Freeaqingme's comments

Even when you ask that, make sure to ask for the "_fully diluted_ cap table". It may seem like a small detail, but if you get a cap table that's not fully diluted then what you see may differ a lot from what it ends up looking like once investors exercise their options.

Also, it's a way for AWS to reuse very old hardware where customers don't think about the specifications of the underlying hardware.

Also from an operations point of view it's quite easy to manage. I'm not that experienced with Postgresql, but my understanding is that until recently you had to vacuum it every once in a while. Besides, it's also using some kind of threading model that most people handle by putting a proxy in front of Postgres to keep connections open.

Also, Mysql has had native replication for a very long time, including Galera which does two-step commit in a multimaster cluster. Although Postgres is making some headway in this regard, it is my impression that this is only quite recent and not yet fully up to par with Mysql yet.

There is this announcement about a new snap release from November 2022 [1] in which they made this possible. So this is a relatively recent addition. Before that, Snap basically did everything in its powers to ensure that all packages were continuously updated.

1. https://snapcraft.io/blog/hold-your-horses-i-mean-snaps-new-...

Have you ever used it in a production / server environment?

One of the problems I have with Snap is that it does auto-updates. So you can't control when updates are performed. Furthermore, you can only use Canonical's repository. So if you want to use a custom build of some sort, you can't - unless you pay big bucks to Canonical.

Then there's still wifi of course. Admittedly, a phone without cellular connections is less useful, but it could still be used to function like a tablet that's simply kept at home etc.

I don't disagree with your analysis. However, I do wonder if Adobe purchased Figma because of the current revenue streams, or that they'd much rather either want to prevent having to face a new competitor, or alternatively, get all the proceeds of said competitor.

Yep. When they have bars, these bars are precisely meant to stop a car or motor bike from sliding under.

Bicyclists have way less momentum, so sliding under would be less of a risk, I think. They experience plenty of other risks though.

> are bars all that expensive?

From the article:

> The beefier, more robust rear guards would’ve cost an additional $127 each, according to industry estimates.

I'm inclined to think that 127 USD (even if the side rails were a little bit more expensive because they're larger) is not too expensive for a feature like this.

Also, I think that in Europe these rails are already mandatory. At least the rear guard is required in The Netherlands if the trailer protrudes >60cm at the rear iirc.

I still use Apache Httpd quite a bit, actually. Alongside haproxy, that is. The thing I appreciate about Apache is its modular layout. With Nginx I often run into a use case where I need to recompile stuff, something that never happened to me with Apache Httpd.

I understand where you're coming from. Recently I read someone saying that "it's just like brushing your teeth, it's what your body requires in order to keep functioning properly".

That rang a bell with me. After all, I suppose pretty much everyone on HN brushes their teeth at least twice a day. That's also something that you need to build into your routine, somehow.

The same goes for exercise. If you build up routines that involve exercise, then it should become easier over time as habits are formed.

Something that doesn't help in that regard is cities where car use is almost unavoidable for basic stuff. Ideally, you'd live somewhere where schools and shops are near the places where people live, and the streets are designed so it's safe to walk or cycle. Then you could get some exercise simply by dropping off the children at school or doing some grocery shopping. Street design also isn't some natural phenomenon but something that city councils can make conscious decisions on, so none of it is a given.

Maybe it would be a nice project to see if you could get Zig working in the Linux kernel?

Someone commented something along the lines of 'but then how are we supposed to tackle organized crime'. As I typed the comment below the comment got flagged and I could no longer reply. Still, I think the bit below may contribute to the discussion. TL;DR; I think that as a society we should more often ask ourselves if something is actually worth fighting if it means sacrificing a lot of our human rights. That may not be a problem on HN, but it is one imho on a political level in many Western countries.

There is not always a solution to a problem.

Let's say you wanted to bring the number of car crashes to zero. Eventually there's nothing 'reasonable' left to be done, and the only remaining option would be to ban cars altogether. Instead, we accept a certain number of crashes because it's deemed more important to be able to drive a car than it is to bring the number of car crash fatalities to zero*.

For example, in a country like Germany there are 0.8 homicides per 100K inhabitants. You could put _everybody_ under surveillance, just to have an easier job of finding the perpetrators. In the process there would be many false positives, wrongful imprisonments, etc.

In order to preserve the rule of law, maybe it's sometimes best to accept that you cannot create the perfect society. At least not a society in which people who are innocent (the very vast majority) can also still enjoy their freedoms.

Besides, I feel like the police has become somewhat lazy in many Western countries for the past 20 years. Before the rise of the internet, it was simply accepted that you couldn't know what two spouses had said to each other and you had to rely on good-old detective work. However, since things like Facebook Messenger, the cops expect to be able to get a warrant for all this data. That era appears to be slowly ending with E2EE, and all of a sudden they're struggling because those detective skills have slowly deteriorated.

* To be clear, I think that in many countries there's still quite a lot of room for improvement to reduce the number of car crash fatalities. Not in the least in the USA.

I appreciate the usefulness for websites that use a passwordless login; where WebauthN is the only means of authentication. However, having implemented WebauthN on various websites as a second factor. On these websites the user is expected to enter a password as proof of something they know, and supply a USB device as proof of something they have.

With projects like Apple Passkeys or this one, aren't we reducing the usefulness of 2FA to simply proof of something you know but spread over two different inputs?

I wonder if the moment this poll was published has any impact on its results. I.e., if it was published on a Tuesday during business hours would there be a different audience than the people reading HN over the weekend?

I think there won't be a big bang where we go from no self driving to fully self driving vehicles at once. It will be many small changes, that taken together will slowly transition towards full self driving cars. Since quite some years we've had cruise control, now there's adaptive cruise control. Then cruise control became able to overtake other vehicles. Next up, they may be able to take a certain exit based on satnav, etc.

It's hard to say when, but chances are that at some point in time we'll simply have FSD, while nobody realized that's where we were headed because it was all marketed as small(ish) individual features.

Would it not be way more useful if the NTSB focused on road design? As someone from Europe I oftentimes see very wide roads in the USA with a maximum speed of 15 mph or something, their design does not stop one from driving 50+ mph, however. In Europe, you often see that if there's a lower maximum speed, the width of the road is reduced, and obstacles are placed to ensure you actually can't drive significantly faster than allowed.

Also, smaller streets will typically lead to less distracted drivers, because it requires a certain level of concentration to navigate these streets.

Oh, and something about enormous SUV's that won't make traffic any safer...