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I've found it a hell of a lot harder to actually enjoy time with my kids since we went past one. It's frustrating because I'm not getting alone-time or doing exactly what I want to, as one without any kids might, but I'm also not getting to deeply, mindfully enjoy a very high percentage of time spent with my kids, as I could so easily when we just had one. All it took then was an occasional gentle reminder to myself to stay present. Now... man, it'd take some next-level Zen shit to achieve that with three kids on any kind of regular basis. Even two was a pretty big hit to that kind of quality time. It's achievable with some planning and luck now, basically, when it was just natural and almost constant before.

For me, I think that frustration's the source of my "oh god just drop me on a deserted island with some books and leave me" fantasies. I'd rather be around my kids and enjoying high-quality parent-kid time because it actually is pretty great, but that's so rarely and unpredictably available that the loner route becomes more appealing.
I spend lots of my time at a whiteboard diagramming current or proposed systems. The whiteboard experience is less than ideal: my handwriting isn't great, folks on the other side of a VC can't see, etc. Most diagramming software is designed for careful human placement to get precise results. I built Architype to let me take notes and play with system designs in real time during a conversation, in a way that can be easily projected. It's designed to be entirely client-side and fast, but still powerful enough to produce useful diagrams for most purposes.
I’m completely at a loss for understanding electric scooters in a city like San Francisco (reminder for those who aren’t familiar: wildly hilly!).

I tried one of the scooters when they first hit the streets here and it promptly gave up the second I tried going up even a moderate hill. So I guess they’re great if you happen to need to go on a totally non-hilly route in one of the hilliest metro areas on earth?

I am, btw, otherwise a massive alternative-transportation fan. The e-assist bikes (Uber/Jump in particular) are life-changing. Enough of an electric kick to keep you from breaking a sweat, but you’re still moving your body and getting some cardio (even if a small amount), and if you need to go over a hill (likely), you can put a bit of muscle into it and actually make it to the top.
It's tough. Our laws are stricter than many other countries. But the vast majority of people I know or have interacted with just don't think it's a big deal. The whole "I have nothing to hide" perspective. Maybe it's an age thing. I don't know. I'll point out some creepy privacy violation and I usually get a "So?"
Bird needs to get serious about docking stations - seeing them littered everywhere in San Diego was depressing. Think this through @bird
The weird thing about fixed price grid attachment is that it encourages people to disconnect from the grid and to not install local solar to begin with.

If you pay a fixed price for the grid then your price per kWh goes down and it makes less sense to put solar panels on your roof because they need to beat the lower price per kWh unless you can get entirely off the grid.

But then you do have the incentive to get entirely off the grid if you can, because it gets you out of the grid attachment fee. So it justifies more in the way of batteries to avoid that cost.

In other words, it makes solar + grid attachment unprofitable, so your viable options become full grid or full independence. Then depending on which one has lower costs at scale, it either ends rooftop solar or ends the power grid.

And that could go either way. The power grid has economies of scale, but it also has transmission costs that don't exist for local generation, so which one wins?
Right, so we fork.
> Why do you think so? There will be often enough stopped cars on the road to cause issues, or cement barriers, construction sites.

Yes, but it's one big thing. Fixing one big thing, usually, is much easier than fixing thousands of little things. My point wasn't that it's not important, it's that it's not the biggest problem, even though the (mostly uninformed) media and keyboard warriors are making it out to be, which is distracting from the actual issues.

> IMO true self driving(without a human driver) will need more powerful hardware so no safety compromising shortcuts/optimizations are done(not even 1)

Hardware 3 has only just been released and is apparently at least 10x more powerful. Give it a chance for the next couple months, anything is possible and we have to wait and see.
This is Hacker News. We all know this. That's not the point. The point is: is it reasonable in 2019 that websites you visit can make requests to devices on your local network?
To be honest I'm not sure. But I sure think it's a relevant discussion to have.
Speaking as an American who speaks a handful of languages, very few Americans achieve any proficiency with foreign languages based on school from public school classes. Indeed I'm willing to take to zero those that don't have an active speaking component (most).
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> What more does HN want?

Ease of use? Convenience? Perhaps fairness?

People seem to have an inmate strong reaction to apparent unfairness and hipocrasy
let me know if that actually works in practice
If you knew to set up a contract like this, would you really need to avoid having lots of money while young?
Great article.

There are legitimate reasons to open a webserver locally. However, the benefits from these restrictions are great not to consider some sort of protection. Perhaps there could be an authorization request the user could allow (similar to how we got rid of the pop-ups) in the most natural way possible (we don't want to break intranets, for example).

Another security-related bad pattern that annoys me is how some of this authorization stuff steal your focus making it impossible for you to ignore them (like, you cannot move to another tab before deciding to allow or not something).

Another thing is how sometimes it is not completely clear if something is an element of a website or your browser or system. For example, imagine you have to type your user password for a random update to complete, but you are browsing some website... Suddenly you see a prompt with your username and a password field matching your system's... However, you can only know for sure this isn't phishing if you try to cmd+tab and it is still there. Heck, the system should try to detect you are on a window showing unsigned/unsafe content and paint something out of the frame (like coming from the top address bar) so you can easily identify it's legit (because a website shouldn't be able to print a portion of your screen outside of 'window').
They're also much simpler and the system behind payment solution didn't changed that much in the last 10 years.
New Jersey. There's a long running joke that it's an interference point for the Mob.
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physical reality seems fairly good at optimising for local energy-minimal solutions

another stupid perspective: think of how many clever algorithms and how much computational hardware would be necessary to simulate a small rock from a QM level up. now, what if there was a bespoke piece of super-custom application-specific technology that could efficiently simulate that small rock? there is: it's the rock itself.
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There may well be a limited supply of penthouse apartments in specific neighbourhoods.

But the general housing crisis reflects a reality in which basic housing needs for a large portion of the population are either entirely unmet, or are intrinsically perilous, with risk of housing loss at any time high.

Your colourful hypo entirely fails to address that point.

I recommend again On the Media's excellent series on housing, "Scarlet E":

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/scarlet-e-unmasking...
It was a time bomb to disable functionality after a certain date and should never have been there in the first place. The decision to silently disable the override in about:config is just more evidence of how sick this it. This is not software empowering the user. This is software assuming the user is a moron who may break it.
I can think of some reasons that a UBI would not be a panacea here. Firstly, in many cases the younger generation has left their hometown for the big city, but the parents are left behind. Even if they got an UBI, few people are going to want to move back to the “middle of nowhere” to take care of their parents.

Secondly, it is now often observed that parents and children, in spite of living under the same roof, are interacting less because the parents are staring at their devices, and children get devices, too. Even if people have the time and money to take care of their parents, do they have the interest in socializing?
I find it amusing that the first thing I saw on that page was a graphic asking me to accept cookies (I'm assuming tracking cookies)
Well, the prizes for new panels are still falling. And the cost of moving them might be too high..

But even used solar panels will be in demand.
And I was delighted to discover that Phoenix, which happened to be my first ever email server, ended up here: http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/

Along with lots of other cool things including possibly the first Sun workstation. Worth a visit.
The short answer is yes. I assume you've noticed yourself walking and talking from time to time; or standing up while looking around.
It's not down now and the incident lasted only minutes? I wonder if "[website] is down" has become such a meme that every interruption in service is front page news, akin to how the media will suddenly start reporting every similar crime after one that catches the public's imagination.
Not to mention the cascading downstream (no pun intended) effects like Orcas starving to death.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/hunger...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/orca-sta...
When you sign software with certificates that can expire, you run into the problem that software can stop working with no change on the user's end whatsoever. And of course, the shorter the expiry on code-signing certificates, the worse this problem becomes.

The solution for systems like Java and Authenticode is for Certificate Authorities to also offer a 'Trusted Timestamping' service, which certifies that the software existed at a time when the code-signing certificate was valid.

In Java's case, as the CA providing the timestamp is already trusted issue code-signing certificates with arbitrary dates, this doesn't add any new trusted parties.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421490
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I remember when they launched and were plagued with downtime. The platform has matured in magnificent ways. Looks like they only had five minutes of downtime with this outage.
I'm not commenting on the merit of government regulation of tech companies. I'm simply pointing out that even Mark Zuckerberg does not have absolute power.
Some how I missed the word “hat” there and had to reread that a few times... was trying to figure out why a couple of dodgy apps had escalated into a race war haha
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Seriously! I'm an old time R/C enthusiast who romps frequently and still buys a toy here and there. I got out of R/C for a little bit so the last pack I bought was a 4,200mah 7.4 volt LiPo from a tiny mom+pop manufacturer. The pack is well taken care of and probably 7 or 8 years old. It's time for a new one.

I just looked up a replacement battery by the same manufacturer and their 7.4v LiPo's are up to 22,000 mah! That's almost 525% bigger than my last pack! That kind of capacity was only a dream back then, and 20 years ago when NiMH was the only game in town we were racing 30mph with 3,300!

I thought it was a typo. But other manufacturers are offering similar products.
The brain has different parts and many layers that largely work independently in a functional programming kind of way.
What the homeless activists don’t get is that 95% of most people who complain about “homeless” are talking about the visible homeless aka the crazy ones with mental/drug problems.

When these activists start shaming you about not caring about the “hidden homeless” it is actually turning more people to be even more apathetic.

My conspiracy theory is that the homeless activists secretly need (and promote!) the visible homeless in order to push their agenda for more housing for the “hidden homeless”. Since if the visible homeless are gone, then 95% of most people would be super apathetic to the “hidden homeless” cuz out of sight and out of mind.
Misrepresentation of facts corrodes discourse.
How do you differentiate between a valid and invalid request to localhost / the LAN?

Lots of websites will link to something like `http://localhost:9200` (e.g. Elasticsearch) in the documentation.

So you decide to make it impossible to load that page in the context of a page loaded from a public IP address. Great.

What is stopping them from tricking you into clicking it (or filling out a fake form), which is basically the same thing?

You haven't really solved the problem. You've just made it slightly more difficult.

The solution is:

a) fix your applications so that they do not expose unsafe endpoints that can cause unintended side-effects merely by navigating to them

b) stop using session cookies (at least stop using them alone) to authenticate actions. Use token-based authentication (like CSRF tokens)

Edit: and before you say "check the referer header!", no, that will not solve the problem. The bad web page can simply not include the referer with something like `rel="noreferrer"`
MN has been a big proponent & has several. IL just passed a energy jobs act & looks to have a few being built. ND is about to build their first one to supply electricity to MN I believe.

There are studies on mix use farmland & solar. Some crops work well. Also in some scenarios it seems as if solar farms are becoming more profitable than crops.
We have already cracked solar and battery tech. Coal is dying. Nuclear appears to be near dying as well. This has happened in the past three years or so.
On the margins of downtown, where the sidewalks are narrow enough, I've seen the sidewalk blocked by a fallen scooter, because pedestrians are only allotted a tiny strip of concrete between the roads and the parking lots. But you don't see people with physical disabilities trying to navigate those neighborhoods on the sidewalk anyway. Want to make those areas more accessible? Reclaim some space from cars. Provide an array of attractive alternatives that induce more people to get around without driving, and then you can have reasonably sized sidewalks.

Downtown, where pedestrians are more than an afterthought, I see people with physical disabilities using the sidewalks every day. (There's a homeless shelter not far away.) I don't see them having problems with scooters. There's plenty of space.

Honestly, I don't see many fallen scooters at all downtown. Considering how easily they fall over from being jostled (which should improve in future models) I suspect a lot of people care enough to take a second to put a fallen scooter upright. When you think about all the ways people can be shitty with scooters, you have to factor in that people can be pretty nice, too.

Of course people aren't always considerate. In my own neighborhood, sometimes people block the sidewalk with their cars when they don't pull forward far enough forward in their driveways, forcing people in wheelchairs to go into the street. That hasn't caused the world to end, and neither will scooters.
This is my understanding too, but judging from the comments in this thread, either a lot of developers aren't clear on the difference between CORS and CSRF or else they're referring to aspects of CORS I'm not familiar with.
Reminds me of this post discussed on HN a couple months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20028108
ASU and Mesa Community College both use solar panel installs as covered parking areas; Fry's Marketplace over at Bell and I-17 has their parking lot under a solar panel shade structure, too.

So the idea is already there and makes sense; it's just a matter of time for it to be adopted on the consumer home market I suppose.

Now - if they would just manufacture homes to also suit the climate, and/or position them to stay cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, etc.

Had the dome style of home taken off, especially here in Phoenix, things would be much better, because the roof wouldn't get nearly as much sun hitting it directly as standard ranch-style homes and others currently do. Monolithic dome construction, coupled with a mostly below-grade first floor, would do wonders for heating and cooling (I know of a house almost like that up in the New River area). Add in a solar chimney with evap cooling (Boyce Thompson Arboretum used to have a demo system like this), and you'd limit AC/heatpump usage to probably 1-2 months a year.

I wish I had the money to build such a home on a decent size plot of land somewhere, but I doubt I ever will.
Juniper doesn't. There is no password on the device when you power it on.

When you get a new device, in order to save your initial configuration on it, you have to set a password.

Cisco used to ship with zero config on their devices and part of the setup process was setting a password as well.
This comes up way more often than we imagine.

I found a malware on a JavaScript errors notifications for Chrome in 2015 that affected 86k users and the developer was mad because apparently he made some money out of it (I was called a paranoyd).

The malware basically logged your accessed URLs and solt it to a statistics service called Fairshare.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309432
It helps that our brains and bodies are analog. It doesn't matter if a particular variable is changed by different factors at the same time. The total magnitude of all the changes is far more important. Thus, lock-free.
Not just the fish are impacted by the dams https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/11/feds-approve-plan-fo...

> The state applied to kill the sea lions “because their analyses showed that the high levels of predation by sea lions meant there was an almost 90% probability that one of the upper Willamette steelhead runs would go extinct,” the wildlife agency said in a statement.
Is there a theoretical limit to (current generation) battery capacity, like there is with solar panel power output?
I'm with you on the first two paragraphs. I lost the plot in the third paragraph. What is the benefit to these homeless activists in perpetuating homelessness?
Since both companies' root cause analysis are currently trending on HN, it's pretty apparent that Stripe's engineering culture has a long ways to go catch up with Cloudflare's.
Agree. Cloudbleed was really, really awful. We should write up all the things we learned from that and all the changes we've made since. Just looking at the number of engineers who are Rust experts since then, for instance.
> .. addressing its chief flaw: It works only when the sun shines.

This never fails to frustrate me. Solar cells / PVC won't work absent sunshine, but solar thermal / CSP produces power for many hours after the sun goes down.
Seattlites are desperate to conflate the housing "crisis" with homelessness, but I'm not convinced the person yelling at the sky and swinging a drain pipe at people in his alley narrowly missed his $5000 mortgage payment. It's unfortunate that people with less means have to live further outside the city and spend more of their commuting, but I don't it's unreasonable to assume that people will make decisions on their own behalf to stay housed rather than just live on the streets if rent is becoming too expensive.
I'm so glad this isn't about how "5G is dangerous zomg".

We're lucky to get this sort of report!

(In case you were looking for an article about the safety of 5G -> https://medium.com/@tomsparks/is-5g-dangerous-405a19e9ea88)
Albania has been run on 100% renewable energy (hydric) for 50+ years now.....
the only thermo-central power plant built, has been uncompleted and in-functional for decades due to the high cost of fuel.

Usually smaller countries that have the resources can pull it off.
(hydric in the case of Albania, as it is 70% mountainous and has a lot of rivers crossing it).

The downside is that is very much rainfall dependent. There are years where it could actually export energy, and there are years that it has to import it to meet demand.

https://i.redd.it/ul78e5rqdvt21.png

For more in Europe:
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/bg6hnz/electricity_...
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Utility scale batteries are not yet a proven and deployed technology. Not to say there aren’t successes - Aliso Canyon and the AEMO installation in Australia have both been very well received by their respective system operators. But there’s a very long way to go before batteries will exist as a viable, general alternative to natural gas peaker plants.
That’s a great point. In spite of technical changes such as Apple Pay/Android Pay, chip cards, and so on, I can never recall an instance when I was unable to use a credit card globally. It seems most failures to running a credit card are pretty localized, too, and never at the interchange level...
Another option would be to electrify the highways so that long-range batteries are rarely needed.
Being a Tesla fan doesn't change facts or my perception.

Also, my previous car, an Opel, did the same thing because of a specific type of line marking messing with the emergency braking system. That was reproducible, but the car doesn't phone home or get updates, so it the same thing happen each time I passed a specific road. At least I know the Tesla will get better.
Agreed, claiming mental illness is due to being born with a "bad brain" is dangerous pseudoscience. Psychiatry/psychology has zero proof that mental illness is due to "bad brains" or any such objective biological cause
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Yeah, but it would be easier to find housing space govt. run shelters if housing space was cheap.
> A 6.6 kW system installed retails at(AUD 2700 /USD 1870)

That sounds too little to pay for a decent quality system which will last 20 years. For decent components, from a reputable supplier you'd be expecting to pay around twice that.

You're also discounting the need to have power after the sun goes down. If you compare roof top to mains, you really need to include the cost of a battery large enough to go off grid, which is at least another $10k, and quite a bit more if you don't want to have any lifestyle changes.

I have a 5.5 kw roof system that I am very happy with, but I won't pretend that it replaces mains power.

I also expect to be keeping mains for a long time yet. I have a desire to make my next car electric. I used to think that the grid would go into a death spiral inches batteries got cheap enough. Now I think electric cars will save it.

I think solar and storage are the future and really want that future now, and I think you do as well. But you do it a disservice by overselling the case.