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> Not sure what you mean here, EVs are easily the fastest growing auto-segment.

Given that it grown from near zero after Tesla in markets which had zero EVs before, triple digit growth is not something extraordinary.

In countries which already had some EV presence, hasn't been so spectacular.
Much of the 5G progress happens in the core network and network interconnects.

As far as I remember, there will be some sort of "layered" encryption. The innermost layer is the user's payload, end-to-end encrypted between operators. Each service provider (responsible for transporting the data) adds patches with modifications and a signature by the service provider.

Not sure if that actually made it into the standard yet. I think the motivation is that roaming requires cost-effective routing, fraud detection,.. so there's a whole business ecosystem around that.

Long story short: I think people are working on this
Back when I used Winzip/7zip, they didn't move files: they copied files. When you're working with files measured in gigabytes, the speedup is quite noticeable.
Tell HN: Amazon Cloud Drive is banning encrypted content and backup data
Got this from Amazon today. I wonder if they're going to refund my money. Also, anyone know of a good alternative?

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I think it lacks of:

Parsing and js execution

TLS Handshake / algo negotation

Cache
Density isn't really the problem in Portland. There are a LOT of empty apartments in this city. There are also a LOT of "short term rentals" in the city that sit vacant.

Here are the concerns that I do not see addressed with this:

1. Will the City of Portland make the required infrastructure improvements to support more density? For example, will the storm sewers, which currently overflow poo into the river, support all the extra.. poo.

1a. Will the city invest in roads and public transit? Walking and biking are both great, but Portland is cold, dark and wet for 7 months a year. No matter how easy and safe you make it, people won't want to ride in those conditions.

1b. Portland 911 systems are currently stressed beyond reason. I waited on hold for 4 minutes on 911 (not non-emergency) a few weeks ago. This isn't a rare occurrence.

1c. Will Portland address the tent in the room? Homelessness is endemic in the city, and it isn't _only_ due to lack of housing. The city has very few options for mental health and drug treatment. Will the city invest in that? If not, livability will be negatively impacted by this.

1d. Assuming COVID ever ends, will Portland be business friendly enough to attract employers to employ the expected glut of people? Right now, large business are leaving Portland (Google has halted its expansion plans for example).

1e. Will Oregon fund schools in a way that can account for the new residents? Schools are already over-crowded and Oregon has one of the worst graduation rates in the country. Will the city/state commit to building schools to support new students? If so, where? They are in-filling in neighborhoods with few plots available

2. This will disadvantage low-income workers who won't be able to afford the new houses. Though more density does lower prices, it normally lowers prices in the less desirable neighborhoods. People of means buy the new condos/townhomes that are built, leaving the poor to take the less nice houses or continue to live further out.

2a. The Utopian dream of a urban playground where everyone is walking and birds are chirping and there is Trek in every garage doesn't play for a majority of people. People rarely live where they work. This is not normally a personal choice. Other factors play into it. Being around their family, kids' friends, better schools, new job on the other side of town etc. I understand the myopia of the crowd on this site is to picture everyone has a well-connected and well-heeled tech worker, but reality is far different.

3. Tongue in cheek-isg: this is all celebrated within the same week as another story claiming people are abandoned the density of SFO, NYC, SEA to work remotely in towns like BOI, AUS, Bend etc. There is obviously a _desire_ to have land and space and privacy. If we go to a remote-first work world, why do we think that anyone would want to live in this density?
There is no reason for "root access". An API call to install a packaged app in a sandbox, and update apps that are installed is all that you would require.

Apps would be consistently installed to a sandbox identified by their bundle identifier (which is typically domain-based).

This is effectively what already happens on iOS.

App certification/verification would be done using exactly the same certs we use for domains (possibly co-signed by the store as part of their curation/verification/drm process) to ensure the store can only install what the developer provides, and what the store curators permit to be distributed through their store.

I don't think changing 30% to some other arbitrary figure solves anything. For me the biggest problem is Apple deciding what/whose apps ios (and macos, given the recent code signing requirements coming with mac silicon...) users are permitted to use.
While an additional fine might be fair, again, just "taking it all" isn't. The Sacklers, while they might have played a small part, are being unfairly scapegoated for the whole of the opioid epidemic. This ignores the responsibility borne by states, physicians, and most importantly, those who choose to take the pills. This was also done with FDA approval.

More importantly, this is a part of the larger narrative that everything has been caused by overprescribed opioids. However, there's no correlation between increased prescriptions and increased illicit usage [0]. Rather, it seems there's been a large growth over time of illicit opioid use [1]. The only place this sort of thing has been effectively combated is in Portugal due to its decriminalization and attempts to make things safer. Politicians caused this with their stupid "war on drugs". They are now pointing and saying, "Look, the big bad Sacklers did it!" so their own failures are ignored. Stop scapegoating one family for a political and societal issue.

0: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330922982_Today%27s...

1: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920161028.h...
Remote debugging with VSCode without Remote Development
It is particularly ironic that so many people in this thread are recommending 7-zip in response to a cert problem with WinRAR when 7-zip has no code signing at all and presents the scary yellow "unknown software" screen when you try to install it.
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This is considered an anti-pattern for a lot of reasons. Bakes private implementation into the specification, making it harder to refactor. Can't reuse tests across different implementations. Brakes abstractions.

I wonder what the reasoning was for the Rust devs.
> But there are no swathes of empty land in Portland to fill with more single family homes.

This is a key thing. There is very little undeveloped land within Portland city limits, and the vast majority of it is lots under 1000 square feet. Most of what is there is in places that would be expensive, laborious, or unappealing to work with, like the sides of heavily sloped hills, lots completely surrounded by other lots without road access (have fun trying to work out right of way for a driveway), or waaay out nearly in the suburbs, at which point you may as well go five more minutes in that direction and save yourself some on the taxes.
Right now we are in the middle of a large transformation of the passenger flight industry. If the number of passengers falls dramatically, smaller long-range passenger planes may be a better option. COVID will eventually go away, but wouldn't you pay some extra money to be locked in a pressurized can with fewer, sparsely spaced, people for a shorter time?
If it's moving it to a different drive/partition it'll have to copy it again

Moving many (small) files can also be quite slow
That was awesome, thank you! The example where he had 2 images in one and would do a pallet swap to show one or the other was SUPER cool!
It seems like that logic could apply to any change that would improve the users' privacy. The best thing for small ad companies would probably be if everyone's data was completely public, that would surely minimize the barrier to entry!
This is an issue in Vancouver. One large house built to house an extended family of sometimes as many as 20 people.

Its a way of depriving city of property taxes, that would have otherwise have taxed multiple dwellings for the same amount of people. So the 2500 sqft limit is to collect more tax.
> frequent pirated media downloaders are among the relevant industry's best, highest-spending customers.

aka those customers have money (and the MPAA and RIAA want to bleed them dry).
Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
Only hatred of Facebooks appalling business model could bring such unanimous approval of a move by Apple!
great team and problem hits really close to home. congrats to them!
>Revocation is effectively telling your customers that your product is unsafe

...or that the certificate was no longer in compliance with their Certificate Practice Statement. It looks like their CPS gives them a great deal of leeway here. https://sectigo.com/uploads/files/Sectigo-CPS-v5.2.pdf#page=...
Google launches alpha release of Jetpack Compose to speed Android coding
Somewhat played a bit too much of Subnautica.
I'm even fine with being targeted, as long as they're not personally targeted.

Want to serve up ads for yarn when I'm browsing Ravelry? Cool.

Want to try to sell me your series of graded readers for language learners when I'm using the Duolingo app? No problem.

Want to set up a giant dragnet surveillance operation and then cross-link all the bits of information you collect about me into a giant profile that you can feed into a horrendous rat's nest of math you barely understand, but can plausibly deny you weren't aware was subtly profiling me based on indicators of my race or sex, in order to decide whether or not you want to try to track me down and sell me on some fancy mail-order-only brand of underwear while I'm at work? Let's slow down here.
And that's probably why they are focusing in operation costs. The plane is lighter and supposedly more durable, the engines are simpler...
Accessibility UIs that are designed by committee and set in stone. No innovation allowed, by law. Gah, ironically Apple's platforms have the best accessibility in the industry regardless of legislation. They pretty much always have.
Show HN: Txc – A small text-caching server
Is there a variant of this framing that doesn't also argue against all securities regulation and a return to the status quo ante of the Great Depression? Because the Accredited Investor standard essentially bypasses securities disclosure laws. Without it, every company would obtain the benefits of being public company, with none of the associated obligations.
The world is a very difference place post 9/11 whether you believe it or not.

I mean 9/11 did prompt NATO's article 5 to get invoked. 9/11, Article 5, & the ensuing war certainly changed the landscape for North America and Europe. Other world powers like China took notice as a result.

Don't forget the heightened fears around that time, which were stoked by the 2004 Madrid & 2005 London train bombings.

So although post 9/11 is often viewed as US centric, it undoubtedly affected much of Europe, and it's ripples were felt throughout much of the developed world. While many nations might not have 9/11 in the forefront of their minds, like Americans do, they probably have had their foreign/domestic policy influenced as a result of 9/11's side effects & view the threat of terrorism very differently to a pre 9/11 world.
I think supersonic flight will never become the norm. Boom Overture would, if Boom succeeds, be more fuel efficient than the Concorde but definitely not more fuel efficient than a modern subsonic airliner. And subsonic jets are 'fast enough' for most people who don't have cash burning a hole in their pocket.
Is it finger pointing, or just unravelling a story to find where it leads and connects to? I got the impression of the latter.
Which routes are growing? I recall around the time that OpenSkies died the number of routes with business class-only planes appeared to be shrinking quite a bit. I don’t doubt your claim per se but would like to see some support for it.
The real tragedy, from a scientific standpoint in the optical, is that we're entering a new world of wide-field and sensitive time-domain astronomy due to huge improvements in computing power and sensors at the same time that humanity is about to generate thousands of bright transients.

The only practical approach I can think of for combating the constellations is distributed arrays of wide-field transient-hunters. As long as the transient is common-mode across telescopes, then it is real. If there are three LSSTs, and not too many constellation-satellites, that might work.

I just noted, in passing, that the term for the satellite arrays appears to be "constellation"; that is a bummer in this context.
Care to link to any news stories about the countless people? Or even just those engineering students? Surely one or two of them made the news in their descent into madness.
If the oil price drops, at least shale oil production won't be profitable anymore, reducing CO2 emissions and eliminating the pollution resulting from shale oil mining.
My family is considered "underhoused" by the US government, because we have fewer bedrooms than occupants. I certainly don't feel it myself. We have three bedrooms for the four of us, and even chose to use the third as a media room until the kids get sick of the bunk beds.
I dunno, "The history of all opioids we have ever encountered has always been associated with addiction" is not a particularly difficult concept to grasp, nor can I see it taking an inordinate amount of time to cram into their education.
What widgets are you using for the gauge and line graph? They integrate in well.
i've always wondered why the Whatsapp acquisition didn't spawn a bunch of startups using Elixir, since a lot of noise was made about how Elixir helped Whatsapp scale with so few people. isnt that how tech cargo culting starts?
The business didn’t last very long so we never got around to switching banks. But whenever I do my next startup I will shop around more. I would love to hear any recommendations people might have to share.
gRPC with Kotlin Coroutines
Yeah... I'm a pretty hardcore privacy advocate but I'm having a hard time listening to the discourse about TikTok and coming away with anything other than a strong anti-Chinese sentiment looking to legitimize itself. There are some real privacy concerns and I think it makes sense that government officials, military, and people with clearance should be wary of foreign tech companies due to the potential of that data being used for blackmail a la Grindr but for the rest of us I think it's just a wake-up call about how non-US countries feel about FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc..
If you only know what the feature is, you're prepared to write functional and/or integration tests, but not unit tests. Unit tests closely wrap the details of the implementation.
Really? Let’s change context:

vi, emacs, BBEdit, Notepad++, Sublime, VSCode, TextMate all produce the same plain text. Is it the same?

I can write simple code in Python, Perl, C, PHP, swift, rebol, basic, rexx, JavaScript and do the same thing. Is the end result the only thing?

I have learned a huge amount from studying other programmers simple programs that I could have written. Even inexperienced programmers have taught me.

I have learned a huge amount watching other people paint walls of a house while I am painting the same wall the same color.

There is much more to art than paint on a canvas. Much more.
You are misunderstanding. WinRAR's implication is that the CA is lying about the 570 MB file because they didn't mention it until WinRAR challenged them on the VirusTotal justification for revocation, and because they were unable to provide the file in question or any evidence that it exists.
>The only winners in the current situation are Apple. By opening it up to competitor app stores, yes competitors would benefit, but so would developers and so would their users.

It's hard for me to reconcile this, and I keep seeing that 3rd party app stores would be better for users, but it all seems very handwavy. You would think this would be an easy point to prove as Android has had alternative app stores for years, but there seem to be no winners there. I'm not sure how having to download app specific app stores (i.e. Epic's app store) is better for anyone except for Epic.
>Remember the viruses and trojans and instability and all the rest of the Windows days, or Android?

The era you are referencing was two decades ago and those problems stemmed from development processes that didn't take security into consideration since it was mostly written in pre-internet days and worked well in that environment. Once Microsoft took security seriously things got better. Windows is -still- an open platform where you can run anything you want and you don't see rampant viruses/trojans etc. It works very well now and still has the same openness properties as before.

Android has security issues just like Apple but it's never been a huge problem. The fact that you put Android in that sentence makes me scratch my head a bit. Android is on the same level as iOS on pretty much every metric.
> It still seems awkward to say that Apple must allow for competitors, but they're a $2 trillion company now, and I think rules are just weird for companies of that size.

Apple only controls 14% of the smartphone market. If Apple is a $2T company, doesn't that mean those 14% of people overall approve of what Apple is doing?

I certainly think some of the restrictions are onerous; but if I had to choose between "Some onerous restrictions on some app developers" and "No way to capture value from applications to support the platform", I'd go with the first one.

Right now, if you don't like what Apple's doing, you can choose not to do with Apple; and if I do, I can choose to go with them. If you get your way & Apple is forced to open up, I'll no longer have that choice.
Hmm. Yeah, I see your point. The point I was making though is that pass-through causes /all/ income to be taxed as personal income. When outside the US, you also have to pay income tax in your country (most likely). So now you’re paying income taxes for all revenue (not profits) in both countries. Even with the tax treaty, you’re still looking at an extra ~15% tax on whatever you pay in your own country.

With a C Corp, you pay US taxes via the company. You control how much goes to you, personally, which you pay income taxes on. Depending on the amount, you may not have any issues with US income tax.
British Airways actually made money on Concorde travels.
Or electricity distribution infra not large enough to move that much energy.
This reeks of literal illiteracy, as well as a lack of visual aesthetic literacy. I'm not trying to sling mud here but I'd be really embarrassed by this if I were you. This is near saying that jazz music is just noise, despite whoever saying it likely not being able to even keep up with a basic chord chart. Or possibly it would be more appropriate, to imagine someone able to do a quick and dirty script in python, not understanding that CPU architecture is more nuanced and complicated simply because they know nothing about it. One is not necessarily better than the other, but you yourself are the one losing out from your inability to appreciate things outside of your comfort zone.
You've held to a strongly combative & in my opinion fairly arrogant/dismissive close minded outlook in the dozens of comments you've posted in this thread. It's frustrating having to cope with such a lopsided one-dimensional perspective that injects itself everywhere. I feel like you have overrun & dominated every single thing anyone else has offered.

I see that you think this is a bad spec, but you don't seem to acknowledge comprehend or grasp that a lot of people want this for really good & wholesome reasons. Signed exchanges for instance are absolutely critical in allowing users to share content with each other while offline, which has radical & excellent potential.
> I can imagine it's quite a punch to the gut to find out an activity you were doing for _years_ was literally the wrong thing, and major news outlets are piling on.

Other than the news outlets, what you are describing is something most people in the arts go through at a similar age. The quality of previous work may not be as literally wrong as it is here, but it can feel just as wrong at the time.

The difference is that artists have some semblance of friends and loved ones helping to extend trust to mentors who help guide the artist through that despondency at any stage in their development.

For this kid, however, we've replaced mentorship with unregulated digital slot machines of psychological torture that we call social media. That is the gut punch.
Quite possibly the least polarising move Apple has ever made.

I can’t think of a single reason as to why adding the prompt is a bad idea.
But that was a company selling a spectacularly expensive beverage subscription service. There was at least a business plan behind that.