skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fraud reported here impacts CO₂ emissions, not particulates. Plenty more can be done to reduce CO₂ emissions through increased thermodynamic efficiency, hybrid drive trains, weight reduction, and drag reduction. We are nowhere near the extreme limits yet, it's just a question of cost effectiveness.
Gasoline engines with modern emissions control systems already emit tiny amounts of particulates and other pollutants. Diesel engines are probably not going to be viable for light passenger vehicles much longer as the limits get stricter.
While it's true the USB-C spec provides for this possibility as part of the extensions to the USB Audio standard, Intel is also discussing an MPU specifically to implement HDCP for audio outputs from the USB-C connector in this announcement. You say we didn't read it, but we read it loud and clear. This is an enabler for DRM that does nothing to help consumers, many of whom have already significantly invested time and money into audio gear that works perfectly fine.
Yeah, we knew as soon as they said it.

Any product feature like that would most likely need to be known to a number of teams such as marketing, engineering, production, documentation, compliance, supply chain, QA, tooling, support, or whatever they call those inside VW. So many teams would be coordinated by a pretty high level exec.

source: rogue engineer
Yes, I think he was being facetious <:)
Often it is a bit more complicated. The last one I did it had say a $30 monthly phone charge with a $15 rebate. I guess so they could make the pone look cheaper while just building the rest of the phone cost into the service cost.
I understand that this is a solution. What I don't understand is, what problem is being solved here?

There are additional problems:

- By being an untethered "telepresence" robot, it is vulnerable to jamming. And that's if people do not find any vulnerabilities.

- The actual "police officers" will be far removed from the situation at hand. This creates a high incentive for abuse.
I did wonder why he would voluntarily move TO Npower. Even if you're saving money, it's not worth it. A single 'live chat' with them was more than enough to convince me of that.
Note to self, don't stand directly in front of leg grabber
Sorting is done by using information from comparisons to discard something like 50% of the remaining possible permutations at once.
There are a lot of warning signs regarding he current US infrastructure, several people have talked about the inability of our current infrastructure to efficiently manage most/all cars suddenly usig the electric grid.

But the bigger problem is that you simply can't take a long trip on battery only, without significant delay. I take a twice-yearly trip that takes about 10 hours in a car, with two small kids. That would be hell in an electric car.
So now cop-tipping will be a thing in China?
Dunno why you're being downvoted, that's exactly the type of frustrating experience that exemplifies HDCP.
Walgreens, Theranos and Bad Blood
How is that even possible?

Only the computer industry has rapid obsolescence. Other standards aren't nearly so vulnerable to churn. Look at your power sockets. Or your pipe fittings, nuts, bolts, and so on.
Agree, it's a very troubling situation.

Unless the general public in proximity to an attack is legally required to respond, seems unlikely to make a difference.
Even its "pure capitalism" has had a lot of public housing projects, right from the get-go. (And stuff we take for granted like public education.) I think its policies can be derived more from a "no passengers" ethos and the need to react to present living standards and their growth rate.
Only the largest ones. Most are on a car chassis.
3D Touch should've replaced long press. I hate that I have to wait, I don't care that it's 0.4 of a second. A long press is a concession to the fact that there's no physical button, and 3D Touch should've solved this problem.

But instead I end up triggering a 3D Touch when I want to delete an app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D

http://www.web3d.org/

http://www.x3dom.org/

Note especially the 3d background 'images' on the x3dom site. Try dragging them around with your mouse.
I wish we lived in a world where those responsible for large crimes went to jail.

> That's how the law works

I think you meant that's the fairy tale "we" tell the little people.
> Existing overnight electrical generation can satisfy replacing every internal combustion vehicle with an electrical vehicle, today, in the United States.

This isn't so obviously true that it can be asserted without justification. Based on the statistics I'm seeing from the EIA, replacing every light-duty automobile in the USA with a Tesla Model S would increase demand on the electric grid by more than 50%.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=96&t=3

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=gasoline_...
UI Testing in React
Or has the QA department given up?
A couple months ago I quipped about some sort of equivalent to "Poe's law" except in regards to fictional dystopias and reality. I wish that wasn't a thing.
> The EU market has always been heavily iOS skewed compared to America

On the contrary! iOS relative to Android is more popular in the US than in the EU.
Twitter’s woes continue on low sales, a sluggish 310M MAUs and weak guidance
My understanding is that V8 will provide hooks that parse the module imports, then delegate to the embedder to fetch the actual source code and hand it back to V8 to load. I'd expect that the Node implementation of these hooks would work the same way as the existing require() machinery, so that existing libraries will continue to work.
I think the point is that random lines in space (dimension > 2) intersect with probability 0, and so that shortcut almost never applies.
This is... I can't even. The lack of quantifiers is because I'm on a phone, and your claims are extreme. I'm not going to dignify all of them with a respond - a lot of the claims are hyperbolical and ridiculous.

> How much education do you get in history and critical thinking? Do they teach you to spot logical flaws and propaganda like our colleges often do? Do you apply that to the media and governments claims?

Yes. Yes to all of the questions you asked. Yes we do learn history and critical thinking in school. I know Operation Coldstore and Operation Spectrum. I know of the PAP's sordid history with the Barisan Sosialis. I don't trust the Straits Times, and frequently look for alternative viewpoints online. There is a large and vibrant blogging scene here, and netizens are more frequently than not critical of the government.

> Did you learn about places in the world that have good amount of safety and prosperity without draconian restrictions on their people?

Yes, and there are not many. People in the US gives up more freedom than they think, and its history is far from being clean. The UK has libel laws that are not entirely unlike Singapore's, just to pick a few broad examples.

Singapore is not without flaws - gay rights, a misguided focus on the nuclear family and an almost cult-like focus on drugs as social vice. The lack of representation in politics, and increasingly xenophobic towards immigration. The poor work-life balance, income inequality, and lack of support for the poorest. There's a lot of things that are wrong with Singapore - you don't have to make shit up.
That's ok, they come equipped with an egg beater and plunger as well.
The Joy of Sexual Physics
The background check would still take 12 hours in this case.
It's a bad report across the board...

AAPL YOY (year over year, not quarter) :
iphone down 18%
ipad down 19.5%
mac down 9%
revs down 13.5%
eps down 18.5%
Rosa Parks couldn't ride the bus based on the color of her skin.

In fact, there were sit-ins in "white only" movie theaters, because some people weren't accepted here even if they were able to pay. It's not that they didn't have the option to just not watch the movie, right?

Back then, white people were responding to just accusations exactly the same way — "come on, it's _just_ the bus ride! it's just the movie! what's the big deal?"

I can't easily come to live where I want — visa issues. This is discrimination by nationality, exactly the same as discrimination by skin color. And part of this big discrimination is my inability to watch the movie based on the place where I live.
But wouldn't you expect a grep to download the files so they could be searched, as opposed to a locate or find, which I wouldn't expect to do that.
Store a hash or checksum in the index and also allow the remote API to return the hash/checksum to see if the file has changed
On the conference call, Cook mentioned that they are still supply constrained on the SE - they are still selling all they can build as fast as they build them.
Hard problems though might involve making a 5 or more year bet and investing billions with no guarantee of a return.

Much more of a risk than bumping the iPhone specs.
I still remember watching WW2 films and seeing scenes of phone exchanges where people were switching manually ussing the quarter inch jack. It was surprisingly thrilling. I was working during the day at a place where I sold the same type of jack that was in use for similar purposes all the way back in world war 2.

I had no idea their history went back so much further than that.
Nuit debout
Practice safe financing
DRM on the audio path has been attempted since the earliest days of PC soundcards. It took the industry a little too long to work out that anyone could route a CD signal to the Record Input inside most typical PC soundcard mixer apps. Once they did work it out, that option disappeared.

DRM killed DAT as a consumer format back in the early 90s.

In fact there were DRM attempts on vinyl and tape, but it's impossible to make inaudible analog DRM, so they never caught on.

The bigger problem now is the move from files to streaming services. If you sell someone a file - downloadable or on CD, it doesn't matter - they can always torrent it.

If all music is locked inside streaming services, they can't - at least, not easily.
On top of that, consider attacker's use of a cell phone jammer. It would completely negate any type of call for help. Listen, the arguement if they really cared about women, then listing sensational words like gang rape and "acid attacks". Not a lot of rational, objective conversation can be had after you introduce those topics and emotions.
You're assuming that places have QA departments. Those, in my experience, are the first thing to vanish.
It's like the old joke: New linux users use the default kernel of a distro because it 'just works', power users compile their own kernel to get every drop of performance, and senior users use the default kernel because it 'just works'...
How ? with guns ?

Why the official announcement if it's all fluff ? Is the police corrupt that much ? too busy to care about this kind of issues ?
You're absolutely right, this is a ridiculous solution to a very grave issue.
Indeed, I don't have a good understanding of the JVM ecosystem. However:

Google is tentatively on the hook for $9B for... essentially implementing its own JVM... or something. Doesn't matter to me, end result is that the future of Java on Android is far from clear. They're allegedly looking into using Swift as the next generation Android language.

RoboVM, one of the better / more popular ways to write iOS apps in Java was close-sourced, then acquired by Xamarin, then Microsoft, then shut down.

Oracle charges licensing fees for using JVM in embedded devices and kiosks.

To summarize, there's an incredible amount of tools and libraries for Java, but I don't like where Java's mobile story is going in general.

As far as I know the number of viable JVM machines you could build a business on is maybe... 5 at most? They're all experimental and/or abandoned.

Meanwhile, node / JS / ASM.js / Emscripten and friends are only getting better, faster and more widespread outside of the web.
Maybe a recency bias. I have used computers since I was a kid, my earliest memories are Windows 95 but I am sure there was some before then too. I remember constant BSOD, constant application-crashing bugs with vague error messages, no ability to Google the solution to the problems you do have. Sometimes a game wouldn't work and there was really nothing you could do to even troubleshoot.

I doubt we're getting worse. At worst, we're staying even as complexity grows tremendously. I would guess we're probably improving slightly despite insane growth in complexity.

I would say that with great size, like Google and Microsoft, comes a greater difficulty in making bug-free products. Too small and you don't have the funding, but the sweet size is probably somewhere between a "small business" and "Google". Companies the size of Google have a lot of bureaucracy. They have a million products. They have thousands of developers. And in the end, the majority of the business doesn't even come from these glitchy products. It's understandable that noone is really up in arms over these bugs because upper management doesn't give a shit, and the developers only give a shit in so far that they aren't fired. Sometimes you'll have developers who care because of pride in their work, but they're the minority.
How many npm users are there?
Software is always bad at the top of the market, when hype and get-it-out wins over quality and measured improvements. Javascript is also always hugely popular at the top of the market. (2000-DHTML, 2008-Web2.0, Now-Node/Ang/React.)

Eventually, the Developer Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.
Even when you're using some base that already exists (often a highly configurable thing that's been sold to you by someone else), you STILL have the frequent stories of nightmares involving either an inability to configure it to the desired specification or cost and time overruns of epic proportions.
This is just a publicity stunt. The country is simply too large and public spending on law enforcement and emergency services too small for anything like this to be effective. They could start by increasing the penalties for sex crimes and spending more money on effective prosecutions.
It is clearly stated in the article:

When Google published the Dremel paper in 2010, it explained how this structure is preserved within column store.
...
The definition and repetition levels encoding is so efficient for semistructured data that other open source columnar formats, such as Parquet, also adopted this technique.

Parquet is an open-source reimplementation of the columnar storage format described in Google's 2010 Dremel paper. Capacitor is Google's next-generation columnar storage format.
Absolutely on point. There are numerous points where the polish is missing. For smartphones at Apple's preferred high-end price point, if the user experience doesn't feel like the designers anticipated user needs, then an Android will look "good enough". The gap between "good enough" and "just works" is gigantic, and is only breached by psychotic amounts of attention to detail:

1. Create an appointment, set the geographic destination, start setting alarms and about half the time Calendar crashes.

2. No gesture to make a copy of an appointment in Calendar.

3. No API for Siri.

4. Dial into a conference call with a passcode. Start a second call, and try to dial into another phone number with a passcode from Contacts or Calendar. It dials the number but not the passcode (iOS ignores everything after the phone number for the second call).

5. Come back into cell range from a long absence and receive a barrage of voicemail notifications about voicemails you've previously been notified about.

6. Add a field in Contacts, and the cursor and focus stay in the "add field" area of the record, while the actual field is above that area. You have to scroll up, find the field as the keyboard appears, then key in the field. Older versions of iOS had the behavior correct: adding a field moves the focus to the field in the record.

These and more warts arguably should not exist in a high-end, premium smartphone.
Someone explain to me: Chez vs Gambit vs Chicken vs Bigloo. Which do I pick? Especially interested in parallel/multithreading abilities, standards compliance, and overall performance.
Xi editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust
Yes, if you presume growth results from problem solving, then it's trivial to argue that it must. But it's also fairly trivial to show growth that results from causing problems, too. Like certain kinds of monopolistic behavior.

For example, if my ISP charges my $10 more a month, they aren't necessarily solving any problems, but it's still growth for them.
Artículos: La elección de un programa de afiliados es rentable y fácil
This is why the carbon taxes that are being introduced in Canada are revenue neutral (carbon tax revenue flows back to people via income tax cuts/credits). This way people aren't immediately negatively impacted by spiking costs.

The high gas prices though create a huge incentive for people to change their lifestyles and avoid high carbon priced goods. People that switch to a fuel efficient vehicle or just ride a bike instead get to keep their revenue from the tax cut and their savings from using less/no gas.
This is misleading, the author is not running "Scala on Tessel 2", but rather "Compiling Scala to Javascript for Tessel 2"
The sad thing is even if they are chances are they will not do anything to stop or prevent it.

I think people, everywhere, including the US are mostly afraid.

I have seen people in the US do nothing when something bad takes place. Most people I think live in fear. They don't want to get involved.

It's a very sad state of humanity but it's the climate we live in.

I have nothing but the most sincere concern for women in India.
I find it so incredibly troubling the attitude that country has of women. The fact that government refuses to recognize a womens right to defend herself with deadly force when gang rapes are a common everyday occurrence is.... soul crushing.

A Panic button? Really? That is the best Modi and crowd can enable women with? This speaks volumes about how women are viewed there.
I see similar messages fairly often. I believe "Success" is what you get when you use strerror() to translate an errno of 0 (success) on a Linux/UNIX machine with English localization. So this contradictory message is what happens when the programmer uses an errno-printing function (perror() or something custom) to indicate an error that wasn't actually due to a failure that sets errno.
As a fresh graduate.

Its really frustrating, its impossible to get work as a researcher - even for shit pay !

Money has really dried up ( or maybe there are too many graduates ). In the UK their is a push from universities for students to self fund their Phd in aeronautical engineering !

Its the most regressive thing you could do, but whatever - democracy.
I think those are the founders, developers and other central team member salaries since their couriers are 1099 contractors.
If you know EPS is a terrible price inflation tactic, why did you automatically assume it's Apple's motive and gripe about it?

If the market price is lower than intrinsic value, then the buyback is a good idea.
The video stream bandwidth and requirement for near-zero latency will make remote control very challenging, if not impossible. I'd say the last-mile driver will be in the truck.
Many developers do that because that's where the money is.

While Android has a larger market share Apple brings more money through app sales than Android.

The Android ecosystem is also utterly segmented which means you have to support multiple versions of the API and a very wide range of hardware profiles which turns developing a consistent UX into a nightmare.

On top of that you have to deal with emerging markets that sell android devices that don't even come with a play store and Google's APIs.
Show HN: rqlite v2.2.2, replicating SQLite via Raft consensus
People can't buy it in a store, because like pretty much every model that came before it, they're massively supply constrained.

They've gotten better about it, but there's only so much you can do when you're producing a high-tech item being purchased tens of millions of times per week globally.
[Satire] Why I'm Joining the Innovation Party
I find myself wondering what the budget for Bletchley Park was.

We are in a war, just as we were then. It's just slower and less visible. If we don't fix the energy problem, we are done for.
The thesis is that because this person ran across a few glitches in a small subset of systems "programmers" have all given up. It continues to then re-count some bad interactions with customer service types and an anonymous Twitter user.

Seriously? That's it?

And this leads him to believe programmers everywhere have quit caring?

How does this even hold up? You realize it's not necessarily a programmer at many a institution prioritizing work. You realize that the power company customer service person probably will have zero clue what the issue is?

This is poorly thought out blog spam.

I expect the other 95% of the time, shit works just fine. But blog posts about everything working just fine don't generate hits.
If I didn't know the New Horizons photos of Pluto were real, I would have thought they were just "artists impressions" too, because the real thing was stunning.

Sure, the drawing is probably inaccurate, but the real thing is probably at least as interesting.
I have a love-hate relationship with nginx. I love that it's fast and rock solid. But recently I keep on getting tripped up when the directive I'm trying to configure is only available in the paid plan, the pricing of which puts it out of (my) reach.

Also, there really should be separate docs for the open source vs paid plan.

That said, I do plan on kicking the tires on the HTTP/2 support.
Fellow Moto G user, and I completely agree with this sentiment (along with the camera being meh). Remarkably the battery has held up very well with two years of use, part of me wonders if that's due to performance improvements in Android offsetting the natural wear (though every update seems to make the stock apps slower, with Maps being a particularly noticeable example).
Coming to rape trials near you: "Your phone was beside you all night. Why didn't you press the panic button?"

We'll know when societies are actually serious about protecting women when they direct more of their efforts towards changing the men who rape them.
"However, it can’t represent reasoners’ logical uncertainty, their uncertainty about statements like “this Turing machine halts” or “the twin prime conjecture has a proof that is less than a gigabyte long.”"

Um, Bayesian?
Yes and no (am an artist and have both). The hardware profile is exactly what you would want, but the software isn't there. You'd need something like the equivalent of the brush engine in Photoshop in order for it to be viable for most artists, but Adobe seems all in on their paired down and unintuitive mobile apps. Procreate comes close, but their brush system is kludgy.
3D Force Touch has one really useful use, which is to go back to the previous app on the backstack. I use that constantly. But I use almost nothing each with 3D Touch.