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This has been announced very quietly today via email and it's the most stunningly ambitious IoT project I've ever seen. Considering the existing scale of Amazon smart device deployment and the number of devices supported here we're talking about nearly instant coverage of every US city.

The security model is frightening to think about, a peer to peer echo virus could take over smart speakers, water meters, power sockets, lights, spreading peer to peer across an entire metro area.
> In developed countries we already have stabilized our demographic growth, so I don't think there is a need for limiting oneself.

This presupposes that the current population density in developed countries is sustainable, with the foreseeable level of consumption per capita. Is it?
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Three questions:

1) How does not having a plate let you park in the handicapped space? The regulation is probably written such that you are required to have the handicapped plate or placard, and displaying no plate would be probable cause here.

2) Why not just have Apple reserve a parking space for the CEO or Steve Jobs outright? There's no regulations against reserving parking spaces in such a manner that I'm aware of.

3) Why is there so much worship in the tech industry of complete assholes like this?
One can imagine a future where small, solid-state dongles are circulated with software licenses - such as, as discussed in the article, for games, and the software itself is downloaded separately. But for that matter, why not have those licenses be electronic cryptographic tokens, which could be freely transferred between users as gift or sale? (Doesn't need to be blockchain, just centrally-administered infrastructure). Here's why: the software companies are doing just fine selling revokable, non-transferrable electronic software licenses that users can't trade freely.

I'd love to see that change, maybe through legislation. But hardware dongles, while maybe more secure, aren't needed to make it happen.
Zero compromise doesn’t mean you get what you want. Actually the opposite sometimes.
I'd feel better about this if they gave a discount (even a modest one) to everyone who isn't hitting the cap. Then it would feel like the plan was designed to be redistributive, not punitive. They'd get some additional revenue from high-usage customers and give up some revenue from their other customers.

Instead it feels like a heads-I-win-tails-nothing-changes situation.
That’s a bit extreme. I would ask them to explain why they chose the KPIs, because that’s where you’ll get the bullshitters to break down very obviously.
Thanks! I'll have to review my code... :P
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Your internet plan is already pay for what you use: you pay for a given rate of data transfer and your ISP maintains the infrastructure to provide you that rate. The cable you need for 50 Mb/s costs exactly the same whether you use it 2 hours per day or 20. Anyone downloading 100 TB in a month is already paying a hefty premium for the (at bare minimum) 370 Mb/s they need to achieve that download.

For electricity, in part you are paying for the infrastructure, but you are also paying for the fuel that's being consumed by the powerplant. If comcast charged per GB of data that it hosted, that would be fine (and hosting providers do exactly that without complaint), but Comcast's costs don't vary with the amount you download.

In the extreme, costs do scale to some degree with duty cycle - a line with lower capacity can service more people so long as they don't use it at the same time, and technically sending a packet through causes some infinitesimally tiny wear and tear. In practice though, a data cap doesn't stop multiple people from doing their 1.2 TB download all at the same time, and the reduced lifetime of components is a rounding error compared to the variability just from their manufacture.
Reminds me of the fifth element somehow
#MeToo also had that disturbing element of liberal, feminist icons being the sexual abusers all along. (Harvey Weinstein)

I think the parent is using #MeToo as a catch-all for intolerance of any alleged abuse of power and cancel culture in general. And as others have mentioned Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are doing fine, so no Steve Jobs would have probably been fine in the current time.
> Data leaving their network is going to be more expensive for them.

Not $10/50GiB more expensive. They want people using their streaming services, and I'm certain they already have their call center employees using the "tired of extra fees? just buy xfinity TV"

It's anticompetitive, other streaming services just can't compete on these terms.
VSCode shows return type on hover, and could easily show it all the time via an inline secondary notation, if desired. no need for more tokens.
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Elon is different. People called and still call Jobs a jerk (as James Gosling in his interview with Lex Fridman). Elon shows erratic behavior from time to time, but I do not think people would call him a jerk.
It takes two to have a mulit-party accident. You can have the best educated drivers and the most draconian enforcement in the world but if everyone else acts like it's a college campus you're gonna get a lot of red road paint. The cities without a lot of traffic fatalities tend to have traffic that behaves a lot like the industrial facilities where there aren't a lot of traffic mishaps (and industry has been studying this a lot longer because they have an obvious stake in the issue). Namely classes of traffic have to interact with each over only minimally, interactions only happen in defined places and all classes of traffic behave very conservatively.

Also, if people are getting so bent out of shape as to pass you and honk at you with any sort of regularity that's a good heuristic for the speed limit and/or your adherence to it being inappropriate for the construction and conditions of the road.
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Hey HN! Just had a new hire join the team and we had a sprint to release a slack app we were using internally.

We call it Beacon. It hooks up to your data warehouse or transactional db and allows you to query and access the latest data right in slack.

We use this for tracking daily active users, revenue, and other high level KPIs. We often end up using it to debug queries in the data team too.
There is nothing to find. And stop speaking out of your ass.
Pedestrian-only zones probably help specific types of retail--"tourist" (using the term broadly) type of stuff for people walking around the pedestrian area for fun. But, honestly, cities aren't great for heavy/bulky shopping anyway.

I normally go into the tourist area of my nearest major city maybe a few times a year and mostly because my company has an office nearby. But I appreciate pedestrian zones when I travel. (Last time I was in Brussels, the new pedestrian zone almost made that area of one of my least favorite European capitals almost pleasant.)
But 30 years is a long time on the climate change scale. To meet IPCC 1.5C and 2C targets we need to dramatically reduce emissions by 2030. Instead, they will continue to grow rapidly due to development in places like Bangladesh.
id run some benchmarks first on your codebase. would be surprised if union types were a top bottleneck.
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I guess I don't understand how proof of stake uses trust while proof of work doesn't. They seem very similar to me. I could argue that with Bitcoin you have to trust all of these large pools that are constantly flirting with 50% of the hashing power.
Yeah, that makes way more sense, thanks!
I find it annoying that I can't actually verify the claims in the article because the alot of the stuff it references are still in French.

I find french politics to be strange though, so I'm not surprised
https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Is this a US specific question? In Germany 92% of cars sold are stick shift so driving automatic (usually means paying extra for the feature) would be the exception.
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I think it's more that he's embraced it for what it's come to mean to his audience, instead of what he originally envisioned. Which is honestly really admirable.
Googled it, don't get the issue :/
"I'd prefer" isn't logic either so clearly we're in the realm of what we each find comfortable.
Thanks for sharing. Can you elaborate a bit why GUI development for NeXT was (and probably is) superior comparing to Windows GUI development (even if we include Borland's effort).
> Does the init process restarts the daemon?

In systemd, this depends on what the Restart option in the service unit is set to. The default is to not restart.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.ser...
I've done a lot of eliminations like this over the years and still get migraines. To me they are seemingly random, but I'm willing to admit/accept that perhaps I haven't been strict enough. I'll keep your advice in mind. Thank you!
Jevon’s Paradox would suggest an increase in the US electrical energy use over time, but that stalled out.

Take a step back and consider what using electricity means. Home heating for example doesn’t benefit from increasing indoor temperatures to 100f. 100” TV’s use more energy than 40” TV’s, but they also cost a lot more to buy. Essentially people only have so much money and significant improvements in efficiency mean other costs become more important. They might be able to heat a larger house, but they can’t afford the house to be heated.
It doesn't matter what is claimed. See our current President.
WHF or Zoom only, no. But a normal household will also have streaming video and most of their phones on wifi while at home.

And that's a quick pivot from 1.2/month to 1/day. Nobody is saying 1/day is normal, but no one is arguing the cap should be 30/month
I don't understand what you mean by 'wary of not stepping into territory where the state will wield its heavy hand'. I was simply giving examples of the part of legal system that I know of. Pardon my English, what I call 'local' is meant to be 'civil cases' like business and personal cases. And yes of course the legal system delineates those cases from national level cases. My original argument was that civil cases largely work well (unless you prove me wrong by statistics).

I didn't make any assumption of your information sources nor did I assert any influence of social media. It was only a general statement, not about anybody in particular. It was you who 'assumed' I didn't read any news etc. I fully respect all users' opinions here and would genuinely be interested to read any reference/articles to prove your points. I'll be surprised that the imprisoned lawyer cases were happening all the time in the lower courts.
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Will the EU weigh in?
Is it possible to learn this power?

edit: haha yes it is but not from a Jedi.
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It seems reasonable that modern libraries should be able to provide housing like this, intended for the people who provide lessons in e.g. computer use, bee keeping, and laser cutter operation (to list a few of the options available at my local branches).
It reminds me of Stonehenge. I understand that some people may consider this could set a bad precedent but if its not harming the ecosystem in any way why shouldnt it be allowed to stay up? To me this would be like erasing the paintings we made 5000 years ago.
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It should be possible to place batteries and other heavy components as far as possible from the hinge to balance the screens up to a better angle than in the photo. Why they didn't prefer a less tall configuration (e.g. three landscape screens in a row like the frankly more sane Razer Project Valerie prototype) escapes me.
Well, I guess that was kind of my question. I see the situation is something like:

- Big Tech companies can't get into traditional banking business because of the regulation
- Banks are loosing part of their business as they can't compete with other companies in terms of technology

I see the future of banking something like traditional banks being the back office of some other more tech leveraged companies delivering services.

Also, with these huge amounts of cash available from this giant corporations it seems possible they could find some other way to be part of the game and accomplish with regulations, as long as they assume the risk.
Nuclear can and will work with far fewer rules and fix cost once you next generation reactors with totally different operational safety requirements.

We are literally stuck with 50 year old technology in nuclear energy, as unfortunately progress has been slow.

With the fuel cost being basically free (thorium), the and the operational cost low because the system runs with little human intervention energy should actually end up incredibly cheap once we engineer these system in a better way.
What isn't good to get that kind of treatment.

The purpose of the law is to improve the quality of life. Nothing wrong with changing the law to further that goal. Just give the monolith a permit to make it legit.
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Grow more trees?
Yeah, a lot of people visiting NYC never leave a relatively small area of Manhattan. I don't mind walking relatively long distances (and I'm fine with taking the NYC subway) but on my typical NYC visit I never use anything other than my feet to get around. The same is somewhat true of London though I'm more likely to get on the tube there.

Added: It depends too on where you're going in the city. There are a fair number of US cities where walking works fine so long as you restrict your travel mostly to the city core, which people often do on a short trip.
The guidelines also say this:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

The word is slang, but it's described by multiple dictionaries with multiple meanings, and many include a definition that relates to people regardless of gender, based on their actions or behaviour:

> Used as a disparaging term for a person one dislikes or finds extremely disagreeable.

> offensive slang a mean or obnoxious person

> (a contemptuous term used to refer to an unpleasant person.)

It's funny that you didn't worry the comment where I referred to the exact same company/people/activity as "a bunch of pricks". Coincidentally, that phrase can relate to genitals as slang too, but it has other slang definitions... I wonder if these look familiar.

> A person considered to be mean or contemptible, especially a man.

> a nasty, obnoxious, or contemptible person.

Also, I can't help but notice that you replied to a comment where I highlighted the irony of a post complaining about me calling a company/CEO who undertook indefensibly scummy tactics "cunts", by suggesting that I "come off as a tosser".

What's the definition of that word...

> a stupid or despicable person

I didn't see you admonishing that poster for insulting someone else.

The original comment was clearly directed at a company, and those within said company responsible for specific actions.

If you're one of those people: I stand by what I said. The people who thought that idea up, and followed it through, are cunts, or pricks, or yes, even tossers.

If you're not any of those people, why the fuck do you care what I call them?

The world has enough problems without people getting offended on behalf of asshole CEOs and yes-men or yes-women reporting to them, because someone called them a rude word.
Using social pressure can solve this problem more effectively than being a clever designer. Take your lead or primary developer and move them to sit next to the people using the software. If they have any kind of human empathy, many of these problems will solve themselves.
Why even waste weight on battery at that point. That is a built in ups, not a portable device.
What about “whether you're doing the work”, or “whether your team benefits from you being in it”?
I switched back to Firefox as my main browser when containers (and Temporary Containers) were introduced.

The biggest issue I have with Firefox compared to Chrome is that even though DevTools is constantly getting updated, I still can't trust it. At all.

Try to use breakpoints for a bit and it quickly gets so tangled you have to close everything and start over to untangle it. Tangled how? Disabling a breakpoint and refreshing restores the breakpoint. Often there are ghost breakpoints remaining that you can't disable at all. I don't think I've ever gotten DOM breakpoints to work in FF, never had issues in Chrome. I can't even dream about using logpoints or similar.

Just today I was helping a coworker debug an issue using DevTools. We enabled break on exception and refreshed. Nothing happens. The console still shows the exception on every refresh. We click around and realize the Sources tab doesn't load anything. Again closing everything and reopening fixes the issue, but I hate to always have to suspect the DevTools first when debugging.

Another thing, which obviously isn't Firefox's fault, is that websites are optimized and built for Chrome, so you often get a degraded experience, if they work at all.

Regardless, I don't see myself ever going back to Chrome.
Unless you have a party line.
> impingement on their freedoms.

It's funny what terms we choose (framing) can do. "death tax" instead of "inheritance tax", "driver's rights" instead of "driver's privileges." People all too often forget that driving in public places requires a license, it's not a right, it's a privilege that has to be earned.
If you are the only engineer on a small team then:

1) You shouldn't be writing reports.
2) You should be at the meetings and a part of the team. It should be possible to say to business people there are '3 main parts i.e. web/front end, business logic, and data store' - they will understand that - and then to simply give a rough idea of timelines and complexities for each one without going into too much detail.
3) Your peers should understand this, when a team is small they have to have at least some understanding of the system. It's likely they are just bad at what they do, possibly from being inexperienced themselves.

I'm going to gather that the entire things is probably full of obvious problems, which is almost universally the case for young companies managed by young people. It gets papered over when 'some thing in the corner is blowing up'.

FYI larger companies are also full of bad practices, but they generally have some kind of baseline professionalism and systems that help them get through their daily operations which are baked in, and printing them money.

Chalk it up to experience, learn from it, move on.
A lot of people actually do
I think that depends on your goal. If you want to start a startup, the best place to learn is absolutely in another startup.

Not sure what you could only learn at a FAANG besides how to navigate intra-company politics, but I'm sure there's at least a few good reasons to be there.

Maximizing freedom and rate probably isn't one of them, though.
I see this kind of argument come up a lot when talking about copyrights and patents. This is not how that works.

If someone creates a derivative work (e.g. crazy colors), that new person does own the copyright in the new "crazy colors" version, but they don't own the copyright to the black and white version. However, the new crazy colors version contains the rights of both the old and the new author, so that in order to publish the crazy color version, they would have to obtain a licence to the original version or else be infringing.

In short, the new version has two rights, owned by two different people, not one.
The first I heard of this concept was in a book called "Eco-topia". Since then, I've seen it in a few places but they are always extremely touristy.

I would like to see things like this further from downtown, and less large.
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Best games don't tell stories - they generate them. There's no need to make games more like movies or graphic novels because we already have movies and graphic novels.
Is there a video showing how you fold up the screens?
> therefore affects the velocity of money in the network

That is very questionable.
also india has one of the worlds largest muslim populations, and india is also the most populous democracy in the world.

most people forget that india has been one of the most vocal countries regarding the persecution of the chinese muslim population. more so than for example turkey, pakistan, saudi, even US and EU has not said much about the muslims being put into concentration camps.

i would say blocking apps and starting sanctions would be the logical steps to take. much better than waging war i would say.
That hyperbole...
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I had a bunch of Garfield books as a kid, too. IIRC they were about 9”x6” and mostly black & white. I found them hilarious, I think for a couple reasons:

1. John was such a clueless loser

2. Garfield got so enraged at Nermal

3. Odie kept bouncing back

This was not a deep humor. It’s the kind of humor where you see a dumb, funny video on the internet, snort a laugh, and move on, completely forgetting it ten seconds later.
It still works, doesn't it? How would they know the laws on this planet?
What's weird is that I cannot see a connection between the attacks and the changes in law. Had these changes have been in place, would these have prevented the attacks? It seems like the French want to look "tough", without actually solving the problem and perhaps introducing a dash of more problems.
So, they make movie props, right?
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For just that weight of metal...not too expensive. To get it formed into that shape, potentially very expensive.

It looks like aluminum. Someone posted 23.5" x 23.5" x ~144" as the dimensions. This comes out to be 46 cubic feet, and would weigh about 7,700 lbs. A floor of the price would be ~40 cents/lb scrap price, or ~$3,100. Ballpark 80-120 cents/lb might be a more realistic price if it were straightforward to manufacture like that (which it's certainly not).

As an industrial engineer and former employee of one of the largest aluminum plants in the world, I can safely say I doubt it is solid rolled aluminum, and bet it would be way bigger of an extrusion that is possible. And logistically, it would be far easier to transport to a remote location via helicopter if it wasn't solid. Any machining, metal forming, etc. would require specialized large equipment, and would quickly drive the cost up, potentially an order of magnitude higher than material costs.
>people getting their groceries locally instead of driving in to the centre of a city is a good outcome,

No this is not. It limits competition (increases prices) raising the cost of living and reducing everyone's standard of living. When it gets so bad that the options for groceries start vanishing (because groceries are low margin) we call that a "food desert".

People shopping locally because the opportunity cost of shopping elsewhere is too high (as opposed to willingly doing it for the convenience factor) is very much not a good thing, regardless of the mode of transportation those people are using.
>rust is unusable for interactive programming because of this reason

I'm not sure I understand, could you elaborate more?