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Cars are transportation appliances. If they weren’t, the most popular cars wouldn’t be Toyota Highlander or Toyota Camry-style vehicles.

“Drivers cars” are already rarities. Look at yearly sales figures for something like the Mazda Miata. Look at the overall sales numbers for manual transmission vehicles. They are not increasing and non-SUV vehicles are dying out (see Ford and GM).

Cars are an expensive, depreciating liability. That’s why buying a fun car makes no sense from a financial perspective. An SUV is essentially the type of car that is least likely to be unusable for a particular task, which is why (now that the gas mileage is acceptable) it is the most popular form of vehicle.

If I buy a Miata or even a Camry, one trip to the Home Depot can leave me wishing I bought a big, slow-ish SUV.

This is a long-winded way of saying that the majority of the public won’t miss internal combustion engines. Electric cars are quiet and require less maintenance by far. Battery technology and pricing doesn’t have far to go before buying a gas car makes no sense.

There will always be enthusiast cars of some kind, for the foreseeable future, but most people have no business buying them. In my view, any emotional attachment to them has been curated over decades by car advertisements. Sure, feeling some G-forces and the wind in your hair is fun, but I can do that at an amusement park for far less money, too.
This is aimed at solving one of several problems people without bank accounts have. So let's just figure out why people don't have bank accounts and account for that:

> People who are unbanked often cite distrust of the banking system, lack of access to government-issued ID, or inability to maintain a minimum balance as reasons they don’t have bank accounts.

Seems easy enough to me. Make government-issued IDs free, make account minimums illegal for FDIC insured banks, and if you don't trust banks, you have nobody to blame but yourself (plus, if you don't trust banks, why would you trust gvmt-venmo?). These fixes would also address a lot of other problems (voter ID issues, other negatives of not having a bank account)
Because trusted media entities will get to try them out and deliver judgement that may (or may not) encourage people to take the plunge and try a test drive.

I don't think it's rocket scienc.. oh, wait, Musk's got feet in both fields there.
The largest private companies in the world (e.g., Yahoo, Facebook, Equifax, Target) can barely keep user data private, leading to massive data breaches. It would be a shame if people's private information were to be compromised with essentially zero recourse.
I counter with an interview with many actual game developers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TSB5YQqDiY

"Unionization, Steady Careers, and Generations of Games Culture" by Super Bunnyhop

03:15 Game Workers Unite: Who, what, why?
14:11 Anonymous on the disposability of QA staffers
18:11 Testimonies on crunch
24:01 History of unionization in Hollywood
33:39 The potential downsides of unionization
37:39 Ageism vs. future generations
It's a similar experience on foot. One of my favorite local hangouts is in Wrigleyville. I almost never go there, because I won't go anywhere near Wrigleyville during baseball season, and in winter I'm in cocoon mode. That said, baseball season has enough game days to actually fuel a business.

Soldier Field is vaguely easier. It's still right in the middle of the city, but, being in a park, and not too far from the highway, game days don't really pose a challenge except when I've lost my mind and decided to drive to the aquarium instead of taking the train. On the other hand, I bet it's really awful for anyone whose regular routine forces them to use Lake Shore Drive or the spaghetti bowl.
"Although it is often accepted by the general medical community as being untouchable, the concept of herd immunity, the foundational premise of compulsory vaccinations, is highly suspect."

No. Denying herd immunity denies observed fact, and mathematics. The "evidence" given against herd immunity is "discussions" with other anti-vax/pro-death doctors.
Been an early tester and really enjoy the slick UI and ease of use. Best part was the ease of mind when editing offline - didn't have to worry about my notes getting lost or corrupted (I'm scarred from so many bad experiences with Google Keep)!
Is this actually true, or just tech hubris?

It took Tesla 5 years to essentially just swap the powertrain + rebadge a Lotus Elise, another 5 and millions in investment before their first in house design.
If humans has the same capacity for thought 100,000 years go as they have now, why didn't "modern civilization" develop earlier? Or rather, why didn't the catalysts for civilization: agriculture, language, writing, etc... happen earlier?
> payments is critical infrastructure, like roads or social security, that needs to be publicly owned and operated

So if one day Bitcoin becomes the norm, do you believe it has be handled by the government? If you think so, how do you think the government will be able to enforce that?
"no barriers to the industry"

lol
Developing a policy regime to support the free flow of data
So, in your opinion, WINE is an illegal software product, and Microsoft should sue them into oblivion. And IBM should sue everybody else for copying the BIOS interface. And Amazon should sue Oracle for implementing the AWS APIs.

If you believe that Oracle deserves to win this case, those are requisite outcomes of the case, because Oracle's legal contention is that merely providing an independent implementation of the API is copyright infringement.
While I hear what you're saying, I think YMMV with Thunderbolt as a hard requirement.

When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago, I made sure that it had TB3 for future-proofing, but I have yet to use it, and I suspect that I'll never use it over the course of the laptop's lifetime (and I have a tendency to keep my laptops in use for a long time).

I think having USB-C is good enough for the majority of "normal" users, although I can appreciate that TB is probably a must have for some power users.
If you take away profits from banks for processing your transactions it is called socialism?

Half trolling.

Single Euro Payment Area wire transfers are always free, by the law.

Naturally banks need to make profit, but it is prices little bit more transparently as monthly fees.
Ah, fair point. As I'm not hard of hearing I don't think about those technologies much.

However as an "regular person", I would like to be able to hear the audio announcements on the local train system (BART). The trains tends to be extremely loud so in-ear/ANC headphones are almost required for ear protection. ANC + Movie/Music = No idea what is going on or why.
Plug for this book when stepping beyond syntax (I'm just a satisfied reader):

https://pragprog.com/book/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-wit...

It was hugely helpful to me in wrapping my head around something bigger than hello world.
Apple had ample of experience with electronic/handheld devices... A car and a phone is an impossible comparison, best exemplified by the fact that Apple also tried and failed in this field.
Well said, thanks for your contribution.
One of the greatest values in suffering (imho) is illustrated by that Mother Theresa story.

Basically, in suffering yourself, you finally relate to what other people are going through, instead of dismissing their complaints as mutterings of inferior people.

And then maybe you will care to make a difference, if it's not too late.
it's a dual core board. you run c++ /mbedos on the CM4 for your mission critical software then you can use the m7 for high level languages / tensorflow. you can even RPC between cores
That's a good point, I'll see if I can get some current benchmarks.
If it can't afford to provide for its employees, why should a small company exist?
What's the point if they can't deliver a pizza cheaper (or significantly better) than all of the places with restaurants and hand made pizzas?
I'm completely opposite. I can't use Chrome once my tabs shrink down to this: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

With Firefox no matter how many tabs I have open, they all remain usable. There's also "% name" keyword search in address bar that finds open tabs, and check out Tree Style Tabs extension.
100%. Usually it's not even clear to me why traffic is so bad... I just have a mental heatmap of averaged-out traffic shittiness and I stay away from the hot spots. Nothing has gotten better in the 15 years I've lived here, and basically everything has gotten worse, so I don't have much incentive to give the worst areas a second chance.

It means a lot of my city (Seattle) is off limits unless I'm really "going out" and not just going out for a bite or whatever.
The problem is that extracting more than you need is what ruined /dev/random for everyone.
STMCubeIDE integrates pin routing, debugging, and writing of code all into one nicely packaged solution. If the goal is to write and debug Arduino code, the Arduino API could be integrated into your Cube project while also reaping the benefits of Cube.
I wonder what the difference between having an NFL stadium and having a MLB stadium is. MLB plays multiple games a week during a large part of the year, which might provide a more steady bump in traffic instead of occasional tsunamis of people.
AES may be fine, but what about the block cipher modes?
Ideally there would be regulation that drastically limits the blast radius of such incidents. In a perfect world, these companies would not be allowed to hold on to private information and would simply operate as zero-knowledge networks in the same way that Internet carriers do (in theory at least).
Faster Than Amazon: Deep Inside an Underground Robotic Grocery Store
Call it whatever you want, I don't care. It's working and improving year over year.
Build (or buy) a product for a niche. I sell plugins for Jira / Confluence and whatnot. Makes a lot more than 2k a month.
HQ2 ended up in virginia- they added 1500 employees to an existing office in NYC but backed out of the 25,000 they had planned for a different office.

They claim that the decision was logistics rather than politics, but I don't know anyone who believes that the decision had anything to do with anything other than the loss of subsidies and bad publicity drummed up by local politicians.
It's pretty fun, and I like the interactive aspect as well.
Luckily he won't be elected and shouldn't if he really thinks AI (in its current form) will solve these problems.
> You mention "trying" for management. If you haven't previously managed people, then you probably won't be able to get a good SDM role directly.

This is very true. No company I’ve interviewed with so far was willing to hire a manager who hasn’t previously managed people.

> Instead, your best path would be to be hired as an SDE, demonstrate strong managerial bones

I’ve tried this strategy a number of times and I wish it was that straightforward. Usually, even internal management roles are set aside for people who have already managed people before. So, you’ll take the time to be an outstanding IC, develop credibility with the team and good communication skills, focus on process building... then finally the workload grows to the point where you need more than yourself and you think “now is my chance!” You go to your manager and propose to hire a few people under you and SURPRISE he already hired an experienced manager who will have three reports including you! Bummer!
2. We are a team of 10 from Berlin :)
Has it not evolved at all in any implementation, particularly gnupg?
>Beginner friendly doesn't mean that the other requirements disappear.

Beginner friendly includes price. If you have the other requirements, it's going to cost much more. Doesn't matter if it's beginner friendly if a development board costs $5k.
Welcome to Apple
Forest Fires and Percolation
As the saying goes, "please Lord, save me from your people"!
So should we do that, as well as keep finding new algorithms?
thinking of DNA as some kind of abstract turing tape is wildly misleading, here's a graphic that summarizes some of the ways DNA is conformed/stored/managed in the cell.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Chromati...

each of these have huge implications for what can be done with the DNA

there's tons more information that's attached to the strands of DNA, too, like methylation or promoters, etc. that the simple ATGC doesn't cover at all

if we want to stretch the turing tape metaphor, it's more like marking the symbols as various kinds of magnets on a string, then putting a bunch of them in a sack and shaking them up. does that change the amount of information?

if you're interested, you really can just pick up an intro bio textbook, skim it, then do an intro genetics text (and skip the classical genetics crap).
I use Elixir about 30% of my time at work. I feel like 75% of my code/architectural sense comes from studying how the Elixir community does things - the quality of discussion in the forums and issue trackers is amazing and generally packages feel quite comprehensible. It's a breath of fresh air and clarity after React Native and Rails - there are a lot more resources for those two, but I find myself doing a lot more digging through noise.

Learned on the job, I get a little recruiter email about Elixir specifically but there are definitely less companies that use it. There's reasonable chance I'll end up in Go or Clojure for my next position but even if I were to never use Elixir again the learning will have been worth it.
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Refresh the page, make your chart, close formatting options and wait for 5-10 seconds. The button should appear.

Typing that out made me think I might have made a mistake by hiding print functionality too far. I just didn't want to be too aggressive showing this option
I don't think this is how it will work. Broadcasting won't immediately interrupt others' connections.
Is there anything that you are really into? A hobby you like to read about, talk about, and follow?
So, if the random system hasn't been properly seeded, you do need to block, if you're using the random for security; especially for long term security, ex long lived keys.

The problem is, before this patch, Linux keeps track of an entropy estimate for /dev/random, and if the estimate gets too low, read requests will block. Each read reduces the estimate significantly, so something that does a lot of reads makes it hard for other programs to do any reads in a reasonable amount of time.

If you knew the system was seeded, you could use urandom instead, but there's not a great way to know. Perhaps, you could read from random the first time, and urandom for future requests in the same process... but that only helps in long running processes; also reading once from random and using it as a seed to an in-process secure random generator works almost as well. The getrandom() syscall is really the way forward, but you would need to keep old logic conditionally or accept loss of compatibility with older releases.

In summary, it's not really fair to say GnuPG is doing it wrong, when they didn't have a way to do it right.
That study is extremely misunderstood and frankly the idea that money isn’t correlated to happiness after some moderate income level (e.g. 75k) is flat out not supported by evidence.

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815813/orange-is-the-new-blac...
I'm mostly against subsidizing sports venues with public money...

That said, you make a mostly valid point, except for one major consideration: most arenas have dozens of smaller events throughout the year: boat shows, rodeos, high school championships, concerts, etc.

If he's not drawing in appropriate sized crowds for those events, then it might just be his restaurant is viewed as a novelty or one of last resort.

Business owners love to explain how there's nothing wrong with their business model, it's the the externalities or market that's wrong.

It can be true, but often it's just self-denial.
More detailed comments below, but in short:
- lower power consumption (that you can control)
- different environmental tolerances
- peripherals with hardware support

Looks like this has a integrated Li-Po charger which should mean you can have a UPS like battery backup.

Folks may use this as a development platform that eventually gets a custom PCB made for the end product. ( it's open hardware so it has all the schematics https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino-PortentaH7-schemat... )

It's really just different features for different needs.
That doesn't seem like a valid analogy unless an S-class Benz is 10x cheaper than the Elantra?
Maximize your happiness while minimizing the suffering you cause. You will cause suffering, even if unintentional, this is the human condition. “Mindful hedonism” if you will.

Life has many chapters. Celebrate the joy, happiness, and success there was, mourn your losses and failures, then move on. This too shall pass.
As do coal miners.
I'm going to disagree. Yes, the biggest perpetrators aged. But in my experience it became more "50 is the new 40" than it went away.
> Standardizing crediting would be one close to my heart.

Oh hell yeah.

I did 3+ years on a title, nearly killing myself to ship it. When I realized that doing that much OT was doing to my personal relationships, health and sanity I left with a generous transition ~8mo before ship(including tossing 2.5mo of PTO because they didn't have to pay it out and I could never take it).

Listed under "special thanks" as well, it would have cost them nothing to do proper crediting but instead a giant middle finger for "betraying" the company.

There's so many aspects of that industry that are messed up, I heard similar stories across the board form co-workers at the places they had worked at. Since everyone had gone through the hazing process it was a self-perpetuating cycle that didn't stop.
Always amusing to see the vote suddenly plummet in a vary narrow window of time. Don't let anyone tell you HN doesn't have Reddit-style vote brigading. People get angry when you touch their institutions.
Your soul source of income is from a 10 acre farm?
I think the biggest advantage is that it's a lot harder to screw up using a select statement than most equivalent API's you'd create in other languages that allow waiting on one of N channels/signals/channel/event operations, and branching based off that.

Simply because you're either constructing a bunch of callback objects or you get some number N saying the Nth parameter had an event, and your code has to match N to the specific channel correctly.
Useful original thought is extremely rare. There had to be a very long accumulation of knowledge passed down through generations before a critical mass built up.
Agriculture is a bad deal compared to hunting and gathering. Early agricultural societies had worse health and had harder lives than contemporary hunter gatherers. My hunch is that we spend a lot of time at local maximums until an outside force motivates us to go through a period of being worse off before becoming better off (after the negatives have been addressed and the positives refined).
Regarding CPS: I think that expecting users to write queries in CPS is going to be very limiting. It's missing a big opportunity to use simple funcall and/or pipeline syntax, with which many more users are familiar. Even among Lispers, CPS isn't that popular. But Lisp, in general, could make jq-like syntax much more regular and usable.
I found in cases like this increasing the height scale produces more appealing results :)
I've been using it professionally for a little over two years as well. At a basic level, it's doing basic API / CRUD pages but, combined with the Phoenix framework, it feels like my time is much more effective (maybe 10% boilerplate, 90% business logic).

On a more advanced level, it also drives websocket communication for our web app, making two-way communication both simple and fast. We also take advantage of its multi-process facilities to drive long running tasks (cron jobs, long-running HTTP requests to slow services, data batching and analysis...) all within the same tool.

It's paid dividends distilling what would otherwise be a complex setup of various tools, each with their own communication interfaces and failure modes, into one simpler system.

Elixir is not "general purpose" like C, Python, or Rust might be, but it doesn't pretend to be. But for writing maintainable, robust, distributed and fault-tolerant systems that do networking, I love it.
> However, the report failed to account for "micro" details that can have a major impact on local business, like traffic congestion, entertainment capacity, etc. On game days, his restaurant is overcrowded and turning away patrons, which negatively impacts his staff and quality of experience. But there are only 15 or so games per year, and the off-season attractions are hit-or-miss in terms of attendance. And when nothing is going on, business is even more varied.

It all depends on the project. Lots of sports arenas are put near business districts that generate a lot of restaurant traffic during weekday lunch but less on the weekends and evenings.

In turn, a sporting arena can fill in those times, both with the big games and with other events.

> But there are only 15 or so games per year

I think you're talking about football, where you can expect 8 games per year at home plus some pre-season, possibly post-season, exhibition, etc. This is unusual, though-- baseball plays 81 games per year at home, basketball plays 41, hockey plays 41, soccer plays 17-- plus preseason, postseason, and exhibition.
Where can I find more about LC3 codec? What about LE audio specs? Is this open source or do they sell licenses for this?
I hate these questions because it honestly puts me off when I think about my future. It makes me scared of being old. 43 isn't even that old (isn't retiring age 65...?) and you seem to be confused what your profession is. I don't want to be in that position.

If you're 43, you should know what you want to do. If you want to code, go for a senior/principal programming lead position. If you want to manage, go for a managerial position. You're asking a question a 20 yr old should be asking which makes me extremely worried what the future has in store for me. I hope that when I turn 40 in 2029, I could still do what I love (which happens to be in programming), and not have to fret if I need to change professions or not...this is the way.

*Edit, I hope I don't sound like a jerk, but this is really what I feel. I hope when millennials like me start to hit 40, we can change the tech industry's age distribution and we no longer have to worry about problems like this.
Link to the GnuPG commit:

https://dev.gnupg.org/rGedc36f59fcfc
6. All users can use Anytype for free if they use their own resources. The first monetisation would be an option to buy backup of data - unlike in cloud solutions, Anytype will not have access to data there as well.
Why should it have? Progress is always incremental. Even before civilization there were minute steps towards organization from just pure hunter-gatherer days.

Just because the neolithic period started 12-15k years ago doesn't mean somebody woke up one day with a modern brain smart enough to plant things.
One thing I find strange is how much we emphasize the artificial nature of the intelligence. AI and automation always occurs in the context of human processes. Nothing is truly autonomous, so why design it as if human involvement is a failure? We can easily design artifacts to enhance human intelligence or team intelligence. Why the focus on the machine part and not the overall system that functionally accomplishes the desired work?
Why not let consumers decide on what's better for them?

What does centralized (and politicized) regulation do better than then free market?