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It really is not. Any connector which puts springy bits inside of the device and not the cable is automatically worse.

The only reason lightning connectors don't break as often is because cable relief falls apart before it.
Wages have grown pretty consistently above inflation since around the year 2000.

There was a period in the 80s where wages fell behind inflation, but that has long been made up for and then some.

> Anecdotally, I don't think I know anyone who believes they're ahead of inflation.

That's the human condition, though, isn't it? Always thinking it needs more.
does the law require existence of a cable connection, or just require that a pluggable connector be USB-C?

I can imagine just removing the connectors entirely, for Qi charging, and thereby reducing one port and its consequences on RF noise -> RF desensifying for cellular.
I do feel that drivers need to be able to over-ride self-driving aspects when needed. I see that even in the crash avoidance features in my current car. It sometimes yells at me when a trash can is on the edge of a curve, etc.

But that doesn't mean I root against the tech. It just needs to be balanced with actual driving. Because it also has hit the brakes faster than I could when someone pulled in front of me and prevented me from t-boning them. It has saved me twice. And twice makes it worth it to me, in particular as I age as I know my reflexes will dwindle..

It sounds like you have a sense of entitlement about driving, and I don't feel that way. I'm sure there are others who share it, but my guess it is a minority and the many of us just see cars as transportation tools.
100% agree with this - the lightning connector was actually a really nice design.

In a perfect fantasy world, it would have been open sourced so others companies could use it, and been upgraded to higher speeds too.
Its not like hotels are some amazing entity to deal with. Many hotels are stuck in prehistoric times.

Story: After being burned multiple times via booking.com and other third party sites, I tried to book directly with the hotel. I was planning a last minute trip with multiple stops and so i just booked a hotel and forgot about it thinking that once I arrive in Ireland i'll look up the details. There was this hotel in Ireland that accepted my booking, charged my damn card the day after the first night, but never actually sent me any confirmation or any emails. When I arrived I didn't remember whatever stupid quaint name the hotel was because I had booked about two weeks prior. I guess this was my bad because I was used to a hotel freaking emailing you something when you book.

When I arrived I was desperately trying to search for any indication that I made the booking and my credit card didn't even have a record. I gave up and ended up booking elsewhere.

Then all of a sudden after the first night I got charged. I was absolutely livid. I demanded an explanation. Turns out what happened was then when I first tried to book, their email form had an issue where my broswers autocomplete added the name of my email after the .com so it was email@gmail.comemail. The site rejected it and I realized the error. I hadn't entered my credit card info so I thought I was fine. I resubmitted it with the correct email and then entered my credit card info. Booking was accepted.....turns out their system somehow retained the first email and send out the confirmation to that email and they had no indication that the email bounced until the person looked up the issue AFTER they had charged me. Whats even crazier is that on the second day they emailed me first asking where I was before I could reach out to them! So they had the correct email in their records but their internal billing system captured the wrong email!

You can't win either way it seems! Fortunately I had a long email chain where they admitted their system never sent out a confirmation. my credit card company sided with me in this regard when I attempted a chargeback.
Fascinating to see the dichotomy we have, even here on HN, with regards to subscription services. As a founder, they are great: recurring revenue ! But as a customer, of course they suck. I hope this inspires more companies to find a way to build more self-contained products.

Even the awesome non-commercial, source available project here, findmycat, relies on a cloud service.

For such a product, the cost could be quite low if done well, it could even be priced for 10 years in the initial package, assuming accounting is done properly.
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I'm kind of lost trying to understand this. Wouldn't make more sense to just heat the water directly and make a steam thruster? What does the electrolizing step gain? (They claim not to store the gases, so it can't be decoupling the steps.)
"you" and "us" are different words.
I paid for it (and merge) even after I started using neovim full time, because I used it for years to learn to code before I got a paid job. Their license terms were kind enough to let me do that, so I honored the spirit of it and paid them once I got paid.
people trusted in unity for years, enough to build their products and careers on it and around it, and something like this still happened. was it foreseeable? even if it was, well what then, 'great, i have no options besides sucking it up or switching, since i built upon this'. what guarantees do epic/unreal customers have?

oh wait, this isn't about 'what worth does 'trust in company' even have', but more like 'public companies bad'
> Nobody makes land

The Dutch do.
Researchers produce tobacco plants that lack pollen and viable seeds
What's your corner of the world? I'm sure we can find hard data on the population growth vs. new building rates which might be illuminatory.
Actually, a friend just went through this. A long time user of Glassfish/Payara and EclipseLink. But he wanted to do some specific things with multi-tenancy that had better support in Hibernate for the way he wanted to do it. EclipseLink has multi-tenant extensions as well, but didn't support exactly what he wanted to do. So he switched. He didn't have to toss out his platform implementation (Payara Microprofile I believe) just the JPA implementation it was using.

All of his other JPA stuff ported over, the multi-tenancy is on the edge of it. The whole point is most of his code is ignorant of the multi-tenant aspect. But, also, the JPA spec itself is silent on multi-tenancy, so it's no surprise that the implementors are trying their own approaches. I have to assume that whenever the next JPA spec comes out, it will take inspiration from all of these different implementations and come up with a mechanism to standardize support for them.

So, while he's now "locked in" to the Hibernate implementation of JPA, he didn't have to toss out JPA itself, or his platform. If/when JPA catches up, he may well be able to have the option to switch away from Hibernate if he chooses.
rather than increase BOM and R&D costs, they opted to not upgrade the USB interface. Having a USB3 capable cup through a lightning connector would be pointless since it would be speed capped. If you truly need fast USB transfer for some reason, they sell a phone model with that.
More often than not, open source licenses are given for very practical reasons that aren’t directly tied to extracting money directly.

Foundational libraries, tools, frameworks etc. is often open sourced so people don’t have to “reinvent the weel” every time they switch jobs and positions. Additionally, large orgs can benefit from having a larger talent pool to draw from, because there’s more people familiar with open source software.

Do you think Oracle is maintaining Java (etc.) for altruistic reasons?

OSS is often also a vehicle for marketing, selling expertise or ops services.

Stuff is open sourced so it gets used, built upon and to gain mindshare, community and to find collaborators etc.

You using or building on the software doesn’t in any way detract from that value proposition and often adds to it in indirect ways.
And, while supply is still constraining, landlords can get away with that. But the closer supply gets to being "not constraining", the less ability they have to do that. But, as long as supply is constrained, that will happen no matter what. While a new expensive development can be a trigger, in the absense of that trigger, someone else will realize that they can just raise prices and the market will bear it, so something else will serve as the trigger. The only way to break out of it is build enough that the power to do this goes away. Unfortunately, that is, in many of the most supply constrained areas, a huge, daunting task that will probably take years of dramatically increased development.
So you know how everyone else that had everything else but the iphone on USB-C...
>>I doubt that it's very often not the case

In my UMC area that was formerly MC there are a lot of tear-down rebuilds that trade one single family home for another. They barely increase stock ( though the houses probably have more bedrooms).
The issue is agent v. merchant. Historically Expedia uses the merchant model (hood inventory, company as seller), and Booking used to prefer the agent model (no inventory, venue as seller). The former allows some advantage to what the company can offer but with added inventory risk, and means that the hotel doesn’t see you as “their” customer. With the agency model you do have recourse with the venue and will likely be a “normal” room to them. Unfortunately Booking is increasingly shifting towards the merchant model to find more profits.
I posit in this case USB-C would also fail :)

Or alternatively, that 2 year old sticks something in that port and breaks that little tab.
The 'Roswell incident' is known to have been a Project Mogul balloon, covered up at the time for obvious reasons. Go look at the debris pictures that were published in newspapers and started the public obsession. It's a bunch of sticks and foil, obviously Mogul debris and obviously not a spacecraft. Anybody who still believes Roswell was anything extraterrestrial is either oblivious or a kook.
What a deranged idea, you're implying it's okay to bankrupt a company just for a minor privacy violation.
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Bullshit jobs continue to grow, especially as productivity increases. I can see the gap widening quickly as more and more automation comes from the AI progress boom.
My post was in response to when you wrote "investing in the Internet even at the peak (deploying capital proportional to 1999 market caps) has one of the best IRR's in the history of time (Amazon, eBay/PayPal, eTrade, etc.)."

That at least is sort of a strategy in that it's not a collection of folksy wisdom, assuming you had a methodology in determining what is and is not an Internet stock, which you maybe wouldn't have had, as this may only have been obvious in hindsight. But the problem with this strategy is investing at market cap is a non trivial exercise as I pointed out.

(Edit to add: Barnes and Nobles launched a ecommerce site in 1997. So I hope it's on your "deploying capital proportional to 1999 market caps" Internet firm dataset. /)

But now we seem to have moved the goalposts to "invest in innovative companies that are driving use-cases forward that are not shovel stocks or penny stocks" which is folksy advice kind of like "pick good companies and avoid bad companies."

In that spirit I offer my own advise: "Be better at predicting the future than the person you are buying or selling from." It works every time.
The lazy alternative has a direct line to accounting expenses, vs the productive management alternative for devs a more ephemeral connection to the accounting lines - even though it actually affects the bottom line more strongly than the savings from open offices.
there is a surprisingly low volume of land free from zoning. most America want to.live in urban areas, which are loaded with stupid zoning laws
Most elections are about electing the least-bad person. Bush started wars, Biden/Obama dropped bombs on civilians (even US citizens), tortured detainees, trump.. well we all know what trump did. Most voters either voted for biden or trump, both have done "awful shit". Every politician has done "awful shit".

If you can't find a single positive impact of trump's (or any politician) policies or a single positive thing musk has done, consider that you maybe be in an echo chamber yourself, or you're just deluding yourself into thinking you have some kind of moral high-ground.
>But I think about all of it. nginx, haproxy, redis, postgresql, nodejs, python. I don't think I could even write out all of the open source I am using in my projects within the confines of a Hacker News comment. Just trying to wrap my head around how I could even pay for all of that software if I had to is anxiety inducing.

Luckily, the licenses of these projects are all such that, the minute the maintainer pulls the rug out, you are perfectly free to fork the project and move on as if nothing happened. Open source protects you.
I have a few friends that work or have worked at Unity. This is purely anecdotal but from what I've heard it sounds like the place is fairly dysfunctional at this point. A lot of the dysfunction that exists now wasn't there even 3-4 years ago.
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That's only a problem for you if you yourself have a business model that depends on curtailing the freedom of your users. Playing the victim when a license prevents you from victimizing your own customers and users in the way that has happened in this incident is pretty rich.
> Terraform is forked and continues on like normal, users are not impacted.

That's a massive overstatement of the current state of OpenTF right now. Plus they're still dependent on Hashicorp's hosting which also changed their license terms in response to the project.

You're right that because it's OSS you can do this kind of thing where it wouldn't be possible at all in a proprietary system but "just fork" requires a community to organize around it. Without a bunch of backing orgs this wouldn't have happened.
> One of the many qualities that separate self-made billionaires from the rest of us is their ability to ask the right questions.

I posit that there is no such thing as a self-made billionaire.
I believe that every single billionaire has had massive amounts of financial assistance.
I'd love to see a single counter-example to this statement.
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> He was putting on a show.

By his account he was deliberately creating fake UFO sightings.

> The context of the discussion in Fravors interview he was more jokingly describing some of the cowboy stunts that military pilots do that might be mistakingly interpreted as UFOs.

That may have been his intent in sharing the story, so what? Obviously he intended for the story to increase his credibility, but that doesn't mean it does. His story reveals that he thinks UFO hoaxing is funny. Or... he made up the story for some rhetorical reason or to impress Joe Rogan, which would make him a liar.

Imagine a used car salesman tells you "I know what you probably think about used car salesmen, and it's true that I've ripped some people off before. But in your case I'm going to be straight up and give you a great deal." This is a tactic taught in sales and persuasion books designed to make you trust the salesman; by admitting to some past transgressions they hope to make you feel as though they're being open and honest with you. But what does it actually tell you? Either the story of past transgressions is real, in which case the salesman has an admitted history of scamming people, or the story is made up and the salesman is lying to you to manipulate you. Either way you slice it, it's a huge red flag.
When Apple switched from the 30-pin connector to lightning, USB-C didn't exist.

What you're suggesting just doesn't make sense.
You're making the classic move of conflating developers with landowners. These are two very different groups, with two very different incentive sets.
Wireless charging warms the phone so much more than cable charging it hastens battery ageing.
Unrelated point, but true.

In basic microeconomics, taxes, market power, and other market distortions create deadweight loss. Again, the higher price is borne by the consumer, regardless where in the supply chain/production process it is injected. Higher costs can flow through without deadweight loss, but again this is all in the static scenario.
Which is fine to mention, but isn't applicable to a discussion on iPhones. 15 Pro is the first version to support USB 3.0 speeds over USB-C.
Ahistorical as this take is, I’m kind of jealous that you weren’t around for microUSB.
Fines against companies should be revenue based instead of profit based. Companies have too much wiggle room from revenue to profit.
In the feisty spirit of this article: Balderdash!

The basis for this articles' argument^ is not really empirical. It's theoretical. And rational in the sense that it models theory to create predictions... It is quite a cherry-picked collection of published studies, not a metastudy.

Anyway, the crux of theoretical argument is "supply and demand... duh." This is often true, depending on the market, but... it really depends on the market. For real estate, "focusing on supply" often leads to understating the significant "out of theory" factors.

For example, real estate "demand," is largely determined by mortgage availability. That's the source of funds. Besides this, British real estate is an investment class with prices affected by rates, performance of other asset classes, and such. These are big factors.

Dublin city, not far, basically conducted an unscripted experiment in this space during 2008-2015. Lending collapsed. Demand collapsed. Lending was gradually restored, and median house values tracked median approved mortgage max outs. IE, if the average bank agreed to lend $X to the average applicant with an average income... that became the average price. Where the banks (CB, really) created subcategories with special rules (eg single bedroom apartments were mortgage disqualified for a while), those special rules dictated average prices for those categories.^^

This is not surprising when you consider the various leverages and flexibilities of the demand side, compared to the flaccid supply side of the equation.

"When asked about the impact of a 10 per cent increase in regional housing supply, however, 40 per cent say prices and rents would rise, while only a third say they would fall."

Sounds to me that most people just guess. But... this is a disingenuous frame. A 10% increase in (London) housing supply doesn't happen often. That's the point. When it does happen, it rarely happens unless prices hold up. There is no realistic scenario where London is exploding into the sky while a flood of supply crashes prices. This is tunnel-vision, model-only thinking. The supply "lever" he wants to crank is good for fractions of a percent, not 10%.

None of this is to say not to build. If we don't build housing, we cant have more housing. But, house prices are not made in the the council's planning permission basement. This is fantasy.

^"Studies show" is a cop out. Make the argument yourself. Base your arguments on the studies, if convincing. Shots fired :-)

^^In Ireland, this has led to the opposite extreme, and equally erroneous belief that supply is always irrelevant to price.
I have done something similar for another game.

It started as a fun curious idea to understand more about programming and mechanics in games, but became very quickly extremely addictive.

Paired with big personal problems at that time it provided me with an excellent opportunity to escape and basically not leave my home until I was done.

And I regret none of it. I learned much much much more about engineering than I would have ever done otherwise and with this knowledge I landed very good jobs with good and stable income which eventually brought me out of my personal problems.
Sublime with first-party, all-annoyances-smoothed-over LSP support would be an amazing product.
just wrote a reply here that could have been a response to this comment ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37525456
If someone wrote a way to transplant strict Kakoune keybindings into Neovim, I'd change in a heartbeat. Unfortunately I'm too immersed in the plugin system as it is.
Cool, but what kind of sexual activity? It's non-binary.
That's right: I draft each post in HTML, then have some scripts which add indexes, headers, footers, and css, and make an RSS feed.
Housing as investment only makes sense in a supply constrained environment, and, as far as I've seen, the evidence that significant amounts of housing is being held empty for investments (foreign or otherwise) is pretty scarce. It's a popular narrative that doesn't seem to be supported by the data. Build enough, and housing wont' be an investment anymore. As it shouldn't be.

That being said, I'm definitely also in favor of an LVT
Your CO2 sensor is likely inaccurate.

a) Good ones are expensive, and the consumer grade ones are valuable mostly for trends rather than precise readings.

b) They do occasionally require re-calibration. Meaning, leave it outside for 24 hours. The ones I have experience with expect an occasional return to atmospheric baseline, but if that never happens naturally - which never does in my apartment - they tend to drift.

c) Your basement might have amazing circulation. I have an air pump (it's a big radon fan) pumping in fresh air to my apartment any time CO2 rises about 700ppm, and the exhaust fan pulling air out as well. In theory, my circulation is quite good. However, even with all that the CO2 is quite high (700-1000ppm) while we're home.
The scope of potential impact from building luxury apartments is wider than a price decrease. It' likely your area has a far larger demand for housing than the amount that is being built + existing housing stock, regardless of type (luxury vs affordable).

Put another way, building the luxury apartments helped prevent an acceleration of price increases across all levels of housing stock. Students from high income families need a place to live, and instead of taking housing stock from the affordable pool, further driving up costs, they have additional desirable supply at their income level.

But! That only prevented price increases due to limited additional supply and was insufficient to drive down costs. Overall aggregate demand still exceeds supply. The simply answer is to build more at all price levels. Small incremental increases of supply are unlikely to drive down costs.