skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How far does this go? Should we charge taxes on sugar due to health care costs? What about taxes on fiber due to increase wear on sewers?

Go to electric. What about the environmental impact on battery creation/recycling/maintenance? Or the electricity to power them (until nuclear comes online)?

This line of argumentation can go on endlessly. How about instead let’s reduce taxes and try focusing on lowering the cost of living for middle and lower income brackets.
I found:

2023 Chevy Bolt EV, 37,000 miles, $15,600 in LA.

Or, a 2020 with 27,000 miles for $13,500.

2021 Tesla Model 3, 24,000 miles, $22,000

2022 Kia Niro EV, 21,000 miles, $18,400

2020 Tesla Model Y, 48,000 miles, $26,800

Gasoline cars to compare:

2020 Toyota Corolla, 66,000 miles, $17,800

2020 Honda CR-V, 44,000 miles, $23,800

2021 Nissan Sentra, 41,000 miles, $16,500

It seems to me that EVs depreciate so much faster than gasoline cars that they're almost always cheaper with lower miles than an equivalent gasoline car. The only strong exception seems to be the Tesla Model Y.

Anyway, I agree that California especially needs to greatly expand public transit. But I think it's notable that at this point cost isn't really a major negative to EV ownership.
> We truly are in the fuck you and it’s your fault I don’t have mine era

Yes, but please don't blame people for feeling that way. People don't feel safe.

When people are insecure, they look to authoritarians for simple solutions. And both major political parties are happy to oblige.

When people are secure, they can care more about other people and issues beyond themselves. But they have to feel safe first. Unfortunately, lack of safety is something people can campaign on and campaigning on "things are good enough already" just never works - even when it's true.

We are in an era where we keep giving up more and more of our civil rights for a promised safety that is never delivered.
Nice find. Also one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs of theirs.

Edit: I found the set list for that show:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-en...
I don't really understand why this would be better than using tcc, which also can be used to bootstrap gcc, as a trusted prebuilt binary. Is there any reason to think that posix shell is more trustworthy? I certainly would expect c code to be more human readable than shell for writing a compiler.
If smoking is a requirement for them to not become homeless, yes.
"Jim's Rust Compiler" would be OK under the policy. Jim calling his fork "The Rust Compiler" wouldn't. You're allowed to use "Rust" or "Cargo" to mention the language & package manager, you're not allowed to cause confusion that they're the official Rust Foundation-endorsed compiler & package manager.
I've written and published over a dozen books. (Two published with big tech publishers, the rest self-published.)

With my most recent book, I've moved my PDF generation to Typst. LaTeX, you served me well, but I'm more than happy to never use you again. Typst is better (or decent enough) in every dimension.
Adyashanti helped a lot. End of your world book in specifically. I think one of the main takeaways was to instead of running away from these questions or thoughts welcome them and experience them. Don't try to distract yourself when a thought comes. Just embrace it. It will weaken the power of the thoughts or feelings. At the end of the day they are all mere appearances in awareness and not permanent. They go away.

There is also a lecture series on Advaita Vedanta on YouTube. That helped as well.

https://youtu.be/gEd22QZF_mM?si=iDIXY1oUhOC9PaHm

Meditation helped a lot.

Spending time in nature a lot helped. Camping under trees helped..

Also Jordan Peterson's biblical lectures also surprisingly helped even though I was not brought up Christian. I know he is divisive but the lectures are not political.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE4zj0nQN08ewq9dl1e8MCz3Y...

Also just praying and believing in a higher power helped.
I literally cannot live in Los Angeles because of the constant smog. Yes, it's much better than it was, but Los Angeles is still in a bowl, and it's bad enough that I cannot live there.
ok, maybe that was it. I didn't stay around long enough to notice the pattern.
I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play these days lol)
> Should we charge taxes on sugar due to health care costs?

Doesn’t New York City do this with a soda tax?
Sugar tax doesn't work well. The fiber thing sounds like a joke? Pollution from producing electricity sounds like a great thing to tax. What makes you treat that as an idea so obviously bad you don't need to say why? And the impact of manufacturing already is addressed in a lot of ways, even if it could be better.
Isn't this useful for obscure embedded systems where you have a posix shell but no working compiler (that you have access to)?
Work in priority order and stop when things are fantastic
Worst NYC subway ride ever included a brown cylindrical object rolling three feet across the floor whenever the train started or stopped. And the riders acted like this was just another Tuesday.

But those riders had no other options. In CA the better option is right there in front of your house, with highways crisscrossing every which way to get you on your way.
>> Didn't OpenID predate OAuth? What should OpenID have built upon?

Yes, you're right about "OpenID predate OAuth" part.

However, from my point-of-view, it seems the main source of confusion here is due to the fact that the word OpenID is used in more than one sense:

- First, OpenID used as part of the original OpenID authentication protocol developed around 2005 which communicates the idea of a decentralized online digital identity where one way a user can asserts their online digital identity is via a URL under their control.

- Second, OpenID used as part of the compound noun in "OpenID Connect" (which as per Wikipedia is "third generation of OpenID technology", published in 2014[1]) which implements the user identity and their authentication via authentication workflows built on top of OAuth2 spec.

Now, in my comment earlier i.e. "OIDC, unlike OpenID, ... built on top of existing OAuth spec ... to achieve its main objective ...", I was using OIDC (with "OpenID") in the second sense in comparison to the original OpenID authentication protocol where OpenID is used in the first sense (with both senses mentioned above).

I hope it helps.

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As an aside, looking at all the comments about "OpenId" and "OpenID Connect" as nouns, I'm reminded of the following post: Two Hard Things[2]

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid#OpenID_Connect_(OIDC)

[2] - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
Nuclear power is horrifically expensive. Charging a 100 kWh car battery on nuclear power costs about $20 excluding taxes and grid costs.

Investing in nuclear power would stall the entire electrical revolution that is on going.
Info from the future: it seems that fresh iOS18 versions reboot the phone if they haven't been unlocked for a specified amount of time (days it seems).

If it's in the hands of a legit owner, they just need to type the iCloud password and they're back in. If it was stolen or confiscated, it just became a very expensive brick unless they can coerce the owner to log in somehow.
It’s a good question but I don’t have a good answer. I’d be curious how you reason about it though, if you have a good framework on this topic. I think I already pay for smokers indirectly to some extent since insurance pools risk. And the ACA (Obamacare) outlawed denial of coverage for pre existing conditions except for older plans. So we’re already in this situation.

Am I OK with it? Not really. But I think we need to figure out what the general principled way of thinking about this is. People make all sorts of choices that are good and bad for their health. We could ask the same question about those who are overweight due to overeating, or those who want cosmetic surgery relating to a gender transition, or those who get injured due to an extreme sport, or whatever. Should we pick and choose who to subsidize?
List of Individual Rocks
Balance sheet accounting vs total cost to society when extenalities are included is a huge source of problems.

A good to know is California has some programs where they will buy back your older vehicle and pay you a grant of you replace it with a new or used low emissions vehicle. You can also get public transit vouchers instead I think.

Note. Low emissions includes hybrids. And some used EV's are really affordable.
Sure. that's part of "what they could potentially pay you". Startups don't have money for 400k engineers without crazy VC money and a ton of confidence. For the rest, they offer equity.

If that's what you seek or think is your worth is an entirely different discussion.
I believe Reddit in particular actually has gotten much more optimized in the past 15 years. I don't think this is rose colored glasses, the content really is much more engaging and addictive, with more short form videos and content that can be understood immediately at a glance.
> financial incentives to electrify are exactly

this part is not about California. Electricity cost increased significantly in California lately: https://blog.citadelrs.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CRS-blog-Sept2023-PG%... and that graph doesn't include several last hikes.
Wow that's a really nice compliment!

You should have seen the original UI concepts I made, they were terrible!
Many countries introduce taxes on sugary drinks and snacks with varying outcomes[0]. These type of things only go endlessly if you have all or nothing thinking and taxes like this are meant to shape behavior so unless you want people shitting less then no you don't need to tax fiber.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax#Impact
Bacteria repopulate in like no time at all.
> major support for electric vehicle adoption

There already is major support. Even Republicans in California (different agenda than republicans in national politics) support it.
I’ve come to the conclusion that California just doesn’t want anyone to live there. Once all the people are gone, it’ll be a green utopia once again.
The fact that people live like that was a policy choice too. Entire neighborhoods were disrupted to make way for this way of life. It was easy back then because we chose marginalized and poor people to displace. Seems only fair to "do it right" this time and subsidize relocation costs for everyone so our society can be organized based on efficiency and access to amenities. Edge cases will probably still require cars, but we can optimize access to common activities.
Gogs is fantastic.

A single binary, easy to setup, blazing fast. I also love it looks and feels like the old Github.
TIL: there are randoms in the world who feel the exact what I feel, on daily basis for past three or four years.

It is frustrating. One recent mindset change I have adopted that reduces the feeling of overwhelming is:

1. Say it out loud, "I have plenty of time" and breathe deeply

2. "I have to work within constraint for which I do not have control of"

3. Can things be a lot more worse then they are? Fortunately, the answer to this has been 100% yes. Things can be worse in terms of developing complicated medical condition to family complication.

4. There always be be 'noise', work on reducing it and accept the 'distractions' are noise. Since distraction is noise, ignore it instead of giving into it.
I can’t imagine any scenario where lower taxes is the right move. I guess maybe if you’re dying in a few years and don’t care about global warming?
The US government has an enormous cheese stockpile.

https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-...
Still will be cheap compared to gas prices in other countries. Plenty of places where it is around $2/litre
Incompetence is usually not intentional. For example Germany has shut down the nuclear power plants because it was important for the Greens. Instead they burn more coal now.
> Taken into a climate wetter than Egypt (in other words, pretty much any other climate where people actually live) it begins to disintegrate very quickly and needs constant maintenance.

For example papyrus was massively used in the roman empire and all those records have disappeared, only what had been copied and re-copied since then reached us.
It is bathing the land with poison, that’s why it works.
What’s stopping a program that trades gas cars for electric? Or do they already exist and I don’t know about it?
The vast majority of Californians live in areas unsuitable for public transit. Unless you plan on leveling and rebuilding California cities first, expecting people to use public transit in California is not realistic.
Exactly. The USA brags about its environmental improvements but fails to mention it exported plenty of manufacturing to do that. Come the summer when the media highlights the smog over Beijing, The West ownes a good chunk of that violation of Mother Nature.

China, etc is cheaper not only because of the cost of labor but because of lack of environmental protections.
What’s new in F# 9? Well of course that would be G#.
Arguably in the recent election the Democrats learned that increasing inflation to reduce unemployment was a bad political tradeoff.
I also wonder what happened to some of the experiments California has already ran. For example the eHighway idea (https://insideevs.com/news/336589/first-us-ehighway-launched...), to let semi trucks draw power from overhead lines (like a train). To me it seems like a no brainer to give larger vehicles this option. Buses already operate this way in many cities. Why not put overhead lines on all carpool lanes and let semi trucks use them? It might even make a big enough impact on greenhouse gas emissions that we don’t need to have contentious arguments about banning gas cars or raising gas taxes. But like many good ideas, it came and went without anything more coming of it as far as I know.
>Nor has any one talked about how this will drive adoptions of other transportation methods including public transportation

How is the high speed rail in California going? Asking for a friend. Is California able to build public transport fast? To make it safe? Is is able to keep the vagrants, homeless, smelly, and crazy away so to make it palatable for the good standing citizens to use them?
Public transport exists.
I came into a company once that had built their own server room. It had a couple hundred pizza boxes in it and was always hot as hell even with full blast air conditioning. When I retired almost all of them to use virtual servers, it turns out that 1) a lot of the chipsets internallyl still had plastic film on them (to prevent scratches? Why would you put film on them? There were even some CPUs that didn't have any coolers on them, just film) and 2) A lot of the inpflow and outflow air ports also had plastic shipping film that was never removed. I was completely shocked. So I fixed dozens if not a hundred computers simply by removing a piece of tape.
> generous state subsidies exist

I don't see much/any state subsidies in your link. I think they are all canceled.
I think that is one of the steps towards tacitly admitting the project is no longer maintained/maintainable
With all the drama in the platform right now (caused by one of the creators), I would suggest that anyone that isn’t already deeply invested in it for whatever reason to not start now. Its future is a big question mark right now and I’m unable to recommend it as a stable solution to anyone anymore.
California is a case study in gross over payment in utilities. From Enron, to eye-watering costs for nuclear plants, costs for fires caused by utility wire windfall, ... How about a sentence like "PG&E can decommission Diablo Canyon for $4 billion, $12 billion to keep the plant running until 2030, or $45 billion to improve and extend the life of the plant." Vast sums have been lost, both ratepayers and investors. That's one plant for one utility. There are six investor-owned utilities in California. Most states swapped coal out for natural gas, or installed wind power. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-25/should-...
I wonder in which language you think 1m locs would be manageable for an actual monolith (and not just a monorepo).

And method_missing is a such fundamental part of the language, that it obvious you skipped basic docs on the language. Besides that, there're not many "magic references". Unlike in python, btw, where "there should be 1 obvious solution to any problem" mantra doesn't hold for a veeery long time.
That's interesting. EVs as a tool of the surveillance state, the same entity that pushes EVs. Not sure why I never considered that. Thanks.
> Nevermind that being downloaded a million times doesn't mean by a million people, as scammers download their own app to boost numbers -- a million is what, 1 in a few thousand smartphone users?

Isn't this cause for people to be more vigilant? You can't even trust apps that are vouched for by large numbers of users (with these large numbers being not mere claims on a shady website, but statistics officially certified by the authority of the app store).
I have a hard time picturing how an application can be considered anything other than completely broken once a couple threads/workers have deadlocked, so I don't know what any of that quote means. Yeah, I get that browsers isolate tabs and that the damage is contained.
> that EVs depreciate so much faster than gasoline cars

I think those older EVs have short impractical range, that's why they are cheap?
California needs to just fully invest in nuclear. And regulate or use eminent domain to buy PG&E to socialize it. Costs would go down, executive pay would go down, reliability and issues related to forest fires would likely go down.

And they need to invest in better public transit. Imagine LA with SF-level public transit. Or SF with NYC-level public transit (or better).
It would fix a lot of the provider specific aspects of OAuth2, if the spec would be more strict on some claim (attribute) names on the jwt ID token. Some provide groups, some don't. Some call it roles or direct_groups. Some include prefered_username, some don't. Some include full name, some don't and don't get me started on name and first_name.

If you implement OIDC you must certainly provide a configurable mapping system for source claim name to your internel representation of a user object.
"Recently, with a bit of encouragement from a friend"

Thank you friend..
There is no gouging. Climate change and other factors have caused California to turn into a hellacious inferno in the summers due to wildfires. In response, they are burying a very large number of power lines, because they spark them. This cost is causing rates to spike, but in return, hopefully less apocalyptic summers.
I also wonder what the perf overhead will be for programs that only need i32. I didn’t dig deep enough on the implementation, but these type of variadic runtime options often cause perf regressions because of all the “ifs” / lookups of type configs/parameters, etc. I just imagine some inner loops where mem.get adds a few instructions from the “if u32/64/“.

Unless it ends up being seamless / no cost via loading different u32/u64 implementations.

I mostly agree with the old c++ mantra of - no feature should have a runtime cost unless used.
This compiler is written in C though. You also have the option to distribute the "compiled" version which is a POSIX shell script. I can imagine instances where I can't grab a TCC binary or maybe I'm not allowed to set the exec bit.

There is a problem if you want to verify using the C source though (assuming the resulting shell script is as inscrutably as binary executable). Even if you use pnut.sh to compile pnut.c and see that you get the correct output, or even include GCC in the chain, you're still (afaict) susceptible to a "trusting trust" attack on the original pnut.sh .
This is true, but Germany is quickly ramping up renewables. Recent figures show that wind and solar accounted for more than 50% of energy this summer. Winter will likely be a challenge though.
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> play random youtube videos?

I feel like that would result in a lot more "hey guys don't forget to like and subscribe" type of videos.
We’re not the demographic they’re looking for.
Images of Spain's floods weren't made by AI. Trouble is, people think they were
This wouldn't make the room any cooler, though, as the total energy used by the computers is the same. It would just dissipate the heat in the air, rather than keep it on the chips.
Uuidminer: Which Minecraft (offline) player name has the highest "difficulty"‽
Also the weight penalty is slowly decreasing as batteries get incrementally better.
Fair enough. I don’t use the iPad version of FCP or Resolve, but I’ve paid for both Mac apps and have enjoyed free updates from Apple and Blackmagic for close to 10 years.
You’re all acting like these videos are from
ancient times.
Noodles: A bioinformatics I/O library written in Rust
It's 10am and Dad's Doing Jell-O Shots. Must Be Parents' Weekend
https://ory.sh has an open- source self-hosted option Hydra (and a number of other services)
Have you tried TeXmacs or its fork Mogan?
> relatively easy to teach to anyone that is already familiar with JS or TS.

What about Java?
We don’t need electric cars, we need public transit. Cars and cities are fundamentally incompatible.
Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout
> There were even some CPUs that didn't have any coolers on them, just film

...I'm pretty surprised these systems booted at all without CPU coolers?
>I'm talking about the bureaucracy that ensures that the water is running, people can get driving licenses, register real estate deals, etc.

Maybe utilities and some other functions that are not related to how Putin enacts his political control can be spared. Not gutting the machine that does - and that's courts, the entire FSB, whole departments of the MVD, large swaths of the education system and regional governments, really need to be gutted and replaced by new people, old ones only allowed back after thorough examination of their track record.

>Lustrations ("purges") are a bad idea in general, especially for larger countries that don't have a history of democracy.

This is an opinion, and it's not supported by facts. Poland is not that small, more than 1/4 the population of Russia, and their lustrations worked very well. No living person there had any memory of democracy at the time they happened.

>Want an example? Iraq. The US Army purged all the BAATH members from the new government, replacing them with new people who were inexperienced in day-to-day administration. And then all those exceedingly nice and newly-jobless ex-BAATH-ists went and formed the core of ISIS.

Way to conflate civic lustrations with a war, and by total destruction by a superpower onslaught at that.