the will of both of these corporations which, no matter how they compete on other things, are just as bad as each other when it comes to developer treatment.

Monopoly, duopoly, whatever - it’s crazy. Why am I uploading my fucking ID to Google, giving them my phone number, which they say “they may contact periodically to ensure the account is still active”, because I distribute private software to a private organisation?
Maybe for plasterboard and timber construction. My house is mostly brick with the coax chased into the wall.
Are the two rooms on the same breaker/fuse (by some chance)? Another solution is ethernet-over-powerline where the data rides on your AC powerlines and is decoded at each end by an adapter. Supposedly they can get to the mid-hundreds of mbps, but only if they're on the same breaker. I used one in a rube-goldberg (Neighbor's WiFi)->(My Raspberry Pi, NAT Router)->(Ethernet-over-powerline)->(My WiFi Router) about 8 years ago, but the EoP was only good for a couple mbps because the signal had to go through the breaker. It was fine for poor-man's internet though.
They didn't apostrophize TAKE'S? Barbarian's.
Not showing houses that don’t have a selling agent is a great reason for buyers to avoid having a buyer’s agent.
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments. Can you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with? It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Which is why you buy from the local bike shop of the brand they sell.

My local bike shop will work on my ebike even though they didn't sell it, but it is a big brand that other bike shops in town sell so they see it enough and it is standard enough they can work on it. (I was given it for free, otherwise I'd have bought from the local bike shop). Bike shops will never work on the junk you buy at a big box store - the quality means it isn't worth it.
The Entropic Framework for Cardinality Bounds
> The hard part of accounting systems is doing the requirements analysis (including interviewing humans who give inaccurate or incomplete answers) and writing detailed functional specifications which account for every possible edge case. No LLM can do that.

One of my first one afternoon (for prompt refinement and trying it out) toy GPT-3.5 “applications”—really just a prompt—was having it interview for reauirements and draft and progressively refine a requirements doc in a specified (by reference to an author in popular Agile literature, not by specific templates, so just relying on the model’s general training) format. Its pretty much what convinced me of the broad utility of the technology.

I absolutely think that with a bit of effort, GPL-4-128K, a custom RAG framework and/or the Assistants API, you could build something that handles a lot of this. I’m not really bullish near term on LLMs as full replacements, but I can see it as a big force multiplier.
Presumably an online pre-print.
as previously discussed, with archive link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255425#38256256
> Nobody is chopping down old growth forest to burn in electrical plants.

I wouldn't be so sure.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/26/biomass-ca...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/estonia-h...
If a website is useless to me because I'm using the "wrong" browser, my solution is to not use that website. Easy peasy.

Even if it's my bank -- there are other methods of doing business with most banks, after all. And if my bank, for whatever reason, can only be dealt with through their website then I'd change banks in a heartbeat.
Especially lately. The distilled version we’re getting today actually seems to be smarter and less likely to make things up, from my tests; I suppose it’s generalising better.
How big is your test set?
I think he believes he’s the ultimate unblocker. Just find all the points of friction and wave a wand and cut through the bureaucracy, force supporting teams to help, force facilities to fix weird problems, etc.

A tiny example I heard: he overheard an employee (who was working on some urgent project he parachuted into) complaining that it was hard working late in this particular office because the closest microkitchen had slim pickings by the end of the day. He stops the conversation and asks a few followup questions. For the rest of the project it was always fully stocked with all the best snacks and drinks, milk and cereal always topped off, fruit always available, etc. I don’t remember the exact details (it’s been a decade since I heard this story) but I remember thinking it went above and beyond what I had available close to my own desk. They thought the dinner spread at the closest cafeteria got better too, but they didn’t know if it was a coincidence or if he made it happen.

I’m sure there’s a ton of the “the boss said something and we’re overreacting” effect. But so much of Google has ossified and slowed that I’m sure it’s also helpful to have a walking sudo command to make the org work for you.
So how does it work? How do you e.g. get your fresh bread in the morning? Are there some local community bakieries instead?
At least the missile knows where it is.
I'd imagine that if an assistant was really implemented well, it would bypass all those search ads...
"Notable exception being Tokyo"

The fact that the japanese in general have no children at all makes this notable exception not be one at all. Humans are not meant to live on top of one another. To me the correlation between fertility and urbanization is a clear sign that living on the burbs is a plus for quality of life and the perpetuation of the human race. Cars are just a necessary tool for being a human in 2023.
And in some small format generators. For instance WhisperGen:

https://www.victronenergy.nl/Manuals/WhisperGen/UserManual/U...
Thanks for the link. I looked, but missed it.
A language is a particular way of serializing concepts and their relationships.

Knowledge is... concepts and their relationships, typically with the implication of being grounded in objective reality (although one can be knowledgeable about things like, say, Tolkien, or Star Wars, or fantasy tropes more generally).

.

Language is (a particular way of representing) knowledge, in about the same way that a particular .cpp file is (a particular way of representing) a linked list or whatever.
Maybe the better question is to ask whether the current oligopoly(?, or in the case of the Apple app store perhaps a monopoly?) is moving towards increased or decreased consumer surplus.
This is a different kind of setup. I'm not sure if the idea of 2-3 super GMs able to consult with one another has been tried but given the estimated rating difference I doubt it would matter. The difference is estimated around 800 points, or the difference between a strong untitled player and Magnus.
But my man, there's a thing called an electric car and you said a "war on cars". Be more specific if you're actually saying there's a "war on GAS cars".
Builder Profile: Steve Moraco
The article uses the comparison, but the actual FCC rule and approach is not entirely race based as multiple commenters seem to be framing it.
I have no evidence that he is lying nor can I recall any scandals or ethics concerns.
That's up there with late 90s news people reading off new-fangled URLs for their viewers. "That's aytch tee tee pee colon backslash..."

It made me want to do violence at the TV.
That doesn't make it any less impressive. If a small industrial base can builds its own renewable infrastructure, then a larger, proportionally richer base should have less trouble doing it.
Agreed. I get angry. How dare you try and sell me garbage when I ask you about the weather?
No one is asking you to live there or not have a vehicle.

What makes it a problem is the financially unsustainable suburban sprawl(single family zoning laws or covenants with the same effect) and people's expectations of car owners being catered to primarily.

I mean... why else would high density cities like Atlanta and DFW have massive X+Y lane interstates cut through the city? In so many places in the US it's straight up impossible to walk 1000ft.
That was really fun! would be cool to freeze frame on the blink before disconnect. I couldn't shake the feeling I was just looking at videos until a girl with a nose ring seemed to echo my attempts at not smiling
It's not because they love staining wood, it's because the predominant species of trees in those areas are those that take better to staining.

In Scandinavia you'll get a lot of it pine, which is one of the types of wood which typically doesn't need staining, especially for indoor applications.
Per the link, the answer to your (and any) objection is “SILENCE!! OBEY!!!”.
Are you serious? It's like hundreds of thousands more for every "zone" you get closer to the center of London. Surely in your city everyone would just live slap bang in the center if the price difference was less than that if an EV? Wow.

In London a basic 3 or 4 bed house on the outskirts will be perhaps £700-1,000,000. Same thing half way in will be £1.5-2mil, anything within a short walk or bike ride of any central office will be £3 or £4 million at least (assuming you can even find anything "normal" in terms of housing). An entry-level Tesla is £40k, and a "good" non-FAANG SWE salary might be £75-100k.

Sure you can get a smaller apartment in central London for less, but then the same apartment in central London will still be 3x 4x 5x the equivalent on the outskirts.

Either way there is no parking in central London anyway so driving to work is not viable.
My point is about the elegance of using open/read/write/close (the mantra of Plan 9) versus going through a complex interface full of constants defined in a C header file.

A bunch of shell commands stitched together is the wrong level of abstraction for taking atomic snapshots of anything. Even "ls | xargs cat" suffers from the same problem: ls might output the name of a file that gets deleted or renamed before cat can open it. You'd need to mount a filesystem read-only, or take a snapshot (on e.g. ZFS). You can however use openat(2), which should in theory at least guarantee that if dirfd=open("/proc/123", ...) succeeds, then openat(dirfd, "pid", ...) will not race against another process reusing the same pid.

PIDs being racey by nature is why Linux introduced pidfd_open(2) and friends.
Yeah, there's no indication at all what the use case here is from this post.

And yes, I'd still argue this is poor design, it doesn't matter who designed it. We're all very aware that Intel is not immune to bad design decisions. It's quite astounding to me that you're claiming Itanium was a good design. /eyeroll
Something that amazes me with Ethernet is how you can mix and match various cables and speeds and things do still work. Just for fun semi-recently I hooked a 10 MBit/s only hub (not even a switch, a hub) to a 10/100 MBit/s switch, to a Gigabit switch (that'd also work at 100 Mbp/s) and everything would just work...
I'm just pointing out that it can talk about current events perfectly well with an integration, it's not a fundamental issue if you're building a product around an LLM.
Question: Hiring Quality Freelancers
Does anybody else find it difficult to hire quality freelancers? Like videographers are either the cost of a full agency, or if they're reasonably priced you have to worry about if they're going to show up or not. Any reasonable solutions out there?
clearly a user of https://github.com/munificent/vigil
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OT. finally a mastodon link not about mastodon, X or Elon Musk. Made me happy
SpaceX Reveals Next-Gen Starlink Dish for Residential Users
City of Glass
DEC did it 40 years ago.
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When the name ends in an "s", you either add an apostrophe and "s" or just an apostrophe.

- James's pen or James' pen
- Mr Jones's van or Mr Jones' van

Who accepts the first style? I thought this was a non-negotiable error.

Edit: American
> But from watching that statement I do both agree with him and believe he is being honest in that specific case.

Yes, and the linked paper shows that this is a reflection of your existing bias about him, and not whether he is being truthful. It means that the clip of Elon tells us nothing at all about why he’s making the statement, even if judged by experts.

I don’t see how Hollywood is evidence of anything. They want their movies to have the widest audience possible, so their movie content is made as inoffensive as possible.

Elon’s cars are not movies.

For a counterexample, Tim Cook praises China, even as reports suggest that Apple and its shareholders are afraid of their dependence on China and are seeking to lessen it.

Elon has never behaved like Hollywood, and has a long history of saying whatever he thinks people want to hear. I see no reason to think that this is any different.