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In the last 10-15 years San Francisco gained a ton of residents that didn't want to be there at all. They moved there because the job opportunities in tech were too hard to turn down.

I had some friends like this, they just never really liked the city. Now they're all leaving because their job is not making them stay. That's fine and I'm happy they have more choices now.

But there's a flip side to that. One of my least favorite part of San Francisco was actually that group of people! I loved SF and I was always bothered by the constant complaining by tech workers who were there semi-involuntarily. They weren't willing to give the city a chance and instead always wanted to change it to be more bland or more like somewhere else.

If a bunch of those people are now leaving and the rent is dropping a bit, all of a sudden I really want to come back. I also think the city will be easier to govern if more of the residents are there because it's where they actually want to live.

(Note: I was in SF for 6 years, left just before the pandemic for a temporary assignment in London)
I own a Tesla with FSD. Can confirm, there is no self driving car.
A “mathematical phantom” is an object that does not exist, but acts as if it did
Forgot to mention - the calls did pick up in frequency so it seems like he did keep his word.
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Historically this is what game developers did, and the servers without anti-cheat enabled were rife with cheating.

When games switched from server browsers to matchmaking, they just defaulted to using the anti-cheat system.
Booster recovery isn't a mission objective. But now that you mention it, they did miss Mars so I guess they didn't quite nail it after all.
There are two ways to mislead to people: Omission and commission. Omission is not revealing true information. Commission is giving false information.

Journalists love to harp on commission, but I don't see them taking themselves to task on reporting things they don't like. Just look at what happened with Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept.
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All arts are a form of story telling, and all story tellings are a form of art.

What makes a story? Or better yet, what makes a good story? There're a lot of good answers for that, which means there isn't a one-liner fits all answer.

There is, though, a common ground for all the answers: stories are about all the different and complex ways we communicate, with ourself and each other.
The ancient paintings were epic. They were big, full of gods and battles. It easy for us to look at those and think that this is what people liked at the time, but the truth is that this is the only thing the knew. When Van Gough presented a photo of a simple room or a pair of shoes, it is not is paintings techniques (though very good) that was exclaimed, it was the message and the novelty: a pair of shoes also exist, and therefore can be an object of a painting - they deserve a story.

There are infinite amount of ways to tell a good story, but there is only one way to distinguish one: a good story will always stick.
The classic case I often heard is Kodak:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak#Shift_to_digital

It was a pioneer in digital transition but moved too slowly in fear of cannibalizing their film business. Ironically, today it seems printing and their legacy film are their strengths (and the consumer digital camera market is dead, shifted to smartphones) -- which seems to complicate drawing lessons. However, it could easily have invested in e.g. sensor manufacturing if it recognized early the potential of the transition and still be well today[1].

I think a good strategy is to fearlessly cannibalize [1] yourself yes, but don't abandon your strengths and expertise, instead use them to propel your new ventures.

[1]: I think a good definition of self-cannibalization is due. In this case, it refers to abandoning unstable businesses. For example, trying to hold a market by forcing out "better", newer devices (digital vs film) is unstable -- you're betting on blocking the adoption of a better alternative.

[2]: Sony appears to have done well, today the leading camera sensor manufacturer https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201007005124/en/Str...
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Popular artists may start to die much earlier with such legislation.
I wonder how a company that uses 100% open source software would comply with an order like this.

def decrypt_email?(email) do
email in surveilance_order_emails()
end
Typo: Hindley and Seldin ... silly phone autocorrect
Even better is to use an absorption heat pump powered by natural gas. You can also use this for cooling. This type of heat pump emits even less than an electric one.

Getting rid of natural gas is environmentally foolish, at least until we reach the fairy tale world where nothing is burned for energy.

Today though? This idea of "no natural gas", harms the environment.
it doesn’t have to be a fatal flaw. you “just” have to layer the protocol to give decent abstractions to allow diversity on top of each layer, so as each layer matures you just keep innovating upwards - like the ethernet/ip/tcp/http stack for instance.
Every city is special in its own way. Very few cities have anything truly irreplaceable, but it's a combination of small differences that make a city special.

My two favorite cities in the US are San Francisco and Philadelphia. Many people hate those places with a passion. To each their own!
It’s not unreasonable to believe that a system like this could exist, it’s unreasonable to believe that it was employed in this case.

Iran and the Arab countries like to prop up the near mythical capabilities of the US and Israel to avoid the harsh reality that their internal security services are inept.

From a political stand point it’s easier to sell to the people that some super high tech weapon was used and that there was nothing they could do about it.

The use of such high tech is pointless it complicates the operation as it requires you not only to have people on the ground but also the ability to move in tech or construct it in country which is much harder than you think.

It also ads a metric ton of additional points of failure with no benefit.

If you get only one chance and you can put boots on the ground that’s what you do, you aren’t going to delegate target verification to some “AI model” that is more likely than not to fail.

There is absolutely no reason to do this and no effective way of achieving this in theatre either.

Even if we take some of the accounts to be true like the source of the fire was a machine gun at 100-150m it makes no sense to set up some complex camera that will be able to get an image good enough for facial recognition in all conditions of a passenger in a moving vehicle.
Even if he was riding up front there would be no way of knowing that a head of time and any op that depends on such simple variables for success will not be green lit.

There are plenty of assets on the ground in Iran that would be willing to participate in this operation for either ideological reasons like the various resistance groups or for financial reasons like criminal organizations and Iranians turned into intelligence assets.

Previous assassination always used people including the assassination of Abu Muhammad al-Masri who was responsible for the US embassy bombing and was killed in Iran when gunmen opened fire on his car just weeks prior to the event we’re discussing here.

In fact the assassination of al-Masri is nearly identical to that of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, both happened on the streets of Teheran and both were as simple as see car, shoot car.
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Hahaha true. Maybe the Galactic Federation forced his hand some way.

Maybe in exchange for a Trump Hotel on Mars's moon Phobos?
Your reasoning has several holes.

First, the fact that they have the money to launch more satellites does not mean that they have the money to launch ALL the satellites that the full system needs. Indeed their projected cost for fully setting up Starlink is $10 billion dollars, which is more than the projected operating profit that they have had over their entire history. So it is easy to see that they won't be able to complete unless they get more money along the way.

In fact there is a significant risk that if they make less than they hope, that the company runs out of money and goes out of business. This subsidy reduces that risk, and therefore makes them more likely to complete, and likely to complete faster.

To achieve this purpose, the subsidy should be sized to help them over the hump, and not to pay all their costs. (Whether we should be handing out subsidies is a different question that I'm ignoring. Our government has chosen to, and the question is how to succeed.) Therefore there is nothing odd about the fact that it is less than 10% of the total amount of money that they think they will need. They aren't doing Starlink in the hopes of getting the subsidy. But the subsidy improves their odds of succeeding at Starlink.

And finally, you claim that the subsidy will only go directly to their bottom line. Which is to say that it shows up as profit and goes to Elon and other shareholders in the company.

It is true that plenty of companies operate that way. However after 20 years of running companies, it is extremely safe to say that Elon does not. In fact he tends to take every scrap of money that his company is generating, finds ways to borrow or raise more, and then reinvests it into even more ambitious projects.

So he won't be taking it as profit. What will he use it on?

Well, the three big projects that Elon is working on right now is building Starship, building Starlink, and preparing to settle Mars. Of those, Starship is required to finish Starlink at a price point where it is a viable business, and Starlink is required to fund Mars. Therefore it is essentially certain that he will pour this money directly into Starship and Starlink, rather than taking any of it as immediate profit.

Therefore we have good reason to believe that this money will be used for its intended purpose. We have good reason to believe that this money will in fact improve the odds of success, and enable them to deliver that success sooner. And therefore this money actually helps achieve the goal that the US government has set.
I'm speculating here, but I wonder if cargo is another factor. None of the early cycles had any obvious place for carrying anything. Regular people didn't have much reason to go anywhere by themselves. They lived at or near their workplace. Their social circles were small. Church happened once a week, if they attended that often. If you needed a vehicle, it wasn't to transport yourself, but to transport stuff.

I just read a couple of novels by Jane Austen. She describes the activities of the upper class, I believe in the 18th century. Now those people did transport themselves to visit other people, but her text makes it sound like a mile was a long journey -- if a woman walked that far by herself, it was talked about. Of course that doesn't tell us much about the lower classes.

Dickens sheds more light on the common people, at least in cities. Again, a person needed a reason to go further than their own neighborhood, and transportation in London seemed to have been seen as a service, rather than a product. If you rode in a cab, its technological drawbacks were someone else's problem.

Perhaps a reason to own and ride a bike would be if you worked in a factory that was some distance from where you lived, or for recreation. I've seen pictures of workers coming and going from factories, from early 20th century, and it's a sea of bikes.
Can't speak for Lyft leadership, but I think Travis and Dara have very different perspectives on self driving.

As for the existential threat narrative, consider that there are many places that sell cheaper/better food than McDonalds, and yet, McD is everywhere. I don't think technical merit alone is going to win the rideshare pie.
hopefully it fails and crashes in a populated area.
The package description doesn't do a particularly great job at explaining what this is:

This is the German "Coroana Warn App"[1], the official German contact tracing app but instead of using Google's Exposure Notification Framework (ENF) it relies on the microG implementation of the same API. It can either use a system-level microG implementation or fall back to the bundled implementation running purely as an app without any system permissions.

This makes the app fully free and 100% compatible with the upstream google based version.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona-Warn-App
At a busy park, festival, stadium, or emergency shelter you'll still be able to communicate.
Well, if you look at the volatility of bitcoin in particular, you'll see that it is decreasing pretty steadily. The first big bull run was very significant, 1000x, whereas the last bull market was only about 100x. The current one who knows, but it's looking like it will be about 10x. This volatility is a part of the price discovery process for any new asset class.

Fiat currency may appear stable, but it is not. It appears stable because it is used as the unit of account for all other assets in a country. In the long run, any freely floating asset will be more stable than any fiat currency managed the way modern ones are managed, via a central bank, provided that the supply change of that freely floating asset is predictable. Gold, for example, has a supply increase that is predictable. Central bank controlled fiat currencies are by definition not predictable in their supply, and this makes assets that are more suited to saving/investment, regardless of short term volatility. Nobody can empty your savings into their own pocket by printing gold or bitcoin.
Anonymous user "uniqueid", I forget which defense space agency were you head of?
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NixOS with amdgpu. Works really well.
It took a lot of work to make it performant on something like a switch. In the end I'm not sure if it's quite HTML/JS based anymore. I can't find the tech talk video where the porting guy goes into all his work to make it work on a switch.

Save yourself some hassle, just make your game with gamemaker, UE4 or unity if you have any ambitions of going cross platform in the vague future unless it's really simple point and click slow paced strategy games, a dating sim / story game or similar.
This makes a big assumption that the null check, which is the result of a programmer error, can be recovered. What would you do once you catch the null? Log that there was a null, maybe with some debug information, then halt? I personally would prefer a proper crash handler to do all of that for me.

I guess my question is, what's wrong with crashing, in the case of a real screwup, where something has gone horrible wrong, assuming you have a proper crash handler?
Have used both manjaro and ubuntu. Have used an nvidia gtx 770 and an amd apu on ryzen 4700. I'd say I've had a few issues with both, majority of problems can be resolved with a days worth of tinkering. Glad to have done that, have been casually gaming on mah linux for over 5 years.
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No, both of you are lying.

I claimed your location wasn’t sent, because it isn’t. An anonymous location is being sent.

You claim it’s possible they could de-anonymize the location.

That may or not be true.

Claiming that they are de-anonymizing the data when you know you have no evidence to support the claim, is a lie.

If you or he can prove Apple is de-anonymizing location data to track people’s individual travel history, I will retract this statement and apologize.

You cannot, because there is no proof.
because they have something tangible on their books producing value: the line for the cars.

without the self driving vertical promises, uber is a middleman with a booking app, and they're one squeeze away from tesla or waymo into irrelevance.
Wait, how is ride-sharing / cabs a dying industry? People are always going to need to get from point A to point B, and if anything, the younger generations are less likely to own cars. Public infrastructure is never going to fill the gap except in certain urban areas.
And even more expensive, when you factor in that us Canadian tech workers on the whole get paid much less, and Vancouver real estate is sky high.

Nice city though.
Good for you.

But I re downloaded it and it still doesn't work: https://postimg.cc/TygMLfX8
Are there any? It costs the Earth to build in America. It might not even be possible. Maybe you can assemble in America but it seems like a fool's errand. Like five people want this and they're also so obsessive about other things that they won't buy your stuff unless it's perfect anyway.
Are you using types in your JS Doc comments? If so, that's not vanilla JavaScript.
Yes, there is a difference between acceptance and ability to flourish. However, I found that ability to flourish is absolutely there and personally don't have that feeling of being simply tolerated. It's certainly possible where you live.
Not a lawyer and I am just speculating but in the US I believe it would likely result in the court compelling the maintainer of the libraries in question to comply with the original order, or issue new orders to compel the parties in question given the new information.
Personally I hate that I can converse with the project lead directly about my thoughts and concerns for the project.
My priors would say 99% odds he's full of it, but you have to admit that if he's not (and if he really was the head of Israel Defense space division, makes him 1 of a very few people who would know), then this would be the biggest story in the history of the earth.

So shouldn't we at least take a look? The Top Story on HN right now is about a finance deal between Uber and Aururo. Pretty sure that even though that one is almost certainly true, it's expected impact on the world relative to this is zero.
> It’s obviously not really appropriate to compare the Librem 5 and the Pinephone spec for spec.

If you still want to do it, check this: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p....
IBM "Midrange", aka AS/400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i

They were an interesting - but dead - sideline of computing evolution. I never used one, but they had a interesting object-based (instead of file based) operating system.
makes sense.. they can do that now with the new bill they got passed after massive campaign
Yes, it really is about the tech.

Firstly, bicycles need pneumatic tires. They need serious pneumatic tires that hold pressure, and withstand temperature changes. Not having good roads is a factor; but you can address that with good, wide, durable tires. The inner tubes have to be reliable, and reparable. Tires are not feasible without vulcanized rubber. Rubber that is not vulcanized turns soft when hot, and when it's cold, it hardens and cracks. It is not durable for road use; it will quickly abrade and peel away under braking.

A bicycle made using wooden wagon wheels with steel rims is not feasible. It's not just the atrocious ride quality. It would not be safe. A bicycle tilts when it turns; it needs a wheel with a rounded profile, not square. The wheel must provide traction, otherwise the unit will skid easily. Hard wheels are suitable only for vehicles with axles: carriages and trains. A bike without tires could not only not be used on a dirt road; it wouldn't even work on a varnished wooden deck.

The drive train of a bicycle, such as the chain, requires considerable skill and tooling in machining. This was not available until well into the industrial revolution.

Ball bearings used in bicycle bearings, such as the bottom bracket hub, have to be manufactured to ridiculous precision.

You might as well ask why did we wait for so long for zipper fasteners---those teeth are so darned accurately shaped and clamped onto the cloth tape.

For a good part of the bicycle era, bicycles were commonly used on dirt roads. Their tech had to be good enough for it, though.

Before you can even solve the tech issues, someone has to get the idea: the idea that it's feasible for a human to ride a single-track vehicle. It's obvious now; almost anyone can learn to ride a bicycle, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. You would not suspect such a thing, in a world in which bicycles don't exist. (Physicists likely knew that a rolling wheel is stable, with equations to prove it, but that doesn't translate to an intuition that people could easily become riders of a contraption based on that stability.) However, the idea didn't take long to arrive after the technological feasibility. It's not the case that we had a feasible design for bicycles in place for hundreds of years, which only waited for the industrial revolution to arrive. The ideas come from experiments which are enabled by the tech.
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I have a 12 thread 64GB RAM VPS for 30 euros a month

Honestly, ssh for running commands + mounting ir locally(SSHFS) works great for me, but I never was able to install FUSE correctly on Windows and it's a bit annoying to install on MacOS(third party kernel module)

I mainly run some code on it and the occasional gameserver so I have no need for a GUI though I have been entertaining the idea of using Rancher to maintain docker/k8 stuff

Technically my laptop is higher performance then the VPS but running my docker env alone takes about half the memory I have (16GB)
> The rest of it: I'll let you have the fact that the VAT in California is called "sales tax"

No, the sales tax is called sales tax. VAT and sales tax are structurally different.

> it's the highest in the US, FWIIW.

That's true if you talk exclusively of the state-only rate, which makes no sense to use as the basis of comparison; for statewide average combined state and local sales tax rate (the average rate people actually pay for sales tax in the State), California is #9, behind liberal utopias like Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama, among others. (Not only is California not the highest for average combined state and local sales tax, it's nowhere close to the highest for peak combined state and local sales tax, that is, the maximum people actually have to pay; the source I have doesn't rank this way, but from inspection it looks like Illinois with a statewide 6.25% and a peak local additional of 10.00% is the top there.)

https://taxfoundation.org/2020-sales-taxes/
I’m pretty sure their App Store has a 5-6 year old bug where kids are prompted to use their (child) PIN to authorize purchases instead of a parent’s PIN. I haven’t tested it in a long time though.

I tried to make a video demonstrating it a couple years ago, but VBox video recording mangled it due to a bug. I found it amusing that one bug preventing me from demonstrating another bug.

I tried figuring out how to report something like that to MS and gave up. It’s way too much hassle.
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I am a new AT&T fiber customer and have noticed that connections to random places seems slow. New connections in general. There seems to be no pattern, even across udp or tcp. I assumed there was just bad connectivity issues. Any more details available on what is happening? Like, what bits are getting flipped?

I might have to go back to the local cable company if this continues.

Anyone experiencing this in SoCal?
Can't speak for Uber... but yes. Just having an app does not make you a tech company. Tech companies tend to build stuff.