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>If Hindus were so bad as you want to made out to be

I stopped reading there, when you pivoted from defending viewpoints to attacking the person you're discussing with

when you need to misrepresent what I've said so early on in trying to make your point, it means your point is bad -- twitter-discussion-level-bad -- so keep such discussion misbehavior there, please
What about WWII, do you wish the US would have stayed out of that?
I think the above comment is largely targeted at the many character attacks against Musk and less so at commentary on the legality of this whole Twitter thing.
I guess at some point almost everyone inherits.
I agree with you entirely, my point is that in the rest of the world many people would not feel comfortable using that contribution to justify a parochial perspective or ignorance of the rest of the world.
I hate seeing this premise. It is railfan navelgazing. I like rails and ride them frequently. Rails are not the future for passenger commuting, outside of the middle-long distances that heavy rails serve.

What AV addresses is primarily a last-mile problem. Last mile is all about the personal transport solution, and cars are just the largest of those. The physics and geometry of cars means that they are more expensive because they are literally more mass being moved around. Bikes and scooters have become much better personal transport recently because they now have electric assist options, and so are more accessible for more situations and capable of pulling heavy loads. So the problems of cars are already being addressed from one end; bike-friendly infrastructure is lagging behind in much of the world, but it's also one of the cheapest changes you can make to a road, and far cheaper than adding a new metro stop.

Once AV is adopted, the physical economics remain the same, but the economics of rental change; you don't have to go where the fleet is, it shows up at the door. But that doesn't result in everyone riding a personal limo. Smaller is cheaper for personal transport in the last mile, and that does not change just because you replaced the driver. Cost reduction will take place in shared rental fleets. Cost reduction means cars get smaller, so car infrastructure can get smaller, so last-mile alternatives gain space, so transit gains space and ridership. AV is not in conflict with transit, rather, it redefines the bottlenecks of transit modalities. If you need a sit-down vehicle with a cabin for your trip, you still don't need additional empty seats - unless you pay a premium, you will be crammed into the lightest, smallest thing that is roadworthy. Only an enthusiast will bother with lugging a huge vehicle around town if you can rent that size on demand. That goes for the car and it goes for the train. You still want to have transit to cover longer distances along major corridors, but the effective coverage of all stops is bolstered if you can pick up a bike or scooter share at either end of the trip.
I use an M1 MacBook pro for work. I’ve had no problems in general. There are few wrinkles with python development. The main thing is about various data specific libraries getting ported over. Most of the problems are solved with a quick google though.
Their argument is that there are fewer houses being built. In the long term, this will constrain supply far more than rising interest rates will push down prices.
it's not an attack, you are always pro starlink and I'm always anti starlink (in a business sense). there's nothing wrong with different opinions. I just don't agree with the comments that the latency, speed, or cost will stay the same in a positive way.
do you take deductions on your personal tax filings or voluntarily deny them?
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Been using a 14” MBP for a few months now. Best machine I’ve ever owned. I don’t care that much about the CPU perf, but that’s been praised to death online. What amazes me is the SSD perf and battery life.

Some docker containers are still problematic, but most native software and dev tools work flawlessly.
It appears to me that there is little policing of plagiarism.
We've implemented Compose in production for a few months now. It's actually been my favorite new thing.

Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay.

The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probably better to try building something, paying for a book, or just reverse engineering something off GitHub.
> Single family houses may go down in price -- but we all know that isn't really what people care about if they're buying.

But sellers do care deeply about this number. If they added on a $50k garage, they want to see that money come back. It may cause some potential sellers to decide to become landlords instead.
I know a ton of people waiting for prices to drop, but so are investors, and hedge funds, which to me means they'll never go down.
How much RAM?
Elon officially trying to back out of Twitter deal
this article is hilarious:

1. go generics do this one thing
2. therefore they are good

Go generics are better than no generics but they're still limited, and that frustrates me.
Fair enough: psychiatry is not a field in which I am an expert. To the extent that I have a diagnosis, it's nothing more specific than 'this behavior is starting to remind me of Elvis or Michael Jackson'
As of 2021 years ago HN ran on a single server in production, plus a hot-spare server https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 (reconfirmed 2021 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469566)
It was a DIY gun.
If you are powering with hydro/solar/nuclear then you are consuming electricity that could otherwise be used to reduce the load on a natural gas power plant somewhere else
Elon Musk walks away from $44B Twitter deal
Some back story: I bought a top-of-the-line X1 Carbon ThinkPad for ~$3,000 3 years ago. Within 1 year of owning it: the USB-C charging port broke, the fans started whining, so I had to open/adjust the case, Windows Hello never worked (?), the fingerprint sensor was wonky, and the battery ended up lasting around 5 hours with a realistic workload. This was after owning just about every top PC laptop brand out there: Alienware, Razer, a nice ASUS I had when in college, etc.

I bought my M1 MBP around a year ago. It's now 4:30pm, and I've been using it since 10am, sitting at 50% battery without plugging in at all. Everything just works. I even installed Steam and can play some games on it. I hated the idea of owning a Mac and have fought tooth and nail until I finally bit the bullet. It's literally the best laptop I've ever owned and I am never going back.

My gaming rig is a different story, but for productivity on-the-go, there's no comparison.
I use my M1 MBP for professional development, for which I have also been using my 2014 (5K) iMac.

The MBP is fine. Before it I had a top-of-the-line Intel MBP which was a detestable piece of shit because of its shameful keyboard. And of course Apple compounded the offense of the "butterfly" keyboard by depriving "pro" customers of an entire row of keys and replacing them with the embarrassing emoji bar. I HATED that computer, almost entirely because of the keyboard.

The newer (old-style) keyboard is merely OK, but it hasn't caused me to pound the shit out of the computer to the point where internal components started to protrude through the back cover. It still lacks a real Delete key, but that's just Apple being petulant babies.

The physical design does repeat an absurd blunder, though: The USB ports are, AGAIN, so needlessly close together that you can't use two adapters next to each other. WTF, Apple. WTF.

Performance-wise, I haven't stressed it too much but Rosetta seems to work admirably. The biggest issue is the unfeasibility of running Windows in Fusion on it, but I guess I'll just get a Windows computer at some point.
BMAA toxin targets the olfactory bulb region
WSL is not superior, just another interface to do the job. And why not do the job on Windows while using known commands?
So they will not send an email to my work email box for me to click on a link for verification? Them sending an actual email to my email account is what I’m worried about.
This was an issue at my university last year.

Some seller was downloading PhD theses for free from the university, and selling the as ebooks.

They uploaded thousands of theses across several large fields.

It lead to the university taking legal action to remove all infringing material off of Amazon.
Yeah, appears to be something like that. Very convenient for me.
I've had a M1 mac mini for about a year now. It's been a really great machine, dead silent (never heard the fan), super fast and responsive. No complaints really, software mostly seems to have caught up to the new architecture. I do most of my work in JS/TS, React, etc. Don't know if I'd buy a M1 mac mini right now though, feels like a M2 refresh is due soon.
HN just lost 10% of it's users. Being down for hours is unforgivable in this day and age with cloud providers. Please get with the times, your a tech site for god sake!!!
Sure, so the most direct answer is that a belief in self-driving cars that are safe and reliable and accessible isn’t grounded in any current evidence. We’ve spent a few billion on development and spun up dozens of companies and so far accomplished - relative to expectations - almost nothing. No self-driving trip across the country, like Musk thought we’d do years ago. The self-driving fleet in SF keeps breaking down.

Maybe in the future it’ll suddenly go from bad technology to good, but in my mind it’s like betting on generalized AI or small-scale cold-fusion nuclear: it could happen, but not a great idea to bet the farm on it.

Second. Car form factor is inefficient. Are we doing 1-seaters? 4 seaters with 3 empty seats usually? So every car has four wheels, its own computer, its own engine, and so on? In intersections, even with self-driving technology that does not exist currently and is showing no signs of existing any time soon - even with that technology, you’re still threading individual cars through each intersection? It’s not great.

Third. I’ve seen no evidence that the people talking about self-driving cars as a shared or car share-like resource actually believe in it. Remember Musk talking about how public transit is gross because other people breathe on you? Or the tendency of Americans to treat their cars as sacred property, so much that they’ll get in a fistfight with anyone who touches them? Transforming self-driving cars to some sort of public-ish transit requires just as much worldview shifting as actually using public transit, but none of the benefits.

So: if self-driving cars suddenly exist, sure. But right now, there is no baby. There is only bathwater.
> And independent bookstore doesn’t even mean much to you because the whole reason to care that it’s independent is because it functions as a community space.

Buying from a local independent bookstore is good for more than just supporting them for providing a community space. Buying from your local bookstore also means giving your money (at least in part) to members within your local economy.

It also means not giving your money (at least in part) to Amazon.

Both of those things are a win.
> Yes, Gaming doesn't fly

How? Most games work and they work great.
For work I have a 2019 16 inch MBP with an i9-9980hk which was the last high-end intel model they released.

My personal laptop is an M1 Pro MBP and it runs faster, quieter, cooler, and has over twice the battery life.

That said, for both machines I do a lot of c++ compiling and the difference would be far less noticeable if I wasn't regularly running the cpu at 100% for significant periods of time.
I'll work pretty much everywhere with any tech in any domain but never on something significant without tests. You spend all your time putting out fires. It sucks the life out of you.
How does saying that demand increased more than supply reduced in 2020 contradict the idea the the overall size of supply in in-demand parts of the country is lower than the overall size of demand in those areas? Like, if you look at 50-year price histories in SF or LA, how can you conclude that supply has kept up with demand?

I think we've now just seen that same pattern catch up with more places. I know people in Austin and Houston who were complaining that prices were already getting too high before 2020. That's where the folks priced out of CA were going even then.
> Why can't we make economy work with less working people per retiree?

we can make any kind of economy we want (its a human invention after all) which then makes the answer a lot more political (there are many intertwining interests that don't want/cant change)
> It's a shame that this guy is the figure that will take humanity to Mars

That's just more BS from him. He'll just keep kicking the can, resuming the project with some spectacular stunt every time he needs it. Everything Musk does or says is just a performance to manipulate the markets.
the reception rasorry, but "aimed at" sounds suspiciously weaseley, and your focus on how it was received, rather than how it was presented, even moreso.

did the video actually tell people to kill or not?
If you work with the Python math/science ecosystem (sklearn, numpy, tensorflow, pytorch) there are some teething issues, especially with legacy codebases stuck on older versions of TF (Rosetta doesn't support AVX). It's great for Java/C++ though.
My worry is that as financing becomes more expensive, institutional demand will replace retail demand. Institutional demand will be driven by a constrained supply which will in turn drive up rent prices.

I fear a future where houses are nearly exclusively bought by institutional investors because the amount of capital needed to secure a reasonable mortgage will soar and banks in turn will view the retail buyer as too much risk because of the need to have very high income for 30 years.
The first thing you notice when you use an M1 Air is that there's no fan noise.

Such a little thing makes a world of difference.
Maybe good advice if you are a house flipper sitting on inventory, not that useful for the typical home owner with a family.
Big thumbs up. The ARM ecosystem is mature enough that 95% of what you want to do will just work, either natively or with Rosetta 2. If you need to do something very low level you might run into issues, but since many other developers are in the same boat any problem likely has some workaround.

Nothing can beat the price/performance of the M chips. There are some drawbacks, but overall it’s the best computer I’ve owned.
I don't work in tech. Dietary supplement manufacturing in North Dakota
They are incredible. M1 Air is the best computer I’ve ever owned (16gb) and my M1 14 (64gb) is the second best.

I can only imagine that the m2 air with 24gb will be even better. To me the extra weight of the 14 wasn’t worth the extra monitor hookup. The tiny power adapter and no fan airs are where it’s at.
Not a lawyer, but I expect that given a verdict a judge can and will attach assets to force compliance. The court could order Musk to sell Tesla shares to raise the necessary funds, and seize the shares to do so itself even if he won't.
every bit of housing *

Land is a totally different market and hardly affected at all by interest rates since almost nobody will give you a mortgage for vacant land.
None of Cisco's switches or routers are FPGA-based. Maybe some firewalls are; I'm not sure.
I used an m1 pro for work for about a month. I wound up returning it and getting issued a Linux laptop instead.

The laptop itself is absolutely amazing. The thousand paper cuts with things not properly supporting m1 was just too much to bear.

I think if the projects you're hoping to work on have first class support for Apple silicon you can't find a better machine for love or money. If they don't, then steer clear.
You can make web apps that work offline today[1]. You can use IndexedDB to store data locally, in your browser[2].

[1]: https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A...
This https://blog.cloudflare.com/asics-at-the-edge/ post from 2020 seems to disagree.
I don't get this pay disparity between Europe and the US. It's totally crazy to me as someone who has lived and worked in both the States and Denmark (and citizen of both). We work the same hours. If you're in a major metropolis you're paying the same amount of money for food, a home, etc. You're getting taxed at a much higher rate, on average, in Europe.

Why do we put up with this? I think EU employees should just say we will take the same pay you're paying your US employees or we won't take the offer. Giving in to the insane expectation is what keeps us underpaid to our US counterparts.
I don’t see how, Gates is short TSLA and musk is the exact opposite, the biggest TSLA shareholder in the world
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated at a campaign rally
Well as long as you know what you are buying when you buy it that is your choice.

You can't do whatever you want with most things that you buy and most consumers do not care like most hacker news readers do, people just want something that does the task they bought it for and don't need to tinker with it.

Most people buying a laptop don't really think of the OS is running, they just expect it to be Windows and assume that it is part of computer itself.
You also have to factor in that the fed will try to push unemployment above 5% to rein in inflation.

Overall, expect a slower economy over the next year or two, and along with it, slowing price increases and, in some cases, price reversals.

If we repeat the 70s, expect this to cycle, with periods of inflation followed by periods of tightening.

Further, houses are just way too damn expensive relative to disposable incomes from a historical perspective. Personally I don't expect a crash, but I do expect a softening in most markets followed by stagnation.
It feels like the current global economy is based on a pyramid scheme. (Pyramid shaped distribution) when it becomes an inverted pyramid that is going to be rough.
It already is.

https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut/
Even IBM is leaving Notes.
Yes, hard to not choose Django when you can find Python developers at every street corner.
It doesn't. Picking an area where Java is weak and where Go happens to be decent is the very definition of cherry picking. Go happens to do poorly in almost every other area and Java does meh in many (erasure, unsoundness, etc.) and excellent in others (profile-guided devirtualization).
Please correct me if I am wrong but a lot of these illegal and scammy looking business seem to originate in Florida. Not sure how correct I am in that observation
This was a PR move from the beginning.
Real progress takes real work, not promises and marketing fluff.

I've never seen a Waymo, Cruise, Rivian or a Ford 150 Lightning in my entire life and I've been in many major cities across the world. You know what I do see on a daily basis though? Teslas.
Let me put it a different way for you:

All of this conditional on self-driving cars really being actually solved, such that an autonomous car is, say, better than the 75% driver on the road.

I expect the overwhelming majority of long-haul (say, >200 miles) passenger transport to happen via planes and trains, just like today.

I do not expect that commute times will be substantially shorter -- indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if they were mildly longer.

I DO expect that people will be able to use their commute time productively (they could work during it and either increase their productivity or decrease their hours) and/or be able to spend less money on transit, because they're using shared vehicles.

I DO expect that short-haul public transportation would suffer a significant decline in ridership, as it would be outcompeted by driverless carss.

I do NOT expect that short-haul public transportation would be entirely killed, it will still have some advantages, especially in very dense areas.

I am agnostic about how wise the investment in autonomous vehicles will end up being -- it depends on how much additional investment is needed to get to this (hypothetical) mode of full self-driving, and to what extent many actors are able to reach full-self-driving at the same time and drive commoditization of self-driving cars. But who cares? It's not my money, this has overwhelmingly been paid for by private actors.

Do you disagree with any of that?
Not for any reason, but make no mistake: the militia was argued to be a check on tyrannical abuse.

"If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism, what need of the militia? If there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant and hopeless expedition, for the purpose of riveting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen, direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a project, to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power, and to make them an example of the just vengeance of an abused and incensed people?" ~Alexander Hamilton (as Publius)

I should perhaps clarify: the main purpose of the militia at the time of the Constitution's creation was to serve as a check on Federal power by providing the States with control of their own instrument of violence. But after, well, the states used that power to rebel against what they saw as a tyranny (the imminent end of slavery and therefore loss of what they perceived as their legitimate property in the form of other human beings) and the government crushed that rebellion, the Fourteenth Amendment pretty much extinguished that purpose for the Second Amendment. So the only aspect of this justification for its existence that remains is the individual conscience of the American citizen on whether their government is tyranny that should be opposed with violence. Every other check-on-tyranny purpose was nullified by the Fourteenth Amendment after the 1860s.

... And if that means 2A sounds stupid to keep around in 2022, we are in agreement and I would support repealing it.
Same. I got the M1 Air earlier this year. Was worried I was too late in the product cycle, but after using it, this thing will be a beast for years to come.
I once read that 1 kg of plutonium burning up in the higher atmosphere would be enough to kill the entire population of the earth. I'm not enough of an expert to know if that's really true, but I suspect there's a good reason why experts don't consider this a good option. Or at least not yet.
Figure out something useful you can do that other devs do today that isn’t strictly the hard tech ie pulling data and analyzing it. Next time this is asked of your team, say “I’ll do it” even if it requires you to ping the dev who usually does it to walk you through. Imo these kinds of things go a long way and you’ll build some trust/respect as you learn the domain and tech. The key here is to find something that isn’t just typical middle manager stuff.
I don't understand how this is not on CNN/BBC news. This isn't the top news at the moment but significant .. I don't know if people in other countries know how this feels. People are saying this is pre-1990 .. but it is not really. People don't have landlines any more .. all our media is streamed via Internet. Stores can't take payments or orders. People can't call Ubers/taxis Millions of people don't have cellular. 911 issues have been reported. It has been over 12 hours and issue is not fixed.

This video shows a senior person at Rogers giving an update on the situation. It feels like I am in the twilight zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYfRZZaPrC0
Most things work. Some things took forever to get working, and I have no idea how I got them working.

Overall 9/10. Everyone already agrees they’re fast af and very capable.