skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws are already on the books that penalize non-EVs for parking in EV charging spaces. My statement assumes you'd overbuild in order to ensure spots (one EV in neighborhood? build capacity for 3 to charge).
> Common political discourse has devolved into a back and forth of insults, hyperbolic accusations, and sometimes just plain insanity.

if i may: this example, and my own experience, is consistent with the newspapers from the american civil war, which i read lots of many years ago while my parents dragged me through the american South Eastern states and the myriad covil war national parks an monuments.

further:

> flat earth

just dont. let them vote. and relax. and remember you arent in charge. if you want Texans (for instance) to vote differently, well then... move to Tecas, y'all!
We were very surprised with the quality of IBM's Kubernetes service too ! We had a cluster there for almost a year and everything runned very smoothly.

We missed having more instance types to choose from, but it was a nice experience.
> we would often reboot them overnight (it took a couple hours)

A mid 80s Symbolics Lisp Machine boots in three minutes into a customized Lisp world.

> the little one they came out with near the end, I think it was the 3620

The 3620 was hardly near the end in 1986. In 1988 a completely new generation with a in-house designed microprocessor was released and the last models of those were released in 1992.

Some of the rest is also not really what you say.
I prefer something that you can build yourself so expo wasn't an option for me. Plus, I think most of the platforms one day (might be soon) will ban these services as they can deliver code to the app after it has been approved.

With Flutter it's super easy, they have a CLI that creates an initial boilerplate for your code that you can compile and deploy to your phone in just a single command with hot reload enabled. I guess it makes it easier even than expo as you don't have to scan anything on your phone :)
> what are we doing for the next 10 years?

pour gasoline into fuel tank (:
Time to build a smart charger that can plug into several outlets at once and regulate power draw heh
Due to subsidies, in the US people dumping home solar into the grid usually get back more than the market rate.
You're looking at a different version of the DMG :)
DungeonsTOME is based on the DMG from 5e.

Although if there was enough interest, I might implement those rules minus the dungeon dressing/encounters and some of the "unusual shapes".
How do you pick what to work on from your Trello list?
yeah, i'm not speaking to their other claims or security practices, which by all accounts appear terrifying. Given apparently whats happening, who even knows if they have actually integrated with a vendor or not.

I'm just speaking about the technology as described. Its not a novel id verification method, plenty of other companies use it and there are multiple vendors / providers of the service.
Most importantly, the co-owners are less likely to ask why a particular step to maximize profits in this quarter hasn't been done. To say nothing of activist shareholders who theoretically could sue; such things killed a few still-profitable companies, and Tesla isn't one yet.
Really happy to see this absolutely honest and neutral answer downvoted. It says a lot about the level of my opponents.
It probably depends on the domain - I've hired people domestically across a few different fields for rates in the $50 - $150/hr range when I was looking for specific expertise that I wasn't able to find in my network. It's sort of niche and I don't know if they were making a full time living from it, but I think we paid fair and got what we paid for.
As far as I know this has always been the case. oDesk had a screenshot tracking program too for hourly jobs prior to the merger and rebranding.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15394603
I've been backing up everything in my google account and preparing for something just like this. When I first started making sure my backup was complete I realized that I had sent gmail invites out to a few friends. Now I guess I have to tell those same friends that it's time to start preparing for the day that Google decides to wipe out 14 years of their emails.
My uncle was a geologist, spent some time on an Asbestos mine... and it killed him.

As user nemacol said above..... What an awful way to die. Really really nasty.
Yeah, I feel like that definition of theft would lead to some really awful legal precedents. If a family member has decided to buy some product, and I talk them out of it, I would be committing theft by that definition. At least in the US, that would run afoul of the First Amendment. The company can yell at me all they want or ban me from their services, but they could not legally get the police to arrest me for a bad review or for convincing a family member.

Of course, just like with piracy, it would not provable that the revenue was guaranteed in the first place. But companies would absolutely try and litigate over it anyway.

I suppose this discussion is unrelated to this thread, though.
From the introduction, explaining the colourful title:

> Prior work has proposed two simplified theories of the human in the loop: a rational actor who chooses to ignore security behaviors because the costs always outweigh the potential losses, and an irrational actor who chooses “dancing pigs over security every time” because they neither understand nor care about security risks [Herley, 2009]. While these simplified models of user behavior can help to provide high-level insights, our aim is to define a more realistic medium between these two extremes: a semi (or boundedly) rational security actor with predictable, but not always utility-optimal, behavior based on risks and costs.
>Tesla are by far the most advanced of all "green" car manufacturers

Are they? I don't follow these things closely and I didn't realize that it was the case, I always thought that Musk's great idea was not so much technical superiority but rather aiming for the super high end and market an electric "luxury" car niche. How far ahead are they compared to, say, Toyota who's been making hybrid vehicles for a while now?

I also think your timeframe might be slightly optimistic, I can't really imagine a large western country banning internal combustion cars within the next 12 years, much less developping countries. I hope you're right though, I want to live in a world where ICEs are in museums.
Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
Cool platform/capabiluties aside, leave it to Uber to figure out how to make an owl into a really creepy logo.
With the current state of Internet, there’s bunch of other entities you end up trusting. Like domain registrar and hosting companies.

People rolling their own email should not forget that these come with their own security risks. For example somebody social engineering their way through the registrar to steal your domain.
Even with this screenshot tracking, I've been swindled on Upwork by fake devs. They take the time to fake it, why not just do the work?
They’re more expensive and the cost differential isn’t offset by the gas savings. Hybrids don’t solve any real problem in the market: gas is plentiful thus relatively cheap. You don’t generally save the cost difference in gas savings unless you keep the car longer than is typical. Even in Europe where gas is far more expensive and taxed, hybrids don’t make financial sense in most cases: hybrids are more expensive and a higher price car means higher sales taxes, offsetting gains from saving gas. A diesel Peugeot 5007 gets over 40 miles to the gallon, which is approaching hybrid levels for that size vehicle but a hybrid can cost €8000 or so more. No way during the normal lifespan would you save that much in gas. Also, if you are financing, you are paying interest on that higher price, thus making the lack of cost savings even more pronounced.

Hybrid big rigs on the other hand, could be game changing. A Prius is a statement car more than an actual exercise in frugality. A Honda Civic is a nicer car, doesn’t look like a squashed bean and costs less with more features and plenty of fuel-efficiency. But then a Civic doesn’t give people the same sense of superiority as does a Prius.

In the Bay Area replace Prius with Tesla and Civic with Audi and you can make similar arguments.
people LOVE the term "Ponzi scheme", without actually knowing what that term means

often, people just use it as a drop-in replacement for the term "organized fraud"

example:
"isn't JetBlue air-miles just a classical Ponzi scheme?"
Natural Gas "Peaker" plants are VERY expensive to run. (Mainly because of their low utilization compared to high costs). In many cases, battery storage is already cheaper than peaker plants.
How would it help having the government run a social media network? Or am I misunderstanding your comment?
Yes, but you are in one sense "competing" with other solutions (such as batteries) that face the same utilization factor problem.
I did vworker for a big part of my income years ago. Almost all of my business came from a tiny number of repeat clients (in fact, mostly one) who had already learned the pain that comes from optimizing only for cost.

The money still wasn’t great (although I could have made it better if I were assertive enough to raise my rates on existing clients), and there’s no way in hell I would have done it if I’d had to use tracking software, but it was sort of kind of feasible.
Unfortunately, we only offer Ubuntu x86_64 at the moment. We are planning to add more platforms (Mac and Windows). I make a note of your request and add it to our todo list. Thank you.
It's definitely a race to the bottom but it also represents a good opportunity for junior developers even in developed countries. I've gotten $35/hour jobs before which isn't great but it isn't peanuts either.
Had a dev use macro keystrokes to cheat it. worthless.
I tried to like TypeScript a bit more than a year ago but couldn't, maybe I should give it another chance. I mostly do my frontend development in Vue.js so even though it supports TypeScript, I never found any need for it (I use typed Props to pass data between the components) as I try to make my UI as thin as possible, just fetching some data from the backend and displaying it. You can have a look at my project- https://webhookrelay.com (management UI is under my.webhookrelay.com), so far made it quite simple, material UI and only a little bit of JS.

Obviously coming from Go to frontend I think I would benefit a lot from TypeScript.. Maybe one day :)
We're paying approx $45/us hour to someone in a developing country. I'm pretty sure that goes pretty far there.
> technology mentioned above is ... in fact see wide spread use for purposes of fraud prevention for financial systems

Different organizations have different security needs

Financial systems can use the relative cost of a security measure compared to the cost of a breach to decide whether to implement the security; they consciously accept a certain level of failures. Also, they can use insurance to mitigate exploits after they happen.

Voting systems cannot tolerate failures, at least in theory. Every vote must count. Also, at least for some elections, the value to the attacker is much higher than what can be gained from financial institutions; a foreign intelligence service has much more to gain than money from controlling a US presidential election, for example, and an investor could make billions by knowing the outcome ahead of time. Finally, there is no mitigation after a breach: Insurance won't save a fraudulent election.
At a cost of at least $1000 for a charging station and installation, I can’t see many people wanting to pay for this if they are renting.
Silicon Valley Electric was 8c when I lived there, 10c now.

My PG&E's lowest off-peak rate is now 16c, though I'm on a TOU plan and just installed solar, and I have generation through Peninsula Clean Energy so my bill is somewhat more complicated than the charts involved to send Apollo 11 to the moon.
It seems to me that the problem now versus 30 years ago is one of scale. It's much easier sequester oneself from sources of information we don't like for political reasons. It's easier in terms of time and money to get masses of people to believe easily disprovable claims. The adage in politics has been, "All politics is local." Is that true anymore? Will it be true in 10 years?

With demographic and economic changes and the power/scale of social media the U.S. is facing, I think the intermediate future does not look good for political discourse.
A constituent group that removes rival constituents from the voter pool... wow, talk about a conflict of interest
Sloppy Welding on the Navy's New Nuclear Missile Sub Point to Larger Problems
Regarding the cloudyness... Has anyone ever tried to levitate photovoltaics into the stratosphere? Blimpy-space-elevator kinda thing? Is such a thing even possible?
This problem can cut both ways. Ie. if one dismisses the other person as the political equivalent of a "flat earther," they're not questioning their own assumptions or seeking to understand why the other person could feel something so strongly.

Having lived in both deeply red and deeply blue states in the US, I think most people aren't as crazy or as far apart as they think they are. But many of the people who have lived their whole life in one camp have been trained to think that the other side is literally crazy, and that's a convenient excuse to be afraid of them and not bother seeking to understand them.
Looks like it's up to $380 after hours.
You might be able to add a separate process where salt gets melted, stored, and used to heat furnaces.
> Nobody makes an electric commercial vehicles of the type electricians, plumbers etc. drive.

Maybe not exactly a copy of that type of car, but because none of the big car companies wanted to build one DHL started their own electric car for this use case: https://www.streetscooter.eu/
Ford brings 'exosuits' to workers
The China figure looks about right, but for the US it’s an infinitesimal we can just call 0%. The US is going to fragment much like the Roman Empire did and for much the same reasons.
I don't think air-gapping is particularly helpful in practice - for large and active codebases, you'd need to read all of the changed source code on the air-gapped machine to look for subtle back doors, which is difficult. Alternatively, if you want to do air-gapped builds and binary signatures, you're going to have to copy over the build-dependencies, which for most build environments are assumed trusted (i.e., they can compromise your air-gapped machine).

For small and intermittently-active ones, the primary development constraint is the OSS maintainer having free time, and doing dev or builds on an air-gapped machine is a big time sink. I maintain very little open-source software and I have still tried to at least use a separate machine for builds + PGP signatures and not my day-to-day machine, and maintaining this machine is just overhead that eats into my, what, one evening every two months that I get to spend on my project.

The solution I'd like to see is a) better tracking of community code reviews/audits; if every line of code has been read by multiple people (perhaps identified with a PGP key, but something simpler would be fine), you're more confident that there are no subtle backdoors than if you make one person stare at the entire diff between major versions on an air-gappped machine until their eyes glaze over, and b) better ways to do builds on multiple clouds and verify that they're identical. The Reproducible Builds effort is a good approach here; if you do that plus a CI infrastructure that runs on two different clouds with two different signing keys, and client systems require both signatures, you can be reasonably assured that the build process wasn't compromised.
I cited natural gas being used for baseload power. In the last several years, gas has been installed frequently as baseload generation.

All I'm saying is that I think governments' approaches to incentivizing energy production are very suboptimal for mitigating (negative) effects of climate change. And negative energy prices are one of the red flags that this is the case.
They might exclude deprecated APIs from the pre-announced iOS-MacOS portable platform (Marzipan). That is the move that makes them unsuitable for future use.

This also includes UIWebView and other quite popular pieces of the SDK.

A clean cut - good opportunity to shed some weight, actually.
Per stingraycharles (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709612 )'s comment, the problem is not so much the in-memory copy as the modification of that copy (although, of course, Javascript also modifies the in-memory copy of HTML … all these technical technicalities get in the way of the legal technicalities that Facebook wants to interpret as "we get to do what we want, and you don't get to do what we don't want").
Can you elaborate on the sort of work and what you would be paying locally for the same sort of work... i.e. is it something that requires quite a bit of specialization, etc.
What are they different on that makes the lives of everyday Americans better? Abortion? LGBT rights? They're both war & business parties and practically do exactly the same things. They both sell out the worker in favor of the establishment.

Once you expand your knowledge of political ideologies outside of USA's acceptable overton window, you get a true sense of just how close both parties actually are.
Or, they could just own the operation that generates the power much closer to the point of use.
Ah yes, overpay so you can stick it to the big mean short sellers. Might as well go for 50% premium with that logic!
Disincentivize for-profit news.
Wonderful, but increasingly underpowered, hardware.
LA Times did a big piece about misaligned utility incentives: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/

Basically utilities don't really make money on generation, they make money by building infrastructure, financing that with a 20-year bond, and passing it onto the rate payers. So if you make money by building power plants, you're going to build power plants and make the ratepayers pay for it.
Why is California's number "fake" but the other numbers in the data aren't?
> - macOS gets more iOS-ified with each release and some people don’t like that

How does running the same software on a different machine do anything to address this?
Ofo Beats a Retreat From the Dockless Bikesharing Battle
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Source on virtually all shareholders being long-term true believers? How is that quantified?
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Remind me again later.

Or maybe I’ll run an OS that lets me say “no”
This was my experience as well. It reminded of running Gentoo Linux a long time ago. Awesome feeling of accomplishment, but not practical if you have a day job.
Depending on how far you want to stretch it Kotlin is cross-platform-ish.

You can write Kotlin that compiles to both JVM and JS, and KotlinNative claims to be able to then also compile that to native.

It's hard to do, and there's a major lack of abstractions even within the standard library, but technically possible. I could easily see a future where your business logic is portable kotlin and then you have platform-specific UI layers.
>$0.07 here in Texas. Maybe you should move...

Where at? Is that wind power or just natural gas?
How does this compare to wee-slack (slack gateway/plugging for the wee-slack irc client)?

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
The product I'm building is a solid product and has a good market fit, but I'd be lying if I said I cared about it. We use pretty modern tools (Kube/spinnaker/opencensus, GCP/AWS/Azure/Alibaba, GRPC, redis, etc) which are interesting at first, but they all really cease to matter a few months in.

At least switching from one tool to another is a cool technical challenge and a good chance to rewrite some bad code, but the rest of the time is spent writing yet another RPC service.

Honestly I'm just here for the paycheck and location. Any company that offers me better compensation with the same work-life balance is one I'd jump ship for immediately.
Recently a friend of mine pointed me towards TopTracker.
It's an interesting concept, having kind of a papertrail for what you worked on can be really valuable in any setting, even the most friendly ones, because even yourself can loose track of all the yaks you've had to shave to fix a certain bug or make a gizmo spin a certain way.

I've seen so many freelancers waste company time and endangering otherwise great projects in the past and have even done so myself that I really think a proper, fair and well balanced tracking suite would have benefited all parties as it would have created a much more formal and clear reminder of what screentime in this setting is for.

Obviously the flip side is that through the "invasive tracking", work stays work and everything not-work needs to happen on another machine. This means less mixing of private stuff into your work life which many consider something positive, but is counter to what the larger trends in IT are. (Corporate Campuses that fulfill every need...)

At the end of the day i'm really not sure where I stand on this, as it opens so many positive possibilities (f.e. proactive encountering of procrastination) but also so many negative ones (abuse of power). Surveillance is never an easy topic.
Your point is valid, but I'd mention that I doubt most people need >40 amp installation. If we talk about your average Joe who gets a Model 3 or equivalent than they're already getting 30mi/h charge at 40 amps. Average Joe only drives 16 miles to work.

We have the 40 amp installation and have never wanted for more.

Somewhat related, but a neat hack might be to get solar installed at the same time. Re-doing the panel would be included as part of the project, which means you can A) get a loan to cover everything, and B) get a 30% credit from the government (in the U.S.). [I say might; our solar installer explained to us offhand that many people do things like that and get other upgrades as well like new water heaters, etc. You'd have to check with your CPA to confirm.] Considering that solar is cheaper over the long-term it's a pretty good deal depending on what loan terms you can get.
Ug, never proposals for education, grants for preferred alternative implementations, publicly funded communication platforms, recognition that the status quo is people's preference, data transparency encouragement (not user transparency...not "who", but "what" wrt internal analytics), enforcement of existing advertisement/fraud/collusion statutes, etc. The first step always has to be more legislation, very sad.

I'd argue in the scheme of things, it's not really that broken, and definitely not deserving of the type of fix we're in for. It's funny to watch the masses effectively manipulated into thinking there is effective mass manipulation occurring. I wish they'd just leave things alone personally, but since they won't and everyone is convinced this is a dire problem, I can only hope for restraint.