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> People don't want 5000 sq ft anymore. I looked at suburban houses as an option and was thinking I hope I never have enough crap to fill this much space. I think I can comfortably fit my family of 4 in 1200 sq ft indefinitely and never own a car.

That's an incredibly broad overstatement. There are plenty of people, including "techies," who still want a suburban home with a car.

There's a lot of talk in this thread that assumes that tech workers all want to live a minimalist lifestyle in a dense urban area (or even worse: that they should want to live that way). That's frankly false. I assume what's really going on is that people are projecting their parochial preferences onto a large group that's much more diverse than they understand.
You are conflating gender with sex

>Sex is mechanical

Male species use sperm to impregnate female eggs

>Gender is a social construct

What do you consider "Manly" or "Feminine"?

I really dislike that 99% of all conversations would end if people just phrased it like this. Since a lot of trans people just want to be treated as a member of the opposite gender.

"Age" is also very much a construct since I could use different calendars and have different birthdays to mark my age.
But your cells definitely have a limited lifespan which is what most people care about when they talk about age.
Not only are they losing money, it also starts at $36,620 which is more than the Tesla 3 base model and it’s tiny.

Bolt: 164″ L x 70″ W
Model 3: 185″ L x 73″ W

Which is not nessisarily a bad thing for a city car.
I wont agree or disagree yet, but why?
It’s a oft-repeated guideline in the US that you should spend no more than 1/3 of your income on housing (rent, mortgage + property taxes + ....).

It’s not a law and it certainly doesn’t apply to all people or locations. Some lenders might use it as a heuristic though.
I suspect there's even more to the story than what is apparent in Darwin's anecdote, both because right or wrong it simply doesn't fall under the category of heresy, and given that metamorphosis had been a well observed and documented phenomenon for hundreds of years prior to the event. For example in De animalibus insectis libri septem by Ulisse Aldrovandi[1][2]

It may even be in the order of thousands of years even though we don't have written accounts of it, given that's how we have practiced apiculture and had the opportunity to closely observe the phenomenon. And apiculture has been widely practiced by monasteries, so churchmen should not have been entirely unfamiliar with the concept.

1. https://archive.org/details/deanimalibusinse00aldr/page/280

2. Coincidentally Aldrovandi was also accused of heresy, but for anti-trinitarianism, not for describing metamorphosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulisse_Aldrovandi#Heresy
the official web-site is pretty informative and has a ton of samples..https://rxjs-dev.firebaseapp.com/api - take a look at operators section for example.
as for public repos - nowadays any modern front-end app that is built with Angular is using rxjs - it's de factor standard for data processing in angular world.
They are able, but they don't do it.

The only full electric car BMW currently produces is the wacky i3, which doesn't appeal to the average BMW buyer. For some reason all car manufacturers (except tsla) build really lame, goofy, small electric cars, why can't we just have a traditional luxury saloon?

The current 5 and 3-series are not offered in an full electric version. Which means that maybe, if we are lucky, there will be an all-electric 3/5 series in the next-generation (to be expected in 2021).
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He was whining about lodash but still used it till the end.

His lodash and pipeline operator version looked more noisy than the lodash only version.
I would go with D/O as they have everything Linenode seems to have and they have a kubernetes solution they are opening up to everyone (soon) and they will also offer managed Postgres and Mysql databases as a service in the future. And you can upload your own images.

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/
https://try.digitalocean.com/dbaas-beta/
https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/
> but isn't your point similar to saying that English is in our DNA because the tools to learn and speak it are?

No, but the ability to learn languages is in our DNA

> I think if you disqualify the changes DNA _enables_

What our DNA enables is the ability to learn a language, not the language itself.
Well for the indexing stuff I recomend Worldbrain[0]. I use it for some time now and was able to find a lot of stuff that would be otherwise lost in my browsing history. It helps mo out when there is this "I know I read something about functors and javascript like two weeks ago". Turns out it was 5 weeks ago but since Wordbrain indexes every page I visit I do not have to scroll through 2k history entries.

[0] https://worldbrain.io/
You have a point, it came across as lack of understanding, when it could equally have been disregard.
Could it be a play to make the ad impression stay for a longer time? Even a few milliseconds would add up to a lot id imagine.
> Is that... fun?

No, but it is allegedly profitable!
That reputation came about due to their notorious review of the Nokia Lumia 900 in 2012. The reviewer gave it lower numerical scores than the iPhone on various factors like ergonomics and camera even though the review text didn't imply that it was lower quality.

That led to accusations of Apple bias, especially because of editor Topolsky's love of all things Apple back during his Engadget days.

I think it's still their most-commented article ever.
>The difference is in how we read it. With pipeline operator data flows from left to the right, and thus making it much more comprehensible without the need to introduce extra variables.

Why you need operator? Can't it be done with a function?

pipe(64,Math.sqrt)
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You are not wrong, but I'm not saying this is the sole factor in city attractiveness here. It's just one factor. Other things equal, I think it's easier to attract top talent to cities with halfway decent urbanism than to cities that are more like giant suburbs.

I focused on it in my original comment mostly just because it's an area I'm particularly familiar with, and it's an area where the cities that are supposedly "desperate" are hardly doing anything at all. (Not that I blame the local governments for that, really, I realize the local residents mostly want their cities to stay that way)
Of course, and while we're at it, let's tax them extra to reproduce.
Been using this in LiveScript for awhile (ls also provides it in the opposite direction <| ). Very useful for chaining functions in a logical order and without unnecessary () nesting. Absolutely needs to be paired with partial application though for multiple argument functions.
> I'd actually expect and desire a full rebuild in the case that a widely used header is changed.

yes, me too, but in this case the rebuild happens twice while the header changes only once (from the point of view of the programmer of course, from the point of view of the filesystem it changes twice). If hashes were used this would not be a problem at all.
People prefer car ownership because car manufactures lobbied for laws that shaped most modern american cities around the car. However, New York is so dense that getting around without owning a car is the norm.

Car ownership is a multi thousand dollar expense, every year. Many people would be happier with that cash in their pocket.
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I thought Prohibition only forbade the manufacture and sale of liquor, not the possession or consumption?
Because those are easier to fake than your face or way of walking. And you want to monitor the people who'd be inclined to fake this.
It's not a bad thing, it can be unfortunate for the person anyway, it was just one of my observations.

Also I wasn't arguing his ideas, I was asking if his speaking worth spending the time on after his book was lacklustre.
So, I just got back from a week-long vacation to NYC, and it's reinforced what I've always felt about it: NYC is a wonderful place to visit, but I'd never want to live there.

I had a lot of fun, and I wish I could've stayed another week, but actually living and working there? No thank you. I actively do not want to fight through crowds and run to catch connecting trains just to get to and from work every day. I don't want to live in a tiny apartment with no cooling but a room air conditioner sticking out the window. I don't want to be surrounded by noise 24/7.

Trust me, for every person who wants to live in NYC because it's actually a city, there's at least one person like me who only wants to set foot in cities to play tourist and would rather live and work in the suburbs.

And I'd rather live in modern suburbs at that... in NYC suburbs like Westchester (where I stayed during my trip), the housing stock is so old that even a nice place will be a fixer-upper, and the street layout is horrendously bad because nothing was planned in advance. I strongly prefer living in southwestern suburbs where nothing is older than the late '70s, half the neighborhoods were built in the 21st century, and the suburbs are built around a one-mile grid of six-lane divided highways (e.g. Dallas, Vegas, Phoenix).
Imagine what their sales would be in the US if they were actually allowed to have dealerships! I'm quite amazed they've been doing as well as they have been with that huge barrier the other car companies don't have. Imagine if the other manufacturers had to deal with this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cant-buy-tesla-states-1613182...
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Years ago there was a list of top 10 lists I had printed out, but I haven't been able to find them. One of the lists was "Top 10 signs you're a Microsoft programmer" and #1 or 2 was something along the lines of: "You think human teleportation will eventually be possible, and XML will be the transport."
> what about your reading of the book made you think he doesn't understand the internal lives of others?

Maybe not "doesn't understand", it could just be disregard.

Very simply the book seems uphold a philosophy that ignores that other people might have actual struggles and histories.

I have a couple specific examples I can put up when I'm out of the office.
> I wish someone would

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox_(operating_system)
The Tesla 3 base model is not in production right now. Only the higher priced models are. I'm sure they'll eventually get to it, but you're comparing a model that is available to buy today with one which is not.
> These have been deployed for years in major corporations.

CMake is 6th fastest language growing on github: https://octoverse.github.com/projects.html

Boost is switching to it, Qt may be switching to it for Qt 6, it's the most used in the jetbrains survey (https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/cpp/)...

for the sake everything holy, this is the chance for the C++ community to standardize on a build tool. Once this is done and settled, it will be much easier to improve CMake incrementally since there will mechanically be more people interested in improving it, and it will also be much easier to switch from CMake to next-gen-buildsystem-which-solves-all-cmake-problems in 10 years than the current fragmented situation.
To be picky (besides clicky ;-)), that specific keyboard:

>Mmmm.... manufactured in 1985, just like Ars Features Editor Nathan Mattise.

was manufactured (on 28th August) 1992, and only copyrighted 1985.

Neither 1992 nor 1985 are "twenty years", for the record that is respectively 26 or 33, or more like around 30 years.

This said, you'll have to take my Model-M (and my HP28C pocket calculator) out of my cold, dead hands, it is good to see that some of the younger folks still appreciate the reliability and sturdiness just like some of us old dinosaurs still do.

Long life Model M!
Minneapolis does have a growing tech field, and it is laid out in such a way that you can get out into the country quite quickly after the work day.

However, unless your working in medical devices I wouldn't call it a hub like New York, Boston or the valley.
> If only we could flick focus mode like a switch when sitting at a computer, that would be nifty.

But you do. When you engage in a task, the dopamine and noradrenaline systems in your brain modulate which parts are active, directing your attention. If these systems don't work well enough, then you get ADHD.

If what you mean is to be able to disable involuntary attention control, then that's not good either. You'd be at great risk of under-responding to emerging situations.
Another highly extrapolated mouse study. Stop upvoting this shit.
Your example falls apart when making multiple function calls.
Reading the conclusion in the PDF, the Rust version is not faster than the C version and not necessarily safer either, since there is plenty of "unsafe" Rust code involved.

While Rust is nice in some areas, I'm not convinced this is anything more than yet another "let's rewrite it in Rust, because I happen to like Rust" article.

Angry comments defending Rust incoming in 3..2..
I can imagine that future, and it is frightening. As a society we imagine our technological progress to somehow imply that we are actually advancing as a species. Recent events suggest otherwise, and putting evolutionary control in the hands of those kinds of people (read: anybody) is likely to be really bad for us all.
Since we are looking at PCI Ethernet drivers written in languages other than C (fun!) here is one written in Forth too: https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/master/dev/ne2...

Good to remember that C and Unix kernels haven't always had a monopoly on device drivers.
In a similar way to The Verge being part of Apple's

??? I read The Verge fairly regularly and can't recall them ever regularly giving undue praise to Apple. I mean if nothing else, they gave both the latest iPad and MBA a 7.5/10
Ask HN: How do you keep track of restaurant recommendations from friends?
Whenever I travel to a new city/country, I find myself asking friends who live/been there for food/restaurant/POI recommendations. But i always end up spending a lot of time collecting/organizing all the ideas in one place with very manual processes.

I either:
1) List all the names down in a draft email/note/msg as my friends are telling me about them in real time
2) Add pins on a Google Maps list
3) Search my chat history for names and addresses
4) Call my friend up in the middle of the day, tell him where i'm at, and ask him for recommendations.

But even with that list, it's still feels inconvenient when you're tying to figure out what you want to do next given your location/mood. Google Maps help you figure out what's closest to you, but you still have to manually click on each pin to figure out what they actually are, and a restaurant list still requires you to furiously google/yelp every place on the fly before making a decision.

Conversely, when my friends ask me for food recommendations in Chicago, I spit out a must-try list from memory, but I'm also hoping the other person remembers/jots it down somewhere, and hoping that list isn't missing some really good places I've not been to or thought about recently. My more organized friends would likely have an email list or google map pinned with all their fav places to send, but I'm not one of them.

I'm asking HN to see if other people have a similar pain point? If there is a better solution out there beyond manual note-taking/Google Maps? Or if its just me whining and being disorganized and nobody really cares?

TLDR - Foodie is having a hard time collecting/organizing food recommendations from friends for travel. Is there an easy solution out there? Do you have a similar pain point?
No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well. You should have written something like, "which is the company that...".

I can't think offhand of any language that's really better here in a sense of being more efficient, except probably Classical Latin which is horribly complicated and of course a dead language.
I'm curious, do hams ever troll one another as internet users frequently do?
My good friend WA2AAX, now a silent key, told of a visit he once made to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. During a lull in operation they let him traverse the catwalk spanning the 'dish' (a spherical mesh 1,000 ft diameter built inside a natural sinkhole) as the moon reached its zenith. Scanning his VHF HT he was able to hear many moonbouncing HAMs and even voice traffic from repeaters in the US. With a standard offset he was even able to make a brief contact with someone on a faraway VHF repeater before the celestial mechanics drifted out of alignment. A 2,000 mile QSO on VHF with a handheld, via the Moon. He considered it his finest Geek moment.
My problem with security is that attacks get more and more advanced but users are just as clueless as ever, so we’re headed towards doom.
Istio and Let's Encrypt Ingress SSL
I will add the e-mail from profile here as well: d.nikitenkov@reply.de
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>Tesla is selling significantly more cars than BMW right now.

By "right now" you mean for a single historical quarter, in one specific, shrinking auto segment (sedans), in one global market right (USA), correct?

Because, again, BMW sells 250k vehicles globally, per month. Torture the data enough and anyone can be a leader.
You are right:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131119203754/http://arstechnic...

Sneaky.

But that clears the "twenty years", five years ago that would have been accurate.
> From the archives... registered May 10, 2012
I can go to a dealer today and grab a Chevy Bolt for under $32k with no haggling with 238 mile range. Hyundai hasn't come out with US pricing for their Kona EV yet, but in Norway they're selling it for the equivalent of $40k with 258 mile range.

It certainly isn't trivial and Tesla has invested a good bit in EV technology, but it looks like rivals aren't that far behind.
Did you use the cache-line flush instructions directly or use some higher-level package from the PMDK for adding byte-addressable NVM support to LMDB?
> Who's still interested in new BMWs?

This. Exactly this.

I've overheard potential buyers (not just at BMW, but all car dealerships) asking questions like:

- Can I get this car in an all-electric version?
> No

- Can I get this car with AWD (dual motor)
> No

- Can I get this car with autopilot
> No

- Will this car receive updates over the air?
> No

- Does the base model come with 300+ HP?
> No

- Can I control this car using an app?
> No

- Can I fuel/charge for free?
> No

Then why pay 80k for a 5-series, if you can also get a tesla for that price?
Many midwestern cities are seeing strong growth right now, especially in tech. Madison is one of them. I think we’ll be fine.
Have you considered technical work in academia? The culture's much more friendly to older people and you might prefer the type of work if you're a bit jaded by industry.
Munich and Zurich are both quite far from the coast.

Of course, they're also expensive cities: Zurich is one of the most expensive in Europe, and Munich is the most expensive city in Germany.

Now, maybe this is because the Google executive team loves throwing away money on the most expensive cities for no reason. But I think a more likely explanation is that the same desirability that drives up prices also makes it more attractive for talent and employers.
Tesla is the new status symbol. Tech is in today. If you are an elite business man and don't have the highend flagship phone, either pixel 3 or iphone XR etc... you are not respected. Similarly if you don't have the coolest and most high tech car (Tesla), you are not respected.
I find XML good for configuring pipelines since there's a clear "parent" node. Most other things I use JSON for. In other words, XML is good when a human is going to be editing it, but the ROI isn't enough to make a GUI for.
LIBOR met the mainstream decades ago, in the 80s and 90s a nice guideline, and ended up pre-financial crises with adoption of financial models that balanced on the edge of single basis points that depended on a single digit that a not very well paid team calling traders, that might or might not answer their phones, and might or might not care to give an accurate number, but when a number it was not to single basis-point accuracy, just a number from the floor.

The people playing with complex quantitative systems that depended on single basis points had no idea of the integrity of the data they were playing with if they were using LIBOR.

The conclusion I got was: Get out of your code and check your data and how much you trust it. Then get back in with a whole load of caveats.
The whole ageism thing is overblown.

I’m in my mid 40s and I have a circle of six friends who are still developers and hands on architects. The youngest is 40 and the oldest is in his late 50s. The oldest one is our former manager who hired all of us and self demoted to a developer after his kids graduated.

All of us are able to change jobs like we change shoes depending on how picky we are being.

We don’t live in SV or on the west coast. We live in a major metropolitan area. We all aggressively keep our skills up and are careful to not get left behind the current trends:

- all of us (except for me) are using the latest cool kids front end frameworks.

- we are all developing on top of either AWS or Azure and are actually using the technologies they provide and not just hosting a bunch of VMs.

- we can all do Devops in a pinch.

- all of us are using the latest .Net Core features or Node and most of us are using Docker.

- We are all using a combination of SQL and NoSQL databases.

Etc.

We all have corporate jobs and won’t go near any of the cool kids work 80 hours a week at below market wages with the promise of equity startups. We have grown people bills to pay and want to get home to our families.
Which is faster, rsync or rdiff-backup?
Yea, you'd think if you're forced to change the name of your product due to the name clashing with and existing software project/company, you'd take some time to make sure the new name you chose doesn't also clash with an existing software project/company.
Don't forget it's not just 9-5 office jobs that have issues with later school start times. Service jobs like restaurants/fast food are in arguably a rougher situation because they need workers when they have customers (and some time before for prep work).
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Nim produces smaller binaries, has zero-pause, realtime gc (and you can even define gc behavior) and compiles to optimized C. It's a win over Rust in every way including ease of use. Big issue with Nim is tribalism, pure and simple. It's author failed to get any major corporations behind it so it doesn't get hyped up in constant Medium articles and conference talks and therefore does not get a lot of attention, which keeps it a niche language, sadly.
And the graphics card that drives the engine is cooler to hardware engineers.

And the mining capabilities of the graphics hardware is cooler to cryptocurrency investors.

Full circle?
Why companies won't let bad projects die
These are great! I feel bad asking because they are free, but it would be great if you had the set of landing/beta/pre-launch/startup etc. all with the same theme. I'm starting up a project and it would be great to be able to keep the same look and feel through the product growth.