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I would love to see a minimalist electric car with no air conditioning, no LCDs, cloth seats and hand crank windows.
Obviously, it’s a terrible idea! Unfortunately, every nation or deeply resourced actor exercising complete restraint forever is probably not a Nash Equillibrium.
Those are the terms of the debate because it keeps people at each other's throats and prevents progress.
Ask HN: How could I buy physical goods anonymously online?
On Amazon or such, nothing particularly special or dangerous or even expensive, even not stuff that would be particularly shameful, but stuff that I would prefer not ending up for sale at every data brokers in the world 15min after the checkout.

Obviously, I'll create a temporary email, use a virgin IP and cookies container, but I need to provide my name and address for the shipping.

I was considering obfuscating my name or my address slightly, such that the post can still find me but that exact string match would fail such that data brokers could not match this account with me.

Otherwise there is the PO box system but it's relatively expensive and complicated, enough at least that for the rare time I would need it, it would not be worth it.

How good do you think would be the obfuscation system, would it really resist the data brokers algorithms? Is there something else I could do?
You touched on a possible answer to this question. Android phones tend to be taller and narrower than iPhones, so there’s less need for a special mini device. Also, as an iPhone user I find Android is better optimised for large screens (you can swipe in from either edge to return, buttons are lower on the screen etc.)
They consent to work in that environment.

Which hey, I'm glad they are there, but it also isn't "nothing to do with" it.
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At 3 weeks you could essentially leave now. If you wait any longer it becomes a gap on resume.
It’s not being weird with money. Commuting costs have no bearing on the point that I am now paying for things that companies pay for if I’m going in to an office. The overhead for an employee is typically 100-250% of their salary, and this is because it includes costs like monitors, desks, equipment, and energy usage. With employees working from home, that overhead cost has reduced and eliminated in some cases but is not returned to the employee. Some places do subsidize work-related costs at home.

Not commuting may reduce the cost for the employee but it isn’t relevant to the specific argument because those costs were never seen by the company.
Cost of all U.S. wars versus cost of coronapanic
It’s just a piece of software they’re trying to monetize. Not sure Microsoft would make more money if usage were higher without doing things like this. I agree that it’s annoying, I use and like the browser.
> if they aren't maxing out their bandwidth, then it makes similarly no difference that you use it

That is a big assumption right there. The neighborhood streaming 4k cat videos from youtube could make a massive dent, and I can easily use all the bandwidth I have for my own needs.

That's before we consider the potential consequences of them "borrowing" my IP address and all. Of course it's on me to keep my network secure so I don't let that happen, but in theory they could find the next vulnerability that lets them in.
A dark world where Bitcoin payments have gone mainstream
Lol, nice to see the MS of the 90s is still living strong behind the facade!

inb4 "but they had pinky promised they've changed!"
Man, it must suck to not really own the car you own...

I hate it enough with my computer and phone.
Let say you go and pick up a loaf of bread from the store. You don't pay, however. Instead, you have the bakery send a bill to your "buyer." Your buyer then negotiates the price. One thing about your buyer: the more revenue that flows through them, the more money they get to make. The bakery tells the buyer that the cost for the loaf of bread is $500. However, the buyer wants to keep you happy, so they reject the price, and come back with a lower price: $350. The bakery rejects the $350 price, and eventually, the two parties agree that the price should be $400. (Note, that other bakeries, where you buy directly, charge $4 for a loaf of bread.)

The buyer gets to say they negotiated. The baker doesn't have to look you in the eye when they gouge you.

It gets a little more complicated,though. Instead of just paying $400 for the loaf of bread, the buyer bundles the cost of all the purchases together, and then charges a monthly fee, based on the previous year's overall revenue. They then tack on 20%. So, it turns out, with that extra 20% you're actually paying almost $500 for the loaf of bread anyways.

Is it a scam?

Yes, it's a scam.
While I don't think this is a Parliamentary train (see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288130 ), the earlier Wikipedia link, under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_train#Former mentions Chester - Runcorn as a line "formerly served only by a Parliamentary train" running "Summer Saturdays".
Here is the website to find newer issues of this report in the future. It seems to be updated weekly:

https://www.kbv.de/html/corona-report.php
If the schema id is the message id, in principle it could be an issue as the protocol on the wite would be ambiguous. Then again, you should be able to detect any collisions when you register a schema with the schema repo and deal with it at that time.
Don't take it as a Gospel. Can read the original sources, they're readily available - plus lots of secondary commentary. This has since forever been a topic of study in humanities, commented by historians and philosophers, and so on.

It has been tagged as a negative of Christianity (this celebration of the victim, the slave, the weak, etc.) as early as pagan-apologists like Porphyry, Celsus, and as late as Marx (who considered "universal human rights" a christian-derived bourgeois concept, lacking in radical value for true communism), Nietchze, etc - and in modern times, from (Thiel's favorite teacher) Rene Girard to Tom Holland (of non-spiderman fame, the historian: https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/999890853505060864 ).

>"Paganism" doesn't really refer to anything coherent.

In this case, it refers to the Graeco-Roman ancestor civilizations of the western civilization. Though we could just as well include the Germanic tribes, all the way to the Mongols and so on. No much pro-victim mentally in the Mongol Empire either.
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It's not that it struck a nerve, it's just that you're wrong.

If the neighbours want absolutely no heat escaping, they need better insulation. Similarly, if grandparent wants less than 19°C, he needs better insulation himself, or he needs an air conditioner. Everyone stands to lose in this situation, but GP just happened to found a sensible balance that works for him and saves him money.

And I would be pissed too, but I can't blame them. The issue here is clearly lack of insulation.
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History says otherwise that that’s always the case.
20% of Chrome market share in ~1 year is not that bad IMHO. The new Edge is fairly recent.
I catch myself recent years of trying to propose a forum for communications at company or for my startup project. However I stop myself after 1-2 tries many years ago because I feel like team won't accept it. Maybe I'm a fatalist, but feels like some (often younger than me) people want instant communication, instant result, instant reward. In everything. Probably it's good, not sure. But a Forum concept does not fit into that world, unfortunately.
Any latest models with Android 11?
With homeowners insurance you usually have to prove there was some visible damage or evidence of forced entry in order to make a claim from a burglary. That’s because the homeowner has a duty to prevent and mitigate losses. I can’t leave my front door unlocked and say “Take whatever you want! I can just make a claim to Allstate!”

But that seems to be the preferred approach to cybersecurity at some companies...
> This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited their internet time (e.g. disconnect from internet if writing a long email response, etc.).

You can remove the "probably", it was exactly for that. Most often then not you would write offline, send the email (which would go in the "outbox") and then later on you would eventually connect to the Internet and send/receive emails.
thanks to bring attention about canola oil, worse than palm oil. It is a genetically modified oil, invented in modern time to remove toxicity of the original property.
I think the appeal of the 13 mini is that it actually has all the interesting features of the bigger phones (minus 120 hz and ProRes), just in a smaller phone. I would agree that this is true for the SE, though, but it's also significantly cheaper.
It's rare to see JS libraries releasing on bower nowadays. Is there any particular reason that was chosen over NPM?
It feels like a very "enterprisey" way of thinking. Where business deals and partnerships take precedence over user experience. I'm reminded of how the Java installer bundled (or still bundles?) an Ask toolbar for some reason.
Yeah, that always seems to be the problem with embedded DSLs. Eventually you need to know your way around the host language.
The book was pretty thorough, but not thorough enough. It failed to cover how much he intervened in US politics to cover for, enable, and protect a military dictatorship that was carrying out a massive political cleansing in Argentina, in which over 30,000 people were "disappeared". He's about as evil as they come.
Insurance coverage can be conditional on sufficient efforts being made. Insuring against ransomware should come along with a list of preconditions & random security auditing (sure, there'll be some stupid rules like "no having port 22 open" but if you want your own security rules you can do that without insurance). Comparing physical security with cyber security is facetious. Anyone in the world has to make a serious effort to break into my home, & they'll have to do it on Canadian soil. All for a pretty lousy pay off. These incentives are not the same in software security
I've been on the precipice of dumping Edge based on their constant re-enabling of the shopping popups, this might be the shove from behind that makes me jump.
I have to imagine Russia is unlikely to launch a full scale invasion of the entire country at this time, the response by the west would be too great of a risk. I do however think that Russia will continue to test the waters in smaller scale efforts like they do with flying their jets in or near foreign airspace.

The whole goal is to reduce situational awareness as western nations become numb to their actions. Eventually they could launch a larger offensive and catch NATO on the back foot. Russia overall seems far more willing to engage in full scale conflicts than China, and western nations need to take them seriously.
At coalition, we scan the infra when deciding to make an automated quote or do a secondary manual review. So being able to have data about what the possible insured actually has in terms of hardware and practices (MFA, backups, etc) is very valuable. When we decline, the applicant gets the reasons why for the decline, and they're free to re-apply after implementing fixes and good practices.

We're not demanding perfect security. We do ask for good practices and evaluate risk from there. Security does not need to be expensive, but many places see it as second or third tier priority until shit hits the fan, and _that_ is where it gets prohibitively expensive. Penny wise, pound foolish.
> I believe the joke is on us as technical people. We twist ourselves into knots to promote this new development model as a technical innovation, which it really isn't.

Not only that but the joke is on technical people for promoting a model of severe vendor lock-in. Its doubly funny when you often see the same techies complain bitterly about "walled gardens" on their smartphones !

If $cloud_vendor doubled their prices tomorrow, what are you going to do ?

If $cloud_vendor decided to kill-off a product tomorrow and replace it with another one with a different API, what are you going to do ?

In most cases, the answer to the above and other scenarios would be "suck it up and swallow the expense".

Sure you can shift the expenses from CAPEX to OPEX and construct numerous business cases to convince the boss that the cloud is the next best thing to sliced bread. But at what cost ?

Of course there are some use-cases which are genuinely well suited to the cloud model, but they are in the minority. For many business the cloud is a case of "if the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
I suppose that Android is most popular in the mid-range category, which I assume it's where people who cannot afford/or doesn't want an iPhone use their phone as their main device. They need a device that excels in content consumption/gaming, and maybe even work - you probably don't want to watch a movie or play a game in a small screen -, so big is probably better here.

I think people looking for smaller phones think of it more as a secondary device, they have bigger screens on their main devices (desktop/laptop/tablets).

I have an iPhone SE (2016) and I'm looking for a mid-range compact Android device that doesn't weigh ~200g, but I'm giving up. Between availability in my region (or the lack of), phones without development/custom ROM support, and cost/benefit ratio, I'm left mostly with imported Xiaomi devices that a few years back we'd call "phablets".

I've been wanting to replace my iPhone SE for more than a year, even tried a Samsung Galaxy S10e (Exynos version) for a week, but it didn't feel like it worth the price for what I wanted.

The only "compact" Android phone available officially in my region is the Asus Zenfone 8, which is the price of an iPhone 12 Mini, and then it doesn't feel like a good deal in comparison.

There are some seller refurbished Pixels (3, 3a, 4a) on AliExpress, but from some comments, it seems they're using parts with questionable quality.

> but it seems that phone makers who usually copy Apple on everything, just skip this idea at all. If anyone has thoughts on it or a compact model to recommend I'll be glad to hear.

I was also hoping that the iPhone Mini would influence Android manufacturers to make compact phones, since they seem to follow in almost everything else, but seems it won't be the case, unfortunately.
> The only countries in Western Europe where there's a lot of freedom to camp are Scotland, Norway, and Sweden.

If Sweden counts as Western Europe, we might as well add Finland to this list too.

Besides a few exceptions (military bases, the border zone, a few protected natural parks) you have an absolute right to camp anywhere as long as you don’t cause more than minor harm to the landowner.
I do not trust my CPU provider. Where do I find an alternative based exclusively on free software?
Yeah, Fusion was the name. Last I heard, they discontinued it, saying essentially "If you really want a full Lisp, there's already Clojure." S-exps continued to be used in Ion for embedded 1-liners but they only supported a handful of operators, not a full language.
Something I've been curious about (not asking for legal advice). If the deadline to report is 60 days from the statement/notification of the transaction, what about accounts that only issue statements quarterly or monthly? Is it really still workable to contest a transaction say 10 months after it occurred, if the bank has only just issued you a statement?
I have no problem if a kid in that situation decides to not put in the effort. I also have no problem if decisions to put in more effort yield better outcomes.
I don't use these services, but it's hard to see this as anything but a value judgement against "buy now pay later" schemes. If we set that aside, and (for the sake of argument) recognize this service as value-adding for many users, it does seem to be in line with the rest of that feature (the option hooks into Chromium's autofill/payments integration, so you'd usually see saved credit cards here).

In fact I don't really see what the difference is between this and a credit card (where you do pay later, after all, hence "credit"). Is it that it shows even before you've signed up for Zip? So it's equivalent to asking if you want to sign up for a new credit card. I guess that's somewhat annoying. And being unable to disable it is also annoying, but equivalent to the exact same schemes I see baked into the merchant site all over the web.

Does anyone know why Zip isn't already implemented as a credit card with delayed interest rates?
If you read the protobuf source, you can see a bunch of places where you can hook in custom type-fetching code, e.g. in the google.protobuf.Any type.

After studying it a bit, I'm certain this is how it's used inside Google (might also be mentioned elsewhere).

All you'd really need to do is to compile all protos into a repository (you can spit out the binary descriptors from protoc), then fetch those and decode in the client.

It'd actually be quite straightforward to set up,
Exactly. If neighbor doesn't want their light "stolen", then they can use a curtain and stop throwing the light onto the street. If they don't want rats to "steal" their peanuts, they can grab them from the bag without dropping and leaving a handful on the road.
Making access to a vehicle dependent on a cloud service also adds security vulnerabilities that didn't exist before to real world objects. Perhaps Tesla should partner with the MPAA to create a public service announcement about this. I can imagine:

"You wouldn't steal a web server..."
Y'all are too kind in saying that the video "doesn't give the complete picture." Their answer is wrong, the right answer is 1 second.

To see why, consider the same problem with the wire cut at the far end...
I got in fantastic shape and was less successful with women than before. Getting strong and fit is great, and I highly recommend it, but it really, really does not fix how we feel about ourselves.
You can switch over to Waterfox.
5G is one of the criminal. Now most non-low end phones are required to have 5G on spec sheet for sales (I don't think it really needed for now). But having 5G requires more antenna and drains more battery. It makes difficult to make smaller phones. Finally, battery consumption would be solved in the future. I don't know about antennas.
University of Bristol is in the UK? Why no archeology from US universities?
> If you update your CPU microcode to something that can't be checked, you're already sacrificing security.

You're not sacrificing security, you're making a tradeoff.

If I update my CPU microcode to something I can't check myself, I'm explicitly choosing to trust my CPU provider, under the assumption that the risk of a microcode-based attack from my CPU provider is smaller than the risk of a cpu bug-based attack by an unknown attacker.
Agreed that this isn't about tech, but I don't think it's about CAPEX vs OPEX, I think it's about purchase / billing friction.

"Engineers buy, managers oversee" is the killer app.
The base model of EV6 doesn't have most of these fancy features.

There are simpler EVs, e.g. Peugeot e-208 and Renault Zoe are "normal" cars with an electric motor.

There's also the new cheap Dacia Spring that has nothing fancy. The base model doesn't even have a touch screen, and looks like a car from the early '90s.
Ask HN: Your VR Tech Stack?
I would like to build an idea I have in VR. I am working on getting up to speed in Unity.

I am curious if you work or dabble in the VR space, what tools and tech stack do you use?
Very, very interesting idea since this is probably easy to retrofit to houses that don't have room for elevators.

But I think the video does a poor job of marketing the product. Too much "storytelling", they spend too much time "laying pipe" and the payoff is marred by "artistic" shots where clarity would serve better.

And you can kind of understand how poorly the video is edited when the top comment is about the video not being scrub'able in that web page.
Does anyone know how it did this? The article of course gives no specifics. Is it more efficient? Faster charging?
The company had over 100B in revenue last year. By adding this sleazy anti-feature, Microsoft is sacrificing its reputation and the quality of a high-profile product for probably a few million? That's a few thousandths of one percent of their total revenue. I don't understand it.
Ask HN: How do you move up the career ladder being a senior developer?
I'm employed at one of the big software giants as a senior engineer. Life has been good so far, except that a sense of job stagnancy is creeping in. I talked to my manager about promotion and moving up the ladder to take on more complex projects, and he said that moving from senior to upper levels is not easy, and irrespective of skillset it takes time and patience (plus the usual take ownership yada yada, most of which I'm already doing).

I'm almost 40 and there is like an ocean of people in the same boat as me (in my current company), many of them with half my experience. So, I feel like completely stuck on how to get ahead of the pack.

I've taken full ownership of decently sized projects (in terms of complexity/scale), with hands-on execution, leading the team all the way from design to the production deployment. I've tried giving team wide presentations on tech topics, took part in hiring drives and so on, but nothing seems to make any difference. I've also tried applying to other teams within the company, but they are ready to take me at my current level, but not for a higher level.

I often see people reaching the positions of architects/tech fellows at these large companies at just 10-12 years of experience, and I fail to understand what exactly did they do right. Is it all about luck/being in right place at the right time ?

There's the obvious solution of moving to a different (albeit much smaller) company, but I like the work life balance, tech stack we use and some other perks the company provides. So, trying to see what I can do here before giving up and moving on to a different company altogether.

Any/All helpful comments is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance !
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