skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Weight is the best way to tax vehicles.

No it isn't. Even the most simple look into EV database would have shown that this is flat out wrong. There are heavy and big vehicles in there using very little energy and small ones using a lot.

So what should be taxed is the actual efficiency - either per individual vehicle which would also incentivise reasonable driving (could be easily done by either submitting two numbers, similar to what is already submitted to insurance) - or by using the test ratings which is a good approximation.
No, people can use a small EV.

I am not even sure using a large EV is better than a small ICE once you take into account other forms of pollution, road damage, congestion (which increases pollution as well as other effects) and safety issues.
Restrictive housing is mostly a Western European and NA thing.
This does indeed sound silly. If people were to use proper arguments to select technology, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. Unfortunately, most of us are more susceptible towards aesthetics, novelty, and admiration of self-proclaimed software gurus. Thanks for being open about this and sharing.

It would have been nice if I had realized this aspect of technological evolution earlier in my career. I might have spent more time learning about marketing than about the actual technology.
> they all suck because they all have one thing in common - they are planned

I suggest you read The Republic of Walmart [1]. Every big corporation in existence works with planned systems. Every. Single. One. That argument is a fantasy repeated by people that never truly thought/read about it.

Most people read somewhere that the USSR failed because of their planned economies, therefore it doesn't work. They had so much more going wrong that simplifying why they failed with "planned economy" is preposterous.

Not to mention capitalists conveniently forget all of the failed capitalist experiments. Perhaps because now the bigger capitalist countries benefit from exploiting those same countries.

From all the answers I've seen you give in this thread, it's clear you're very deep into the capitalist mindset. It really seems you don't even attempt to consider alternatives. You have your winner and everything is a confirmation of that. I would earnestly ask you to reconsider your position. Really read up on the subject.

There is no perfect solution, but the current one is absolutely unsustainable by definition. There is no infinite growth, and the pursuit of it has now reached the point where it only harms everyone that is not at the top. We could save the planet, we could house all the homeless, we could end famine, but we choose not to because it's not profitable. I personally can't look at that and think: that looks reasonable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Republic_of_Wal...
Agreed.

I actually don't think that Piracy was difficult to compete against. Actually there was a time when video streaming platforms competed against it --- and very successful. For normal people, it was cheap enough to make a contract, and much simpler than going the piracy route. No one talked anymore about pirating.

But then things went wrong:

* you paid a monthly fee and STILL suddenly got advertisements force-feds (you couldn't even skip them)

* you wanted to watch some series, but it was taken out of the program (never heard of a public library that removes some author after some months)

* many movies made it only into one specific video stream vendor, so they forced people to make 2 or 3 or even more subscriptions.

And once the inconvenience from video stream vendors reached some threshold, piracy was re-birthed. As soon as it become more convenient again.
Wow, developing an airplane, when there were already other airplanes cost twice as much as creating a bomb that hadn’t existed before.

What comes to mind is that it’s pretty important to keep an airplane in the air, which must require a lot of careful engineering. Also that you have to make a lot of them. A bomb doesn’t really have either engineering requirements. (Only has to work once, they only made a few)

I also wonder to what degree cost was saved by getting all those highly talented and motivated refugees from europe
Thanks! I haven't seen before usage of Truffle and ANTLR together, but it makes sense.
As a person with SUV and big family in Paris, I suggest we do the same with obese people and public transport - now that my kids will need to use it more frequently while paying more for sq ft.
>Why is uninsured a separate category from insured driver insurance?

Because if another driver hits you and that driver was insured to cover all the damages they caused then their policy would cover you and you'd never have to make a claim on your own policy.

There's a lot of different types of insurance you can buy:

Liability - this is mandatory. Covers damages paid to other people caused by you.

Everything else is, typically optional.

Collision - Covers damages to your car paid to you caused by you.

Comprehensive - Covers "act of God" situations paid to you like tree falling on you car, hail damage.

Uninsured/underinsured coverage - Covers damages paid to you caused by other people who weren't carrying enough insurance to fully cover the loss.
Let them be stubborn. They can't outlaw everything that they don't like. They'll die a slow and painful death.
This list leaves out two greater Seattle area companies from the early nineties.
Virtual I/O and Virtual Vision.
It’s funny how much history gets lost. I suppose all of it eventually.
What Business Leaders Are Saying About the Red Sea Attacks
> it doesn't seem to have much to do with the article

I guess most commenters jumped to their own reasons. In that sense, I think it's a natural reaction to the topic.
What I'm missing is multiple "currently playing" lists, each keeping its current position as I switch to play a different one. Use case: listening to a discography of the band, and if I wish to listen few songs from some other band. I can't go back to where I was with the first band. Foobar had multiple ad-hoc lists since forever. Now I balance between Spotify and Youtube music in these cases.
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Your insights matter!
EVs are not really popular in my EU city because they require a dedicated parking space with a charger and most people live in an apartment with none of that.
Yes, Rails is a great framework to be very productive in so a great fit for new project.s
Hiring has not been a major problem, having hired for ruby developers and for php developers (in another company). I found that the average level of ruby devs was much higher than php devs (probably has changed with the massive facebook layoffs).

Otherwise Django is quite good too and very similar philosophy to rails and ruby, but I like Ruby just a bit more in term of productivity.

Personally, if it's my own side project, I'm partial to Elixir and Phoenix, but definitely harder to hire for.
https://archive.is/UYU5y
Paris has excellent public transportation infrastructure.

They might as well incentive people to use that instead of cars.
Countless apps do not even accomodate the users they actually have and very obviously don't test accordingly. The non-lowest common denominator is far lower than you seem to assume.

If you think that a fancy UI rework or "please pay our subscription" screen is only confusing to people in nursing homes you are very wrong. They can be nontrivial obstacles to users who work every day, organize conferences etc.
If everyone was anti-natalist, civilization would collapse, and there would be no work or no life. Surely some logical people can see it's the wrong approach, unless you despise humans in general and want them gone? We're the only species that can create computing or venture into outer space.

Anyways, I have one child and hoping for a second. He has been a total joy for me and my wife since he was born.
Huge atom-smasher bid to find missing 95% of Universe
The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub
The first derivative is still strongly positive. The second derivative is what’s been reported as falling, which is common in the typical S-shaped adoption curve.
That's good for you. Now do teenagers spending 6+ hours per day on average taking notes and looking at the time ? or is there something else going on for _most_ people

> Looking stuff up saves money and time if you use it correctly.

Living in a pod like in Matrix saves money and time too, if anything it's the most optimal way to live
I believe there was a back-up plan to use UK Lancaster heavy bombers to drop atomic bombs if the B-29 didn't work out.
I don't really want to have kids.

I am not an "antinatalist" because of this.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with comfort (or the environment or climate).

I note that the "unto" here is a very interesting word choice that hints at an underlying belief structure that drives your opinion.
There is no math behind it and its evidence is poor. Thats why:

> The accuracy of the law of the fourth power is disputed among experts
I can cook myself using only my free time.

But I'm willing to shell out some money for having someone cooking for me and doing the dishes.

Yet, only if the price is right.

A good legal bargain kills illegal ones. But then capitalism greed comes, with that enshitification, and as that lowers the legal bargain value, illegal comes back.
> The move will not apply to Paris residents’ parking
I never said Apple was more free. Although I think Windows is absolutely awful, an anti-user experience. I like Linux and I've run that on my home hardware since I was a teen. My work provides Apple computers. Hardware options aside, MacOS is a nicer experience than what Windows has become, and as to my points, I think it's also easier to install and use free software on it.

I hated the keyboard on the previous mac I was given so I worked on my personal Dell machine. The difference in setup between MacOS and Linux is pretty minimal. The different to Windows is large and unkempt.
You can have different sizes of parking spaces, for different prices maybe.

And the change will probably not increase the amount of cars on the road, because at the same time, bikes and public transport are becoming more attractive in cities all across the continent.
Then you shouldn't need to test on nursing home residents.
Reminds me of TempleOS window manager.
For the downvoters, look it up - this is objectively true and has been well reported.

And I’m not saying don’t buy an electric car, just that EV sales have decreased.
I've been consistently using zellij for about 6 months now, and i've not experienced any lag. Using iterm2, so not sure if you're seeing alacritty related issues?
As a software engineer, I'm doing 1-day a week in office. I feels like a decent balance. Any more than a day seems ridiculous because I would have no reason to be there. I could be in the office by myself at times because the others are in meetings and I just need to code.

It does help to have face-to-face conversations with co-workers because simply the easiest way to share ideas and thoughts. The 1-day a week feels a little more than enough to do this, but I can deal with it.

And because of the environment I don't feel very productive coding, but I suppose it was productive to have face-to-face conversations, which helps us stay connected with each other.
The reality is that people like their SUVs. It doesn’t matter where in the world, SUVs are popular and growing in market share. Here’s the International Energy Agency on SUVs. https://www.iea.org/commentaries/as-their-sales-continue-to-...
> It's nobody's fault, it was inevitable given how things work.

Then the video stream vendors must find a different way to make things work. If their goal is to be user-friendly, which I highly doubt. Only in marketing-speak (err, marketing lies) they claim "The experience of our user is our utmost goal". But it really isn't.
The Office 365 message that it is unable to log into a resource (usually because your VPN has dropped, not unusual for home workers nowadays) doesn't even go into focus when it's supposed to be at this point.

I am baffled as to how that has been allowed to go on so long. It makes Office a trainwreck usability wise.
Actually only EVs above 2 Metric Tons are concerned, which is fair IMO.
No. There are buses, trucks and vans on the road but not everything is made based on them. In many parking spots you can't park full size vans - and vans are quite popular.

In Europe, if you're driving a huge North American truck (which some people do) your parking options are very very limited. We don't build everything for their sizes only because there's some of them on the road.
I like the name. It is related with one of the most beautiful art styles in my opinion [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellij
You're getting flamed by accounts below but they're largely wrong.

Most casinos rent their gaming equipment from IGT, who directly manage most of these systems. IGT also has a fairly robust security team, having worked with them back when I was still a PM in the space.

Organizations like Caesar's aren't the greatest security wise, but that's largely because they have low margins because they are primarily property holding companies that are operating Casino/Gaming that they rent out from vendors like IGT.

This has been changing after MGM, but I don't think I can discuss it deeply.
Vive la paris!

It is always heartening to hear that people who make antisocial choices (cars in cities) are finally being made to bear the costs of those choices.
While I agree entirely I just wanna correct you for a bit:

The Gross Vehicle Weight (GVWR)refers to the maximum weight a vehicle is designed to carry including the net weight of the vehicle with accessories, plus the weight of passengers, fuel, and cargo, which is indeed a hefty 3375 kg.

The Weight Unladen (EU) is still a ridiculous 2810 kg for the EQS SUV 580 4matic
It's like a kid insofar as it takes a fair bit of effort, constrains your life, and you have to deal with another sentient being with their own likes, dislikes, and ability to make mess that you're responsible for.

So you learn a lot about your own tolerance for dealing with all of that.

But there's a lot more of all of that with kids, and obviously the details are vastly different.
Whenever such arguments arise, I'm reminded of Gabe Newell, who said something along the lines of "Piracy is a service problem" means that most people pirate because they don't have access (or difficult access) to the product/service they want. They would gladly pay for it, but they can't, or can't be hassled to.
If there were no humans, the environment would be destroyed when the sun expands.

Humans are the only hope for other species including animals and plants, since we can bring them into outer space and use energy storage or from other parts of the solar system / galaxy to preserve life further.
I would like to see a pure pocket computer. No baseband, just a computer. No need for mobile data.

Ideally, I would have two devices: a mobile phone and a pocket computer.

Sometimes I might carry the computer. Other times not.

"He said he slept better, felt more productive at work and had more meaningful communications. Mr. Epstein, a Hasidic Jew, said his choice of device was not unusual in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, which encourages the use of "kosher phones" with limited internet access."
> There are people with kids living in the jungle on tubers and pigs.

Famously easy to switch to this when you live in an HMO in Statesville, State USA or a housing development in Suburbiton, Townshire UK.
the comment you refer to was just attempting to displace the discussion we have been having about interesting ideas with chimpanzee dominance games and ingroup-outgroup dynamics, and it should have been flagged. the comment you were replying to was refusing to play the chimpanzee dominance game and returning the discussion to the topic of interesting ideas. your comment is again attempting to return the discussion to chimpanzee status displays and ingroup-outgroup dynamics and should also be flagged
I'm not sure if this is real or a subtle parody of the stereotypical JS/node user.
To see this mouse cursor in action, go to

https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/

and follow the instructions under "Running Smalltalk 76".
thanks, I did wonder if I was making a fair comparison

I won't edit, as your correction is clear and the context would remain
>In some ways it was way more successful than any modern fashion trend could ever hope to be...

The business suit?
Some customers of mine keep starting projects in Rails. They know it, it works for them and their customers are obviously fine with those services. One of them made the classic switch from Java to Rails on about 2011 and kept creating projects in Rails since then.
You could have asked my why I think it is selfish.

I believe creating new life is playing 'god'.

It's easier to never exist than life life.

This has nothing to do what you thought
When do kids start to generate money? I'm not aware of this happening to any significant level until they are in their mid-late teens. And even then the amount they bring in is vastly less than the costs of looking after them.
I'd agree that families have the best reason for larger vehicles given how public transport can be difficult for buggies ect.

An interesting intersection of gov trying to encourage families could be used here to offer a tax-relief on people that carpool (which'd by default therefore include families)?
I’m always surprised to see that there are so many professional developers who never tried tmux and don’t really understand why a terminal multiplexer would be useful. I’m in tmux all day and it’s one of the first things I install on any box. I’ll check out Zellij, but it’s a high bar for me to switch.
Those billions on the table are only theoretical. It's a greedy MBA group-think. They overestimate how many people will pay for their stuff and yes, even regular non-tech-literate folk get disgusted by paying to be advertised at and leave.

There is still a cohort of elderly people like my mother who is just happy I pay her a cable TV (through IPTV) service but they are a diminishing group.
This is true. But I fear that this talking point will be used by lobbyists and pro-ICE fanatics to justify more climate damage than necessary.
Do you regret having a boyfriend instead of a relationship that biologically can produce children?
That's not a good reason for the new human it's only a good and easy reason for the existing humans.

To create their future workers/slaves.
Huh? The EU parliament is indeed directly elected, the elections will be held in June.

Do you mean the Commission or something?
Creating controllable D state (uninterruptible sleep) processes
My (entirely anecdotal) observation is that while digital tools may have freed cognitive surplus, the continuous information bombardment and distractions of the attention economy does not work to align motivations to join collaborative efforts. The cognitive surplus is used to tailor ones own preferences for what to work on, and people fragment rather than unite. "Your initiative is nice, but not for me as I am aware of so many choices I would make differently".
Sure they can. But currently using an ICE is cheaper than using an EV and they have made it more like this.

> I am not even sure using a large EV is better than a small ICE once you take into account other forms of pollution, road damage, congestion

Where did I mention large EV? I'm mentioning a normal EV and comparing that to an equally sized ICE. Why would anyone compare a large EV with a small ICE? It's a strange and dishonest comparison.

Large cars are not significantly longer (they are higher and fatter) and congestions does not occur due to this car size. Cars need to keep a large distance between each other for safety. Even a small ICE car will very quickly emit more than the production of an average EV car ever could.

In a city there is the added benefit that EVs are silent and do not emit locally which matters.
> we have to be sure that its a phone and not society.

Are we really at that level of discussion ? Smartphones, and the web, clearly have a magnifying effect on many topics which are detrimental in a lot of cases

Human nature didn't magically change in 2007 when god emperor Steve Jobs shat out the first smartphone
They’re operating like a startup, which like you say should be perfectly fine. Can’t pretend like a giant when you don’t have the bank account for that.

Though they’re also selling a developer ecosystem. A lock-in. Are you willing to bet your company’s own software tools on a vendor that could go bankrupt from their other (hosting) business? The question is if Deno hosting dies, will Deno as a platform still thrive?
The build quality looks really cheap. Since it's only a kickstarter, I assume the 3D printed case is only for prototyping, but it doesn't look like it would last very long. For $250 I would expect a much better case than that
This is the most important part, I think.

Everybody is hyping Paris like the end of the car is near, but in fact it's just an action to get some money from visitors and other external people.

Don't see how this might change transport in large.
And have you ever spend time on thinking about your conclusion?
Deno has also created a Next.js competitor, Fresh. I found it a few weeks ago and am starting to go through the docs, looks like a good overall concept. https://fresh.deno.dev/
Exactly my experience. This is the killer feature for me. It helps to not break flow while working on a given task. Also, it’s great that the floating pane is per tab as well so those related background/interactive tasks can be context dependent.
Yeah in these discussions it also bears repeating that the DMA has explicit clauses about malicious intent. I don't think we've heard the end of this. Right now EU is probably busy noting backlash and seeing if there is merit to their arguments.
A more extended quote:

> When evaluating the series of tests, it was found that there is a connection between the thickness of the pavement, the number of load transfers and the axle load, and that these have a direct effect on the service life and condition of a road. The service life of the road is thereby reduced with approximately the fourth power of the axle load.

> The accuracy of the law of the fourth power is disputed among experts, since the test results depend on many other factors, such as climatic conditions, in addition to the factors mentioned above.
There are no 'regular viewing distances' anymore, any guidelines were long ago thrown out of window. Some want to have cinema at home, some want a tiny screen in kitchen or bedroom, some want (or can only afford) something in between.

Just do what works for you. But with lets say 'cinema experience' distance:size ratio you definitely can see the difference. I could clearly see it on Netflix 4k on tiny 55" 4k screen from maybe 2-2.5m.

But of course after 1-2 minutes it becomes meaningless difference and your brain blends it, what you should focus is not seeing big banding pixels due to low bad compression in very dynamic scenes.
Don't polarize. There are many in-between states.

I pay to see movies in the cinema. A few weeks / months later I could pirate them if I want to watch them again.

I have paid once. I am not paying again. It really is that simple but they will rather die than do honest business.
ThreeJS Procedural Planets
Subsidized in what way? You mean street parking?
This is mostly intended to curb car use from the suburbs into Paris, and within Paris: from
what I gather the surcharge will apply to cross borough parking.
I found a cheap MP3 player a couple years ago for like $30 on Amazon. It looks like a 2nd gen iPod nano and takes an SD card slot. I have literally never needed to charge it, the specs are so tiny.