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Well the WSJ did their best to hold them back

> I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.

>Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again.

That's a headline from a few months ago!

This is just one of many diatribes by a member of their editorial board:

> EVs Are the Lowest Climate Priority

>No matter how you slice the data, the car in your driveway is an emissions asterisk.
Same in Eastern Europe, where even mobile calls are giving way to WhatsApp, Viber, etc. This is also a common way to call many businesses
... or husband or partner ... but yes, almost always wife.

This, to me, is the real gamechanger. There is a often gigantic difference in family workload between the primary caretaker and the other parent (if any), even when they both work. Additionally, this workload is often wildly underestimated by secondary caretakers.

In my observations, a secondary caretaker will often think "I still drop off my kids in school, I read a story at night, I bring them to sports practice, I'm being a good parent.". And yes they are, they are helping and having great "quality time" with their kids.

But in terms of total time invested, if you actually count the hours (I have), it's a small fraction of a primary caretaker. Roughly between 1/3 and 1/2 for invested secondary caretakers, which makes a huge difference when we're talking about, say, 20 vs 40 or 60 hours per week.

Who feeds them? Dresses them up? Helps with homework? Stays home with them when they are sick? And that's without even touching on the mental workload.
How do existing inflight internet solutions solve this? Do they only allow internet over water and selected countries?
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Does anything let you configure 2fa via WhatsApp yet? I know there are logistics companies starting to offer it as an email alternative for notifications, but for most automated comms and for contact initiation, SMS is still the standard.

I think it would be more accurate to say that ongoing communication via SMS messages isn't common at all any more. They're like a protocol negotiation handshake.
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> I highly doubt it but I'd love to see the math on that.

It was very rough hyperbole/fermi estimate. Can't find figures for the US, so using europe.

Europe has 2.5 million m^3 of low level waste and 1.5 million m^3 that's fairly imminent from refurbishments/decommisioning and replacement (an array of 6 by 6 football fields stacked 20 yards). This is only about ~50 years, so it will go up over time.

Europe uses about 2660TWh/yr or 300GW

At 500Wh/L (high but existing) that's 4 hours for the 2.5. At 300Wh/L it's 4 hours at 4 million m^3

A lot of that waste probably doesn't need containment after a decade or two, so it's only a ballpark. (and a real battery can't be that densely packed without overheating). Conversely 5% or so of it needs multiple centuries or millenia so it would accumulate much higher.
To paraphrase Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park "Your producers were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
I have to agree, a lot of his points where just pointing out bad/inefficient practices and calling it 'bizzare' behavior.
GHCs Cmm is an interesting beast. It changed a bit from C-- and it doesn't seem to be "sold" outside of the Haskell market, but it does feature basically the best of all worlds: A native generator targeting most current platforms, a LLVM backend (resulting in basically the same platforms, but maybe with different performance characteristics), and even a compile-to-C option.
I have 2 issues with RCS:

1. Requires data connection, either WiFi or mobile data. SMS does not.

2. On Android, it goes through Google Messages. I don't trust Google.

So, I replaced Messages with another SMS app that doesn't spy on me and disabled RCS. If I wanted to do rich messaging through data connection, I would use Signal or similar.

So, RCS is not a replacement for SMS. It's just another IM protocol. And we have enough of those.

As for others replying through RCS, that's a failure of the messaging app, should recognize that the counterpart is SMS and reply in SMS. It's an attempt to force RCS...

SMS is for fast short messaging between mobile users, and that is its killer feature, it's universal. Every mobile phone supports it.

Signal dropping SMS support makes no difference for me, never used it for SMS, I used Signal for the secure conversations. Two different methods of contact.
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It's actually mostly some parts in central Europe where texting is expensive. For most parts of the world texting is quite important.

I don't understand why people on this board keep forgetting that central Europe and the US is the minority of the world population.

Everyone keeps bringing up WhatsApp. But it seems that everyone has all but forgotten that WhatsApp became so popular not because they only focused on the US market, but because they went around the globe and specifically targeted feature phones as well. I.e. they understood that their own home turf isn't enough to make a dominant chat application.
Obviously the trendy comment this days is to blame the kids for our own lack of strategy in life... The problem is always in the other side of the chain.
> It all starts with the transition to clean energy, now approaching full speed with 87 countries drawing at least 5% of their electricity from wind and solar. The US hit 5% in 2011 and surged past 20% renewable electricity last year. If the country follows the trend set by others at the leading edge, wind and solar will account for half of US power-generating capacity just 10 years from now. That would be years—or even decades—earlier than major forecasts.

> Successful technologies follow an S-shaped adoption curve. Sales move at a crawl in the early-adopter phase, then surprisingly quickly once things go mainstream. The top of the curve represents the last people to make the transition. Even in 2022, a tenth of humanity still doesn’t have electricity.

> Five percent isn’t a universal tipping point. Some technologies flip sooner, others later, but the basic idea is the same: Once the tough investments in manufacturing have been made and consumer preferences start to shift, the first wave of adoption sets the conditions to go much bigger. By examining the countries that reach each tipping point first, we begin to get a sense of what to expect from those that follow.

> The US is the latest country to pass what’s become a critical EV tipping point: 5% of new car sales powered only by batteries. If the US follows the trend established by 18 countries that preceded it, a quarter of new car sales could be electric by the end of 2025.
Where are you getting 80% among young people? A quick google search only returned numbers around 55% among younger people. That's a looong way from a de-facto iOS only country.
FWIW, I'm not American.

In the UK, where I am, most contracts have unlimited SMS. I think even the cheapest PAYG plans include massive bundles.

Lots of companies send out reminders by SMS because it is universally accepted. Not every customer has WhatsApp.
> If it makes you feel any better I delayed having kids and spent my 30s dating and hanging out and going to bars – and it was terrible.

I didn’t have kids until my 40s – didn’t delay, it just worked out that way – after getting married in my late 20s, spending…very little time dating or hanging out in bars, and it was wonderful. So was having kids. And once I had them, I certainly wouldn’t have minded having more of the energy of youth with them, but I also don’t mind the life experience that I had first.

> I had a nice career and could go anywhere and do anything I wanted, but it turns out none of that made me even a little bit happy. […] Happiness is extremely overrated.

Happiness isn’t overrated; as you yourself explicitly note, you didn’t find it and were miserable because of that.

> Now I’m tired and busy and I don’t go out and do “fun” stuff very often, but I’m much more satisfied. My biggest regret is that I waited so long to start my life. Brunch isn’t life.

Brunch (both literally and, as I understand the use, metaphorically) very much is life (not all of life, but, in its slice, as much “life” as anything else), for many people.

So can kids be, for many people.

So is anything you have a passion for, whether its the activity, or the companions, or the mission motivating the activity. (Bonus if it is a combination of all of those.)

Doing things merely because you’ve got the idea that it is socially expected that they will provide happiness, though, usually isn’t going to be it.
Basically, do you believe in the power of the almighty S-curve to dictate climate adoption goals?
First, they'll send your work home, then, they'll send your work abroad.

People are too drunk on work from home having experienced it for the first time.

I have done it for years. It has its pros and cons. I agree a huge reckoning is coming for white collar work writ large. (1) It can be more easily outsourced. (2) It's easier to fire someone you don't see every working day.
>> 3) You actually like hanging out with your own kids.

> I don't know what age that starts, but I'm 5 years and counting.

I hope it kicks in soon. I love spending time with my kids. They are 8 & 11 now. Sure they can be annoying and as they get older more viscous arguing...

But still I look forward to go for walks with them or have a little minecraft session together, or just some simple lego. Or just fixing/building things together around the house, inside or out. Sometimes not or just for short periods. But I look forward to the next time.

I have taken a lot of time off on purpose to spend as much time with them as possible whilst they are young. And working from home before we all had to.

Still they get super excited to spend time with me on anything. But my oldest is now 11 and I can feel she soon will prefer hanging out with her friends and not her embarrassing dad.

But I agree, weekdays when I am working full time it is still knackering. I dream of them all being in bed at 7.30. And spending time with and looking after my kids means I have no time for friends or most of my hobbies at weekends.

Though as the older one may soon want to spend less time with her dad that also means she require less of my supervision as she goes to clubs and sports after school, and organises her time herself more independently.

So I may soon have time for hobbies again. Mid-life crisis here I come.
> My entire point was asking whether there is an acceptable use/abuse policy, and providing an anecdote about how there was no policy in place for a similar kind of "hack" that I did.

> You're just asserting that there is some kind of policy, without providing any details of it

Human interactions, customs, policies and laws are not code, and should not be thought of as merely a bunch of if statements to run.

When faced with something obviously ok, such as "a visitor plugging in their phone that they need to charge on one occasion" we don't apply any written policy, we ignore it. This is basic hospitality such as allowing a visitor in need to use the toilet facilities.

When faced with something obviously not ok, such as "a visitor extracting as much electricity as they can, for no benefit but their own private profit" we raise that this is blatantly an abuse of the resources. If there is a policy, we apply it to that end. If there is no policy, then we add to the policy, to that end. The policy is merely an instrument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

It's not just the US unfortunately.
Thanks for your kind words.

> ...there is a disclaimer that apps which use Google Play services for their data transfers cannot be individually blocked.

Well, inter-process communication (IPC) in Android is such that, a firewalled app can still ask another unblocked app to do its biding. This isn't an Android thing but rather a limitation for any multi-tasking OS that has mechanisms for IPC (pretty much establishing the need for MicroVMs, Containers, Jailers and what not).

In Google Play services (GPS) case, of course, the firewalled app can communicate with it and ask it to fetch notifications and such on the app's behalf, and this would succeed. This isn't a firewall leak, because from the firewall's point of view (which isn't a jailer), if GPS isn't firewalled, then its connections are allowed, regardless of whichever app it is connecting on behalf of.

> Is this a problem to which you have managed to find a solution?

A network firewall cannot solve for this unless it MiTMs GPS traffic (which isn't straight-forward on Android since Android supports certificate-pinning). What I'd do instead is either disable or force stop apps I don't use. And the ones I use but want firewalled, I accept that there are IPC mechanisms which provide escape hatches for the app. And short of the OS itself implementing mitigations, there isn't much that a userspace app can do.
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It is my understanding that this mostly works with rooms/channels over bridges - not with individual, 1-on-1 communication. Do you have a hint how to set this up?
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There is some critical mass fortunately. The driver for most people in my group to get it was that they’d miss out on a group chat if they didn’t have it.

I now have everyone I talk to regularly on Signal (30-40 people), but it took years.
I can see why some people would want a toggle, but defaulting to Apple emoji seems like the obviously correct thing to do. I suspect a major reason why HNers hate emoji in general is because they see different images from what gen-z sees and therefore have a hard time understanding jokes that rely on how these images look.
When Signal finally drops SMS support, I will also drop Signal. It always was SMS foremost, secure communications second when I initially started using it. Having people on Signal was an added benefit, not the main drive for using it.

For me personally, Signal will turn into a messaging app among dozens of similar apps, of which I have enough already. SMS was why I stuck with Signal over the years I used it and now I have no real reason to stay on it.
It just feels weird to have results from a walled off website on a search engine, unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website. Similar to how we don't like submissions to paywalled articles on HN.
I wanted to ask too. These people seem to be very productive even without the kid part. So, how can they achieve that without compromising anywhere ?
Paul is well out of his depth here. We can all sit around pondering the universe - that's easy.

Answering these questions is significantly harder - impossible given today's science.

This essay reads like the ramblings of a man who's smoked too much weed.

Paul should stick to tech start ups - if you want serious insight around science, space and the universe hit up people like Richard Feynman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
Not sure they'd need to go as far as removing the IFE completely, but a vastly more simple and cheap system could be used instead.

Airlines still rely on those massive clunky boxes under each seat, plus a server rack which adds a fair bit of weight.

Swapping to an all-in-one system - essentially a smart tv built into each monitor that just provides a browser and basic apps for major streaming services would reduce the overall weight of the plane, fix the annoyance of that big box where your legs are supposed to go, and provide entertainment on board.

There's also the costs that airlines normally have for licensing content - those would go away completely if everyone can just log into their own netflix or prime account.
> At some point I have to believe that most of society actually actively wants to be screwed over.

Most of society is brainwashed by commercials, don't even understand half of the words techies use and would call you pretentious if you are not using iOS or Android
Does it? What would an honest answer look like to you?
And there is the other guy having 11(?) kids and earned literally billions in multiple companies to play around with rockets and EV and stuff

Having kids is the easy part, participation and actually being around in your kids life the more tricky one.

Not saying successful people are not on one side of the spectrum per se but IMHO there is not outsourcing or substitute for actually spending time with them and it is quiet easy to forget
I can’t judge Google PMs. But Google the company’s products are not good. Often they start out good, and then get progressively worse, stagnate, or are killed off entirely!

Regarding why product people don’t have $1m. I would suggest that building a great product is not sufficient for that, you also need to be able to sell it.
> I think that becoming a parent fundamentally changes who you are

All major life decisions you make changes who you are. That's what makes them "major".

> The parent who can let go of their old self gracefully, and drop many ambitions (which in retrospect seem childish) is able to transform.

What kinda self-serving sophistry is this? I can easily argue that the world would benefit a whole lot more if people remained childishly curious. It is the moment you let go of that child inside that you die if you ask me. Stay curious, stay hungry and keep improving. That's just a no-brainer. The idea that dropping ambitions is somehow a transformative experience to strive toward is such a weird thing to say.

> Those who cling to the desire to remain "able to stay up all night playing with new technologies" will surely find regret and fail to take advantage of the enormous perspective change that parenthood bestows.

What perspectives are these exactly? this reads to me like self-aggrandizing at best. Are you gonna tell me that people can't possibly have an understanding for "what truly matters in life" unless they have kids? What about the perspective you lose by becoming a parent and giving up on your dreams? It is a trade-off you are making. You are losing one perspective to gain another. But the idea that "people who chose otherwise will surely find regret" is just laughable. How could you possibly know that? You can't really run the experiment N times to compare the results? I can literally copy the text of your post and make the opposite argument.

In summary, let me see if I got this right: expanding your horizons by constantly learning and _acquiring new perspectives_ is considered a childish ambition that must be shed in order to metamorph into a parent so that you can take advantage of your newly _acquired perspective_... How do you square this circle exactly?
You're assuming its a fixed increase in price here.

When planes come to be refitted:

- You take out the IFE server rack - weight saving.
- Replace the seatback tv's with essentially an all in one smart tv system with apps for major streaming services
- Take out the underseat IFE box as its no longer needed
- The airline no longer has to pay for tv/movie/music licensing
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NL is rather small sample to, say, larger countries like Poland that use SMS quite frequently. And depending on carrier, SMS texting most likely will be completely free with most of the current plans.

Signal's rationale is just Signal's own reluctance to build an umbrella messenger. And given they do drop SMS, still won't introduce usernames it's very hard to actually sell it as a WhatsApp replacement.

And now, with WhatsApp supporting password protected cloud backups and up to 2Gb attachments, I'd say Signal will loose the userbase it acquired during the hype and Musk tweet.

In fact, during 2020 Belarus protests, Signal did nothing to support it's own operations during internet semi-blackout in the country, while Telegram tweaked their server side to provide at least some possibility to know what was happening in big cities.
So what are the values of Signal — I don't even know. But they sure did support pillagers and rioters in the USA.

To be even more brazen, Signal is not Apple. They stopped innovating. And they don't have enough political power to convince people do things the new way.
Even their zero knowledge server is worthless. Check out the story on FBI cracking down on the leader of some right wing proud boys type of armed group. They tracked him and then compelled to give up access to Signal.

Their innovation stopped at providing solid cryptography that was adopted by most decent messengers already. And they aren't visionaries with cancelling SMS.

UPD: the funniest part is that the service that drops the SMS support still relies on SMS to provide account registration.

This is just an unprecedented level of sarcasm.
Sure to sell is one thing, sure to make a profit is quite another. ISPs have cost models along the lines of "requires x permits from y entities and z meters of digging", except more complex, and the costs have to be smaller than the expected additional sales over a fairly small number of future years.

The expected additional sales, because some/many of the customers will buy a 16/1Mbps DSL connection if the provider doesn't offer them 500/500 fiber, and the price won't be that much lower.
Anecdotally I see this with my friends who’ve had kids. A bunch of them all had kids roughly the same time (all within a year) and it’s fascinating how differently they all react. On the extreme ends you have one that nobody sees anymore because he has a child. On the other hand you have the guy that does everything he used to because, when possible he brings the baby, and when not his wife will take care of it (and he’ll do the same for her). What I’ve found most interesting is that the things he brings the baby to do (e.g. camping, or a music festival, the pub) are things the other guy would think are impossible. So I think a lot of it comes down to mindset and compromise (e.g. go to the music festival but stay in the family campsite and understand that you might not be able to get wasted but you’ll still have a great time listening to music and being with friends).
I've a loyal signal user since it came out. Seemless SMS fallback is why I used it.

I was hoping to read here someone had forked it here. I won't be continuing with Signal.
I remember when Signal was called Textsecure and did E2E encryption for SMS - just to rant about argument number 5.
Depends on the country I guess.