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> What fraction of apartment buildings in California have double-pane windows?

One thing that amazed me when moving to California a couple of years ago was reading ads for apartments where the text would gush about the apartment having double glazing!!!1!!

Meanwhile, in Sweden, triple glazing has been the required minimum since the 90s, and older buildings were forced to install a third pane or retrofit new windows or somehow bring it up to code.

These days you can get quadruple glazed windows, but they offer only a very small improvements to triple glazed, so there's not much use.
You're claiming to know the intentions of the Boring Company based on the ordering and number of Frequently Asked Questions? Sorry, but that's not very compelling.

And there's quite a lot of facts on the page that are misleading or just plain wrong, particularly in the one question on tunneling.

That sounds actually substantive. Why not comment on those?
If you consider the short term rental of inexpensive scooters an important market needing laws to regulate their capacity (..by the wise and benevolent leaders of this sparkling city..), it's hard to imagine any market that would fall short of your importance threshold.

The notion that the only way to ensure competition is to forbid it is convoluted.
And soon enough, the cars we ride in.
If you go to cruisesheets.com you can sort cruises by price per day. I've seen transatlantic cruises at $30 a day (including food). That's actually somewhat tempting if I had work I could do without needing the internet more than once a day.
My Miele dishwasher works very well.
When my son had just gotten to the point he could confidently walk, we watched as he went from the living room, around a corner, down the hall and around a corner into his room - backwards the whole way. He didn't turn his head or walk slow. We'd never seen him walk backwards before.
So... another crypto library with way too many choices for the average developer.

How about standardizing (RFC I guess) a single primitive of each type, and a strongly versioned set of serialization formats (including key storage).

That’s something a developer can’t misuse. Standardizing serialization formats and parsers are critical for developers to use this stuff correctly.

We can’t get rid of PKCS, X.509, and PGP and all their “algorithm agility” nonsense and insecurity until _somebody_ with industry clout replaces them with something secure and much simpler.

Google could do this... but instead we get Tink, a “choose your own adventure” just like the monthly alphabet soup produced by the IETF.

If GOOG/MSFT/Mozilla/etc can build and standardize AV1 together they could do the same for crypto. It’s way easier.
GraalVM has two versions, CE and EE. EE is closed but CE is open.
I should clarify by "allows", I really mean "doesn't disallow". Similar, but ultimately very different.
Wait, so a monopoly with Skip and Scoot is somehow better? Literally the only thing creating any sort of scarcity or monopoly here is regulation, so claiming it's necessary to prevent a monopoly is a bit ludicrous.

I don't think many people are in favor of zero regulation, but politicians literally picking winners and losers instead of the market is even worse.
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I wish HN disallowed posts to paywalled articles.
Being over 6'2" is very rare. In the US, it's maybe 1 in 30 men.
The companies in question already had a history of operating illegally in San Francisco. I don't think it's fair to dismiss that as "picking and choosing". Dumping those scooters over the city is effectively littering.

Business should be able to operate freely, but they should not be able to break the law until someone catches them.
Thanks! The one I was thinking of was for non-us it workers to work close to the us. They even were going to fly out US residents for meeting on the boat.
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I think we agreed but that wasn’t what I understood. Apologies!
Interviewed with Scoot last month on Howard St.

The entire experience felt like a Monty Python interview- engineers driven on a death march to get their stuff done and interview an endless stream of qualified candidates, all the while management isn't ready to hire, but still bringing on a torrent of candidates.

The interviewing process was one of the most disorganized and chaotic I've ever gone through. Pair programming exercises scheduled without working computers, that kind of thing.

I never wish any company to fail, but...
I have so many things to say!

1. It's okay to just want to get work done and get paid and go home. That's what most people do in most jobs, even in tech. Flashy VC-chasing startups are a little bubble, over-represented on HN and in the media. Most of tech workers are working outside of that bubble and are doing exactly what you want (in terms of hours per week and compartmentalization).

2. The semi-annual schedule you want is also okay, but much less common. Because it's less common, fewer project managers and departments are ready to adapt to it. And as an intermediate developer (rather than a senior) you have less leverage to ask them to adapt. This is why you're not telling them ahead of time, and why you're left feeling "dirty".

3. It's good you want to normalize things and be more open about your preferences and needs. It's a sign of maturity in your career (and maybe yourself).

And I think you have a few things to think about going forward:

- Why do you want to leave places after 9-12 moths. Is it just because you like to take a few months to yourself. Would you be willing to go back to the same place after the break? To a hiring company, that's a hugely more palatable than if you just disappear, and is exactly the kind of thing you can directly negotiate after you've qualified for a job and before accepting an offer.

- Do you just want different projects (after your break)? Then you can absolutely apply to an agency or contracting firm. Many have struggle to maintain 100% utilization for their workers and would welcome people who are okay on their own between assignments. If you can slip off their roster/payroll during slow times and hop back on when work picks up again, they'll be happy!

- Do you want to just avoid commitment altogether? Then consider independent contracting. You take on a bunch of other responsibilities (hustling for work, nagging for payment, etc) but you can take unpaid breaks whenever you want and you can structure engagements so that you're not working with clients for longer than you'd want. You're in control of everything.

TLDR: there are probably hundreds of thousands of people like you. Maybe millions. Figure out the next detail in what you need and you'll see the path ahead.
I use mtr every day, and I haven't seen anything that beats it.

You can even press 'd' twice, and you'll get something similar to prettyping, but you get it for each hop along the path.
No, government services are worse. I can opt out of Comcast.
When corporate entities happily take money in exchange for their clients littering the streets with eyesores, it is a rather important problem.

Boston hasn't been overrun yet, and I am hopeful that we stay that way.
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you've talked about that before, "we very often have to do unsafe memory things", and that a lot of things done in game dev end up violating a lot of principles that are taught in college, but to be honest I'm not sure. granted, I haven't worked directly in game dev before, but i've worked on some projects where runtime perf was the _only_ requirement... and I'm just not convinced that these issues couldn't be worked around using constructs like smart pointers, weak pointers, and just general design principles...

that said, the witness is one of my favorite games of all time, so I think its safe to say you know what you're doing
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Everyone I know in tech hates Java. They've all had to suffer through terrible poorly-performing Java desktop apps (or worse, applets) which has tainted the image of the language for a generation.
Then read the article you're commenting on?
Considering San Fran is already famous for hilariously spiteful and terrible zoning/real estate development practices, it isn't exactly surprising. Are the companies who got permits local? That may have factored into it.

Also, considering the sheer hatred these companies and their business model inspire in me, I can't say it doesn't fill me with glee.
If I'd started a scooter company before scooter companies were a thing, went to any city and asked for permission, they would have said "wtf? no." (assuming they answered my petition at all) and that would have been the end of it.

The only reason we're here arguing about this is companies like Bird chose to ask for forgiveness rather than permission in the past.
Many work in the local gov and make it in the fed gov after they "prove" they are worth it so I wouldn't say they are less corrupt. It's not uncommon for mayors to run for the ultimate job in the fed gov.
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Whatever law it may be it was most certainly not designed in the era of these scooters being a thing.
I'd love to be proven wrong, only future will tell, but this seems to be yet another fad being funded by free money from VCs. In fact the only winner in all of this are the manufacturers who are making these scooters.

According to https://qz.com/1257198/xiaomi-makes-the-bird-and-spin-scoote... at least Bird and Spin are using Xiomi scooters.
Lime is also made overseas, read China. So, this is nothing but Silicon Valley VC money, actually their LP's money, moving to China.
We do because it increases costs and complexity to have a cert per domain. On AWS, you only get 25 certs per load balancer. We'll do a cert per domain if they ask, but we have to pass on the cost.

As for a cold call list, I can already Google and find a list of sites we host. It isn't as easy, but we aren't hiding it.
Seems like the Scooter is not popular and only useful for a niche segment of the population.

The bike sharing business has caused a hazard in places like China, because of the unrestricted dumping. So there is definitely a point that government needs to chime in and do some stuff.
Dockless bike shares in China have had similar problems as scooters in SF. This isn't about scooters vs bikes. It's about clogging public spaces with private property, and how a sudden influx of new vehicle operators need to be trained to not constantly violate traffic laws (like riding on the sidewalk).

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup...
It's not littering. You know this.
Have you tried one? They’re actually quite handy.
True — no, they didn't. They just clucked it up so bad in their launch locations that the smell had already wafted up from the Beach Cities down here to the Bay.

Move fast and piss people off doesn't work too well, eh?
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Show them Salesforce. They’re not based in SV but pitch to all those start ups.
Scooters are cheap enough and slow enough that the benefits to scale

- aren't hard to reach for anyone with funding, and

- can be maintained over relatively small geographic areas (neighbourhoods/cities, not states/countries/globally).

If some new company invents a scooter with better tires or a better battery or a disco ball and a stereo it's not hard for them to enter the market. And, in fact, this regulation is happening because the city thinks it's too easy for upstarts to get a toe-hold and cause negative externalities like sidewalk crowding.

(Besides these points: Has anyone made the argument that "overwhelming, unapproachable network-effect leads" are kinda great outcomes for consumers? Like, assume there were 10 facebooks instead of one -- kinda terrible. Or if there were a hundred Ubers and Lyfts, and you didn't know which one had cars close to you... awful.)
Perhaps, but it rather behooves the one making the accusation to substantiate it with evidence. I don't see how the one claiming that they don't leak can provide evidence of not leaking!
Use of powered vehicles on sidewalks is illegal, as is blocking entrances with vehicles. The city accused Bird and Lime of doing both.
not IT related but...

Artisan
Hand Crafted
* to table
etc

any adjective food

More on topic is web bullshit generator [0]. When you need a good verb adjective and noun all in one.

[0] https://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
you can submit SQL for a government owned/contracted database

I do hope they sanitise queries first or at least only give read-only access, right?
I can imagine about 100 other layers of law and regulation that would be better suited at dealing with this scenario than some municipal licensing issue. So, yes?

Can we at a minimum focus on practical participants and outcomes when debating policy?
I'm actually a fan of Powershell, but unix people take it as a personal insult if you try and tell them their 70s-era tooling is inferior in some way to something designed with 30 years of hindsight.
You're a long time out of date at this point. Google merged openjdk a long time ago for their base JVM.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/android_openjdk/
Use openjdk instead. By default on linux, that's what will continue to happen. You won't really be impacted by this.
Sure if you want DSL.

Choices in my market are: dialup, dsl, and Comcast.
Same. They really needs to work on their public images as out-of-touch entitled manchild.
Based on previous posts I feel comfortable sharing a project with the HN community in this thread. It's a web app with for anyone to post travel related tips/thoughts. I'm open to honest feedback. www.worldpeer.com Thanks!
Nothing at all. But if MSFTbdoes Hingis that increase the labor cost and then move jobs overseas because labor costs are too high, then I call BS.

Does that help?
What's being missed here is there is a whole slew of vendors that support openjdk. Those patches will come from red hat, ibm, azul,.. as well.
Or.. just remove car parking from the city center. It's a waste of space, and of limited utility (because it's so hard to find a spot due to the limited supply). Adding more bikes/scooters/mass transit is much more efficient for moving people around than allowing more cars.
Collect offers from companies in SF, and then proceed to either quit or take them to management.

I mean, I refused to work in the south bay when I lived in the bay area for this exact reason - if they started their company there, they are likely to engage in motivated reasoning to keep it there.
The reason tech companies get the spotlight is because there are times when the tracking is so much in your face. For example, if I look up specs on a pair of Bose headphones, I get plastered with ads for Bose for the next couple months (unless I flush my cookies, and/or browse anonymously or use an ad blocker). Yes, I know what is going on behind the scenes, but it still feels like stalking.
VSCode uses ripgrep internally to do the cross project searching.
I have one giant emacs org-mode file.

It contains most of my brain, I wish I started this when I was younger.
Why shouldn't land owners be able to build whatever they want on their own property? It's not your backyard, it's your neighbors property
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This is mostly a myth:

https://www.livescience.com/32337-is-house-dust-mostly-dead-...
> [T]he national anthem seemed fair game for spoofing in 1988. That’s a major contrast to 2018, when the anthem has been elevated to a sacred, untouchable level by a large segment of the American public.

> “I don’t know that we’d get away with that scene today,” Abrahams said. “We probably wouldn’t.”
Or Microsoft.
Tough life.
Honest question: How often do people upgrade their production language?

Me: once in a decade, maybe. I'm still perfectly happy (and productive) with C# 3.5, Java 7 and Python 2. I'm grudgingly moving forward because the old toolchains are being deprecated now, but my codes aren't significantly improved because of a few fancy idioms available in a new language, and it barely affects the design decisions. Upgrading your library or framework can be more often, but I tend to still be fairly conservative. Upgrading your language for production twice a year sounds crazy to me.
The argument was that the market is important, not that the resulting behaviors of users are an important nuisance to you.
I have no need for one and I don't need to throw somebody else's brightly colored garbage onto the property of or into the streets I share with my neighbors.
I’ve noticed that a lot of “natural” monopolies are regulated under the assumption they will become monopolies but before they actually do.

I suspect a lot of that regulation has been wrong, monopolies would not have emerged, and we would be better off regulating only the monopolies that actually exist.

I’d rather see the scooter companies fight it out than have the city government pick winners and losers when the industry is only a few months old and multiple viable competitors already exist.
More to this question, are there any limits on what you can put in orbit?

e.g. could I put a satellite in orbit that broadcasts an SSTV signal that's goatse, or a handgun?
For the sake of the question, assume I can launch/reside in any country.
Hey look, they took feedback rather than banning all extensions that modified github! Good job, guys. Take a hint, Slack.
Eh, I think we got some time for consumer performance improvements. Graphics cards and HDD/SSDs seem to have been steadily increasing (noticeably) but CPU's and RAM have not for consumers which are major bottlenecks.

My top of the line late 2013 rMBP has got 4 cores, 16GB of ram, and 512GB NVMe SSD. rMBPs just recently upgraded to 6 cores and 32GB of ram (more storage too but that isn't a big deal nowadays since speed was the biggest optimization for storage and it is still NVMe IMO). However, server CPU and RAM has increased. You can now rent an AWS x1e.32xlarge with 64 cores and 4TB of RAM and thanks to AMD, that competition seems to finally be flowing back to consumer computers (At least for CPUs).

Just look at people being amazed at threadrippers 32 freaking cores on a desktop (matches AWS x1 when you consider the x1 has dual sockets) and we still haven't passed down the gains in RAM (2TB of RAM if it matches the x1).

When those performance gains pass down to consumer computers, users will have up to 6.33 times the amount of CPU and 64 freaking times the amount of RAM!
Why? If people don’t want it there then the permits shouldn’t be issued. Not that this is necessarily the case in SF specifically.
They use an ultrasonic detector that can hear the sound of gas being forced through a small hole.
OK.

I care.

Wait, no, I really, really, really really don't.

Ends matter and the ends of the shitty scooter companies are awful at the human scale.
Photoshop and Illustrator seem to have fairly comprehensive AppleScript dictionaries at least (nothing for Premiere Pro though, but that's not surprising as it that was a Windows-first product)
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Can anybody name two companies which are about to get acquired? Anybody at all?
Ask yourself this, if Tesla is so good at making autonomous driving software, and can make the cheapest batteries, and can automate manufacturing more than anyone deemed possible, why do they not sell these. Why do they target only half a million cars a year while they could completely take over multiple industries by becoming tier-1 supplier to various manufacturers? It is to maintain hype, the real truth is somewhat humbling.

The same applies to boring company, if they can dig tunnels so cheaply, they would become tbm suppliers or contractors, not an end to end solution.
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Right, so now the cost of maintaining the office space of a US worker has increased and that goes into something called “fully-burdened FTE cost”, which is basically the whole cost of putting an employee on he payroll in the US. The more you raise that cost, the more likely you are to use offshore labor, even if the salaries are the same.

Utilities, insurance, and taxes are three other costs in the fully burdened rate. Salary is only one piece.
Not to worry, these companies that were left out will be let in next year once they pony up the correct bribe amount to the relevant decision maker.
I just don’t understand this attitude that these companies are owed their ability to do business, particularly when it involves just dumping these things on the public sidewalks.
For an easy solution, you could leave it up to browser developers.
More complicated: anything you were paid to put on your website. Exceptions for integrated advertisements/ads embedded in videos.

This won't really hit people doing self-serve or custom ads much, but it'll cover the vast majority of the web.
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Is it not possible to request an electronic copy of the database dump in its entirety?
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The pace is already going to beat that legislation at it’s current rate.

This codifies that they don’t drag behind.
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I think many people would. But yet there is incessant complaining about their flight. There just seems to be this cognitive dissonance between keeping money in the pocket and complaining about flight arrangements. Either save longer or deal with it.
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Oh, and to offer something more personal:

I spent the middle decade of my career with a partner at home who needed regular care-taking. I needed to put that ahead of any traditional career treadmill and so I worked remotely for a mid-sized contracting firm and was clear about my availability. They gave me the work I needed, and I preserved the time and space I needed.

Because I worked for the same firm all that time, and did good work, I established a strong and trusting relationship that afforded me increasingly more flexibility and control.

Plus, by volunteering to support the other sides of the business like Sales, Recruiting, etc I learned more than enough about contracting to be quite confident and successful when I eventually decided to go out on my own -- which gave me even more control.

I can't tell you if it's a path that would make sense for you, but it was a very rewarding one for me.
I am not sure I completely understand the implications of this. But, if OpenJDK is the reference implementation, and as long as someone is going to maintain Java 11, there really isn't much to worry. I worked for a company that completely relies on Java. They also relied on Apache, so they had on their roles two developers that wrote code for Apache and Tomcat. Making wild guesses here but - if OpenJDK project gets 300 companies with one contributor each to write code for them, they will continue supporting Java 11. Maintaining Java is in some way a responsibility of every company that benefits from it. Or maybe I am so out of touch with technology that I am absolutely wrong.