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Yes, the plan is to use that cash until we take pensions from 55 (or probably later if the gov moves the age forward); I meant the pensions weren't included in the €500k I quoted, which is a mix of cash, stocks, bonds and P2P lending.

I'm pushing 40, so there's another 10 years to build up the cash/stocks/bonds/lending pot further, and another 15 to build up the pensions further (well, hopefully of course). Might even choose to retire before 50, since I'll have enough that I'll have the option of trading off yearly withdrawals vs working longer.

I think my point still stands: software engineers in Europe earn less than those in SV (and it's important to remember than SV is an outlier even on the US), but you can still live a very comfortable life, save a lot, and retire early (even if not quite as early as 50), all while working far fewer hours and living in a society that provides free healthcare, education (including higher education in Scotland) and unemployment safety nets, and where society looks out for everyone, not just "number 1".

Edit: forgot to also say that the company pension has not always been as great it is now, and to also mention that 2/3 of our pension pot is actually in person pensions (SIPPs).
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I think what it is saying is that the gravitational effect of a mass depends on the gravitational environment in which it exists. So a given sample of mass warps space more or less depending on whether it is near other masses or not.

I’m not a MOND theorist though. That’s just my generous interpretation of that statement.
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You definitely should! Is it alright if I copy this comment onto my blog underneath this post in the "comments" section?

If you do write such a post make sure to let me know so I can link it from mine! You could write a response "here's how I'd do all the stuff in that post in Powershell with no extra tools" that would be very cool :)
What about the added 30% fee when you charge at non-Apple charging stations?
Can someone explain in more granularity why this change would be damaging for Facebook?

Naively, I would assume that after someone logs into the Facebook app, Facebook knows who they are, and thus there would be not much additional benefit to more tracking information.

Is this about being able to track in third-party apps that use the Facebook SDK or run Facebook ads?
I make sure I understand the problem and the desired result.

I consider if I can break the problem down into simpler problems.

I want to have a map in my mind, or in notes on paper, so I’m writing code according to a plan, rather than writing code in hopes a plan or solution will happen by accident.

Measure twice, cut once.
Ah, I can see that reading now. Thanks for the clarification.
Feel free to substitute the Python version of getting the first and rest of a list (well, the array that Python calls a list). My comment is not about names, but semantics.
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It's interesting that this mentions lithium iron phosphate batteries as a "breakthrough technology". That echoes what BYD in China has been saying recently.[1] Lithium-iron isn't a new technology. It was popular for industrial power tools for a while. It is safer than lithium phosphate, not being prone to thermal runaway, but has less energy density. BYD has been able to get the energy density per unit volume up, but energy density per unit weight is still lower than lithium phosphate.

The article also suggests that Apple would have a "manufacturing partner". After all, iPhones are made by Foxconn. So this may just be Apple selling BYD cars outside China. BYD sells more electric cars than anyone else, including Tesla, but has been having trouble getting into the US market. Apple can help with the marketing end.

[1] https://youtu.be/dIt5z4wT9RE
What does "accessing content ID" mean? The article says they did all that to gain that access, but doesn't mention what is it or what do they gain by it.
The BBC micro was expensive, and much more capable than anything Sinclar ever offered (prior to the QL, and, in its case, not by much).
This is an interesting observation but I'd argue there certainly cities where cycling is a norm (Amsterdam, Copenhagen) and cities that are increasingly turning to 2 wheels as a way to solve density (Paris, Berlin, Oslo). I think the UK, like the US, suffers from the idea of cars being a status symbol. I've no idea how this works in Tokyo for example, would be good to know their approach to cycling as an alternative, but pedestrianisation of areas and city centres are what we should certainly strive for.
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I love to improve on every aspect of programming. On every field you can become 10 times better and combined it is just awesome to be able to provide solutions that defend against changes.

For example lately I have created VSCode extension to show myself messages with things I don't remember or that help me code without Googling all the time.

The result is great because coding is much much faster and streamlined.

The extension name is Assistant: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tomasz-s...

But also there are other areas to pursue 10x speed. For example navigating in an organization, getting necessary information fast, vetting ideas fast with client and team. Going for good solutions rather than partial ones. I love programming for that. You can become better and better all the time. And when everything clicks, nothing can replace that feeling!
There are many options.

For us, the approach is to use multiple instances of the monolith deployed simultaneously (listening on different ports) and to move traffic using a purpose-built software load balancer that is part of the same solution stack.

The load balancer software is an extremely simple concoction based upon the exact same primitives as our main application (AspNetCore). The only intelligence is in looking at request trace ids to determine old vs new routing.

A deployment can be resolved within a few seconds using this approach, even under heavy load.

We use a single VM per customer environment and are able to effectively realize zero downtime during business hours. We are granted maintenance windows after every business day and over weekends, so it is a little bit easier than if we were managing a credit card transaction processing system or similar.

To be fair, our approach only works because of how integrated we have our entire vertical. We went all-in on writing our own way to build, deploy and manage our own software. The persistence mechanism was developed with all of this in mind.

We are moving beyond all of this deployment magic though. There is a bold new configuration-driven realm that we are entering into which quickly begins to obviate the need for frequent & disruptive software deployments in the first place.
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We went from a Model S to a Model 3 and this is my only complaint. The steering wheel stalks are terrible on the 3. But are perfectly normal on the S.

I prefer everything else about the 3.
The matter really turns on the rate of progress of Tesla technology vs. Apple (or anyone else).

Tesla's lead is large enough that the established auto companies still (as far as I've seen) don't have compelling strategies for closing the gap.

As a technology company, Apple comes at the issue from a different perspective, and arguably, one with much more overlap to Musk, et al.

Batteries are notoriously difficult to innovate. We've seen story after story for more than an decade about breakthrough battery tech that doesn't or hasn't materialized, but the lead that Tesla has built has been by making a series of more-or-less incremental improvements to their design, coupled with the pricing benefits that come with the highest volume.

Do you believe that Apple has a battery technology that Tesla either is not aware of, or, is working on but not succeeded yet, or, has taken a look at and dismissed?
The thing is the car is not my butler.

I shouldn't say to my car what I want the car to do, I should do it.

Also, I listen to loud music when I drive.

Imagine you are driving and the kids start activating car functions because it's fun.

Thanks but no thanks.
There's conformal gravity, which replaces the Einstein field equations with ones derived from a conformally invariant action. Like MOND, this allows you to fit rotation curves nicely without invoking dark matter, see eg [1][2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0188 (2012)

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03152v3 (2018)
This article should be No. 1 on HN.

For a week.
Also Apple gets a 30% cut of everything you buy while using the car. /s
edit: Math mistake in the blog post, now fixed and updated. I was missing a '1/2' that you have to multiply the entire product of the coins by.

-------- old comment enumerating all possibilities:

You can see the example is correct by enumerating all possibilities. For coins with a 75% bias, you can represent the possible outcomes by "HHHT". Which means the set of possible outcomes for 2 such coins is:

HHHT x HHHT =

HH HH HH HT

HH HH HH HT

HH HH HH HT

TH TH TH TT

That's 10 instances of HH/TT and 6 instances of HT/TH, or a simulated coin with a 10/16 chance of heads = 0.625 bias.

Two 80% coins looks like:

HHHHT x HHHHT

HH HH HH HH HT

HH HH HH HH HT

HH HH HH HH HT

HH HH HH HH HT

TH TH TH TH TT

Which results in 17/25 outcomes as 'heads', or 68% bias for the simulated coin. Which supports the statement that mixing biased coins is always an improvement.
All of that will of course be resolved in the next 12 or 24 months.

Too late for Apple, at least in this iteration. Once they have completed the AS switch they could contemplate another one in maybe five years, if there's some advantage. Even in two years, before developers build too many arm64 assumptions into their freshly-ported from x86 code.
That's a lovely looking design. I am on-board with that.

I was talking about the interior but I would agree that there is room to improve, especially as start thinking about what driverless cars will look like.
This is actually rather cool. There are some templates for making accessible some desktop apps, though they are made on case by case bases. I had an idea for using ml to substitute the templates for some really inaccessible desktop apps but my ML skills and money for dataset creation are a bit smaller than Apple's.

Hopefully, the approach becomes a standard, because with the advance of AR and VR accessibility could be really screwed in the not so far future.
An interesting thought - cars are becoming an appliance and offered -aaS (as a service). Could Apple also disrupt the offering model for cars with an entrance into this market?
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Isn't that how the entire stock market works? Valuations based on net present value of future projected earnings. You just need a story about future earnings that enough of the market will buy into. Both Apple and Tesla have enough track record to credibly tell such a story.
It is possible, and easy, to have two virtual environments with a different python version in the same project. I am doing this right now with a long-lived project, where a deploy script uses python 2 and everything else python 3.
This feedback is me working out loud the problem if I have solutions to offer the RFC itself, but I would happily apply that feedback to the RFC itself if I did feel like I made headway toward the solution.
Ask HN: Well paid but trapped by job title?
I've been working at a pre-IPO startup for 4+ years now, and it's grown rapidly (I came in as employee #25, and we're now over 500).

When I first joined I came in as "Front-end Developer", and over the past years I've lead many successful large projects, and have been a dedicated employee. All this had lead to me getting a good amount of pay raises, I'm now leading a team of 15 developers, and I'm relied upon to lead many of the important projects for the company.

The issue is, my job title hasn't really changed over the years (basically it's now "Lead Front-end Developer"). In fact, as we've grown, despite asking to be considered for promotions, the company has only hired from outside for higher level positions in engineering, and mostly given me raises instead (to be clear, it's not just me that they haven't promoted, other iOS and backend developers also leading teams have not been promoted as well). When I've asked if I could be promoted, I've gotten a vague "maybe in a few years" response from them, and to be fair to them, I was never promised a promotion from my position, I just assumed if I worked really hard and showed my value, eventually I'd rise up the ranks of the company.

From what they've told me, it will be probably be at least two more years before I'll grow any higher at my company, and because we're growing so fast as well, the people we are hiring for the next positions are also way more qualified than me (former VPs of Facebook), which I'll never be able to compete with if I'm being honest with myself.

All this makes me consider leaving for another company, but because I haven't been promoted very often, but I have been given raises, any position at my same "level" will be a huge step down (for reference, the average Front-end Developer salary where I live is 50k/year, and I'm at 150k/year + benefits).

All this feels like a huge 1st world problem, but it's really been painful for me. Anyone in a similar situation that can share?
Unless the website it got leaked into ends in ".ru"...
CMIIW, by being trustworthy enough to get access to content ID you can automate takedowns at will or demonetise videos at will instead of via reviewed DMCAs.
There were quite a few other factors that led to the decline of streetcars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

One of the biggest is that people actually like living in suburbs, and they could afford to do so after WWII.

The promise of the suburbs is a detached house, with some private outdoor space like a back yard, in a quiet area: essentially what the rich had always preferred and been able to afford. That lifestyle became broadly available to the middle classes after WWII. It's hard to blame people for wanting that.

People still like living in suburbs. They still like owning cars. They still vote against new transit projects for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is that they don't want to pay taxes to support a system they would not use themselves.

So I just don't buy the idea that the National City Lines conspiracy caused our current automotive culture. I think we would have ended up with the same car culture anyway, because huge numbers of people wanted to live in the suburbs.
I have a zojirushi cooker that has served me well for nearly 10 years with no signs of giving up. I use it for all kinds of stuff, all the time. I spent around $250 CAD on it 8 years ago, and considering how convenient and high quality its results are it has been great value. If it broke I’d do a bit of research to see how he market has changed, but I suspect I’d end up buying another zojirushi. Maybe even the same model.
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Agreed, gron is a fantastic tool.

Earler today I was looking at some deeply nested structures which had leaf nodes with a field named "fileURL", and values that were mostly "https://" but some were "http://". I needed to see how many, etc.

cat file.json | gron | grep fileURL | grep http | grep -v https

... and presto, I had only four such nodes.

Would've been a ton more work to get there with just jq.
Hi!

Tonight, we celebrate two things:

- The Winter Solstice (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere).

- The release of the Quantum Lab (alpha) by Quantum Flytrap.

After months of hard work, we have a smooth simulation of up to 3 entangled photons, a rigorous quantum measurement, and a multiverse tree explorer.

Tech-wise its Vue 3, TypeScript, Rust, and WASM.
oh wow cool I didn't know about gron!! Is it alright if I add this comment to the bottom of my post?
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I agree with you here. A phrase that always echoes in my mind when discussing cosmology is

"All models are wrong - some models are useful"

The farther you venture from the verified useful section of a model (by which I mean - the farther you are from model predications that have been validated with observational evidence), the less you should trust it - ALL MODELS ARE WRONG!

And for most sciences - this isn't a huge deal - we can do lots of observational work easily right now. For cosmology... well - our observational data on the history of the universe it just astoundingly, mind-bogglingly, miniscule in comparison to the events we're interested in.
Practical safety is a car that slows down when I'm moving too fast toward an obstacle because I am distracted.

Talking to electronics does not increase practical safety.
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I recently wrote a short example based gist for a specific health care use case (evaluating FHIR data) using jq.

https://gist.github.com/joshgel/12082d23a75feaab5d405db31981...
https://waymo.com/waymo-one/
And this post didn't mentioned custom functions, where things are getting more interesting :-)
https://acalustra.com/jq-functions-modules-and-dotfiles-tips...
Actually in the movie [SPOILERS AHEAD] a wealthy man, wanting to start a new life, decides to fake his death and frame his wife for his murder.

His wife is subsequently tried for the murder that she did not commit, and found guilty. She then goes to prison and serves out the sentence for this murder. While in prison she learns that her husband is not actually dead and instead had framed her in order to start a new life. So after she is released from prison, having completed the sentence for her crime, she then proceeds to track down and publicly murder her husband.

Because of Double Jeopardy, she can not be tried again for the same crime of murdering her husband. She had already been found guilty of it and had already served the sentence for the crime. She argues that it is not possible to murder the same person twice. So she is simply acting on the crime that she had already been convicted and punished for.

If she were to go murder her friend or colleague after getting out of prison that would be a different murder and Double Jeopardy wouldn't apply. But murdering the husband that she has already served the sentence for is the same crime she already was found guilty of and can not be convicted of again.

A Famous REAL LIFE example of this would be OJ Simpson. He was found NOT GUILTY in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and friend. Since then he has basically publicly confessed to having murdered them (via an interview with FOX). He has also written a book where he writes in detail how he "would have" murdered them. His book publisher has also come out and claimed that he admitted to the murder to his publisher. The reason he can be so careless about these confessions is because he can not be tried for this crime again. He was already tried for it and found "not guilty" so even if new evidence (or a full-blown confession) comes to light, he can not be tried for it again under the protection of Double Jeopardy.
Joined a company in 2000, got 14_000 shares at $4.75/share. Company went public that same year, and stock climbed to over $50/share. I was a black box QA Engineer w/ barely any work experience and I was sitting on ~$750_000 USD of paper money. By the time I started vesting & could sell, the stock price was down to about $12/share, and I started selling everything I had vested. I ended up w/ maybe $25K in cash. A few months later the stock was at $2/share & it never back above my stock price.

A few years later I joined a company that gave me about 15_000 options at $7/share. Less than a later, the stock was over $55/share. I made pretty good money on that one.
I love how you're being downvoted here, for having a different opinion.

My primary account got auto-shadow banned because I got so many downvotes that my karma went a lot below zero.

With the risk of this account going the same way, I want to add that even the ad part of Facebook is a net positive to everyone involved.

Targeting allows small businesses to advertise their niche products or services... and helps the user be aware of the product or services. Before Facebook, the same thing existed but in a different form. You as a small business owner would have to buy placement in niche TV shows or radio programs or a local niche magazine... but for some small businesses, it could be a no go because they'd have to consider a much bigger than required marketing budget. Targeting solves this problem, for small businesses and for users who get suggested the things they're likely to buy and use. In fact, it's not just good for users being targeted, it's even better for those who are not being targeted because they don't have to be bombarded with products they'd never be interested in.

The reason Apple is deciding the default for the users when it comes to Facebook learning about the user is to deliberately hurt small businesses and give their users fake sense of "privacy"... and to not let other platforms flourish.

Apple needs to be legally challanged for monopolistic practices i.e. disallowing users to choose what software they get to run on devices they purchase. Users should be able to download and install Microsoft App Store, Samsung App Store, Epic Games Store... and install any software they want. Why is Apple allowed to restrict what software users can run? Apple is big and too much of a monopoly. Its hardware and software divisions need to be separated and other companies should be allowed to license and sell their hardware with whatever software they want. Users should be able to choose what software comes with their devices.
1000% this. Bill stuffing is a gross abuse of power and one of the worst forms of cronyism and manipulation.

It makes me want to run for president with the promise that I'd veto any bill that touches more than one topic to force Congress to either solve specific needs or to force them to come together to obtain a veto-proof majority.
I hope not. The Standard Oil-ification of Apple just seems like it'll lead to another weird all-encompassing behemoth that'll have to be hacked to pieces at some point.

edit: Standard Oil was the company I was thinking about but the structure of it will be more like General Electric
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I'll try to remember!
as a <1x developer I create most of the problems myself.
Eagerly awaiting a response from all the Muskian know-it-alls when Apple confirms their hardware/software relies on LIDAR.
Ok; One thing that makes this not obvious is that common lisp is a huge language, and scheme is a small one. And since common lisp is multiparadigm, you can work with it in ways that are very much not not like scheme. But you can also use a subset with a very similar paradigm.

Some of it is philosophical I suppose. Fundamentally they are both lisps. Both opinionated about what that means, but they are lisps.

The fundamental objects in the language are congruent. I find them quite similar for REPL driven exploratory design, in a way that python never quite gets. Although there is a deep schism on macro hygiene, they both have deeply integrated macros. They both allow for clean functional approaches and deep recursion in practice. Both get low level enough to get decent performance from the language itself (unlike python).

I guess what I'm saying is I can write CL code that feels very scheme like in approach and also is comfortable in the language. The same is not close to true of python.