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> congestion-solving pricing schemes for something like AWS services act so unable to see parking and road networks as containing the same dynamics

While I do see the irony, I think one of the differences is that nobody needs AWS, but a lot of poor or lower-middle-class people in America have no realistic choice but to drive to places. I'm not against paid parking, but like you said, there is something funny (and sad) about the solution effectively being "reduce demand for parking, unless you're rich enough to not care".
This is a problem I expect to be fully and thoroughly solved by LLMs very soon; no longer should we have to concern ourselves with rephrasing things for different audiences than our peer groups. Scientists often aren’t also great writers, and if they don’t have to be, they can focus more on their actual area of expertise.
And ... there we go - flagged by Musk's tech bros again. HN is starting to feel like X -- I've deleted my X account, and might have to do the same here.

I've now switched my primary HN link from the home page to /active, where, thankfully, flagged posts still show up.
Why isn't it front-page news on HN rather than being flagged? Is it just because Musk's "DOGE" is in the title? I think it's pretty significant that a number of agencies have handed root access to people who shouldn't have it and have made changes that could have significant unintended consequences. This is could end up being a case study in why you don't allow unfettered access even when ordered by the incoming regime (be it POTUS or CEO) because there be dragons and the new people don't know where they are yet.
I'm not American and other users aren't here to entertain specifically you.
Sure, most Biden/Harris supporters are ultimately "centrists", like most trump supporters. They spend their life struggling to juggle costs of living and responsibilities of adulthood. They participate in a society that demands they use all of their energy physical and cognitive to just survive and they reasonably outsource their judgement regarding larger scale policies and politics to trusted leaders of their community. They then believe and do what those leaders tell them.

The other type of Biden/Harris supporter has the privilege of time and energy to spend examining the situation critically and recognizes them as just supporting further corporate control behind the guise of bureaucracy instead of "strong men". But they vote/evangalize for them anyway because at least they don't actively advocate for harming people out of spite.
> Your father is a parent and didnt parent 6 years by your side.

I don't think you can imply this from parent. My wife is the parent who spends most of the time by my children's side. Meanwhile I am working to support and provide for the whole family. Still I am lucky and able to spend quite a lot of time with my children.

> Why didn't your mother step up to support that?

She was probably already busy being a mother. It's a full-time job.

> If a mother can replace a father in this role, why can't a teacher?

Nowhere it is implied that the mother is replacing the father. Both have a different role to fulfil.

> Why doesn't a child need some freedom and independence to discover their own internal motivations and creativity?

Again, all sorts of assumptions. There can be guided freedom, protected independence... etc. Even if you decide to throw your kid into the swimming pool to 'encourage' them to learn how to swim, you won't leave them there on their own, will you?
Culture comparisons are a notoriously touchy topic. For some people, the topic itself is a taboo. I believe that's why the poster you're replying to had that reaction. For others, it's a topic to discuss and learn from.
Yup. Hopefully they have good backups, but once money has been shuffled around is it possible to put it back? And not just in the abstract - this is FEMA we're talking about - lives are going to be lost.
In reality, it's the opposite. What we're seeing day-by-day in the US today matches almost exactly how the rise of Fascism was done in Europe, and how they grabbed as much power as they could, both before the second-world war, and in more modern times.
Read this within my half hour break and man, wow what a story. I'm not a software guy, I'm a sys and net guy. Despite not caring or knowing about hash tables, that articles a great read! Thanks for sharing!
They absolutely do NOT mean the same thing.

There is open source software that requires payment to obtain.

There is open source software that you are not free to do whatever you want with (non-libre)

There is software available at no cost which is neither open source or libre.

Just about every permutation of these 3 concepts has some actual example in the real world. Please do not promote the idea that they are in any way synonyms.
Apple doesn’t “have” to do anything. They could stop selling phones in the US for the next four years and still not burn through their cash.
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> The intersection of nationalism and archaeology can get _really_ weird, and depending on how deep in they are

A lot of political mythology is based on a group of people being either ethnically homogeneous or ethnically non-homogeneous.

For example a lot of Nazi ideology would've been undermined if it could've been shown that Germans were ethnically non-homogeneous. However it would've been supported if it could've been shown that other groups of people like WW1 German Army deserters were ethnically homogeneous. Or undermined again if there were non-German ethnic homogeneity in WW1 heroes who participated in the German army.
@dang could you unflag it? For the sake of the consistency's principle you mentioned in our previous comment exchanges?
That was fun. I would like to learn other somewhat recent stories about product launches. Is there a website which collects them?
The State Department just decided to order $400 million in "armored Teslas". [1] (Hastily changed to "armored electric vehicles" once it was caught out.[2] As if that fools anyone but fools.)

1. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administrati...
2. https://time.com/7221880/state-department-2025-procurement-f...
Yes, and the second most stable and peaceful moment was 1913 when people were celebrating a half-century of continuous growth and prosperity. I think I'll pass your introduction, thanks.
Yes but that blood work checks things like cholesterol and vitamin deficiencies. They aren't checking for these types of markers that point toward cancers. They may notice something is out of whack that may lead to more specific testing but I think the overall question is why aren't we just checking for everything more frequently with these blood draws?
You don't really understand politics.

Democrats, i.e. politicians associated with the DNC, are generally fine with this because they've been bought out by corporate interests, which expect to profit under fascism.

Your average person is very concerned, for very good reason.
Not sure it matters. It's still way too tied to the Apple ecosystem to be useful. I wanted to get a family subscription about a year ago and it was basically impossible to manage the subscription without an Apple device of some sort. Which sucks because I really thought it was worth the value at the time, just not the hassle.
I agree, but I lament how voters quickly forget the chaos from the first Trump administration, and how much they didn't care about the DOGE agenda. They think they voted for a lower inflation (which is a very questionable premise by itself), but they didn't realize they were voting for the whole package. I definitely wasn't surprised, and American people deserve this.

Hopefully the voters come to their mind in the next election, and hope it's not too late.
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> The EU is so regulated its hard to do anything nowadays.

What are you referring to here, specifically? Something that is a net-positive for society, and that would be legal in the US but is illegal in Europe or EU?
> one in parenthesis

This is what I see. Estonian Google (possibly EU-wide?) shows 'Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)'. In Estonian, 'Mehhiko laht (Ameerika laht)'.

I don't see why any European version of Maps needs to show the American name at all.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mehhiko+laht+(Ameerika+lah...
Normally when talking about fitness tracking we are talking about embedded systems with very limited capacity both in terms of compute power and storage. You can use on-device storage to buffer tracking data, but any relevant and long term assessment and storage of the data has to be done off-site.
Are You Ready to Let an AI Agent Use Your Computer?
Looks the the one at that link does unless there's some newer versioning thing I'm not aware of. The top results seem to be comparing pypy 3.10.14 and ruby/yjit 3.4.1.
Corporations are the unoffical 4th branch of government. If the stock market tanks they’ll be gone like that snaps fingers. The campaign donations and lobbyist spigot will turn off for these politicians, panic and leadership will change. I know Citizens United allows for dark money to flow in from anywhere to prop up their campaigns indefinitely but not enough to offset a tanked stock market due to lack of trust in the US dollar and markets.
Screening recommendations are based on statistical arguments that take false positives (plus the risk of the test itself) into account and calculate whether more people would be helped than harmed.
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> Release Date: February 7, 2025

Even Trump's FEMA doesn't support your (unsourced!) assertions.
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which corruption is being routed out?

I'm sure there's some corruption somewhere, but so far we haven't seen any concrete examples of it -- just elimination of anything related to DEI (which has to do with ideology, not "corruption" which would be embezzlement of funds). Also, there are mechanisms for properly investigating and bringing to justice government officials who do embezzle funds (corruption).

As far as anything being "routed out", so far that's been agencies that have nothing to do with corruption: USAID, Dept of Education, all the DOJ lawyers who had anything to do with investigations into Trump, Jan 6, etc.

A lot of political reprisals under the cover of "corruption".

I suggest you study what happened in China from 2012 - 2018 and you can see where this is headed.
As I said, Americans and Europeans clearly care about different things :) Your sole focus on "growth" and "prosperity" makes this crystal clear and will make a good example of this in future discussions.
> The intention of copyright is

..."to promote the progress of science and useful arts". I don't see anything in there about rewarding 'work' irrespective of whether that work involves any kind of creativity.

> If those notes could have been created mechanically directly from the original source - why didn't the copier do that

That's actually a very good question. In practice, I do absolutely agree that the notes involve plenty of originality and creativity.
Yes, but insurance does not cover large amounts of screening tests. Last year my A1C check was not covered. In North Carolina my wife's vitamin D test is not covered by her primary or gyno for routine checks.
Pivot Bio is using microbial nitrogen to make agriculture more sustainable
What is really sad to read in this whole debacle is all the nihilists who think that the US government "should burn". These people are largely ignorant of all the ways their government works for them. One could say the government has been working too well, much like vaccines.
Senior State Dept. Advisor "BigBalls" Ran Image Host with Racist/Pedophilic URLs
No; of voters, 49.8% picked Trump.

A plurality, but not a majority.
>apps, but connected to something like "folder in dropbox" or "folder in gdrive" ...

That's the opposite of gp's question of: >no reason to ever leave my laptop [...] What's the advantage [...] data on some device other than the one I'm using to interact with it?

Gp was wondering why the data can't remain local to that device [i.e. laptop]. Proposing "choose-your-own-cloud-service" like DropBox and Google Drive contradicts that.
> What's the advantage of having the server and data on some device other than the one I'm using to interact with it?

Mostly that many people have more than 1 computer these days: a small one that just about fits in the palm of their hand, and a larger one that stays in a room.

This means that most people are instantly operating within the realm of "distributed computing", and one of the fundamental approaches to that sort of thing is to allow one of the computers to both provide and accept data to/from the other.

Of course, if you have an application that will only ever be used on a single computing device, and whose data has no utility anywhere else, there's no need for the data to be able to move to/from a server. Such applications do exist, but so do many, many more where the ability to view and modify the data on different devices in different locations is desirable, even when there's just a single user involved.
Ah, here we go with the "invisible deep state" theory that secretly controls -- or tries to -- things behind the scenes.

Does make for good movies though.
Can't really say enough good things about Vim. I retired early as a staff software engineer because of the work I did using Vim. From hacking silly games in C in high school to now, I've always been able to use Vim and run circles around any "modern" text editor or IDE. I feel like I owe Vim as much public praise as I can give so others can reap the rewards like I did.

What really frustrates me is how little people seem to want to invest in their tools, or the outright lies they tell themselves about how much configuration they need to use Vim on a daily basis. My Vim config is 200 lines, and my last commit was 3 years ago. I've invested maybe a few days of my life into configuring Vim and I use it 8-16 hours a day.

Vim can do so much on its own. It has autocomplete, fuzzy finding, integration with build systems, file search, navigation using a directory browser, jump to symbol, parse compiler output to jump to bugs, support for gdb and breakpoints, a built in terminal, copy to and from the system clipboard, and with literally 8 lines of code you can get support for every linter, LSP, etc. known to man, fuzzy finding, and git integration that let's you use native git commands with seamless editor integration.
There's a reason Musk brought in younglings to do the illegal stuff. To ignorant to know that in a few years they will be in jail.
Fair, but YouTube is imo one of those services that seems pretty fair about price increases. Disclaimer: pricing is regional, so I can only speak for the US pricing (as that’s what I personally dealt with).

It was $7.99 on launch in 2014 (as an early adopter price that they actually let people keep until 2024), $9.99 in 2016, to $11.99 in 2018 (for new subscribers only, you could still keep the old price if you were already paying), to $13.99 in 2024.

While the 2024 was rather steep, it imo doesn’t seem unreasonable (especially for the family plan that went from $17.99 to $22.99, which lets up to 5 people join with their own Goog accounts).

Sidenote: I personally don’t care in the slightest whether people decide to pay for this or just watch with ads or deal with adblockers (or other workarounds). But discussions of YT premium on HN have been a major eye opener for me, as they made me stop believing entirely in all the claims I see on HN in regards to “omg only if Facebook (or any other popular service that is free but makes money through ads) allowed a paid tier without ads, I would instantly pay, as this is an honest business model I support [followed by a large support of that opinion in replies]”. I always took them as genuine takes, but turns out that if even on HN that doesn’t end up holding true (given the discussion in this thread), it stands no chance among the general population.

As for me, I am glad that this option exists, simply because Youtube is one of those online services I peruse quite a lot, and not having to deal with their ads (or even thinking about them or being aware they exist) has been something I am glad to pay the amount they are asking for. Plus, I genuinely support the model of being able to pay a small amount instead of dealing with free-by-making-money-through-ads, especially for services that I spend a ton of time using.
Sure. Ideological things like health and the weather:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-team-looks-...

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devas...

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-census-federal-data-trump-6a9...
Hegemony lets you become the “default”. I can use the US dollar to pay for anything I want, anywhere, even if it’s not an official local currency. Try that with any other currency. That’s one small example of why we can indeed call “west” the “default” no matter how much this pisses off anti-colonialism types.
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I tried to use it but I found the UI/UX confusing, with many exercises lacking images too. I support the idea but the workflow was not for me.

I settled with Iron for iOS, which is also free software despite the platform it runs. Still looking for an equivalent on Android, the LiftLog app seems to have potential, but I think the UI is not that great.
I like it, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble of further expanding an ever-ballooning extended family of SQL syntaxes.

Of course, SQL has numerous issues, both in an absolute sense and relative to what we've come to expect. And the obvious course of action in each individual case is to add syntax to support the missing feature.

But as you keep adding syntax, SQL gets more and more complex, both in the individual variants and due to the complexities of multiple variants with different syntax support at different times.

A transpiling approach makes more sense to me. I'd like the sql implementors to focus on source maps and other things to better support plugging in external, alternate syntaxes (is a standardized mechanism too much to ask for?).

Then individual projects/people/efforts can choose the SQL syntax variant that works for them, and it can be one that evolves separate from the host db.
NEC code requires 2 separate 20 amp circuits in a kitchen. Usually they split the circuits across a countertop or window. It's been code since ... as far as I can tell, pretty much forever. Unless you're living in a house that is either non-compliant or built before NEC was required, then it should have this kitchen arrangement.
SteamOS Comes to the Lenovo Legion Go S – Is This a Steam Machines 2.0 Moment?
The EU Digital Services Act
Department of State operates embassies in places where people don't like the American government very much, as well as sometimes hosting foreign officials that some would prefer unalive.
Strong Towns had people take pictures on 'Black Friday' of mall parking lots, just to see. Many of them still had a ton of excess capacity.
Did the platform include tidbits like "DOGE will trust sensitive personal information of millions of Americans to lackwits that got already fired for leaking personal information"?

> If the President can't execute his mandate [..]

"Executing his mandate" doesn't mean "doing a whole bunch of dumb shit while ignoring the rule of law and becoming a puppet to an unelected piece of human garbage".
I love the design behind PRQL, was a little dissapointed when I tried using it with an MSSQL server and found there was no decent way to filter for `LIKE '%something%'`.

(PRQL uses regex for stuff like this, which sounds great but then isn't supported on some databases like MSSQL)
I’ve only seen a handful of people use it for local development but I’ve seen plenty of people use it for servers in production. Look like the latest cpython has a JIT built in. It would be cool if it saw the same gains that ruby did.
>What does that say for the rest of us?

Gotta do what you can where you are. Even as someone in the US I've disliked how passive other free countries have been...
> Trump declared certain policies in his election campaign.

Trump declared directly contradictory policies, depending on who he was talking to, and publicly disavowed the Project 2025 stuff that was widely unpopular. (Then, hired its planners and implemented their policies.)

Trump received a plurality of the vote, not a majority.
“Ideological” would involve, e.g., any tabulation of race? This is the French approach - “There’s no racism here! See! Our data says everyone (hired, arrested, elected) is French.” Tautologies are always the easiest solution to thorny arguments…
AI's Fairness Problem
To be fair as someone on the far far left we really think of those people as liberals caught up in culture war nonsense with conservatives. Many of us at least in my local community see “woke” as ultimately damaging to what we’re hoping to achieve. While we advocate for marginalized groups, we really generalize everyone (except the bourgeois) together into a working class. This includes conservatives, liberals, trans people, Christians, Jews, whatever.

I know in the US “liberal” is the “radical left” which is unfortunate as hell.
I get to closely watch my nephew being raised. He is about 2.5 years old now. If his parents need to go somewhere, they do this thing where they slip away while someone distracts the child. Really breaks my heart to see this. I can see the convenience factor. But I noticed that when the child is with them, he very often looks over his shoulders when they go out of his view. The kid is really sweet and deserves respect and honesty.
FWIW, 5 years ago a Gigabit PA pair could only get ~200Mbit/sec between two rooms in the same house, and even that was finicky.

Maybe the tech has improved since then, but I suspect not.
> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR

A federal judge has already ordered to restore that data

https://fedscoop.com/federal-judge-orders-hhs-cdc-fda-to-res...
Idea of giving our responsibilities to politics by voting for them and let them later decide what we should/shouldn't do loks wrong to me. Centralised planning is more or less compromise of mixed ideas that at the end do not satisfy democratic majority. Look how many minorities scream about their rights. It just a consequence of writen above.

Decentralisation of power, like principle of subsidiary, looks like a way.

Also... Law do not educate society about consequences of our actions. You probably don't drive on red light due to threat of fines, fo you?
Interesting tidbit:

Haskell is powering two of the companies mentioned in the article: Anduril and Mercury. Not the best type of relevance given the context, but relevance nonetheless!
> Why isn't it front-page news on HN rather than being flagged? Is it just because Musk's "DOGE" is in the title?

Essentially yes. Certain users are flagging because they don't want any discussion related to DOGE on HN. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036254.