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Tesla has very convenient wiper hardware button.
Thank you for providing me the phrase to describe my favorite architecture! TIL
I love the ui. You stop moving and its goes from line to blob...
Hmm, there could be some context I'm missing, but his comments on this come across to me as a bit ill-informed. But I'm just an avid DIYer who has taken apart and repaired many appliances, so take as you will.

> toxic plastic

I'm not sure what this is referring to. You don't normally eat (or eat off of) the plastic components of a refrigerator. Maybe this is more an environmental concern than a health one?

> almost no thermal mass

Isn't this a desirable property of a highly-insulated box? Ideally, the most thermal mass should come from its contents, not the appliance itself.

> highly toxic and expensive refrigerant gas

R134a is the most common refrigerant used in residential refrigerators these days, which is not particularly toxic to humans. It's the primary ingredient in canned air dusters and no one seems to have a problem with that. 30lb tanks of this can be had for a little over $100, and a refrigerator would hold less than a pound of it. It does have a very high GWP though--an environmental concern, not a health one. (Side note -- I've also noticed propane (R-290) is becoming more common in commercial refrigerators.)

> energy hogging

To be fair, modern refrigerator compressors have become much more energy efficient than they used to be. Additionally, a variable speed compressor would have previously been unheard of in a residential appliance, but are now becoming relatively common in middle-to-high-end refrigerators.

> uneconomic to service generally

Well, this is hard to refute :) The problem is definitely broader than refrigerators, but residential appliances do seem particularly prone to it. One issue here is that refrigeration work in particular requires special equipment and expertise. From my experience, parts are often the least expensive aspect of repairing an appliance.
> I suppose 20+ years has erased a collective memory of the conflicts with IE.

Not this again!

MS lost the (one of the many) case with the EU regarding Internet Explorer and that's were most of the confusion comes from: what happens in US is hardly relevant for the rest of the World

> In January 2009, the European Commission announced it would investigate the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows operating systems from Microsoft, saying "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."

> In response, Microsoft announced that it would not bundle Internet Explorer with Windows 7 E, the version of Windows 7 to be sold in Europe.

> On 16 December 2009, the European Union agreed to allow competing browsers, with Microsoft providing a "ballot box" screen letting users choose one of twelve popular products listed in random order. The twelve browsers were Avant, Chrome, Firefox, Flock, GreenBrowser, Internet Explorer, K-Meleon, Maxthon, Opera, Safari, Sleipnir, and Slim which are accessible via BrowserChoice.eu. The automatic nature of the BrowserChoice.eu feature was dropped in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 in February 2011 and remained absent for 14 months despite Microsoft reporting that it was still present, subsequently described by Microsoft as a "technical error". As a result, in March 2013 the European Commission fined Microsoft €561 million to deter companies from reneging on settlement promises."
You are correct in your common sense test, the article is not correct.

Check out the Concorde wiki[1] It states ~4.4K lbs for taxi which passes the common sense test. Taxi time is generaly planned as 15 minutes, so ~10K lbs/hr which is more than what a Boeing 767 burns at cruise - quite a lot! For comparison Concorde super sonic cruise fuel burn was 40K-55K lbs/hr.

For another reference Boeing 767s typically plan to burn 2K lbs of fuel for start-up/taxi/takeoff run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
Most of the changes involve organizations, not individuals. The main change for individuals is that having a Series 7 qualifies you. (A Series 7 is a test about finance you take to become a broker. Covers stocks, bonds, options, terminology, how to evaluate risk, trading rules, ethics. that sort of thing.)

Mostly, this is about hedge funds, not startups. "Accredited investors" can invest in hedge funds that don't report their returns publicly in a standard way. Usually they don't report them because hedge funds as a class underperform the Dow.

Useful rule: any investment where they call you is no good. If it needs paid salespeople, it's a dud.
Ask HN: What book are you reading at the moment and what do you recommend?
> Being a third party publisher

And what is it that you publish that helps humanity?
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The first thing to do is answer what's your threat vector? What are you trying to protect against? And the second thing is answer and what are you willing to give up?

The best way is, of course, to not use technology. But that's not worth it to most folks.

If your threat vector is general dragnet government surveillance over the entire populous, you're fighting against a shadows. Basically all we know of these techniques come from Snowden. Assume all internet data is logged, whether encrypted or not, and they have direct access to the ISP infrastructure. Room 641A shows the USA has been at this since 2006[0]. Even if your messages are encrypted, it's possible the agency has a 0day. For example, the NSA had decrypted all BBM traffic which was advertised as encrypted. The lesson here is avoid new and popular tools. Instead, just use PGP or other arcane yet reliable encryption methods. If everyone used PGP, I bet the NSA would exploit it too. Don't use a smart phone at all. Using bootable Linux USB of something like Tails on a public computer is probably the best bet, but unsustainable. Even Tails and TOR isn't perfect but it's miles better than Windows, Mac, ChromeOS.

If your threat vector is a specific intelligence agency spying on you, (i.e. an APT), you have already lost. I don't think it even makes sense to try and protect against this level of threat. It's like worrying about a tank coming through your frontdoor.

If your threat vector is private companies spying on you (be it Facebooks or even private intelligence companies), you have a lot more power here. Besides ISPs, private companies don't own the infrastructure and are not legally allowed to use 0days like the NSA is. In general, end to end encryption is sufficient here.

It's all a sliding scale of compromise between security and convenience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
In a city there shouldn't be set backs at all. If you want light buy a bigger lot and set yourself back. If you want a garden move out to farm country or put it on the roof (wasted space to most, as it happens I'm installing solar on my roof today, but even then most of my roof is wasted space)
> less revenue will necessarily lead to fewer "free" apps and/or fewer "free" features and/or worse quality

I agree with "fewer" and strongly disagree with "worse quality."
I don't think what you said is accurate. First, the work was done in fibre diffraction (2d pattern), not crystal diffractionso I'm not certain that crystallographic groups even apply (typically for representing 3d symmetry groups). Second, nothing in the W&C paper has to do with determining the crystallographic group, rather they proposed a model which was consistent with the diffraction data, but also with a wide range of other observations, such as Chargaff's rules, which led to the modelling of base pairs with the correct eno/ketol forms. What Franklin did know was that the structural was helical, but not that it was a double helix with antiparallel strands (and that's what W&C posited, leading to the most wonderfully stated conclusion of all time ("it has not escaped our notice...")

A few other important points: Franklin published a paper in the same journal edition as W&C with her own work. W&C thanked Franklin (she's in the acknowledgements). She got more credit than people today believe (mainly because of the misleading book "Dark Lady" and the terrible book "The Double Helix").

The best original source I've found on this is The Eighth Day of Creation, which is based on primary sources (Franklin's notebooks which she willed to Aaron Klug, along wiht interviews with most of the people involved). After reading that I concluded that the work Franklin did on this project did not warrant a Nobel Prize even if she had not died before it was awarded.

(my PhD is on DNA structure, and I spent a huge amount of time researching its history)
Does it redraw the entire thing every frame? It seems to get slower the longer you draw.
To me it’s more terrifying to think that I might loose my mind to dementia or alzheimer’s, that I might not know who
i am, who i was, who my children are.. that’s terrifying. Though I think this experience is even worse for the others. My grandmother had alzheimers and in the last stage she was serene and smiling..
> An eight figure net worth is not even close when it comes to considering starting an own bank.

You're right, the amount is much lower than that. Source: know a group that bought a bank.
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Uncle Bob comes to mind
Exactly, and American single-owner LLCs can pay taxes very simply on their personal 1040 tax form.

It's only if you elect your LLC be taxed as an S-corp or C-corp, or incorporate as a real corporation that taxes need to get complicated.
"But, selling it to a company that have commitments to investors, paying customers and an executive team who might not all have technical backgrounds makes TDD a hard sell"

It's an incredibly easy sale. The whole basis of TDD is that it's an approach that makes your development efforts faster, with higher quality. A million graphics of the amount of time that development spends fixing errors are what sold TDD to the masses.

The theory of TDD is exactly what sells to the suits and the money counters.

The theory doesn't mesh with reality, though, and it's that engagement with the enemy (reality) where TDD falls down.

As an aside, in my own career I've seldom been able to incorporate TDD because each project has been novel enough that trying to define tests up front was just not possible. Yes, if I was implementing the re-invent the wheel "sum two numbers" type example, it's trivial. But most of the time it's a vague API for a vague need on an uncertain technical foundation, and until the clay has taken form we really weren't sure what we were dealing with.
I'm surprised that Gmail team hasn't created a HEY theme yet.
Something happens, you cease to exist. You won’t notice anything
Did this link just get hugged to death? It's not working for me...
Nor a single billionaire.

If China or Russia was the one building starlink the reception in the US would be a lot different.
"Most UIs that people design, including this library, are not meant for anything remotely similar to those situations."

You would think that, but that isn't necessarily the case. I worked for a Naval intelligence contractor back in 2007, and I was surprised at the amount of times there were requests at the top to "make it look cooler". War rooms at the time tended to look exactly like the Hollywood depictions. Not because Hollywood got it right, but because generals saw the movies and said, "I want one that looks like that". Even in the most functional of situations, flashy looks sell hearts.
Sometimes we need to relearn from the lessons of the 20th century and not go around and build tenements again.

Minimum standards are a necessary thing for long term sustainability of cities and are especially important as things pertain to public health. Anti tenement laws became popular during the spanish flu outbreak for a reason.
Doctors? Let's talk about bankers, accountants, and real estate agents. They must get paid a lot of money to turn off the part of the brain that's screaming about how dishonest this whole chain of transactions is, how much it looks like a pack of guilty people trying to put their ill-gotten wealth out of harm's way.
Ibsen, Conrad
I wish people were more afraid of death. Maybe we'd be doing more about it. Why are we trying so much harder to overcome the fear of death and not death?

> No doubt you don’t fear your prenatal existence and logically speaking, given their equivalence, it follows that you should fear death the exact same amount, as in not at all.

Prenatal existence is not symmetrical to death, in my opinion. First off, even if they were, neither can be conceived, which makes the symmetry unknowable. But more importantly I don't fear things that have happened, I fear things that are impending - a pretty key distinction here, which I feel fundamentally breaks the symmetry (ie: time is not symmetrical).

> doesn’t seem to be the sort of thing that one can reasonably be fearful of because it isn’t anything.

Earlier it was described as the greatest deprivation. Of course that's something. This is like saying "why fear starvation? It is only the absence of something - food". It is the absence, the nothingness, that drives that very fear.

This is like saying "Why fear loneliness? It is not something that is done to you, it is only the absence of love".

Perhaps death is 'nothing', whatever that means. Why is 'nothing' a special 'thing' that I can not fear? It seems just as reasonable to fear 'nothing' as anything else.

IDK, I don't find any of it compelling. Fix death please, that's a good way to prevent the fear.
Hilarious. I'm not sure how any of this counts as "modernizing", and none of it amounts to any substantive change. I'd compare this to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, but doing that is probably more productive.

So... now people who hold a couple of niche, finance industry specific licenses - which you can't obtain unless you work in the finance industry - can be "accredited investors." Wow, golly gee whiz, color me gobsmacked.

So finance industry insiders get more access to opportunities to build wealth, and nothing changes for regular old everyday Americans? Am I supposed to be impressed by this?

The ONLY way this would actually be worth trumpeting would be if anybody could study, sign up for, take, and (hopefully) pass the various FINRA exams mentioned, and get their license without needing to go to change jobs. But, sadly, as we see here[1]:

Candidates must be associated with and sponsored by a FINRA member firm or other applicable self-regulatory organization (SRO) member firm to be eligible to take FINRA representative-level qualification exams.

and here[2]:

In order to enroll for FINRA qualifying exams, a candidate must be sponsored by a state regulator or regulatory authority approved to sponsor candidates for FINRA qualifying exams.

Edit: there is some verbiage here[3] that claims that you can take the Series 65 exam without being associated with a member firm. IF true, I might change my opinion on this a bit. But this seems to contradict what is on the FINRA site itself.

Unlike many other FINRA Series exams, the Series 65 exam does not require an individual to be sponsored by a member firm. If you are not Form U4 registered or affiliated with a firm through FINRA’s Web CRD system, you should use the Form U10 to request and pay for the Series 65 exam.

[1]: https://www.finra.org/registration-exams-ce/qualification-ex...

[2]: https://www.finra.org/registration-exams-ce/qualification-ex...

[3]: https://www.kaplanfinancial.com/resources/career-advancement...
They don't have EPA testing yet. They used a third-party, FEV North America, with EPA-like methods to arrive at 517 miles.
There's plenty of blame to go around, both can be at fault. My family doctor, for example, warned me to be very careful of the Oxytocin I was given by the hospital (without any warnings) after my wisdom teeth were removed.
And we are seeing massive outbreaks of COVID-19 on college campuses now that some are reopening, these laws were first put in place for related reasons...
Any large scale program will have both "application" parts and "library" parts.

Lets take Autocad as a long-running example. Its first release was 1982, and had an update this year, in 2020. What's a good example of "application" vs "library" code here?

Lets take the user interface, which is almost always "application" style, with short lifespans. Back in 1982, you probably had to write a custom serial-communicator to interface with the mouse (or trackball). Eventually, Windows is released and a standard mouse-interface becomes common practice.

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A few decades later, the 3-button mouse with scrollwheel (with the wheel being the 3rd button) becomes popular. Adding new features to the application, and the overall design of the UI would have to change for modern sensibilities.

Then Ribbon happens. Hate it or love it, Windows programs are now Ribbon-based. Gotta overhaul the UI AGAIN to match the changing times.

This progression from 2-button mouse -> Windows driven mouse -> 3-button mouse with scrollwheel -> Ribbon -> touch-enabled (??) is "Application code", requirements that change with the times. Every few years, the code interfacing with the user was largely rewritten, to match the (then modern) expectations of its userbase.

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Of course, there's the "library chunk", which probably solves geometric constraints or something like that. That part may have never changed throughout the life of AutoCAD.

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Application code CHANGES. That's the important bit. You cannot expect applications to look the same over decades. I'd be very surprised if AutoCAD still had their DOS GUI laying around (https://www.scan2cad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/autocad_...). That sort of code is thrown away when it is no longer fashionable.
Do the EPA estimates account for weather changes (hot and cold weather, as opposed to moderate temperatures)? How trustworthy is the 500 mile claim?
It's an issue because our collective footprints grow, and we all have an environmental footprint regardless of what we consume. You could extend this to: it's a shame we haven't stopped decimating forests, it's a shame we will continue to encroach on land so long as our population grows, it's a shame that as a result of this growth more animals will die through conventional agriculture i.e. plants, etc.
I don't see why we can't have things if they aren't useful to 5% of the population and don't harm the rest.

Also the "maybe not as high" comment was about security because you can make an argument that the human review is better. However there doesn't seem to be overwhelming evidence on either side comparing human review to mostly automated.
I tried "What are the names of all the workers" but it didn't understand. So it doesn't seem to take slightly-vague input. (The schema has a workers table with fields first name and lastname)

When I have to be precise, I'm better off using SQL directly.
Companies which don’t contribute - just sell code written by others - don’t mind GPL. GPL can be the problem for the rest, as it forces them to immediately donate all their changes to their competitors, who can then offer the same thing cheaper, since they don’t have to amortize the development costs.
Gary Bernhardt has a pretty good talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAxiiRPHS9k
> Android has had alternative app stores for years, but there seem to be no winners there

The winners are the users that can easily side load apps without goingt through the Goggle store
Yes a friend of mine said exactly the same thing and sent me a torrented copy of The Dreamers. I looked awful. So bad I ordered the dvd. Which had some of its own issues with quality I’ll admit, but at least it wasn’t full of digital compression artifacts. I know not everything is like this but my experience with torrents has yielded a lot of varying quality problems. And these movies are not very esoteric they are made by much lauded directors. The fact that they are out of print means there is no higher quality rip to speak of. It’s why I’m particularly am a big fan of Criterion because they do do this work (such as a 4K restoration of Ran, beautiful!). That work requires money. It will take happen often we disregard these issues because we can get something close faster for free.
With books of course this is mostly a non issue so I’ll give you that (aside from good and bad translations or edits. Dostoevsky is a good example. I believe Wallace once asked what does it mean “to fly at” and why would you translate the Russian to somethings so unreasonable.)

However the overall point was that I made a real flesh and blood friend in a physical place which is how I came to know these things to begin with. And otherwise have never heard certain movies ever mentioned and wouldn’t know about them at all.
As DevOps takes off, site reliability engineers are flying high
> Why not crowdfund those amounts instead? That way, all creators get paid before the work even starts and the result can be safely released into the public domain.

Then shouldn't every business have to follow the same rules? Making a "copy" of an iPhone costs $20 or $30, should Apple have to crowdsource their factory and IP then sell iPhones by weight or value of raw material? Why do content creators get screwed because physics doesn't let them attach an atom to their creation? The vast majortiy of what you pay for in any product is the creation, not the material.
I can't seem to get it to correctly answer any query which references more than a single table.

For instance, "which city has the most farms" yields the somewhat nonsensical "SELECT city.City_ID FROM city GROUP BY city.City_ID ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC LIMIT 1"

It seems fine for basic queries like "how many total horses are there", but that's basically it.
3Blue1Brown ELI15 the Fast Fourier Transform, which sets up the problem domain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
It works for me, but I've mirrored it here: https://www.shawwn.com/docs/1986-11-abstracting-timed-preemp...
Probably because gRPC has a much stronger ecosystem. There's no Cap'n Proto RPC for Kotlin unfortunately.

Otherwise Cap'n Proto's object-capability design would indeed be nicer than streaming for many of these use cases.
You can still have homes up to the full size you're talking about so long as they're multifamily, if anything that's better for multigenerational homes...
"What we are seeing now and predicting into the future is the rise of site reliability engineer as a title relating to the practice of DevOps and better describing the work to be done. At the time of our writing, there are more than 9,000 open roles for SREs on LinkedIn, a number that is only growing."
More like 6.
Medical Data Leaked on GitHub Due to Developer Errors
>Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what
>they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will
never forgive me for.
>I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all ...
>after all, we're all alike.
-The Mentor