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> We’re interested in what you’re building, and since many companies are gearing up for the post-pandemic economy I thought ${NAME} would be a good fit for our accelerator.

I´m not sure if it is a scam, but it definitively looks like spam. They have some generic template an a program that replaces the variables.
That "Gadgetbahn" article is great, but I do have one criticism.

From the article: "If the idea is viable and the people behind it are competent, it should have attracted private investment, as there should be a potential to make profit selling the technology. After all, the proposal has been around for 23 years."

High speed rail on a large scale is really something that has to come from the government. While there are small private HSR projects (e.x. Brightline, covering some 60 miles of the Florida coast), the big successes have all been governmental, and that shouldn't be surprising.

The uncomfortable part of HSR, of course, is that no matter how perfect your government is, it's going to involve bulldozing some people's homes, conflicting with other government projects, and interfering with nature. Don't get me wrong, I'm not part of team "screw the law, bulldoze straight lines between cities, people and nature be damned". But there do need to be sacrifices made. And a strong, coordinated government can pass the laws and write the checks to make that happen.

The interesting thing with HSR is that it is not about the technology. The TGV was operating at 300 km/h nearly 50 years ago, and that's the speed that most of the network operates at today. It's not about the safety (the TGV has never had a fatal accident in normal service) or even the cost (the TGV is also profitable!)

It's about the land. A fairly small strip of land in a straight line. My hope is that as people realize this, we'll do what has to be done and tear down a few villages in order to save the planet. But that's politically unpalatable, so instead we have Gadgetbahnen.
What I notice about the Facebook way of doing things is that, especially in their mobile app, they will highlight the most outrageous and flame-worthy comment on any contentious topic. The algorithms, I'm sure, are doing this deliberately, because they prioritize "engagement". They want people pissed off so they'll respond, get into arguments, and see more ads in the process.

Remember the classic XKCD comic "Duty Calls": https://xkcd.com/386/ ? It seems the social media companies have decided that promoting this kind of thing, keeping that guy up all night arguing, makes them more money.
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Take this as a lesson, gents. RIP Moz
> Doesn't that reinforce extremes and encourage enclaves: which is why Reddit end up closing whole communities (the good and bad in those communities).

Nope. It works well on discord.

I can think of few reasons why:

1. The reliance on advertising model pushes them to retain users on their platform for longer and increase engagement in unnatural ways. You can see with how they push you to use the app or throw big subs everywhere.

2. The front-page has limited slots and there is no way to divide the community into smaller parts in itself. On discord, you can do this with channels and roles.

3. There is no voting system and realtime communication is more human like. You can get feedback naturally which you won't on reddit.
> I'm just extrapolating from trends and some cherrypicking. The ongoing elevated rail project in Hawai'i is now running at $500M per mile. Boring Company projects they can get cost of tunneling down to $10M per mile.

Note that you're (or, rather, Elon Musk is) comparing apples and oranges. Tunnels are actually cheap, about $80m / mile. The expensive parts of metro systems is not the tunnels, but the things that go inside them and stations. This is doubly so for the inexcusably high costs of US transport construction. When people talk about the cost of metro systems, the divide the total cost of the expansion (or entire system if it's a new one) by the length of the system, so they include the amortized costs of new vehicles, infrastructure inside the tunnels, and stations (which often cost more than the tunnel to get to them! Station excavation isn't cheap).
s/complain/vote favorably on prop22
Ah, a shower head advertisement guised as an article pushing a guilt agenda based on an appeal to the environment. Lest we forget it’s a shower head advertisement.
>>> but it is also important to consider the amount of time it actually takes to implement either.
>No one has said otherwise and the article even explicitly addresses this.

What do you mean by this? The article might reference it (I don't see any reference to this), but if it does it doesn't actually explore what factors would influence costs and their magnitude.

That's what I'm looking for.
Good point, so maybe that's their motive.
Just out of morbid curiosity... have you actually experienced multiple 'seniors' giving conflicting code review comments about code style (of all things)?

That sounds quite dysfunctional.

(EDIT: Sure, nitpicks may differ, but...)
My experience (and this may be brand or price-point dependent) is the opposite. My Bosch had a couple of failures (that ideally would never happen, of course), but because the parts are fairly standardized and the design is very elegant, I feel like it's one of the last few "owner-repairable" items in the house.

The replacement parts were very reasonable (a fraction of the original cost of the dishwasher), easy and quick to obtain (from a particular retailer which also does very informative non-pushy YouTube videos for reparing/diagnosing problems), the diagnosing was straightforward (like debugging code), and the replacement was manageable (if a little cramped).

There may be a price cut-off where this starts being true, and where it stops being true. My particular dishwasher was ~$1k 10 years ago, has had ~$120 of parts replaced over that period, one of which was cosmetic, and has otherwise worked flawlessly. All in all, I'm very happy with that trade-off.

I just checked, and there are two control boards that could be replaced - each $150.

I'm pretty enamored with the engineering elegance of the dishwasher. Until I opened one up and had to fix something I always thought it would be a lot more complicated than it really is.
Which has done more to prevent Chrome’s complete dominance - Apple or Firefox? Besides, WebKit is open source.

Google could kill Firefox by just not renewing its search contract.
Mozilla hires devs all across the world, many in countries where developers are much cheaper than in the USA.
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>No need for a fragile and hard to hold hinge.

Perhaps you're naive to the Surface design team's experience with hinges but judging from that pedigree it's extremely unlikely they haven't engineered the heck out of it.
That was excellent! I'm always amazed at all the places peak finding crops up.
What about UberPOOL?
What is the economic value of transporting factory output from point to point that fast? You’ll likely have to truck it from there.
I have not found any graph database which is suitable for small apps or for startup which won't scale like crazy, so completely agree on moving to PostgreSQL.

But graph database is all about how complex query or relations are between table or schema and how big are your data in your project.
Sure, I will vote against it. Hopefully it will be the first step in scrapping AB5 entirely.
Ok I’ll bite. I’m sure this person means well. But I have to ask - why are they the authority on what is OK for people to believe, talk about, and propagate? Who owns the truth? Why is this persons views the correct ones? Or even more, what about things that are talked about on the internet, have their groups, that they don’t find problematic but others do. And why are those ok? Because they believe this?

The foundation of Liberalism (I’m not saying left wing here) is that no one owns knowledge. No one has the last day and all opinions can be heard. And mocked relentlessly. And through this we will discover as close to the truth as we can.

Nobody - no group, movement, person, or authority owns the truth. All ideas are fallible. If people use the internet to say the most outrageous things then do be it. The minute someone gets to say “that’s ok to be said and this other thing is not. End of story” we are in trouble. It doesn’t mean someone can’t be raked across the coals for their awful ideas - you need to own it. But anyone or group that gets to determine what is ok and what is not is, in essence, a fundamentalist regime.

We don’t need inquisitors. We don’t need thought police. We do need people willing to say “that’s bullshit and here is why”. If you can prove that generally speaking 2+2=5 then the foundation of arithmetic is broken. But meanwhile I can poke holes in your argument. Until you can prove it better than 2+2=4 then I can judge you for a sophist at best, a dipshit less generously.
By comparison, China builds above ground high speed rail for about $15M/mile.
What phone OS would you suggest they use? I mean they're using the worlds most popular one.
I actually don't get how it works working at a non-profit. Like everyone else I know working in tech, the vast majority of my compensation is in stock. If your company doesn't have stock... what do they do? I guess they don't pay you 4x the base rate to compensation?
Me too. I've seen a few systems that replaced their simple request requiring 10,000 queries "optimized" by requiring 10,000 cache lookups when they should have just added some joins. The bottleneck is the network latency, not the database. The worst I've seen is an nHibernate cache stored in a session variable, half the database was being serialized/deserialized on every http request. Fortunately that was a small database.

Even with in memory caches I've seen systems grind to a halt by death of a thousand cuts, dictionary based entity attribute systems where each attribute is looked up individually. There seems to be a mentality that constant lookup == free lookup and devs don't seem to realize that constant * $bignumber == $biggerNumber. Caching shouldn't be granular.

Obligatory latency numbers every programmer should know: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
Too conveniently, it bans a photo of Virginia governor Ralph Northam. It protects him.

The infamous photo shows him in blackface, with his then-girlfriend beside him in full KKK gear. (and uh, did they just have KKK gear lying around the house???)

It doesn't get covered much in the news. He is being protected because of his party affiliation as a democrat. He is still in office to this day. Imagine if such a photo had been discovered with a republican. It would be headline news for months.
Depends highly on where they are, but Bay Area engineering compensation (salary, bonus, stock) is indeed 200-400k. As others have mentioned, there are other costs such as insurance, 401k, etc, but yeah software engineering salaries are very high and if you want top talent, you need to be competitive with FAANG.
What do you think happens in an apartment? Your rent pays for a gardener, maintenance, and repairs. You still bear all the costs of ownership as a renter. Maintaining your own yard is a small price to pay for having autonomy. My lease says it's $300 out of the security deposit if I merely paint the walls.
This would be great for the Twilight Zone radio broadcasts, as non-native English speakers as me understand better the TV series because of the context and live action.
Don't be silly. I've got a showerhead with a shutoff valve. I turn it on to rinse, turn it off to soap up and scrub.

Yes, we live in a drought-prone area. But I've also realized that trying to soap and scrub yourself while the water is running is self-defeating. You can't work up a decent lather when the suds keep rinsing away.

If you like the "spa effect" of constantly running hot water just for the comfort or the sensual thrill, that's your thing. But if your main goal is to get thoroughly clean, you can do it comfortably with a lot less water.
I had made an account just to post it! It's warming as hell to know it could help give you a workable verbal framework.

This way of thinking isn't (yet?) /always/ something I'm able to just root myself in, down to the autonomic depths of my lizard-brain or whatever, and I definitely still slip into moments or swathes of variations on, "I am in some way fundamentally wrong/insufficient".

So, sure, it's not a panacea that lets you evade depressive troughs completely, BUT it lets you go through those with a supervisory lens that says, "was that thought/attitude/self-perception unambiguously extra-moral? no? then it's not real; it's just a shame narrative; carry on". That's MORE than enough for a shit-ton of cumulative and lasting progress.
Tell HN: Removing “Bluetooth PAN” from Mac OS settings fixed all my pains
It's been months since I have annoying issues with bluetooth devices connected to my Macs. My mouse was sluggish and laggy and my speakers were unreliable and disconnecting randomly. It was an everyday pain that I learned how to live with.

I always though it was the 3rd-party but today I removed the Bluetooth PAN from the Network settings and almost immediately everything was working as new.

PS: I'm reading on some (6 years old) articles that the Bluetooth PAN was causing issues like this. Can't believe how Apple sometimes can be this unreliable, I almost gave up on using my equipment thinking it was faulty.

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For people having same issues, hardware references :

* Mac : Pro 15 (2018) / Air 2020 both on Catalina
* Keyboard : Apple Magic Keyboard
* Mouse : Logitech MX Master 2S
* Speakers : Harman/Kardon Onyx Studio 4
That's kinda the problem with ride-sharing though. Many (most) drivers are driving with multiple apps.
This appears to be a topic that the HN community is unwilling to discuss neutrally.
Do I really need to think hard about my support for basic human freedoms, every single time I see someone write a "well thought out" post about why they want to take them away? Is this kind of tensiment worthy of some kind of "well supported argument"? Will citing the great philosophers of history change any minds here? Do I need to quote S. G. Tallentyre, will her tired catchphrase strike home?

If the article had been about how we don't deserve the right to vote, or the right to free association, because we might vote for the wrong people or hang out with the wrong people, would you react the same way? Those rights are just as important, I believe.

There comes a point at which the feeling is, oh great, here we go, we've found yet another moneyed professional who has decided that because they personally agree with everything the establishment says, does, and wants, there can be no reason why anyone would want to dissent without being immoral and evil and so forth. Time to shut down people's freedom so they stop saying such annoying things, and then we can finally relax, all the problems in society will be gone!

If only we can make sure that only the Ministry of Truth vets every single thing before people say it, then we can make sure that pandemics never happen, that nobody ever gets mad enough to harm someone else, that nobody ever has a bad day ever again. It will be fantastic! It will be like LinkedIn, everywhere! Nobody will have anything negative to say, and so therefore nobody will ever have anything negative to think. Perfect. Can't wait.

Yes, he's a nanny-state toady. Anyone who wants to use the powers of surveillance capitalism to tell me what I can and cannot say and think is precisely that. It's not meant to be a nice thing to day, it's meant to engage you emotionally, because your freedom is being threatened as much as mine is by sentiments like this.

How much of an argument do I need to summon, when generations of my ancestors and those of many, many people in the west fought for these rights as a new pinnacle of human achievement? Do I really need to expend a ton of personal effort explaining to you why I don't think giving corporate HR departments the ultimate arbitrary authority over what is acceptable to say is the proper way to run society? Are you so hoodwinked? Are you a proud, outspoken person who somehow has zero critique of the current social order?
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Tough when the best talent is in that high COL metropolitan area.
Plenty of us here founded companies with eight-figure valuations. Not that uncommon on hacker news.

I did and I’ve never worked-worked more than 30 hours per week except for short bursts at a time. The more critical your work is, the more time you should dedicate to being at your best.

I don’t take any umbrage at your chosen path nor do I disagree that america is a winner take most society. But when most is a bunch of unnecessary consumer faff, maybe enough is better to shoot for.

These days I work 15-20 hours per week. I spend as much time as I want abroad/surfing/screwing around on the internet. I’m 35. I don’t care to fly first class or buy Vuitton. But I do have all my meals and my bed made for me.
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But on the other hand going too far beyond local levels can put a lot of pressure on your hiring process. You might end up with a workforce consisting mostly of experts in appearing very hireable and little else.
In esssence, it is almost exactly like medieval days when most people used to carry some kind of sword or knife on them.

A hatpin is essentially a concealed carry weapon. What's wrong with that? It's a good idea to be armed in public. People are crazy, you should be able to defend yourself from anyone.
This. The point of the style guide, now reaching its best embodiment in clang-format, gofmt, and others, is that you don't want to waste time arguing about, or even considering for a moment the formatting of anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132722
google, facebook and twitter and any free speech platforms are banned, but non-chinese companies can set up manufacturing I think as long as there is part local control (I think I remember 50% for car companies)

Definitely not a level playing field though.
> This submission itself went through HN's 2nd chance queue.

Any reason why this was killed twice?

I vouched again.
I'm getting page not found? Looks like the archive is here: https://archive.org/details/radio
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While this is a familiar Peterson talking point, society has in many ways sublimated our nature for the broader collective good. Addressing the problems of capitalism would be another step in that progress.
They definitely did do this (though arguably not intentionally to spread outrage) and scammers took advantage of it. Scammers spread misinformation that generated controversy to drive revenue to ad farms (and of course Russia leveraged it more for political rather than monetary purposes).

Steven Levy's new book (Facebook: The Inside Story) goes into a lot of detail. One interesting thing was that in 2016 the false stories tended to target pro-trump conservative groups because the lies spread more easily (more willing to just share things that fed into existing cognitive bias). They tried fake lies with the left too, but they tended to be less effective because people would call them out as fake and they'd fizzle out (though I'd suspect today it'd be easy to spread lies feeding into the more extreme aspects of the left too).

Today though they're directly aware of this and FB in particular has a ton of people working on 'integrity' to stop this kind of bad incentive.
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Check out rclone, encrypts file, filename, and file directory (last two are optional).

It’s what freenas uses to back up to backblaze or any s3 bucket. Ive then verified the backups using rclone on ubuntu
The problem is that real world doesn't work like that, you might as well start playing lottery instead.
Hi Justin. I'd be very interested in seeing that custom element! If you're able to work to get that open sourced that would be amazing. (Interested as a user of both litelement and bazel)
> Also, any effort to regulate via law what people are spouting quickly becomes a cure worse than the disease.

China's economy seems to be doing fine, and the population is docile. What else do you think elites care about?

My point is that the "cure" seems to work fine in practice so long as it isn't too onerous. Any restrictions on speech in the US are likely to be limited to volatile social issues (hate speech) and enforced primarily by elites using the private sector.
does that means that we have to throw the baby with the bathwater and just forbid any company from being this big, because they could not possibly add value to the world in general past a certain scale?
> I posit our propensity towards them is not a random fluke of human psyche

I remember when Game of Thrones was in its early seasons. I had read the books so knew what was going go happen. I would sit and watch my friends discuss the show (who hadn't read the books) and I would be positively gleeful knowing that I knew more than them. It was like I possessed secret insider knowledge they all craved.

I suspect people who believe in conspiracy theories feel the same way. They know something others don't. Everyone else is waiting for the script writers; they've already seen the source.

It appeals to our ego and inherent narcissism. And frankly, when you have a people who have been told for decades that they are special and unique, narcissism can be an overrepresented quality
I've been using Kinopio for a few things in the last few weeks. It's a great bit of kit, and for me the excitement of the UI keeps me more interested than traditional mind mapping software.

Pirijan is super responsive on support. Glad to be able to support his project financially!
Google is quickly becoming nothing more than a souped-up Yellowpages for online business.

I’d love to see an “anti-seo search engine” that eschews all results that are oriented around selling a product, but I don’t think it’s feasible to bring back the joy of finding a new online community/forum every day.
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>The ship carrying Francis Cabot Lowell and his family home from England in the summer of 1812 was intercepted by a British war squadron, which held the passengers and crew for some days at the British base at Halifax, Canada. Lowell’s baggage was subject to several intensive searches, for his captors had been warned that he may have stolen designs for power textile weaving machinery, a serious crime in England. Lowell, indeed, had done just that — but, aware of the risk, had committed the designs to memory.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/
That's a broad claim - please substantiate.
Only misguided journalists use ridesharing anymore. Its been "ridehailing" the best past 3-4 years now.
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And why do you think they were threaten ? Because they were found not operating within the bound of pandemic related decrees. They willing did not respect them. Maybe in the USA they would have automatically been fined, but the French negotiated with them and gave them delays. The French Amazon CEO willfully claimed they would never comply. They knew what they were doing and in practice quite literally put themselves above the law.

And no, Amazon has the same catalog as other French retailer, at least in France. Amazon just chose to play dumb with both catalog filtering demands AND physical distances in warehouses.
Easy for you to say, because you aren't a Rohingya and don't have to worry about people organizing your genocide on WhatsApp. We have to be able to criticize the government and debate polices, but when blood is involved (trying to get people killed) there has to be a line.