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> In the before times there were phones owned by AT&T attached to landlines in every home and business. Attaching your own phone and repairing the phone company's were not allowed.

The difference is, culturally that didn't go too well with people so hating in MaBell was a thing. Enough so that it forced politicians to enforce anti-trust laws and break it up, eliminating all these restrictions.

I fear there is no political backbone today to do anything to the monopolists that own the hardware we "buy" from them.
Current owners, operators, and tenants. Buildings need to work for the occupants. Even in the best scenarios this takes ongoing upgrades and maintenance. In some cases buildings need to be significantly designed to provide for the needs of current tenants. This means that the whole construction sector needs the hardware equivalent of continuous integration based on the idea that construction is only the start of a process of keeping a building operational for its service lifetime.
Agreed, well said
If you drop a bucket of water at the top of a slide, it's difficult to predict where each individual water molecule will end up, but it's clear enough for practical purposes that the water will, on net, move down the slide and we can determine with reasonable accuracy the overall rate.
The problem with e-scooters isn't the scooters themselves, it's the reckless behavior they inspire in riders. Here's a device you don't own and aren't accountable for. For a couple bucks, it can go pretty fast, fit through narrow spaces, and there are no (enforcable) rules about where you can and can't ride it. Have fun!

There are so many logistical barriers to creating systems for accountability with rental scooters. First of all, remember that crime (and law enforcement) is an economy, and the fines have to be large and frequent enough to result in positive cashflow into the city. Otherwise, there is no incentive to enforce the rules. Now consider what a city would have to do to enforce the rules you suggested. The city will either need to

1) force the e-scooter companies to provide their data to law enforcement,

2) require the e-scooter companies to self-report misbehavior and pay the corresponding fines,

3) rely on citizens to report misbehavior.

Among the litany of reasons why (3) doesn't work is because it relies almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. (2) is laughable because the scooter companies have no incentive to self-report, and an audit would be hideously expensive for the city government. (1) doesn't work under US law because the police would need a warrant, or a legal hellstorm would ensue.

Bicycles also make no noise and emit no air pollution. They can also be electrically-powered, they are safer for the rider, and are limited by the laws of physics to safer, less erratic driving. They're faster and harder to steal. They're categorically better than e-scooters in every way except size, and as I said, even their size can be considered a strength.

Rental e-scooters were a fun experiment, and I will definitely tell my kids all kinds of stories about the stupid things I saw people do with them. If my city bans them, I will be pleased.
From https://tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops-1.html#ss1.5 : “It isn't going to run X”

This seems to confirm my statement.
Many public sector positions in tech are paying this much
> countries like [...] that do not care at all about the environment

Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN. I get that you're writing from a position of stress, and your experience matters, but this is not a helpful stress response.

(edit: I didn't flag your comment, in case that helps at all)
How do you use it and not have it need refilling every time you use it? And not make a massive mess over work surface and hands when you do so?

It was never a problem with the cheap disposable cartridge ones we used at school, but I was given a nicer refillable (twist to draw up ink) one and nice as it is to write with it's a bit of a nightmare as a whole experience, which stops me using it as much as I'd otherwise like to.
Ask HN: What happened with GPT-4 multimodality?
GPT-4 is defined as a multimodal model accepting text and image as inputs, according to OpenAI documentation. What happened with the multimodality? Afaik you can't use prompts in GPT-4 yet.
And so far all you've done is assert there isn't, using an argument that was rejected as incorrect some 180 years ago in Commonwealth v. Hunt.
Plus, pedestrian deaths are most likely at night, presumably due to the decreased visibility. The statistics also show the lowest death rate amongst children, and the highest amongst the elderly (with middle–aged adults barely overtaking the elderly in this race in the last couple of years). School children thus seem to be the least at risk, though I don’t know why; it could be because they no longer walk to and from school, or it could be because they are more likely to survive an accident than the elderly are, but neither of those explain the much larger drop in deaths amongst the elderly pedestrians. And of course national averages tell us nothing about the specific location in question.

Still, I agree that the pedestrian accident rate really ought to be lower. A lot lower! I also think that the pedestrian accident rate is just not high enough to declare that areas like this are unsafe to walk in. Especially with a dedicated pedestrian bridge that allows people to avoid the car traffic at the busy service interchanges to the east and west.

No, when people talk about the “walkability” of an area, they are almost always talking about the sheer density of businesses in the area not about safety. How they can walk to the grocery store, and their dentist, and their favorite bar, and also three different art galleries. How everything they need is never more than a 15–minute walk away. How each parking lot represents a wasted opportunity, because there are no services there, and nobody lives there either.

But when this bridge was built they clearly were willing to walk further to access vital services like the school, past any number of parking lots. People are just a lot pickier today than they were in the past.
> Anyone who doesn’t think long bonds are risky doesn’t understand interest rate risk

The past year is a great lesson in what happens to long term bonds when rates finally move.

Though to be fair to Harry, his financial advice was written before zero rate policy. Anybody buying into sub-3% 30-year bonds is either uninformed or has their investments bound by governing rules.
There's nowhere such a statement in windows. Last time i looked, accesories still included cmd.
That’s just not true, because it implies a lot of slots go unused and those would then be paid for by the resellers. The solution is to create more slots to meet demand until the resellers can’t pay those costs anymore.

However you do have to accept that then again some slots will go unused and the cost of those will be borne by the party that runs the exams.

But that isn’t a whole lot of cost really because it’s just a small proportion of a room that exists regardless and an attendant that is handsomely paid by the fees.
This looks great!

By the way, I can't be the only one using ChatGPT to rewrite docs and messages, right? I regularly tell ChatGPT: "Rewrite the following, don't make it too formal:.." or "rewrite the following optimizing for brevity:..." and it usually spits something out much clearer than my first revision. Sometimes there's just one sentence I was struggling to write clearly and this helps a ton. Really valuable in this remote work world we live in where so much of our communication happens in writing.
> IMO fidelity is probably the closest you’ll get,

This is not true. I have decent knowledge about investing (index funds, stocks vs bonds vs real estate allocation etc.). So, I know when my Fidelity investment advisor was BSing me when she started selling me "alternative investments" (such as private annuity and direct indexing). Needless to say, I don't talk to her anymore.
the hour hand is pointing at the sun, is the bit I missed from the sentence.
Why get hung up on the percentages? Isn’t that bike shedding? The principle is what matters. Take the wealth you can’t afford to lose, and put it in a balanced portfolio that seeks to match the performance of the market so that you don’t fall behind your peers.

So look at your peers (your socioeconomic class) and match the average portfolio.

For a tech wagie, a 60/40 for the older folks or 80/20 for the younger folks with 10% in cash will work.

For an UHNWI, look at the Tiger 21 asset allocation and follow that. (In 2023 it’s roughly 30% PE, usually your own businesses, 20% public stocks, 20% RE, 10% bonds, 10% cash and 10% alternative assets).

Overthinking here is ignoring rule #1 and possibly rule #3.

The point is simply to keep up with your peers’ returns on their wealth that they also can’t afford to lose (NOT talking about their career wealth here), within a small margin, and this should not be
I mean ... the market has spoken on this. It just isn't something that enough people value enough for it to have a positive return on investment. Like pretty much everyone else here, I think that sucks, but I also struggle to begrudge the preferences of people who just don't care about this.

So the question is just, is this a market failure in the sense that the market outcome is undesirable to society such that there's a strong case for regulation? Or is it a market success in that most people are getting what they prefer (cheaper products)?

If we were to get regulation passed on this, and prices for digital products and services were to rise, would people broadly cheer or jeer us? I think it's pretty clear that most people would be unhappy with this, at least above some level of price increase (which may be zero).

So to me the question is (like with all regulation) whether this can be regulated without increasing costs to people beyond the value of the regulation to society. Maybe so, but unfortunately I'm pretty skeptical that's the case.
I'm sure there's a whole batch of companies that want to abuse the sidewalks. Robo-pizza delivery bot! Robo-package delivery bot! Mobile-advertising-bot! Paris will be perfectly fine with their world-class metro and world-famous urban environment.
> > It's a myth that they pay low taxes in Texas.

> Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous.

No, Texas still collects far less taxes and has less money to spend, but at similar income levels, people (outside of the very high end of the distribution) pay higher taxes in Texas.

California has more strongly progressive taxes and California has a higher income population, so it can collect a lot more total taxes (per capita, it has the #3 tax revenue per capita of the 50 states + DC) despite people at or below (and up to a fair amount above) US median income paying less in taxes than people making the same amount would in Texas.
Good update on your geographical situation and current pants configuration.
I was just driving through a construcion zone, heading east at about 9:00AM so the sun angle was still pretty low. The lanes had been rerouted several times, and the old markings were ground off but this still left lighter stripes in the concrete where the paint had been. In that lighting it was very difficult to distinguish the currently-painted lanes and the old, now ground-off lane markings. As I made my way through, I found myself wondering how a self-driving car would cope.
We should probably create a vault in the Artic and store bits of HTML, just in case... you never know.
When NYC turned manhattan's 14th street[1](a bidirectional wide traffic street) into bus only for rush hours with very strict rules for cars, car farers yelled and hollered and people warned of traffic snarl-ups up the wazoo. In reality none of that really materialized.

And In reality all of SOHO(Greenwich village, Chelsea, Fidi etc) the interior excluding the west side and east side high way could be 90% car free with high speed mass transit to bus/electric street cars you anywhere there could work much better. Cars move at not more than 20 MPH on most streets there any way now and are inefficient at transporting people.

People will realize they can just park outside manhattan in Brooklyn or Jersey City and just take a train in and just use car as a luxury instead of a necessity of transit to work the economics of the auto based economy will change. Cities and areas around them are high density once car use changes there it will change everywhere(LA I am looking at you).

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/brt/html/routes/14th-street.shtml
1. Genetics and Genomics. The researchers I have worked with closely in the past have been outstanding scientists who have highlighted a huge room for computer engineers to step in and reap the benefits of applying software engineering and to a large extent - algorithms to solve large scale problems in the quantitative aspects of genetics and genomics. To give you a broad example, such methods are used in the breeding industry to find suitable mating bulls for cows to achieve a certain goal/feature - milk production, beef, even reduction in methane in their offsprings. I can only imagine the need for such methods in food and medicine which are huge industries.

2. spatial computing : If Apple’s foray into it has validated anything, it is that it is just getting started and it holds a lot of unrealized potential.

3. Robotics - it has been important for a long while, but its trajectory is still upwards and reach very promising.
That status can act like an anchor and prevent things in the future. Once you have that on your resume you outclass yourself for smaller title roles where you might be happier.

A principle helps other and finds ways to add value. You get to deal with the enterprise issues. If you like sticking your nose in everywhere, going to meetings and want to move away from programming this is the role.

It's a role with little power or accountability. Part of your role is justifying your value. The successful ones I have seen have been able to listen, take in everything and convey that message in language a vp understands.

By default I say don't take it you sound happy at your current level. You are better off going the management route or product manager path if you are looking at status, power and higher pay.
This is the difference between predicting a coin flip and predicting the proportion of heads after 1,000,000 coin flips. In one you’re completely off half of the time. In the other you’ll be accurate to many decimal places.

Basically, the concept of “What temperature is it outside my house?” And “How much have temperatures raised around the globe?” Are wildly different. The fact that the units are the same is misleading.
Who would have guessed that the government, let alone a french one, would be the helping hand stopping those people gullible enough to dump cash on these dumpster fire companies from hurting themselves. It's the hero they needed, not the one they deserved.
You have a product and bots are willing to buy an infinite amount of it? Tell me again how this is an unsolvable problem.
Given that I recognize your account I should have known better. But yes, sarcasm is hard.
Low emission zones already exist and have existed for years.

"Airplane tickets are too cheap" is a talking point of French politicians recently. It's likely they will do something about it.

The EU already has a law in place saying no more regular cars can be sold starting in 2035. Of course, with a nice exception for Ferraris.

These dystopian things are happening now, I'm not imagining things.
I don't know; for me the inconvenience of having to install an app and setup payment for one time or infrequent use is big enough to avoid it.
OpenStretMap does not have aerial imagery per se, several imagery layers are available only for tracing features off them: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_aerial_imagery#Ima...
Sure. What's the penalty for a human driver in that situation? Is it having the SFFD lie to the press about the events and imply you caused somebody's death?

If the story were "Cruise fined $5k for not yielding to an emergency vehicle quickly enough", I bet the tenor of the conversation would be totally different.
> True, although landlords absolutely pass the cost of property taxes onto renters when they can

“When they can” is essentially always: if landlords can’t pass costs on to renters, they aren’t going to be landlords for long.
> these same people would protest because it would “destroy the character of the neighborhood.”

It's not the same people. The bikes-and-trains people understand and accept that America's suburbs are not fit for purpose and would require radical redevelopment to be even remotely green[0]. They want to vaporize the zoning code to allow this to happen. The NIMBYs who are shouting about neighborhood character specifically want to keep their cars and lawns, and think all the environmental problems America has are someone else's fault.

People are suspect of quick-fix solutions because we've had decades of being sold quick-fix solutions (plastic recycling, clean coal, electric vehicles) when climate change and environmental damage are complicated, multivariate problems.

TBH I have been skeptical of degrowth's left-wing credentials. I'm not entirely sure how we retain democracy without unbounded economic growth when...

a) Human society has an unlimited capacity for elite propagation[1]

b) Elites will absolutely cannibalize the rest of us if further growth is not possible

[0] No, having a green lawn does not make your house green.

[1] Gestures vaguely at The Tyranny of Structurelessness
I feel like we have been optimistic for far too long. The Paris target is also based on being optimistic about the situation. It’s only when we’re going to swoosh past that target and become very, very realistic about the situation is when _maybe_ we’re going to actually do something as a civilization that might start making things right.
I find it humorous that anyone thinks they are capable of forcing talented people to do more than they want. Most of the people who feel pressure to make their corporate masters as happy as possible are either desperate or barely competent. All one must do is appear to be slightly better than all of the dead weight in the corporate world. No need to work hard.

* I wanted to add that I am referring to software developers. Creative types like the author of this article are always shit upon by corporate types unfortunately
Whilst agreed on the principle, that's not what your initial comment was suggesting.

And as I've noted, this is untractable, or at best highly challenging, for many large enterprises, let alone small / nascent ones.
Define "comparatively". Ricky dink suburban ranch homes that are anywhere remotely central, but otherwise nothing special, go for 1.3-1.5 million. Sure, that's cheaper than super in-demand places like the Bay Area, but (a) property taxes are much higher here because we have no state income tax, and (b) it may be cheaper on a per-dollar basis, but salaries here aren't usually as high as SF or NY, and we have way, way, way fewer amenities compared to those cities.
Electronic Book Mechanical Precursor
Yeah I became convinced over the last couple of years that solar + batteries is pretty much the solution and all the technology is here, everything else (degrowth, nuclear) is a politically infeasible distraction. We need larger scale and faster adoption which is a whole set of challenges on its own (see CA lagging behind Texas for example in what is a complete self-own)
Software packaging at Large Hadron Collider using Nix
For a comedic take on dictionaries, see Rowan Atkinson and other great actors in the episode "Ink and Incapability", where Black Adder takes on Samuel Johnson and his first dictionary of the English language.
Doesn’t require a pocket device, the Web already existed at that point.

Or someone could have written a small client/server app in Access or FileMaker.
I suspect you missed my point
This.

This is exactly what the studios tried to demand in their original offer, and it's the reason why SAGAFTRA went on strike instead of negotiating.
I do this as a remote 9 to 5 dev, you just need to be delivering and not tell people how much free time you have
Why would the Dear Leader object to more photographs of him in circulation?
>The rule about not using leverage is so bad that I can't take the rest of the article seriously.

In the context of a personal investment portfolio, I'd question there are many circumstances where borrowing money to buy stock or whatever is a good strategy. This is not about building a business empire.

(One can reasonably debate paying down a low interest mortgage early vs. continuing to save in other ways.)
> Curb weight: Ford Taurus: 3917 lbs / BMW 330i: 3536 lbs / Tesla Model 3: 3862 lbs.

We have a small car (that transports four adults in comfort) that weighs almost exactly half what the Taurus does. It's also really easy to park!

> There is nothing prohibiting anybody from doing this. Make it cost effective and people will buy it

Perhaps instead of trying to ban new ICE vehicles, the taxes should be gradually raised on diesel and petrol to include an additional levy which covers whatever mitigation strategy is appropriate to deal with the emissions.
Software is frankly worse. Take javascript. What does that even mean? ECMAScript, CommonJS, something else? Almost nobody clarifies what they mean precisely when they use an ambiguous, overload term like "javascript".

Does the "es" in ESLint mean it only works for ECMAScript? Or does the "ES" mean something entirely different? The homepage doesn't say. Are eslint, ESLint, and Eslint the same thing? Capitalization usually matters in software after all, but nobody is consistent here, not even eslint.org. Why do are ES6 and ES2015 used interchangeably? That's unnecessarily confusing.

All of this is far more confusing than "i" vs "j" for sqrt(-1).
This list of yours are all imposed solutions.

I’m not the OP, but if I take one less flight, avoid a car trip and choose not to eat beef, the same has happened with no regulation change.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, small steps help and the OPs positive approach is very different to the ‘tax it’ approach you have described.
> Relations are functions.

That is how they are defined in set theory based math. The mathematical definition is not the only meaning of a word. When when start to talk about the physical world, we need additional concepts. You are welcome to read the wikipedia page about correspondence theories of truth.
An Analysis of AI-Driven Persuasion [PDF]
Eh, I think anything that we have a lot of data on (ex: recorded acting) will and can be replicated in the very near future. Sure, you will have the occasional Oscar worthy actor that is some level of creativity that doesn’t work, but vast majority of acting is not finding new ways to show something in a script, the creativity came from the writing and directing choices.

Art was also thought to require human creativity until recently. We’re not going to produce a new paradigm of art or Picasso level impact, but the median artist can be replaced today in most ways imho.
"RETroactive CONtinuity", in addition to what the sibling comment said.

The Wikipedia top example is Sherlock Holmes dying in a fight with Moriarty and then coming back later when the author relented and decided to write more stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity
True, but that works for companies and rich people, not your average developer or economic migrant.
Correct. In the same way there is nothing interesting about being able to buy a 60" flat screen TV for $300 brand new.

Times change, technology advances, and when those advances become 'old' they cease to be interesting for the most part.
Electric cars also make it harder for places to be livable with no car, which is what we actually need. They're faster and heavier, both of which will kill more people biking and walking.