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> Also, anyone else get annoyed with tons of shops at airports?

I love it. Frankfurt duty free is pretty much my favorite shopping mall. The shops also give you something to do when you're waiting for connections. Duty Free in Dubai is also a lot of fun. Those shops also bring in revenue which goes to running the airport (your airline ticket is indirectly subsidized by those shops.)
> You must never turn estimates into a promise, always remind people they are estimates.

The person giving the estimate isn't the one who does this. Other people turn them into promises, because that's what they were actually asking for when they asked for "an estimate".

Giving some kind of uselessly vague estimate isn't particularly useful from an engineering perspective and everyone else has been trained by scrum the last decade to treat them as promises. So don't do the thing that you know will have a bad effect.
Or Guadalajara, Mexico, which received 6 feet of ice in a hailstorm: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-hail-storm-up-to-6-feet-...
What do you think are the odds that you are correctly describing the situation in the entirety of freaking Western Europe (your edit included)?
HN is often just as bad, if not worse with the thinly veiled blog posts.
You are not playing this in a right way. It's not your job to know the prices.Tell them they need to contact Salesforce for tbis, however you could give some tips on how to negotiate a good deal.This way you'll keep both Salesforce and your client happy.
What do you think about those visual tools, especially in ML? There are some successful ones (like Rapid Miner) and aspiring ones like Luna, but I'm not convinced. I think they want to target a layman for whom they are too difficult to use (because building a model requires a technical mindset) and advanced users prefer to write a script. It is tempting to try to build something similar, and I am trying myself, but I want to avoid this trap. I am thinking about a tool that would take some burden from the advanced user leaving all the power and access to raw code.
My first thought as well. And the reason I’ll never go to the Hong Kong Sevens even though I hear it’s awesome.
>When multi-million dollar warships are crashed because of poor UX, I have zero faith we're safely managing complexity.

My understanding of the incident is that the auto-detection functions failed and when human functions were not done per SOP due to exhaustion and senior command elsewhere the vessel came into jeopardy. Then when inexperienced and untrained crew members tried too late to evade. An apparently too complex UX was sending ship controls to more than one console. This culminated into one of the multi-million dollar warships crashing.
For that analogy to work, wouldn’t Tesla have to be as peerless and revenue-dependent on battery tech as Google is to search and other online services? I read good things about their battery tech but nothing that suggests they have the influence or dominance Google has with search. And the financial statements don’t seem to emphasize battery revenue growth, nevermind the way search revenue has been 90% of Google’s lifeblood for nearly its entire life.
Not sure why you're downvoted. This is true. Here in Boston my electric bill is a factor of three higher during the peak heat months.
Deepfake revenge porn could be counter-intuitively good for privacy. If people's real porn images get leaked, they can just claim it was deepfaked.

Trying to make a law against this could actually be a massive overreaction.
Do we really need fewer people and less consumption if we have carbon neutrality?
Update clutter is cleaned up a few weeks later, they keep it so you can 'roll back' the update. I've had to use the roll back feature before, it's useful. I guess it's an abomination, though?
Seattle made a bunch of lanes bus-only and my understanding is it helped with both congestion and transit use
Exactly. Besides, the people living in poverty are largely living as carbon neutral lives as possible (with the exception of using fossil fuels or wood for cooking and heating) by necessity as they can't afford cars/travel/air conditioning/beef/etc.
I live in Eastern Europe (Romania) and it's crazy how most of Western Europe doesn't practically allow residential AC units for esthetic purposes only. That explains why what I regard as normal summer-time temperatures (there have been 36 degrees today in my city) are seen as basically a new apocalypse in places like Germany or Northern France (it surprised me that a news item from a couple of days ago wanted to mention that there were 34 degrees in Paris, like that would have been an abnormally high temperature). Maybe it's time for the city authorities from Western Europe to put the health and well-being of their citizens above a so-called esthetic sense.
I wouldn’t say Standup is terrible but one where you go round the room giving updates is almost useless. It’s not just you, most developers can do 8 hours work in an hour if they aren’t interrupted with meetings.
Yeah, especially when they have been told to not talk about weather anomalies when they favor the denial argument.
Last year was a walk in the park compared to this year, especially the recent week. The worst day wasn't even the highest one in temperature. Humidity, wind, air pollution§, and no reprieve during night, the combination makes it incapacitating in much more ways than merely "hot" is. It's like cooking slowly, with hardly a way to ever cool down.

§ breathing is a very effective active cooling system.
The point is that China has external pressure not to do that.
Sad story, maybe if the lost point value is higher than $5000 you can sue them ?

Or some sort of pact with other affected users for GDPR violation.

Wish the best to get something out of it.

Thank for sharing.
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There's at least the possibility that the malware gets removed with signature updates.
JavaScript BigInt and JSON
Less people is pretty much a non-starter for most people. What we really need is a lot more nuclear power..

Edit: I'd love to hear why someone is against nuclear power instead of just getting downvotes.
This is what used to be located at http://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generato...

But it also looks like it has been extended a bit, adding more servers.

Regardless, it's still awesome! Thanks very much Mozilla!!
Representing integer ranges and working on dynamic graphs are everywhere in compilers. Also hashing and string algorithms, for obvious reasons.
Auth systems don't key off of usernames... When we added FIDO support there's still a backing user store that records user x has FIDO y, with a recording of the public key. That's how the pairing works. You can see it today on login.live.com
Nasty personal attacks? Give me a break!
Not a European, but I regularly live in 39°C, 102°F with very high humidity. Get a portable, floor standing unit in the 1500 watt range so you plug it in anywhere. It will have a fist sized duct to exhaust hot air, stick that out a window. Now reduce your living space to something it can cool. Close off rooms. Worst case, use sheets to erect a tent around your bed and just make it comfortable. Something like 400EU should do it. Don’t sweat the power use, it will use no more than 5EU/day, but you won’t use it many days. I’m sorry I can’t be more specific about specifications, my country uses made up units for cooling and you wouldn’t understand.

Edit: about condensate… half of the comfort comes from getting water out of the air so your mammal body works. Some units will require a gravity drain or for you to empty a bucket a couple times a day. Others will have a tricky design to move the water into the hot exhaust duct and evaporate it. I like these.
I am assuming this is the same thing as Cold Pressure processing seen by this hummus brand? http://www.bluemoose.com/about/
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+1

However, your comment didnt help me understand. It doesnt help because even if i embark on something i have no idea about, even in total ignorance i can _bound the problem_.

I dont understand how a professional coder can approach even a problem and have no idea - you have to DO the problem, so what is your approach? Just start coding and somewhere between 5 days and 5 years you stop?

Planning meetings dont happen in a vacuum, so what kind of problem can you research but have literally no guess about its solution? Bear in mind, we're not talking edge cases (research grants or whatever), but coders hired to do a job.
Thinking about sleep as an On/Off feature on our body
>> but it should concern everyone if (and a big if!) it's true that sarin was found and it made it past USPS.

I mean USPS isn't perfect and can't test 100% of all packages with 99.9999999% accuracy. The cost we pay to ship letters and packages can't come close to covering that expense.
The shots of food are amazing and brain-bending, but that Milky Way picture is stunning. I really need to spend some time in a southern hemisphere light desert.
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Germany is closing nuclear for solar and wind energy. They even generated less energy with more solar panels and turbines for wind energy. They had to use more coal due to closed nuclear plants.

France, on the other hand, has more nuclear plants and cleaner and also cheaper energy.
Only the parts that they took from other reverse engineered header projects are opensource (because they have to). They answered on one of their Github issues that the actual core code is not open source. I wouldn't touch this.
It's not just the existence of the shows. It's a very real culture that exists in the workplace for people < 40.
possibly, but what do you consider “write ability”? someone mentioned in another comment that if you control enough high power devices that report status to the grid (eg car chargers) so that the grid can take action (so read only but some other system uses it to take action) you can do plenty of damage

they don’t really have write access, but they kinda do?
GNOME used to have GConf, which is basically the same thing as Windows Registry. GNOME 3 replaced that with dconf/gsettings which serves very similar purposes.
You can vent AC’s heat out through a chimney. Window units are cheap and reasonably efficient, but not the only option.
> But in my field, in most cases the source code is never released at all. That's a far bigger problem that not having support to use it.

I agree but I think it's good for people to know that almost any moderately successful open project will attract whiners, complainers, entitled people, and in some cases outright abuse.

From the perspective of society, having no open code is worse than having open code that's unmaintained. We're agreed here.

From an individual contributor's perspective, opening yourself up to varying forms of whining and abuse "for the social good" (and not, say, for your tenure or publication count or whatever a researcher cares about in the moment) is a bigger problem than just sitting quietly on stuff you don't want to become a drain on your life.
I am perfectly fine with paying more for a technical project manager, or a team lead who can help us glue things together and see the big picture. But I am not fine with hiring a consultant who doesn't know anything about our product and thinks that Agile has some magic to deliver products.
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My post was about voting being a waste of time to change this. Did you read past those 6 words?
...exactly. :)
That engine is consistency. It just doesn't apply to actually existing law.
Pretty sure Germany runs on wind solar and nuclear.

So no feedback loop
To be a duplex, it needs to be 2 homes on one property that are touching. It is expected that the wall would be shared and that the two homes would be mirror images of each other. There exist houses that touch each other but are on separate lots; these are not duplexes.

A townhouse is 2-story and it touches another one. It could be a duplex, but it might be on a separate lot or it might be part of a group of more than 2.
Not that I necessarily disagree, but I think there's a bit of leap between ghack's footnote and assumptions about Google's behavior.

One could leap to the assumption that ghack's target demographic are more likely to embrace ad-blockers, which is why they're being hit hard.
What does the word "implicit" mean? What does the word "acknowledge" mean? I think you are playing with words. If we stick to plain, ordinary English, once something is acknowledged it is no longer implicit.
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Sorry for the spam, but this link is interesting too. There are many TEDx talks on youtube for nuclear energy that analyze this topic.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-green-dreams-run-in...
Very true; to expand on this metaphor, past experience has lead me to ask “does this thing actually need fuel, or is it in fact a bicycle?”; aka: please give me the full context - what are you actually trying to achieve and why?
Big fan of zerotier. But not a fan of GPLv3. Would you consider a different license?
Additionally, the reporter went out of his way to say that the hackers promised to only target the hotel itself, but then goes on to describe how when it wasn't working, they ended up impersonating the Wifi and doing deauth attacks on guest devices to force them to use the fake wifi...

I can understand that the hackers were frustrated that their attempts didn't work out, but then they targeted guest devices because they were embarrassed. The reporter should have put a stop to it.
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In the end, it'll sort itself out.
What is their position on nuclear? I don't see anywhere were there's a plan to replace Oil + Gas + Coal (renewables atm will not come close!).

James Hansen has the carbon dividend / tax.[0] This is the only thing that will work imo.

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My personal problem with removing "violence inherent in the system" of bosses/bossing is that all organizations need a way to fire people or they become overrun with parasites. And if we know we know "0 people who can fire you" doesn't work that only leads to systems where the number of people who can fire you is >=1. And I'd much prefer to have one person I need to make happy than n.

The other issue is it's great when responsibility and power align. I've worked on too many projects that failed because someone who wasn't directly responsible for the success or failure of the application had input and decision making authority.
Germany is phasing out of nuclear, only 7 plants left. They use solar and wind energy, combined with coal.

They can't produce enough with solar and wind so they have to keep burning coal which produces even more CO2.
You can run an AC inside the building, you just need to exhaust the heat out, which can be done through a window. Do an image search for "portable air conditioner window vent" and you'll see some examples.
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Do you have any links on how the batteries are more than complex than a bundle of li-ion cells? Is the complexity in the systems to monitor voltage, temp, resistance and such of each cell and distribute load or outright fuse off weakened cells?

I don't doubt you, but I would love to learn more.
In which case you can just wait until there are less transactions waiting to be confirmed, driving the price up (it's a renewal, so you have plenty of time to complete it).
They even built a copy of the White House ??
This is obviously not true. There are certainly people that are skeptical and do not have their identities attached to "denialism."
To me the most voiced people in Hacker News represent a strange mix of logic (engineering) and delusion (group think regarding the climate change). Yes, you can count me as a denialist.
We kind of need fewer consumption if we want to get anywhere near carbon neutrality. We don't have time to invent the future technology that will enable us to replace petrol everywhere. Hell, if that technology was invented already, we don't have enough time to replace our cars anyway. And even if we did, it would emit too much greenhouse gas just to manufacture all the new electric cars.
So yeah, in my humble opinion the only solution in the time that we have is, less cars, planes, boats...
A privacy policy would help me trust you a bit more.

Good hack!_
Cost of living is cheaper, so you'll just accept less money and let the company keep it?

You shouldn't determine how much you charge by how much you need to survive, but charge instead by how much the company can afford to pay, or how much they're going to make (harder to determine the latter).

After all, the company doesn't price its products by how much it needs to stay solvent, it prices them by how much they can get people to pay.
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He was saying that in self-mockery, something hn knows nothing about apparently /s
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No pictures of the working space?
But before we can exam the algorithms on an iphone we need to understand the hardware, and cutting it open and looking at the structure is definitely a step on that path.
Write access, in my opinion, is where you have enough control to remotely override life critical or physical control systems that could cause death and/or significant physical damage to infrastructure and related failsafe systems can be bypassed or their thresholds exceeded intentionally.

An Internet rando should not have the ability to disconnect your 700kva interconnect over the public internet. If you breach Tesla and can command enough vehicles to charge in a constrained area to overload local distributed infrastructure, failsafes should kick in and physically segregate loads from the local grid.

Disclaimer: This is only my opinion as an infosec practitioner having done some infosec/GRC consulting for investor owed and coop utilities for FERC compliance.
You don't know what the keys are up front because each library is an independent module. Of course, you could just use Any type, but then you're not doing static typing.
There's two issues right?

1. Inability to estimate effort. Admittedly an academic issue, and should be taught to all engineers in college.

2. Inability of management to deal with delays due to bad estimation. This might be caused by a "bozo explosion", say, (where inept managers hire more inept people underneath them.)

Edited to add:

3. Why do we keep making assumptions that management must be infallible? In any dysfunctional organization, it might just take one bad manager high up in the chain that causes pain for the entire organization beneath him.
Actually yes - climate breakdown is just one of literally thousands of causes of ecosystem collapse. It's the most dramatic, and in many cases (eg. the Great Barrier Reef) it's the coup de grace, but it's 'economic growth' per se that is incompatible with the continued existence of planetary life. Theoretically if human technology could approach the level of sophistication of complex evolved systems (biomimicry) we might achieve a truly circular economy, but that's a long way off. For now, economic growth just physically is the dismantling of ecosystems, and these systems are reaching the limits of their capacity to absorb insults.

So, yes, some combination of reduced consumption and/or population will be necessary even if this one issue of climate change is successfully tackled in time (distinctly doubtful at this stage).