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Here in the UK, roads are paid for by general taxation. The fuel duty has been frozen for a long time (15 years?) so the general public are in fact subsidising motorists. "Road Tax" was abolished in 1937 due to the ridiculous attitude that some motorists get about "owning" the roads - this seems to be exactly your kind of attitude.

I wonder if you've thought about the logical conclusion of your "ideas" when applied to electric vehicles? They don't pay VED (emmissions tax, which is often referred to as "road tax" by idiots) and they don't pay fuel tax, so what are they doing on "your" public roads?
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Show HN: Yami – An Open Source Music Player with Spotdl Integration
In my locale, in the US, local roads are paid for by property taxes. The higher traffic state and Federal roads are paid for through a combination of fuel and income taxes. Cyclists tend to avoid those roads due to safety and distance. Cycles are prohibited on our equivalent of the motorways.

Most cyclists in the US also have cars, and are paying for license, registration, and insurance. Higher insurance rates are necessary because cars get in more crashes.

Meanwhile, bikes take up less space and do negligible damage to roads, and to other things like vehicles and stationary objects.

A more useful model is that we all pay to subsidize heavy trucking.

But also, each person paying for goodies that they don't use but someone else does, is kind of how a modern society works. It would be vastly more expensive to administer a society in which each person is charged a fee in precise proportion to the facilities and services that they use. Maybe in the future with AI.
I like his poem "The Power of Taste" the best:

It did not take any great character
our refusal dissent and persistence
we had a scrap of necessary courage
but essentially it was a matter of taste
Yes taste
which has fibers of soul and the gristle of conscience

Who knows if we’d been better more prettily tempted
sent women pink and flat as wafers
or fantastic creatures out of Hieronymous Bosch
but what did hell look like in those days
a mud pit a cutthroat’s alley a barracks
called a Palace of Justice
a moonshine Mephisto in a Lenin jacket
sent Aurora’s grandchildren into the field
boys with potato-eaters’ faces
very ugly girls with red hands

Truly their rhetoric was weaved of used sackcloth
(Marcus Tullius turned in his grave)
chains of tautologies a few ailing concepts
torturers’ dialectics reasoning without grace
syntax devoid of the beauty of the subjunctive

So in fact aesthetics can be an aid in life
one shouldn’t neglect the study of beauty
Before we assent we must examine closely
architectural forms rhythms of drum and flutes
oficial colors the homely rituals of burial

Our eyes and ears refused to submit
our princely senses chose proud exile
It did not take any great character

we had a scrap of necessary courage
but in essence it was a matter of taste
Yes taste
which tells you to walk out wince spit out your scorn
even if for that your body’s precious capital the head
would roll

https://lyricstranslate.com/pl/potega-smaku-power-taste.html
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Not to mention the popup that scrolled me back to the beginning of the article.
Thoroughly enjoyable! Looking forward to more games like this from the author.
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Incentivizing publishers to load massive amounts of third party JavaScript was an industry mistake and the people who write JavaScript for ads are profoundly irresponsible and unprofessional.
> Linux 6.13 Supports Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" for 2 to 128 TB Storage

Are there any reliability figures for those cards ?
> Literally the first thing that SpaceX ever tried to launch was for a DoD contract[1]

I was talking about sat contracts, not rockets.

This was the first and so far only one (outside of Starshield): https://spacenews.com/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-...

And again, non of this is secret, so I have no idea what you are talking about.

And SpaceX just delivers the sat bus, not any of the other missile related stuff.

This is a minor sideshow for SpaceX.

> Big picture yes, but definitely not the actual details.

People don't talk in detail about national security projects ... shocker.

Everything you are arguing is just typical conspiracy theory 'coincidence I THINK NOT' type of argument. You have absolutely nothing even remotely solid. So Ill show you how its done:

> In 1991, Griffin was the president and CTO of Orbital Sciences

and then

> in December 2008, NASA awarded SpaceX and Orbital Sciences

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! Orbital got 300 million $ more then SpaceX for doing LESS!!!!!!

Northrop Grumman has since absorbed Orbital.

> SDA industry partners now include SpaceX, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Ball Aerospace and General Dynamics.

AHAHAHAHAH COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
Scummy, but it also seems pretty stupid. You need extremely specific search terms to find any pages about this app rather than about real grep. Like, if you're making a search app and the first page of web search results for "<app name> search" doesn't find it, it's not a good name.
Can you name any other agreement where it's considered reasonable to renegotiate the terms afterwards because you found out what the other party got was more profitable for them than you'd been aware of, through no misrepresentation on their part?
My browser clears every time I exit, so I click on the warnings every day.
Standard YC SAFE is for corporations (C Coprs), not for LLCs, as LLCs don't have shares to convert to, only membership units.

While there are SAFEs for LLCs, I don't get their purpose.

Maybe they can be useful for bootsrapping Micro-SaaS or lifestyle businesses.

https://jmdorsey.com/safe-for-llcs/

https://mccarthylg.com/can-an-llc-use-a-safe/
Models based on Poisson distributions are the simplest type of queue from a mathematical point of view. Introductory courses rarely go beyond that.
Yes, he gave comments for a New Scientist piece about it: "“It’s tremendously exciting,” says Scott Aaronson at the University of Texas at Austin. “It’s been clear for a while that decoding and correcting the errors quickly enough, in a fault-tolerant quantum computation, was going to push classical computing to the limit also. It’s also become clear that for just about anything classical computers do involving optimisation or uncertainty, you can now throw machine learning at it and they might do it better.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457207-google-deepmind...
Atlassian happened.
> and people didn't see college as an automatic requirement

This here is where the money is... college degrees are a very effective dull-weeder for job applications. It filters out people of lower social classes (because they cannot afford college or effects of their social status like having to work jobs next to school to help their family make rent prevent them from getting good enough grades), it filters out people with unmanaged mental health issues, it filters out young parents (good luck managing to get a degree parallel to raising a child), it filters out people with disabilities... and all of that without violating a single anti-discrimination law.
Show HN for this from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396824
He’s in the curriculums lots and lots of US schools, as part of teaching about the rule of law and eventually the rise of modern liberal democracy. Maybe not so much in other countries?

For anyone who went through that, he’s another “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”-type answer form 6th grade tests or whatever.
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Some of them do - it varies.

I run forwards and rear cameras so that I can report dangerous/close passes. Strangely enough, I've had more issues with driver aggression (e.g. horn sounding) along the A370 than I've had with close passes. Of course, I've reported a fair few close passes in other areas (Avon & Somerset Police seem to be one of the few pro-active forces when it comes to dealing with video submissions).
> Chrome currently has far more paid full time engineers than the linux kernel does.

Are you sure? Do you know how many people work on Chrome? 2,000 people contributed to Linux 6.12. only a small portion of those will be full time but it's still likely many hundred full-time-equivalent engineers.
Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?
Interesting, their configuration tool runs in browser and they explicitly mention linux; I don't have much experience with gaming keyboards but the only one I bought in the past had some windows-only configuration software and was a bit of a pain.
That was a belly laugh on a tough day.

Thank you Sir or Madame.
Agreed. Also happened to me on this page and I’ve seen it become more common. I wonder if there is a common gaming-related ad service which does this since it feels like the EXACT behavior I see on IGN.
> A large fraction of my (blasphemous) changes was of course overriding keyboard shortcuts to match the expectations that average users have of what keyboard shortcuts should do, in at least the last 40 years of software.

You mean the same thing you can get by clicking the checkbox under Options → Cut/Paste with C-x/C-c/C-v (CUA Mode)? (And then, Options → Save Options to… save your options.)

Some people really like to exaggerate the difficulty of Emacs, and claim that they spent ages modifying their .emacs files to do what is really the simplest of settings.
My post I am typing here can happily go through Russia/China/India and you cannot do anything about it - and bad actors can actually make your traffic to go through them as per BGP hijacking that was happening multiple times.

NSA was installing physical devices at network providers that was scouring through all information - they did not have to have Agent Smith opening envelopes or even looking at them. Keep in mind criminals could do the same as well just pay off some employees at provider and also not all network providers are in countries where law enforcement works - and as mentioned your data can go through any of such network providers.

If I send physical mail I can be sure it is not going through Bangkok unless I specifically send it with destination that requires it to go there.
Bohr was a big shot, Nobel prized establishment authority. In Weimberg QFT book he recalls a fragment of Dirac's memoirs:

"I remember once when I was in Copenhagen, that Bohr asked me what I was working on and I told him I was trying to get a satisfactory relativistic theory of the electron, and Bohr said 'But Klein and Gordon have already done that!' That answer first rather disturbed me. Bohr seemed quite satisfied by Klein's solution, but I was not because of the negative probabilities that it led to. I just kept on with it, worrying about getting a theory which would have only positive probabilities."
It seems like there is a need to merge control loops. Humans have sensory input, a model of the situation, and react to all that. So also automated driving or driving assistance machines have input, a model, and reactions. Instead of having these systems compete, they could interact. Instead of simply slamming on the brakes or beeping loudly the automated system could display its current inputs and model of the world so that it would be easy to see if the issue were in front, to the side, or in the rear and what physical objects may be involved. Instead of competing for control of the vehicle cooperate to present the best sensory input, analysis, and modeling and have the driver and vehicle negotiate all that in order to control the vehicle in the best way.
>> Most personality changes are unconscious

That is because most people are not consciously attempting to become better people for the betterment of those around them (which helps their own happiness, too, due to the nature of our karmic universe). Most people are simply acting out of the selfishness to have their own desires fulfilled, with varying amounts of concern for the consequences to those around them.

A person can undertake self-evolution in any direction they choose; it is always our choice, except in the extremely rare cases where a person is physically damaged. Most people have the power to change, though it is difficult for us all. The universe does help those of us who seek to do so for the benefit of others.

What makes human beings unique is that we have both the ability to self-evolve our attitudes and behaviors, and the tools to do so, our mind and conscience.

>> Personality Capture

A person who is not undergoing conscious-self-evolution is susceptible to being influenced (and even overwhelmed) by a forceful personality that caters to their desire-seeking. That is how dictators have always risen to power: they seek a loyal army of folks enamored with the leader's promises to make the in-group's lives better. Those folks never seek to make life better for ALL people, because helping out-group members requires generosity, which usually requires making some level of selfless sacrifices of resources.

As always, the strife is between selfish callousness and selfless care. Compassion for all our fellow human beings is the nature of being a humanitarian, that is to say: being the best of what we can be, for the benefit of the entire human race. And it all starts with each and every one of us.
Impressive. Thanks.
Sweet, I have emailed you. Subject: "Amar from Hacker News"
You are addressing something I did not say. See the quote to which I replying.
I need to monitor my compost to keep it from freezing in the winter. Probably not what OP's system is for, given that they are from Australia.

The biological processes produce enough heat to keep the thermally insulated compost bin from freezing easily down to -15C (~5 F). But this requires that there isn't too much finished compost in the bin that won't produce heat any more, so any turn downwards on the thermometer means I'm probably late in emptying the bin. Which happens every year when it gets cold (below -20C/-5F), but can be remedied by a 40W light bulb for 48 hours to heat up and restart the composting.

Another thing that needs to be monitored is humidity, because too humid and the compost goes anaerobic and starts rotting instead of composting. This I "monitor" by smell but this project has some kind of gas composition sensor which could be useful. I don't have issues with this any more as I have practically unlimited supply of wood chips to keep it dry.

But the wood chips bring another problem which is pH levels that may go too low. Here's where I'd really like to have a monitor so I could estimate if I need to do something to adjust the pH.
These warrants aren’t for waging war either. They are for crimes against humanity, including hindering aid from reaching civilians, and for targeting hospitals.
For example finance is such an important aspect of our lifes and you just need some understanding of math principles to understand how to make good financial choices.
I have used VMs to configure gaming keyboards. Razer's huntsman v2 red silent is an amazing office keyboard, but you need the brain vomit "Synapse" to configure it. I just start a VM, install Synapse and go to town instead, leaving my regular system pristine.
Man, you really can’t escape Hyrum’s Law ever! Now we have people depending on the iteration order being random!
I want nominal typing. I don’t want to see structural typing again.
This is because sites like this shove ads in every conceivable whitespace on the page, so you have ads/videos/images and JavaScript loading and executing from all corners of the internet. What was once a page that was supposed to give you text and images is now executing all kinds of shit you don't want or need, burning up your CPU and battery and giving you a truly horrible, janky experience even on newer phones or desktops. If you visit these sites on older phones, it's truly excruciating. All for some text of what could have been a comment on a site like this, or a blog post on a statically-hosted site which costs next to nothing to run.

Here was my experience on an M1 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM, in Safari with no extensions:

https://imgur.com/RDv2n7Z

This is why I have absolutely zero qualms with using an ad blocker to the fullest extent I can.

I hate what these people do to computers.
It's interesting that this says "Boeing overcharged" and not "USAF overpaid".

I know who I blame for wasting the tax dollars, and it isn't the organisation whose raison d'être is making a profit on selling goods. I don't blame the lion for eating the gazelle either.

(Admittedly the actual article has a more balanced tone).
I did always wonder about the general standard of living in the Shire - always seemed suspiciously high to me.
Understood, the comment I was referring to was this one a bit further up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42188151

I responded to your comment because it was the most recent in the thread, but I agree that it would have perhaps made more sense as a reply to the other commenter.

Anyhow the broader point I think is worth making is that there is often a more context-specific approach, of which eligibility criteria for competitive sporting events is one example.
What does premature formalization mean and when does it occur? Do you mean formal in the sense of using formulaic, rote manipulations or formal in the sense of proofs and rigor?

As someone who went on to study mathematics at the graduate level, I was bored out of my mind in high school math and most subjects. What's missing from a lot of primary and secondary school education is context, and that's what makes it boring. Math wasn't easy because I was particularly good at it. It was easy because it was just blindly following formulas and basic logic.

Something is very wrong with our educational system because almost all math at the primary and secondary levels is basic logic. So when people with this maximum level of mathematics education say they're "bad at math" or "don't get math", it means that they lack extremely basic logic and reasoning skills.

In my mind, we need to teach mathematics in a contextual way (note that I don't necessarily mean applications) in a way to enrich the reasoning and exploring of it. This should include applications, yes, but not be fully concentrated on applications. Sometimes one needs to just learn and think without being tied to some arbitrary standard of it being applied.
Analogue controls are indeed an awesome concept for a keyboard. Has anyone shipped any "revolutionary" default setups, e.g., from tiny things like making your pinky suffer less by having lower actuation point to making shallow actuation type lowercase and deeper actuation type uppercase or longer holds on arrow keys accelerating the movement?

Pity, though, the progress is still stalled on the actual layout - the ergonomic splits and other improvements are still a tiny niche
Which is why i block all 3rd party js by default. If your website requires 3rd party js and it is not essential for me to really visit it, most prob i am just gonna close it.
Maybe not as drastic as copy pasting, but I do look at the thickness left of the book and take that into account when wondering what will happen.
A curb is just a sign, at least for pedestrians. If a curb can help you not to cross into a bicycle lane, so can a clearly painted lane.
You're going to run into problems with quantum mechanics and the non zero amplitude that two identical hydrogens swap place.
Have been there, have also been to the Netherlands. There isn't really a big difference in the total space available, in my limited experience. You can find a big difference for a photo op, sure.

Based on where I have been, I guess the big difference is that the Dutch allocate continuous space to bikes and the British have a patchwork of bike space and parked cars.

The Dutch use of space seems more effective, the space they use for bikes is connected, rather than unconnected/ineffective bits.

But note that on the first photo, you see four streets meeting at an intersection, that's eight sides, and there are cars parked on only two of the eight. Look at the the next intersection you pass on the way somewhere and compare the number of sides with parking space with that "two".
> Only an adult can look and see what that was - immature, insecure little boys, desperately trying to show off as bigger/more mature or kick down anybody showing any weakness or mistake. Often issues from home manifesting hard. Its trivial to look back without emotions, but going through it... not so much.

I'm not so sure that adults always get it or rise about this. This happens in the workplace all the time.
From the article: "...explains this rate of muscle decline is significantly higher than what is typically observed with calorie-reduced diets or normal aging and could lead to a host of long-term health issues..."

The warning isn't that you're losing muscle during weight-loss with these drugs. It's that the ratio of muscle vs fat loss is much greater with the drugs compared to traditional weight loss methods.

It's been well studied that if you exercise and eat enough protein while losing weight, you can retain more muscle.

Losing a lot of lean mass is incredibly detrimental to your longevity and quality of life.
TBH My parents got divorced my Freshman year, and as much as it sucked, I did somehow get more Federal financial aid out of the deal...
Not really hypothetical.

Google "isp injecting ads", well most of it is from 10 years ago - but that is because now we have TLS everywhere.

And it is not attack on your blog but on readers of your blog, well your blog gets the blame of course in case they would be infected by malware or see adult ads.
Hyrum's Law is one of those observations that's certainly useful, but be careful not to fixate on it and draw the wrong conclusions. Consider that even the total runtime of a function is an observable property, which means that optimizing a function to make it faster is a breaking change (what if suddenly one of your queues clears too fast and triggers a deadlock??), despite the fact that 99.99999999% of your users would probably appreciate having code that runs faster for no effort on their part.

Therefore it's unavoidable that what constitutes a "breaking change" is a social contract, not a technical contract, because the alternative is that literally nothing is ever allowed to change. So as a library author, document what parts of your API are guaranteed not to change, be reasonable, and have empathy for your users. And as a library consumer, understand that making undocumented interfaces into load-bearing constructs is done at your own risk, and have empathy for the library authors.
SNI doesn't expose headers and request paths.
Cool...
Ask HN: What are good options for selling or otherwise monetize unused domains?
I have collected dozens of domains in the years due to ideas or side projects that never materialized.

At this point I should really cut down on them, so I wonder what my options are to at least make some return on the sometimes years of fees.

I have no experience in this area at all and hope for some fresh ideas here :)

Some thoughts:

- Setup a 'for sale' page. I assume this only works for the more fancy names and eventually I have to find a way to make the payment and transfer happen without problems.

- Use a placeholder website like newsy.com. I am doing this for one domain and turns out I have only a few visitors per month. I hope that is not my most valuable domain ;)

- Use an auction marketplace domain. Seems rather useless and expensive for 'ordinary' domains?

- Just expire without having any return.

Any other ideas? Or comments on these options?
I have always wondered why is that my dashcam in car uses same basic 32GB sdcard for writing multiple gigabytes of data every day during summer and winter without any problems, but when it comes to raspberry pi or its clones everyone starts to suggest to even avoid a few kb of logs written to sdcard to be on the safe side somehow. ( my theory is that all negativity related to sdcards come from flaky power supplies and straight up counterfeits on amazon ).