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Walmart is ruthless. I think with Amazon’s recent dominance people may discount Walmart but long term I am bull Walmart. They have a long, storied history of being the most brutal capitalists that recent history has ever seen. I think a great example of this is this old article: https://www.leanblog.org/2006/01/man-who-said-no-to-wal-mart...

I could absolutely see a reality where they went all in on drone tech simply because Amazon treated it as a secondary possibility.
> This is one of the most important skills to learn as a developer: when to add a comment explaining the reason for some non-obvious code — and also how to write it so that enough context is given for the future reader, who may not have the same understanding that you have of the rest of the codebase and the business requirements.

I have the benefit of working on a team with impressively rigorous review habits, and the detriment of being comment-averse when I write code (because I’ve more often than not been bitten by comments that are plainly wrong but only in retrospect).

So this probably doesn’t apply to most, but here’s my heuristic for when to add a code comment: did someone ask a question about it, or something which could be traced back to it? That’s it, the whole comment strategy. I answer questions people actually asked. At which point I generally provide a lot of detail, because if it’s worth asking, it’s worth answering in one place or at least providing a single frame of reference to jump off to other contextually pertinent details.
The usual price cycle is MSRP at the start of sales, then a few sales at some retailers, then slowly "old model" sales, when a new model comes out, and finally "final sales", when they're trying to get rid of the stock, and we all know and expect that.

If you buy a car for 50k, and it's 30k 6 months later, while still being a new model, you feel screwed by the company, and next time, you'll delay your purchase until the price drop (even if the price is a good price and won't drop). As before, if the price drops after a new model comes out, people understand that, but if the price drops regularly after a few months the product is out, that's a whole different story.
HN has been talking so much about layoffs lately I am getting scared

Just moved countries and not to keep my job for a year so yay shitting my pants
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How presumptuous. I’ve worked with all of the teams involved in this specific incident over the past 12 years. I’ve helped lead incident response for much larger breaches. I know what’s involved. And the moment you’re aware customers have had their passwords exposed (even if hashed) you come clean on it and empower them to take mitigating action so that they’re not unduly exposed longer than they need to be. You probably even consider forcing password resets for everyone.

As Heroku did, in its own hamfisted and still too slow way.
The removal of cross app communication was a UX improvement for the average person. When Discord rolls out a new feature, you can trust it to work for everyone on day one. There is no querying available features for the other side, it just works. And you know it shows up how you imagine on the other side every time.

IRC spent most of the last decade rolling out the V3 spec which came with hard hitting features like logging in to accounts (SASL), away notifications, showing the time a message was sent rather than the time it was received by your client.

Still working on signing up for a new account on the todo list.

The glacial pace of open standards like IRC is the reason proprietary tools which can just get things done took over.
They're a library. Their ability to serve binaries isn't dubious.
Apple already has the most valuable brand

https://www.forbes.com/the-worlds-most-valuable-brands/
yeah the big deal at the time was the 15 year old that tried to pull a mini 9/11, his mom sued the manufacturer of Acutane (later dropped) and it spooked a bunch of parents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_Cessna_172_crash?wp...
Neon – Serverless Postgres
Moons-16
There are some advantages to suburbs but again, the model of development that literally bulldozed neighbourhoods was that any alternative was bad. It was quite literally seen as the way of the future to have low density suburbs connected by gigantic highways.

Either way car-centric suburbs are unnecessary, you could still have American suburbs with big houses that people could walk and cycle and use PT in. Again, I was responding to someone who literally had it out for walking.

It's interesting that for a country so obsessed with the freedom to live where and how you want that Americans are so car dependent...
Hume's Real Riches
Nope, Bayer is the norm, but there's still some Foveon cameras that are typically rather slow to produce images.
I think this article fails to grasp the scale of growth that can occur. If we disassemble mercury, and make it into conservatively the landmass of 28,000 Earths. This is a tiny example of the projects we can undertake.

If we play the next millennium right, everything about the humans of today can seem tiny by scale.

https://www.upgradingoptimism.com/p/disassembling-mercury?s=...
It's taking forever though, they are encountering many issues to scale to 35mm.
Yeah, that’s the only one I recalled seeing. And nothing at the time of a database leak with emails and hashed passwords, nor a backup that included access to private repos.
I suspect something will come of it but it won’t actually be blockchain in the end. The reason SWIFT is difficult has nothing to do with technological reasons.
Yea but it’s like you said there’s an opportunity cost. And if you don’t have a strong following, so therefore a lower probability of success, that calculation is even worse.
Canon still makes their own sensors, don't they?
That still costs more than buying a non-Tesla EV.
This makes me feel less crazy for the black electrical tape on all the LEDs.
Absolutely, absolutely agree. Out of all of the things I own, the little monitor-top lightbar I have is at the top of my list for cost-to-life-benefit ratio.

If I forget to turn it on I always why I feel so gloomy.

Seriously get one, even if your lighting is otherwise nice.
Modern hosting platforms have made this less viable. AWS, Azure, and GCP will just integrate this as a one click service at a cheaper price than the actual development company can afford and drain all of the profits out.
Not having to live near you. I'm all for people who don't like cities not living in them. I hope you've acted on your opinion.
or just use commercial NGFW which uses combination of ASIC and specialized compute cores to decrypt and inspect traffic inline and block threats. They are very capable, but very expensive
Also https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
The website you linked is a wonderful advert for the OP
Last I checked you can download permanent copies of old roms on archive.org. I don't know how that's legal, I've always assumed it was just that nobody cared to DMCA any of it. I'm fine using it, but if you're being a huge stickler for legality I don't think it's clear.
I agree completely, unfortunately some APIs (DOM events being a good example) make this unknowable or at least impractical on a timeline one or more commits forward. At least as far as I’m aware, there are no static analysis tools which can find “events which might reference this”. Which isn’t to say your point is hopeless, just that a better strategy is to comment regardless of known cross cutting concerns and get ready to hope.
Hue lights are not bright, if you want bright lights/color look at Lifx lights and can be controlled by Wifi.
There is no such place in the US. And SF is not it either. San Jose appears to be steadily improving, though this is not a recommendation at all. This is my perspective traveling and living around the northern hemisphere awhile, including substantive time in SF. Manchester NH is within an easy Uber ride of BOS and may be of interest. Winters aren't so great but you can easily fly as far south as Puerto Rico, which has massive crime problems and barely functioning government. There are obviously various options in between. My opinion is that the US is generally inhospitable, SF included, and is unlikely to change substantively in the next several decades. California could start banging out housing, improve transit and reform healthcare delivery and it would probably take at least 20 years to catch up... to what you'll easily find outside the country. America is at the stagnation point in transition through institutional and socio-economic cycles based on what I understand and the solutions aren't super clear at the moment--at least not as clear as the problems.
Ah so you did your day job too

That makes sense
Every school does that already. New schools are built with vestibule entrances and surveillance systems.
It works in that you can't be exploited by a drive-by WebKit exploit, a la TotallyNotSpyware[0] but with a malicious payload instead of Cydia.

0: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/TotallyNotSpyware
Not "negligible", but yeah, relative to the opportunity cost of a $50k+ vehicle, it's pretty much noise.

Over the year I've owned my Model Y, it's driven 11k miles (including three 1000+ mile road trips) and per TelsaMate[1] 70% of its charging has been on my home electricity service.

[1] One of the hidden gems of owning these vehicles is the amazing community of analytic software you get to play with.
I just moved NYC to Florida and I've been shocked how many other people have done the same. Florida is doing a relatively good job of attracting high end tech talent as far as I can tell. Texas is the other place I hear mentioned a lot.
Well, if you literally owned every dollar in existence, those would become worthless pretty fast, too.
PS5 is $400. It's got a ryzen 3700 and 2070 equivalent GPU. There's no chance they're getting those two parts for less than $300 given the chip shortage, and the remaining parts cost at least $100, plus manufacturing.
Oh my gosh, after getting some I will never go back to normal lights. I was pretty vehemently anti-smart-stuff, before I experienced the benefit.

The newer ones are pretty bright, too!

I am really, really hoping that quality, adjustable lighting like this continues to come down in cost and continue to improve.
And if you're lucky to have solar panels too, then the marginal cost of charging the car remains free.
I'm not going to use rocket while it's proprietary so it's effectively the same as if it didn't exist.
Problem is that EV (at least in CA) has huge upfront opportunity cost, depreciation, $500/yr registration, and hefty insurance cost because it’s a $40-$50k car.

It’s going to take a lot of ~$0.10 miles (like 50k/yr?) for a $170/yr registration, $25/mth insurance 10 year old Prius to cost as much as an EV.

Granted: new vs. used car, and used EV will become cost efficient in a few more years.
There is clearly a major use case for “cyber-money” as the new cash. What we used to call freedom we now call “privacy” and while BTC L1 is not all that private really, it at a minimum makes people feel like they have more privacy than using their Visa and not bothering to email the NSA their bank statement directly.

If they’re buying drugs for personal use? I’ve got no beef with that, the various legislatures are constantly changing their minds about that, who am I to judge?

If they’re trying to buy a hit on someone? I’m sure the authorities are on top of that with or without BitCoin.

As you can read on my sibling reply I think it’s more nuanced even than that, but to play Devil’s Advocate: even if BitCoin’s use case was only to seem a little more like cash and therefore feel a little less crowded by the equation group putting full-take on every traffic light they drive past, is that evil or bad or a scam?

Fuck I’d pay a lot more than gas fees for a truly private phone call.
> How do you calculate the "most likely character to appear next", if not by memorizing lots and lots of existing sentences?

Well that's how languages work right? Words are the most common sequence of letters.

But that doesn't mean it's regurgitating parts of sentences it had previously seen anymore than I'm regurgitating when I'm typing this.

Mechanically it has learnt both syntax of language and how concepts relate. So when it starts generating it makes sentence that are syntactically valid but also make sense in terms of concepts.

Thats really different to just combining bits of sentences, and it gives rise to abilities you wouldn't expect in something just cutting and pasting bits of sentences. For example, few shot learning is mostly driven by its conceptual understanding and can't be done by something with no way to relate concepts.
Have LifX come back from the dead yet? They've been struggling super hard to get products back on the shelf and their support has been like, comatose, according to Reddit etc

I really wanted to try their products because I hear the color bulbs are INSANE, but they were always out of stock, never on sale, and I heard so many horror stories...
I really like what’s happening with SourceHut[^1]; that aims to make a lighter-weight, very self-hostable forge.

How many of the problems that these decentralized systems aim to solve could be in large part mitigated by more self hosting? For sure, there are some technically desirable aspects of decentralization: higher resilience to data loss, etc. but the problems of centralized, closed-source, freedom-destroying services can be affected quite a bit by running your own $service.

[1]: https://sr.ht/
Completely agree, fantastic lights and worth every penny, their CRI is high enough to fill out the visible light spectrum nicely - you don't get any "indoor greys" and they seem to last forever, several of my bulbs are over 10 years old and still working perfectly.
It’s less of a concern for most application devs than it used to be, but still a very widely used technique in libraries/frameworks, because it provides a huge performance boost and vastly simplifies those use cases.
These retailers are selling much more than just the PS5. The customer relationship matters a lot to them. I doubt sony would let them upcharge even if they wanted to anyway.
Really interesting. I've seen so much disagregated database work, and so so so much of that exposes postgres interfaces. But all the good stuff has been closed source!

I'm very very excited to hear about a team taking this effort to postgres itself, in an open source fashion! From the Architecture[1] section of the README:

> A Neon installation consists of compute nodes and Neon storage engine.

> Compute nodes are stateless PostgreSQL nodes, backed by Neon storage engine.

> *Neon storage engine consists of two major components: A) Pageserver. Scalable storage backend for compute nodes. B) WAL service. The service that receives WAL from compute node and ensures that it is stored durably.

Sounds like a very reasonable disaggregation strategy. Really hope to hear about this wonderful effort for many more years. Ticks the boxes: open-source with a great service offering: nice. Rust: nice.
Having retail partners did not prevent Apple from protecting consumers from scalpers while manufacturing ramps up enough to meet demand.
Did the cell phone replace the towel?
Can confirm. I just spent many hours trying to diagnose why an API was timing out. Turns out Snort blocked the IP address of the certificate authority which chrome was secretly using to verify the API's certificate. My local machine had the verification cached but the docker container I was using did not. No indication of what was going on in the top-level network tools; I had to use the hard-to-find network diagnostics recorder in Chrome to even realize chrome was connecting to the certificate authority.
In Australia, Telstra (formerly publicly owned telephony company) has a regulatory obligation as the primary service provider to maintain pay phones which are reasonably accessible to everyone in the country. As of August 2021 they are free for domestic calls.

From the outside it looks totally backward to get rid of pay phones. You don’t use them until you need them. It costs little to maintain them and on balance it is a social good.
>I know it's taboo to say this, but in many real world use cases, memory safety bugs aren't that bad and have the severity of any other logic error.

I don't think it's true of many real world use cases and if anything is only true of perhaps trivial use cases, where an application is run on a computer that has no other sensitive information and is not connected to the Internet.

I think what's true is that many programs don't ever reach a point where they're popular enough that someone can reliably exploit it. The threat of memory related errors has not much to do with use case and more to do with whether someone cares enough to identify that error, can reliably reproduce it, and whether the application that exhibits that error is on enough computers that exploiting it is profitable. If those three conditions are satisfied then it matters not whether the program is a video game, a word processor, an image viewer or whatever.
> If you can get value from buying now and using now, then it's not worth waiting. If you can't, then you didn't have to buy in the first place.

It sound like you're in the second category, then. If you really belong there, that's fine.

But honestly, I got a DDR3 machine towards the end of DDR3's lifecycle, and I have no regrets. I used the CPU/Mobo/RAM for more than 5 years, and by the time I upgraded, DDR4 got fast and cheap enough where I felt I got my money's worth from both my initial purchase and my upgrade.
> as usual, efficient price discovery tends to be viewed as evil by consumers

This is the whole story. You can tell that game consoles, baby formula, and GPUs are under-priced, because it is worth spending hundreds of dollars and hours/weeks of dev time /on top of/ the too low price, just to get your hands on them for resale.

I think people get confused, because the effect of a spike in demand or a decrease in supply can look the same, from a pricing standpoint, as collusion amongst multiple retailers - but we're not talking about gas stations across the street from each other agreeing not to sell below X price, this is a massively distributed phenomenon, which again goes to show that it is a genuine reflection of the mis-pricing of goods in the current market.

The real tragedy when it comes to shortages of goods with inelastic demand, like baby formula, is that the various price gouging laws that prevent traditional retailers from correctly pricing items in the face of shortages, do nothing to actually control the price - in fact, they introduce a lot of inefficiency, and opportunity for counterfeits etc. I would much rather pay triple/quadruple at Target or Walmart than pay 0 because I'm looking at an empty shelf, or pay quintuple to some rando on eBay who may or may not actually be selling a genuine product.
Because blackout curtrains are more accessible. I live in an apartment and probably couldn't install a rolladen even if I could afford it. You can get good blackout curtains for less than 20 dollars.
Scalpers aren't a "business" in that sense. They have no fixed costs, so they can just ramp up and down as needed. Most of these scalpers are just dudes with a spare bedroom and some code they bought.
I disagree. This version more vividly explains what's happening, making it easier to visualize, similar to illustrating an algebra problem by using easy small numbers instead of juggling variables.
Nothing any of us do today will exist in 500 years, but I suspect Beethoven's Ninth will continue to inspire.
> In these cases, I got my answer in the commit history. Someone added an event.stopPropagation() to one event handler and then others copied it to their event handlers. I think they had the same issue I had – they did not know why it was there. They assumed it served a purpose and copied it.

This phenomenon is one of my favorite terms in software: Cargo Cult Programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
even more reason to keep up with projects like keystone xl
it won't work for devices/website that do certificate pinning, device won't accept MitM'd certificates, only original non-intercepted certs are accepted

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/an-introduction-to-pinning/
Why should price gouging luxury goods even be illegal?

I can at least understand the motivation of such laws when it comes to essentials like food or water (although many would argue that such laws do more harm than good by erasing market signals), but inability to run the latest video games in 4K isn't an emergency.
> At EPA specified 33.7kWh equivalent per gallon of gas

As others are pointing out, this analysis is assuming that the EV and the ICE vehicle are using the same amount of input energy to travel the same distances, and that's not true at all. A median EV is 2-3x as efficient by this measure, because even a cheap motor gets you to 90+% efficiency, where even a well-tuned piston engine running in its sweet spot is going to be around 30-40% due to thermodynamic losses.

Basically: car exhaust is really hot, that's all waste energy, and EVs don't have exhaust.
> Is a "synthetic gallon" unit really the right thing to measure here? It seems like $ per distance traveled is more appropriate.

I think the value of the MPGe equivalent is glaringly overwhelming, in that it provides a real, truthful, honest & physical equivalency that can grounds understanding & give us a common scale to measure with.

We should absolutely think about filling up with electricity in an equivalent way to thinking about gallons of gas. That most electric cars only have ~3 gallons is a feature of them being so efficient. But when a gallon costs as much as it does, that should also be visible and notable.

I don't want consumers having two totally decoupled notions of usage. There needs to be some way to think-laterally across electric & gas cars. Being able to understand that gas prices are way lower than electricity prices- as they are- should set off alarm bells. Justifiably. Energy is God's Honest truth. Value is imaginary, a far far downstream happenstance of infinite cofactors. The gallon-of-gas equivalent is absolutely a brilliant move, grounds us to something truthful, & is how we should think of things.

Shout out (again[1]) to the Technocracy Movement, which in 1937 proposed an Energy Distribution Card[2], to represent energy consumption embodied in the products & items & work of the world around us. Having a science-oriented, grounded frame of reference to begin to approach reality from is a win, is an opportunity to get humanity thinking straight, able to actually understand a complicated world, simply. Because it's true & honest & real.

Only when things are comparable are they real. Money hides, not enlightens the impacts & comparability.

Edit: it's been slow for me to accept, but I realize the truth might dissuade people from considering EVs, based off the $/"gallon" idea. I guess I'd say it's important to emphasize the reciprocal end as well: that their 68kW car only has 2 gallons of "gas" capacity. (That's where all the people up-talking MPGe/efficiency circle back around into being right!) Still, I think the uniform scale is incredibly important, makes real something we otherwise could never understand- it emphasizes how massively more efficient E's are. But the prices also could dissuade. But I don't want to dissuade people. Electric cars are awesome. But we need a ground-truth to compare across.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31525240

[2] https://www.technocracyinc.org/the-energy-distribution-card/
Given that at least 2 federal agents were doing very weird and illegal stuff while working to bust Dread Pirate Roberts, the verdict and sentence have never seemed legit to me.