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Wow, you're not wrong. I just went through the closed PR list. Terrible maintainer. Even closes PR's for typos in the README. Doesn't even give a reason why he closes.
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At least for the specific case of washing you can get most of the benefit by moving to a time-of-use tariff and scheduling the washing machine to run during the off peak time.

(Washing machines do seem to use a surprisingly large amount of energy, particularly the ones that heat the water internally).
> What is the major reason that prevents significant supplier competition?

That it's hard. Lithium ion batteries at scale is a difficult manufacturing process. All the R&D is going into battery. Essentially the electric engine is easy, but the battery is hard. It's exactly the other way around than in classic cars. Imagine if all major car companies would be buying engines from a few Asian tech giants.

There is quite some debate on how much of the profits will go to the battery manufacturers eventually, but I've seen 30-70% from serious analysts. I think nobody really believes the top line number, but even the more reasonable 30% would be massive.
What the majority of people are currently using is irrelevant. The whole topic of this thread is creating decentralized markets, and you're saying the fact that these payment processors are centralized doesn't matter. That doesn't make any sense.
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macOS isn’t really free. It just “comes with” the hardware you just bought. You’re not supposed to download the OS unless you have qualifying hardware. A hackintosh rig does not qualify.
Are you sure? While I had access to old articles on my iOS app, I wasn't able to add new ones, something I hadn't noticed until weeks later.
There is no way to be sure that voting is private and uncoerced with remote voting. Someone from a spouse to a precinct captain could be watching you vote on your phone under some threat of penalty.
Netflix used to have decent content. Now, it's mostly Netflix originals and an occasional surprise and lots of not great content. Most of the services for their "subscriber level" are the same -- hulu and prime being others. Now instead of "Prime" you need "Prime + StarZ" or some other BS. Basically, the online services have devolved back to the 80s HBO/Cinemax/etc era where everything with real content is extra.
Agreed. Also not tying health insurance to employment.
I'm going to guess that that will require accredited investor status (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor).
A great example of this is ice bank refrigeration, which literally uses a giant block of ice to cool air in a building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_storage_air_conditioning
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Skimming the benchmark, I didn't see any negative tests (checking for words not contained), which can be as or more important than the positive case depending on the expected use.
This shouldn't be surprising since we all know that Disney will be bringing out their own streaming service in 2019...
How would any of these sites then be moderated?
If removing a comment is now a violation of the first amendment how do you keep sites true to the niche they where founded to serve?

If I run the most popular website for people who like chili do I now have to allow posts related to all types of soups? Can my really popular chili site remove posts about your dog you keep making?
There is another transition point at zero price, though - that's where it starts to make sense to vent the steam to the atmosphere instead of running it through the turbine.
Bolt is to Tesla as BlackBerry is to iPhone.

They are both products of the same class, but one of them just obliterates the other both in terms of technological sophistication and cool factor. Turns out that has an impact on market success.
He wrote "funding secured". Now he has to prove it upon demand, or he'll get sued. A lot.
When you say it’s ok to censor something because it is [hateful | racist | sexist | obscene | dangerous], then you’re opening a pretty bad door. You’ve declared it ok to censor—now we’re just arguing over the list of adjectives worthy of censorship. It doesn’t take much to add things like “embarrassing to politicians,” “profit-destroying,” or “against popular opinion” to that list. Who knows, you may hold what you think are benign beliefs and opinions today that someone deems censorable tomorrow and there will be nothing you can do about it. No internet for you, round-earther!
Agree.

I think we are waking up to that, and this is a sign that we are beginning to move in that direction.
Thanks for clarifying this!
No. Facebook, YouTube and the like are more like newspaper vendors.
I bought a Dell XPS 15 9570 over a month ago. I've been a Mac user since 2006, and I still have one foot in the Mac ecosystem since I use a Mac Pro daily. Anyway, I found my experience with Windows 10 on my XPS to be much better than my first experience with Windows 10, which was on a refurbished ThinkPad T430 with a slow hard disk (that was painful). I still believe that overall macOS is more consistent and more polished than Windows 10, but Windows 10 is not a bad OS, and I find myself very productive with the Windows Subsystem for Linux layer. In my opinion Windows 10 is at par with the Linux desktops I've used in recent years, such as Cinnamon and KDE Plasma. By comparison, I feel that macOS has not changed very much in terms of compelling features since Snow Leopard. With the exception of iCloud and updated web browsers, I think I could still remain productive in Snow Leopard even today.

The things I miss the most about macOS on my Dell XPS 15 9570 are certain Mac-exclusive software products such as Apple Keynote, OmniOutliner, and OmniGraffle. But I still have my Mac Pro and my iPad for these apps.
Yeah, which is why it is only 10K -- and not the 100K like was stated earlier by someone - if it were the 100K then it would be very similar to a typical YC round of funding.
> What I had believed until now is that Intel was essentially pivoting to a different strategy, moving away from traditional CPUs.

Intel is addicted to $100 - $3,000/CPU for its "traditional CPUs." Where do you think they would move to exactly?
Except Nim doesn't make you copy/paste constantly.
How about a video of Obama saying there was no tampering?

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/obama-no-technical-tampering-w...
Scanning homeless people with smartphones to donate money (3 min movie)
For the HN crowd, the Linux Subsystem for Windows is kind of a big deal - many traditional Windows annoyances are ameliorated when you've got a Bash shell. Pen input is a) available and b) very good. The split control panel is a bit gross, but it's also a reasonable compromise - novice users get a greatly simplified interface for basic settings, while experienced users keep a familiar interface for more complex configuration. The driver situation has massively improved, with the vast majority of devices being genuinely plug-and-play; hardware compatibility on Windows is still leagues ahead of Linux or OSX. Task and workspace switching works really well and the task timeline is a very useful improvement.

More broadly, I think that OSX has been moving backwards while Windows has been moving forwards. It's purely subjective, but I think that OSX has an increasing number of nasty and persistent bugs. Windows is an inherently more complex platform, but Microsoft just seem to care more about software quality and the developer experience. VS Code is emblematic of what's happening within Microsoft - it's the best new text editor in recent years, it's freely licensed in full and the dev team are highly responsive to feedback and bug reports.

Windows is still occasionally quite annoying and has gained a few new annoyances with the move towards touch, but the proportion of stuff that Just Works seems to improve with every major update. My current dev machine has been running Windows 10 since launch without a reinstall or a BSOD. I'd probably be running Ubuntu if I didn't need a few key pieces of proprietary software, but using Windows really isn't much of a hardship. I loathed XP and 7, but I cheerfully tolerate Windows 10. It's not my dream OS, but it has never ruined my day.
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3) not all readers just want plain text and there are JS based features that actually appeal to readers.

Things like backgrounded next page loading may not seem appealing to you, but stuff like that does fall into the category of "people actually like this" and not "implemented to intentionally force ads on people".

We use an express server to pre-render our text, which means you can always see the content, but when you strip out JS, you lose a lot of navigation perks.

I fully support you not wanting JS, but don't act like opting to use a ubiquitous tool is somehow either ignorant or malicious.
That's not how it works. Most games and apps are just fine with leaving some amount of graphics performance on the table. That's why engines like Unity are so popular: sure, you could always go a bit faster writing your own engine, but in most cases it isn't worth the trouble. Likewise, with graphics APIs, you have to weigh the significant benefits of greater compatibility against the benefits of using vendor-specific extensions. For most apps, the benefits of going wild with extensions are marginal, while the obvious drawbacks are significant.

I think a lot of people have mistaken ideas about how performance sensitive games are. They care about performance, but not so much that it trumps all other considerations. Games really aren't that different from other apps.
I've been working with FastText almost daily and I completely agree. The code rocks and it is really easy to quickly do your own modifications i.e. the source is clean and well-structured.
The people who make the decisions about where the monies go aren't the people who understand this. Some decide that it is a "calculated risk"; some are just short-sighted "it can't happen to me"; some are penny-pinchers, and the ${CURRENCY} amount is all they see.
I don't need to have a discussion with the person sharing a photo of Nancy Pelosi "quoting" her as saying that a border will violate the rights of millions of illegal immigrants in order to know that this person's politics aren't connected to reality.
Me too. I did 40k of work for an employer who ended up stiffing a ton of employees but I was protected because of upwork’s setup.

I used to hate it and still I exit the app unless I’m actively working. But it assures payment which is important.
Is it just me or does it feel like these are very generic ideas floated in the videos, and that concrete examples would have helped a lot more?
I see many comments saying that this is fine because it's optional. Based on the previous posts discussing Upwork (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=upwork), it seems to me like today this is optional and tomorrow this will be mandatory and the next day it will add machine learning webcam face detection technology.
But drones can fly in your underground city, too...
I’m not a fan of it, but it is a necessary evil sometimes. I had a client dispute my work after he asked me to spend hours on tangential crap, then claim I wasted his time (he asked me to do the work and bill the time, approved of it at the time too, but later reversed his decision)

Upwork’s mediation process was hokey at best but in the end they reviewed the time logs and gave me all but a couple 10 minute chunks of time worth of payment.

I have just gotten used to being monitored while the clock is on, and don’t do sensitive things while it’s happening... I can always turn off the clock quick if needed.

I do feel like if I was buying services I would want some way to guarantee someone isn’t billing me time for doing nothing, this encourages some sort of transparency and attempts to curb timecard “fraud”
Yes, Edge/Chrome is for the drone users that are Facebook's bread and butter whilst PYMK Inspector users have some semblance of awareness of user privacy and the asymmetry of the situation.

Putting on my 'big business c*nt' hat I can totally understand why Facebook wouldn't want PYMK users.
Facebook etc want to have the best of both worlds.

For example if a reporter at the NYT slanders me then I can hold the NYT responsible.

Facebook wants to say "oh no no no we are just a platform - you have to find and sue the poster" while at the same time heavily curating content.
Mix-down hot water heaters have been a thing since I've been alive (read: any commercial building) - it's not new or strange tech, just find a competent plumber and be willing to pay triple. Or DIY if you're that sort of guy - it's not exceedingly difficult.

If I were building a home today I'd "fake" this by simply using a standard tank water heater overspec'ed for my usage, heat that only with solar power on a intermittent basis, and put a tankless water-heater in-line for when/if the temp from the boiler gets too low. I've seen this implemented in more than a handful of higher end new construction myself and it seems like the least hacky/most supportable-by-mortals means of accomplishing it in the typical home.
Some ideas are so idiotic - like flat Earth belief - that one should not waste their time engaging with said ideas. There are people who deny that Sandy Hook happened. I see no need to understand such fools.
Google/Alphabet. Larry Page has stated that instead of giving away his billions to charity he would prefer to give it to someone like Musk that is trying to fix world scale problems.
This is the correct answer.

What can defend against someone who is resourceful, determined, and has an axe to grind? Not much.

Anyone remember Killdozer?
I've been consulting off and on for the past five years and I've steered way clear of these marketplaces. It's a very obvious race to the bottom sort of situation they're plotting for which I get. I'd be optimizing for that outcome too if I were one of them.

Here's my advice to developers who want to freelance: network and network some more. Write blogs, create content marketing material for yourself. Go to meetups, tap your alum networks, go to hackathons, and work your networks. There's a lot of noise on LinkedIn but if used correctly, it can yield a lot for you.

Every single client I've had is someone I've met in person. I get to know them, they get to know me, we establish trust. Any sort of opening meeting or two is free. Formally, we use it to talk requirements. Ostensibly, we use it to vet each other.
The thing is if you are working on a serious team there is no value to cheat. You need to generate quality code at a reasonable pace. Custom solutions don’t appear out of nowhere.

So sorry to say but your dev setup was not good because you get 2 weeks to dispute this.

I know because I have hired on here too and been scammed once. I raised all the red flags and ended up getting some money back even past the guarantee.

Thing was that if I had reviewed the screenshots it was obvious it was bullshit.
> imagine someone standing just outside your property and yelling at you 24/7

People protest all the time in similar ways.

Also, you can block people/bots on social media.
I'm guessing that that ploy would work once or twice before you got pushed off the platform anyway.
Same goes for a client that regularly claims the work is incomplete.
Note that Apple is still committed to supporting WebGL in Safari, so OpenGL ES will at least be supported that way going forward.

So it's arguably not so much "OpenGL is going away" as it is "OpenGL is going to be maintained by the Safari team, and JS will be the only interface to it" :)
Possibly :)

It's been a few years since I read about it, but I think that was the estimate for both developing the tech and deploying it. Of course there's the chance that they spend all $50 billion and still fail to find a way to make carbon nanotubes work at macroscopic scale, but I bet they'd have learned quite a lot of other interesting things doing that research.

And they did have a lot of trouble deploying tethers from the space shuttle that one time.
>two generic white guys running

Two generic white people ran in 2016.

Obama left in 6 or 7 wars/major conflicts. He dropped 26000 bombs in 2016 alone [1]. He used the espionage act against journalists more than any president in history [2]. He let protestors get their heads smashed in by oil companies in North Dakota right before he left [3]. He expanded the surveillance state [4]. Obama seemed sincere and then ended up selling out the American people even further.

Schumer wont whip the vote to block Kavanaugh [5]. Democrats recently overwhelmingly backed the largest defense budget in US history [6].

It still makes sense. It's not "hollow propaganda". Both parties are war, oil, and business parties. Neither are in favor of helping the worker.

[1] https://www.cfr.org/blog/how-many-bombs-did-united-states-dr...

[2] https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/dakota-acces...

[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveill...

[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/schumer-plays-long-...

[6] https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/06/20/house-an...
They are essentially unopposed. But they are also solving the problem that the other car manufacturers have already solved: Mass producing cars.

Why would Mercedes or BMW or Audi try to compete with Tesla directly right now? They have combustion engines that are mature, known tech with sunk R&D costs that they want to sell as long as possible. This is of course Teslas chance. The others are just doing R&D while Tesla is selling cars. But it's still hard to see Tesla having a market share in EVs in 15 years time that justifies it's current valuation.
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Slavery was fine under the law. Once the Constitution was amended to prohibit it, the Court had no problem upholding that.
When I bought my LEAF in Dec 2014, I negotiated a price including a $2000 incentive from Nissan. Turns out that incentive was from NMAC (Nissan’s financing arm) and was only avail if I took a loan with them. Ok, what’s the interest rate? 0%. Wait, you give me $2K at signing and finance the car at 0% for 60 months? Ok, sign me up!

In terms of selling below their invoice price, they also get an advertising holdback that scales with cars sold, so they’re still making a small amount on the sales floor. The real money at a dealership is made in the service bays, not on the sales floor. This is what really sucks for dealers about electric cars. In 42 months, my LEAF has never seen the dealer again and I’ve only added washer fluid and changed the wiper blades once.
Yes, although this can be an extra challenge in monolithic 3D because it often involves oxide layers and thin silicon * between transistor layers, which makes the heat conduction much worse.

*due to violation of Fourier theory of heat.
What he is experiencing is the reality of most people's lives. The boredom and drudgery of doing the hard yards every day. Most people do not have the luxury of doing what is interesting to them. It is a case of just having to knuckle down and complete what has been started.

From my personal perspective, it's nice to have side projects that are interesting and learning exercises. The reality is that if these side projects are actually worth it then they need to be completed. Otherwise they are just a fad and not really worth the effort that might be put into them.

If something is worth starting then it is worth finishing.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully re-launches rocket
Why can't the focus ever be on the prevention of crime in the first place? These discussions always dissolve into the same cesspool of blaming prisoners and politicians. The government can never be relied on to fix things. The single biggest predictor of living in poverty or doing time in prison is growing up with no father around. 80% of prisoners today had no father in their life.

Seems like we should be looking at things like that. I never shook those conversations here though. W have to empower single motherhood (heroism) and not discourage it here... Well look at where that has led us.
So who here is cutting the cord? I quit about 12 months ago, the dissonance of using the service and knowing how bad it was got to be too much to handle. It isn’t the end of the world! It’s actually quite nice to miss all the junk that constitutes a majority of the networks content.

It may sound crazy to suggest techies could lead an exodus off Facebook, but look at twitter: techies lead the influx onto that service, so why not the other way around? When are we going to put our money where our mouths are, “vote with our feet” and leave Facebook (i.e. permanently delete your account)? Otherwise all this handwringing seems meaningless- they keep misbehaving because they know no one’s going to do anything.
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I meant "fire" in a political sense.

OK, hypothetically, if he were part of a Russian operation to destabilize the United States, would the US government be justified in prosecuting him? I mean, consider Mariia Butina , who "face[s] charges related to interference in the presidential election."[0]

0) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/us/politics/trump-russia-...
Well champagne has plenty of CO2, too.
And hanging chads were a problem why exactly?

I.e. why do we need to have machines do something badly that humans can do well?
You are correct in saying Tesla is neither a Ponzi nor pyramid/MLM scheme, but you have erred in your distinction between the two.

A Ponzi scheme purports to have some amazing business opportunity, but secretly pays returns using money from new investors. They will often use MLM/pyramid-style recruiting tactics, and not solely rely on the fraudster for recruitment.

It's true that MLMs pay out fees collected from newer recruits, but everyone knows where the money is coming from. Usually MLMs also have some semblance of actual business activity (Mary Kay, Amway, Herbalife, etc.)
> I have to wonder if they really tried the iPhone.

Especially on HN, where the average reader should know that's been a basic feature, for pretty much the entire lifespan of the device.

It made the entire comment, well let's just say their story doesn't add up.
As an alternative, I can recommend getting a used tower Mac Pro and upgrading it. There's a ton of community info [1] [2] out on CPU, GPU, and RAM upgrading, and even the oldest 2006 model, the one I have, can run El Capitan, and the 2009-2010 models can do Mojave. There are guides for every configuration you could want and RAM is super cheap (even ECC!). You get as good a case or better than if you build a standard ATX hackintosh - 4 3.5" bays + 2 optical bays you could get more drives into, and the upside-down GPU prevents sag on the PCIe connector. And you get to be "legal" within Apple's T&C, so you could use it without worries in a business/academic setting.

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-pro-cpu-compatibili...
[2] http://www.macvidcards.com/i-want-the-best-graphics-card-for...
Now walking somewhere is theft from the taxi company. Incredible how successful these media companies have been at redefining the word.

You can’t steal something from somebody if they still have it after the “theft” (the IP) or if they never had it in the first place (the revenue).
"Apple Boss"?
I'm on a time-of-use tariff, and I use the timer on my washing machine to have it finish just before the end of the very cheap overnight rate. That alone has made a pretty big difference.