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> I'm not saying mobile gaming like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush are bad, just that... man, they aren't for smart people. Likely most games aren't, but playing World of Warcraft and Diablo and Starcraft required a lot of thought and theory crafting to feel like I knew how to be elite at them.

Clash of Clans has a lot of strategy so I don't know why you're using that as an example. Frankly almost any PvP game is going to have a lot of strategy. My friend who has scored twice as high as anyone else in the school in math competitions loved that game.

You seem to have this idea that smart people only do things that require they use their intelligence. I'd argue that is very much not the case.
10.000 preorders for Volkswagen ID.3 on first day
at first thought I'd be against it. Because they essentially bump what they think is good, and it does not (necessarily) reflect the community. Sometimes things slip through at HN though so giving a nudge to resubmit sounds like a good idea.

Tbh, I don't really mind either way, I've enjoyed most content on here.
Shall we dub this the Chip of Theseus?
Opensuse and suse do their work almost in sync, now that is so fluent that you could convert existing opensuse install into SLES. I just can't understand why RH don't wan't more customers coming from CentOS.
Houses are fairly cheap. It's land that's expensive. So the only thing the developer needs to do, is accurately predict sales price in order to not overpay for the land.
OT, but their web dev is an inconsiderate jerk.
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You can't easily short Uber yet, it is not traded yet. You'd need to find a) a current stockholder that will borrow you shares, and b) a new potential stockholder to buy it from you. And even after it starts trading it'll take a few days for options and shorts to become available.

Tip: if you want to short via options (when options trading becomes available) wait a few hours to let the market makers settle their positions. Source: I've shorted BYND and paid a higher than necessary options premium because I was impatient.
That reminds me of this video on TPM: https://www.lafkon.net/tc/

Bruce Schneier on TPM: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/tpm_to_end_pi...
> You can simply save the file and expect it to work everywhere

I don't quite follow. This is because the gif is decoded and played. No different than a video. You don't need a proprietary player to loop a video, you just go back to the start of the video. For streaming, this is only problematic for large videos that can't be cached, but the same applies to large gifs. Browsers can loop video, it's just a right-click setting. HTML5 can loop video, allowing sites to serve video in e.g. a banner, replacing gifs. You can save any video file just like a gif.

> Something that browsers treat as a moving image and not a video.

The entire point of deprecating gifs is because video is superior. Gif as an image format being able to specify frame duration and looping is hardly a noteworthy feature.
Not clear to me it’s more complicated than raising prices. But that probably implies operating in fewer markets and lower volume. You’re a taxi with better dispatching at that point.
Waymo valuation is estimated at somewhere between $80 to $175 billion (https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2019/funding-...).

Tesla is currently at under $50 billion.

Currrently the markets seem to value Tesla's self-driving technology at about $0.

I happen to think that Tesla has about the same chances of winning self-driving as Waymo, so it should be valued, today, at least $80 billion + whatever the value of car and energy business is (let's say $30 billion).

And those are valuation today, when neither company has demonstrated a working product.

When they actually start a robotaxi service, even in very limited way, the valuation will skyrocket because the consensus is that this is a market that favors natural oligopoloy (2-3 national providers) and the revenue potential is in hundreds of billions, which would lead, eventually, to a trillion-size valuation.
Librarians and secretaries are two examples of "non-programmer" careers where functional knowledge of SQL is pretty common. Less-so these days with secretaries, but moreso for librarians. Not to mention tons of researchers across countless disciplines have SQL in their toolboxes. I've even met government bureaucrats with professional backgrounds in regional banking that know SQL. Previous programming experience? Using HP-12c calculators...

>I think it’s safe to assume that the overwhelming majority of people who use SQL, are programmers who most certainly cannot get by with just basic knowledge.

Most demonstrably do though, so there's that. If you cast a wide net when polling programmers, I think you'd find that mode level of knowledge was relatively low. You don't need to be a SQL rockstar ninja dude to do what most professional programmers are doing with SQL most of the time. Obviously advanced knowledge is good for any professional programmer to have, but the fact is there are a TON of people out there who only know the basics, and that works for them.
Don't know about BOA, but I've never had a problem receiving verification codes on my voice number which is my daily driver.
Any application that doesn't allow me to stop something from being annoying, will be stopped from being annoying by being uninstalled.

If browsers made it such that I couldn't not stop .gif animations (or playing video, or...), I would trash that browser.

Bluntly, you do not get to control my computer.
I get the feeling most commenters here don't actually use NextDoor, but have plenty of opinions about NextDoor that [Vox | Gizmodo Media | Twitter | etc.] fed them. I have been on NextDoor for years and I almost never see frivolous complaints or racism. It seems to me that people get this notion based on hit pieces written by online journalists and by things like the 'best of next door' Twitter feed, which showcases cherry-picked isolated posts.

Many of the comments here are alleging widespread racism on Next Door, but I don't agree with the idea that a report about suspicious behavior that involves a POC is inherently racist. Broadly labeling such reports as racist is disingenuous and frankly harmful. OTOH, I see plenty of discrimination in this thread, where people are surmising that NextDoor is "just older white people" (as another comment put it). For those who don't use NextDoor, they have a very well-designed workflow when you try to submit a post about a crime or suspicious activity, where they ask you step by step to isolate what happened, why that behavior was suspicious, and so forth, before collecting details on the people involved.

For those saying "I don't see any problems at all, these NextDoor posters are conspiracy theorists or hysterical fear-mongers" - maybe that's true for you but it is definitely not true for me: I've had needles thrown into my front yard by drug-addicted homeless people. I've been the victim of property crime and lost irreplaceable possessions. I've had friends physically assaulted, robbed at knifepoint, caught in the middle of gunfire, and even threatened with murder in front of their children. I've seen needles in front of my workplace, in front of stores I go to, and in greenbelts in parks. I encounter human poop about once a week downtown. These are all real problems that were absolutely not prevalent 10 years ago in Seattle, and have received limited press coverage due to our ideologically-skewed demographics + city council + journalists.

Violent crime is still rare here but on the rise in Seattle. Property crime is incredibly common, and a lot of it goes unreported because the SPD is not staffed to handle it and has been directed to de-prioritize investigating it or directed to not enforce certain laws or directed to not enforce laws against some groups of people (i.e. homeless). Both Facebook and NextDoor luckily have given voice to what are very real concerns to law-abiding residents.

PS: the level of discourse in this thread is appalling. So many people are using labels (e.g. "NIMBY") or discriminatory remarks ("old white people") to dismiss others' valid perspectives, values, and opinions. I find this ironic considering the same posters seemingly uphold the value of "lived experiences" in other contexts. But more importantly, it seems like lazy comments that aren't making any actual argument or adding any information are garnering votes, which is not good for the community.
The H264, VP9 and AV1 files are all targeting the same file size. The only reason they aren't the exact same size down to the byte is because ratecontrol is somewhat finicky and no one cares enough about that level of precision to make it work.
Because a root typically has a longer expire date and thus has to be stored extra secure and handled extra safely. You'd usually store it in some hardware security module that is operated by an airgapped system or something like that that requires physical access at the very least. Replacing the root often requires shipping new versions of your software that disables the old root and bakes in a new root.

If an intermediate certificate becomes compromised, you can revoke it and issue a new intermediate certificate with your still secure root without the need to push out new binaries.
The way it was taught to me, decades ago because I’m old and people used to say “Chinaman” out loud, was the fallacious line of thinking begins “if I can just sell every Chinaman one Coke...”. The Fast Company article is right on.
No, on my iPhone, it will insist on downloading the update, and the ONLY way to stop it (as confirmed by the "geniuses" at the Austin Domain Apple Store) is to immediately go into storage management and delete the update. This will only stop it until the next time (usually no more than a week or two) that iOS decides to download it again and ram the update down your throat. I'm getting really tired of doing this, especially since Apple's updates have a solid history of slowing performance, so I really just don't want them, in most cases. (I don't have a newer model iPhone, so most of the fixes, which address newer hardware, are meaningless to me...)
But passing this tax will affect all future IPO's. If the city wants to take a hard line with Uber, then do that. But don't pass a tax that affects all companies going public. That just puts an incentive for startups to move outside the city before going public. Is that a good thing? Is that what the city of SF wants? I don't know, but giving a reason for all these workers to commute up and down the peninsula seems silly. Especially because CalTrain is already insanely crowded as are the roads.
These games are engineered to override your ability to make rational decisions. If you are unwilling to see that and are unaware of why they are called "skinner boxes" or skinnerware, and don't see a problem with games that make you suffer (wait) unless you pay repeatedly, and even excuse the developers for exploiting children's
and whale's psychologicall unpatchable vuls then these schemes have already won over you.

Just check how the cigarette industry moved public attention from addictive substances they deliberately put into cigarettes to "personal responsibility of smokers".
Would looping not make more sense at a container level, not a codec level?
If it's obvious to me that the headline's intent is to mislead for clickbait purposes, then I probably ain't gonna bother reading the article, sorry.
Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps
One option would've been to use Nightly and set xpinstall.signatures.required = false in about:config. That's exactly what I did.
Google’s privacy changes are mostly marketing
I like it. Hn is still worth checking a few times every day. Whatever the staff is doing, it feels like they keep the quality relatively stable.
Year of the Linux Desktop?
With Google now making chromebooks officially linux ready and Microsoft now shipping the linux kernel with their wsl2 subsystem, can we now officially say it is the year of the linux Desktop?
"Can you give us $8 billion for 10% of this venture so we can, you know, figure out a way to make money?"
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Certificate expiration, if only we can figure way to see it coming. Oh wait, metrics!
You can hold a short position for a long time.

The longer you hold it, the more it costs you in fees, but it's not like you have to cover 5 days after taking short position.
Traffic grows in cities where Lyft and Uber are present
Oh, I was just referring to this post, which is about putting Linux on devices meant for other OSes. :-)

Ah I see. Yeah I use USB when I need to, but I neither always have enough data to warrant the speed (often just a handful of pics...), nor is it true that I only want SSH for file transfer. =P
Cache of 1k guns seized from Bel-Air mansion
"Fun" fact: tax law is the one domain where "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply. If the government says you owe money, the burden is on you to prove that you do not.
There are many profitable subsections of public transit. The issue is the it’s a PUBLIC resource. They’re not run to maximize profit. They also run many lines which are not profitable. If a private company tried to steal the business of the profitable subsections it would put the non profitable ones at risk. Smart governments would outlaw such competition.
Oh could you expand? Something wrong on mobile or something? On some Android devices things were wonky but I thought I fixed everything.
Given the current direction of the industry, the most likely candidate for this in the not-so-distant future is HEIF, which has support for an image-sequence [1].

HEIF is an ISOBMFF (aka Quicktime/MP4 container)-derived container format for images, image sequences, and transformations. Its most visible use right now is Apple Live Photos, but various use-cases exist [2]. OS and application support is increasing.

Work is ongoing on defining AV1-encoded frames as a payload in HEIF [3].

[1] https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html [2] https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/examples.html [2] https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/#av1-image-sequence
I live in the DC suburbs about a mile from a relatively new Metro station. The local Nextdoor is fairly reasonable, but about once a month someone posts to report a small crime (like a car break-in) and concludes with something like, “this never happened before Metro was put in.”

Right, because criminals are spending an hour on the train, then walking a mile or two to your house so they can commit a crime, then hustling to get back home before the system closes down for the night.

It certainly is interesting to see how disconnected from reality some people are.
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This...isn’t true.

Could you give any examples of common use cases and ways that people perform these “optimisations”?
Supposedly, New Glenn will be ready in 2021. I wouldn't be surprised if this requires New Glenn's bigass fairing— I don't think anyone is currently flying anything with the same size capabilities (although neither is Blue Origin, at the moment)
Animated PNG support was shipped in Chromium, the last major hold out, two years ago: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6691520493125632

This means that once the new Chromium-based Edge ships, all major browsers will have support: https://www.caniuse.com/#feat=apng
A big question is whether the unit economics of ride hailing in their currently profitable cities are a best case scenario, which seems plausible (US taxis are by most accounts unusually restricted, expensive and lacking in alternatives compared with transport in most of the rest of the world and US consumers much richer than average, and the Uber brand isn't necessarily the same asset in other markets either). Which raises the question of whether they'll ever get a return on more difficult to penetrate and competitive markets.
Usually organisations of size of Mozilla have metrics and alarms for various things, cert expiry should have been on top priority.
Yes, other factors can change to compensate. In that case, people drove more miles with bigger roads, meaning congestion doesn't decrease very much.

But big picture: more people got more of what they wanted, which to drive farther (without more congestion).
Are you sure about OpenSCAD?

I thought it used constructive solid geometry?
I hope this dissuades any more startups from locating in SF. It's gotten to the point where even highly paid software engineers cannot afford to live in the city. The Caltrain is packed every afternoon with engineers evacuating to the safety of MTV and Sunnyvale.

The lack of affordable housing is the reason I moved from SF, since my wife and I wanted to start a family. I just wish more companies would do the same.
Not sure about this line of argument. Bank has my data but only those trusted my transaction with them. Google is much more general in nature. Storage is not a transaction. Safety deposit does not mean the bank shall open it already or any time they like without telling me and ask for permission.
A team in France has created the first autonomous smart contact lens
You haven't had any problems with external monitors? I tried to use a Samsung Chromebook plus as adev machine and terminal fonts on external monitors looked terrible.
> Third, people like to live with people in their same class. We really hate talking about class in the US, but it is there nonetheless. It is not easy to be a well off tech worker when the people in your social circle are blue collar workers struggling to make ends meet.

I don't know if I agree with that. I am a low level engineer but still consider myself fairly privileged. It makes me really happy when I'm able to help my friends buy something they couldn't otherwise afford. Yes it pains me to see they are struggling but I am happy knowing I can help them if they ever need it and it gives me a reason to keep working.

I also have friends who are significantly more well off than I am. In my opinion, they don't understand the value of money well.

Personally I think it's dangerous to put yourself in a position where you can just forget that there are other people who are genuinely struggling as it can distort your perception of money.
That's a pretty simple regulatory change to cap HOA fees as a percentage of rent for affordable units though.

Obviously the developers will fight this, and the rich tenants will never exercise or swim near poor people, but conceptually it's easy enough to solve.
Elon's stated goal re: astronauts and training is that the technology should be sufficiently simplified to let anyone go up with minimal training. The idea of a heavily-trained astronaut is old, and the new thinking is that the people going to space should be able to spend their time up their doing whatever it is they are good at - even if just vacationing - rather than learning how to fly spacecraft etc.

I know this is a Jeff Bezos / Blue Origin article, but I would fully expect the same to be true here. Jeff has stated multiple times that he sees millions of people moving to space stations for work and general life. Earth should be left void of manufacturing and mining and things, which could be moved to space (and asteroids, etc) leaving Earth to be more of a natural environment for life to thrive.
Note there are Skoda and SEAT cars based on the same platform also coming soon, which are in many ways more obvious competitors for Kia/Hyundai. I would not expect the Volkswagen Group's VW product to be the low end of their pricing.
Disclosure. You're exactly _not_ disclaiming. :)
San Francisco is one of the most mismanaged major cities in the world and it's on such a negative trajectory. It's blessed with an incredibly successful homegrown tech industry, but there's only so much that can do to hide the underlying disfunction and the cracks are starting to show.

As a VC in San Francisco, I've recently given up my residence here, and am increasingly looking outward for tech and culture. I see many of my peers doing the same, moving east, south, or out of the country entirely.

It's bittersweet. I used to love San Francisco, but have recently entirely lost faith in it ever getting better. I've given up. And honestly, I feel a weight lifted from not having to care and constantly deal with the frustration anymore. There's so much tech & entrepreneurship worth promoting outside of SF, and it's so often overlooked.
I think Jeff Bezos is the most talented CEO currently around. He is the rare CEO that has off the charts vision combined with off the charts ability to execute. I am glad he is invested in space travel.
"I was feeling down in the dumps and wanted to revel in my misery a bit more by submitting Thoughter to Hacker News"
I see, I'm not the only one who does this. lol.
There's a couple of options of Android; you could use the DDG browser[0] or the Privacy Browser[1] (which I know sounds dodgy but seems legit). They don't have 'adblock' exactly but I think they implement a lot of the same lists such as EasyList.

[0]https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.johanhil.duckduckgo/

[1]https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser....
I use it a lot. For work reasons I have to use Windows but I've always used Linux for development so I just use vagrant instead of managing VMs directly from Virtual Box. I run vagrant up, then ssh into the VM using putty and inside putty I use my regular vim+tmux setup.
But why ' of incredible infamy ' - did he do something illegal, bad or contemptible?
Enjoy your pension, but I am not part of the government. If I was the government, then why the hell do I want to leave this forsaken country?
Volumetric representations are awesome in many ways since we can filter and evaluate them like pixels in 2D. It doesn't really help the curve solution, and for a lot of reasons we will use something like marching to convert back to a rasterizable mesh, but they help solve a lot of problems.
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I imagine that's the end goal but I have a hard time believing we will be there in just a few years.

Time will tell.
There really is no risk at all. This is such an unfounded fear.

It's more risky to call a group of armed individuals with a violent history to go to your neighbor's door. Why would you ever put that sort of risk on your neighbor? The most important political relationships we can form are those with our neighbors, why would you damage those relationships by leveraging state aggression against them for something as trivial as a noise complaint?
this is the exact paranoia the creator of the thread was talking about. If knocking on a neighbours door causes anxiety we might as well all wrap ourselves in styrofoam and never leave our apartments.