skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2004 Prius (which should have the same behavior as your 2005) definitely doesn't have consistent brake response: the first inch or so of travel is completely electronic and when the battery is completely full (having gone down a long hill) it doesn't do any regeneration at all and neither letting off the accelerator nor using that first inch of brake travel does absolutely nothing.

If you're in B mode, it will use compression braking (and if you're stopped, it'll bleed off energy by spinning the engine without any gas), but that doesn't change when you actually press on the brake pedal.

I rented a 2009 Prius once, and was surprised by the brake pedal being completely electronic. When the battery was completely full, I noticed the brake pump noise occurring immediately upon touching the brake, instead of partway down the travel like it usually does when regeneration is working.

My mom's Leaf also has a fully electronic pedal, but I've never driven it down a very long hill with a fully-charged battery, and there's no telltale brake pump noise, so I don't know if it changes its behavior with the battery filled to capacity.
>I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack,

No, sorry. I actually enjoy the music I listen to.
I wrote a comment which described the state of my knowledge, and would be fine if another commenter said they disagreed for any reason (anecdotal or evidenciary). If the respondent had said "I looked, but could not find studies which correspond with what you are saying", I would have made more effort.

The problem behavior which I have seen cropping up on Hacker News is people asking for citations as a quick and easy way of invalidating other people's views, while justifying downvotes (which have become far too common). I have also observed that many will ask for studies, then either ignore them for viewpoint or ad hominiem reasons, or attempt to invalidate the study by nit-picking. If the original commenter lied or pulled numbers out of thin air, it is fair to call them out (in my view), but laziness on the part of the respondent is no justification for snark.
Why the limited subset? I know that STL and embedded aren't the best of friends but where else is there a problem? Is it the threading stuff?
The real everyday sexism.
From their side, it's just decreased average consumption. They still need to have the generation and infrastructure to power everyone when there's a prolonged dull spell. A lot of energy company initiatives recently have been about reducing their peak-to-average power ratio because it affects their costs, and this has the potential to make it a lot worse.
Thanks for the link! I appreciate it.

Your phrasing "a comment where moderator admits it": "admit" is often used in cases where someone is acknowledging some wrongdoing. Is this the connotation you intended?

Here's what the moderator said:

"Sorry, but pure politics aren't a good fit for HN, so in addition to the user flags already on the post we've added a moderation downweight."

To me that looks like an explanation. It doesn't look like they're trying to hide their decisions (whether or not one agrees with them).

If I'm misreading your intent, please stop now and let me know :) I don't mean or want to put words in your mouth.

If you do think what they did was wrong in some way, I'm interested in hearing why you think so. Some more questions, if you'd take the time to answer. If you're not, that's perfectly fine, too.

- Is it wrong for moderators to enforce stated community guidelines? (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

- Do you think the moderators are doing so unevenly? On purpose?

- Should communities have guidelines? If so, what guidelines are fair?

- Is there a difference between topic guidelines and behavior guidelines? For example, I've seen users cautioned by moderators to keep comments substantive and civil here on HN.

I'm trying to inform my own opinion around these topics, and would like to know what others think to get a better understanding of the issues.

Thanks again! At this point I think I've said all I really can on this thread, so, as they say on the radio, I'll take my answer off the air :)
He (a) changed his mind, (b) wrote git.
The timing may be calculated but that's about it. If a product isn't going to work out, that's one thing, but Musk doesn't waste time on vaporware. Notice that Tesla never put a silly will-never-be-an-actual-product car for display at auto shows.
Yes, but they have TB2/miniDP connector, so they won't fit into the new machine.
It's taken 15 years to get to the point where USB is simply everywhere (cars, airports, chargers for random $20 quad-copters from Fry's, keyboard/mouse connections on servers, etc). And it's kinda nice right now. I'm better much more than three years to get to this point again with USB-C. I'm claiming it cannot be worth it. I'm aware of the advantages of USB-C, but we're so extremely invested in the USB-A ecosystem...
While I also think that humans are probably not built for monogamy, I'm not sure if it would really help much. We also have small children, so there is not much time to meet other people. And there is the issue of physical attractiveness. I am attracted to some women of my age, but more often to younger women. I shudder at the thought of what they might think of me (leery old guy...).
The Soviet Union was a variation of capitalism, called state capitalism. I hope you weren't implying that they were socialists or communists in any way. We have not seen socialism, only small forms of democratic socialism. We have definitely never seen communism, only dictatorships and their one-party systems.
Agree 100%. I'm hoping that RISC-V will be a nice plateau where we can hang out for a long, long time. It's within spitting distance of a good as the current mode of thought is going to get, and there's no commercial entity behind it to chase after differentiation and therefore churn.

It almost makes me hope that arches like the Mill don't pan out - if there's nothing obviously better, boring compatibility will win and bring with it the opportunity to build higher on narrower, more stable, base.
6to4 has always been broken, but that doesn't really matter because client preference for 6to4 has been <= 0.01% since 2013:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I wish my browser had an option to prevent the scaling lock. I should be able to decide if I can zoom in or out.
Well, I can (or I could on a personal one, as opposed to the work-supplied one I carry). I like being able to install software from outside of an app store without modifying my firmware, worrying about updating my device, losing my warranty, opening up large security holes, etc.

Reaching outside of the walled garden isn't hard, but there are more things to consider compared to installing an apk on Android.
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Exactly. From the moment I saw Trump, I was excited because it is a radical departure. As close to an independent (both parties hate him!) as is possible in the US and still win.

What specific actions do you think Trump would take that'd create so much damage? And are those things more damaging than allowing a corrupt party (see WL emails on DNC on Bernie) to win? To say hey, corruption's OK in the US, even when it's totally public? Or to get people to think that war with Russia, even if in another country, might be OK?
I spent a few weeks trying to learn Wubizixing about 10 years ago. I found learning the primary 26 component-to-key mappings very easy via staged practise similar to how I learnt touch typing English, i.e. introducing one new component at a time. (The only minor hiccup was because 木 and 目 both have the same sound and tone in Mandarin, I had to remember that completely visually.)

But when I tried learning the secondary components, I began with the digits 一二三四五六七八九十, I just couldn't remember the keyboard mappings because my mind was already mapping them to the top ten keys in sequence, whereas in Wubizixing they're scattered all over the keyboard based on the first stroke in the character. I gave up on learning Wubizixing after that, and instead looked designing at my own input system.

The most difficult design decision with any such input system is which component-to-key mappings to use. Wuhou uses 92 mappings, Wubizixing uses 26 by overloading many more of the keys. Someone learning such a system must be able to easily learn those mappings.
> "The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century." [https://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/about.php]
Uhh, it varies, really. There's music that's simple because the musicians don't know how to be make interesting music, and then there's music that's simple because that's the musically correct thing to do and the musicians have the confidence to be like "no, we're not playing all the notes and doing all the things right now".

There's layers of sophistication. Sometimes becoming a better musician means learning to put more into a song, and sometimes it means less.

A good example of this: Ahmad Jamal, Surrey With The Fringe On Top, particularly the section 50 seconds in - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7PDwzY9LA

More mainstream is the drumming in "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.
The latter. He mentions buying data from the standard marketing sources and hosting systems on AWS.
I prefer the old school green, in the original formulation.
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Legitimate question: How much time right now do you spend staring down at your keyboard as opposed to up at the screen? How do you think looking down at the TouchBar will impact your productivity?
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De-extinction is extremely difficult. Even if you're able to preserve DNA with 100℅ accuracy you still have the issue of raising an animal that we have little knowledge of how child rearing, eco system, etc works. I suppose for the more recent extinctions we have more information that could be used to de-extinct them and then rewild them. But something like this happening for species like Wooly Mammoths is probably a long way off.
When adding traditional PV panels to my house a few years ago, I talked to the designer about PV shingles. He said the problem is that PVs are black and get hot in the sun. Traditional panels are raised a few inches above the roof with a gap that allows air flow (stack effect) to cool the panel. Also, the panel shades the roof, keeping the attic cooler (less A/C). With shingles, when they get hot, the attic gets hot (more A/C).
Well if they were planning on going to market without being able to pass an audit then they deserve every bit of it. I've worked in am FDA regulated field for a little over a decade and getting in touch with regulatory bodies up front is par for the course. Sounds to me like they don't know what they're doing and are in over their heads.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841489
> What's next? Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations?

So... Soylent?

>Disrupting the medicine-industry...

So... Theranos?
Ever do any Mac or iOS development? Still trying to figure out how to do that on Linux. If I could, I would switch immediately.
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hahahahahahah what?

nobody saw it coming when elon musk owns solar f'ing factory?

dumbest headline.
Talk about "solving" the wrong problem.

If you want people to "talk to you" about work opportunities, then what you should focus on is (1) creating an environment they'd actually want to work in, (2) providing interesting stuff for them to work on, and (3) a genuinely respectful, human-centric application and interview process end-to-end -- such that even if you do decide to pass on them, they don't feel like they're time has been wasted (or worse) just for talking to you.

Many companies seem to specializing sucking at (1), (2) and especially (3). And granted, the fixes for these aren't necessarily easy. But at least that's the direction you should be thinking about -- not "how can we write catchier emails so that some bored developer will respond to us?"
Who said anything about "verge of collapse"? You, just now, and that's it.

I'm done with this.
Did you design and run your own independent experiments as an undergrad? Or did you do assigned and supervised lab work following exact procedures from an exercise book in a group setting with a lab instructor watching over you, and you had to be done and out within 2-3 hours?
To invoke the old truism: something is only worth what somebody's willing to pay for it. Maybe broadcast networks will be able/willing to pony up the dough to get those rights back, but I wouldn't bet on it.
> This is the crux of the anti-Frozen Zoo argument: Shouldn't we fix ourselves before we fix anything else?

I'm glad the article addresses this point. We have a lot of work to do before we can do this responsibly, if we should do it at all.
Back in the late 90s I worked at a US bank with an older and wiser dev who'd done long stints at DEC and IBM. HE used to comment that it's no accident that IBM nearly collapsed at the same time as the Soviet Union actually did, as they were very similar organisations :) I guess Lou Gerstner was a better turn around exec than Gorbachev.
My mistake. I was reading an article that claimed that the Pixel was using Qualcomm's tech.
Perfectly fair question! I touch type, so basically never. But I'm open to seeing what possibilities it brings. :-)

I mostly use Sublime Text, Slack, Google Docs, and the terminal. That pretty much covers everything I need to achieve. I appreciate I'm a special snowflake and other people have other requirements.

Disclaimer: I only ever use the function keys for display brightness, volume, etc. They are just not part of my routine keyboard usage.
I think there has been an interesting pattern with Trump. His choice of Manafort (Kremlin Insider) and Cater Page (Kremlin Insider), his daughter vacationing with Putin's Family, his son involved in business ventures in Russia. Trumps dealings with Russian Oligarchs concerning Real Estate in NY and Miami.

I suppose someone might find it interesting when a Presidential candidate has a great affinity for what some consider a foreign adversary and has taken deliberate steps in changing policy to align with Kremlin's/Putin.

If Trump is elected it will be interesting to see how it plays out with the Kremlin. Is he part of a 5th column?
This comment reminds me of a story I heard years, years ago. I was living in central Asia, in one of the post-Soviet countries. (As an aside, I met quite a few people there who much preferred life under Soviet rule. Sometimes at parties in the countryside they'd even start singing rousing choruses of the soviet anthem!)

Anyway, the apocryphal story goes, Krushchev is visiting a Western washing machine factory. He sees all the different models coming off the line, this one has two agigtators, that one has three speeds, whatever. He sees the churn of factory equipment. All that hustle and bustle to try and sell more washing machines.

He laments, "Oh, you capitalists, you're so inefficient. Look at how much time and effort you waste on with all this competition! We soviets made one washing machine, and it works!"
This is not true, all of the things you mentioned are possible in modern browsers and are being standardized. However some of them require permission from the user.

(1) Full screen: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fullscreen_...

(2) Camera + Microphone: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...
a barebones debian install of debian-testing or debian-unstable, running no services takes about 68MB of RAM, whether in i386 or amd64 kernel versions, and with a very recent v4.7 or v4.8 series kernel... how much more lightweight do you need?
That $10,000 watch was a failure that has been discontinued.
VLC is one of the best open source programs ever written. I use it on mobile+notebook for video and music (320-encoded files on a 128 GB SD card). Youtube/many other apps are just not OK in quality.
> If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).

They must have made some sort of arrangement. The article states:

The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline.
Apparently recognising that one lacks that skill is also not a skill that everybody has
That is what everybody says, but realistically, to get a young woman to have kids with you at old age, you need to be quite successful financially. Maybe some young women prefer older guys, but I suspect in general they are not that keen.
If someone is exploiting it then you _know_ the manual is already out there. How far it has been disseminated is unknown, but arguably it's better to assume it's being disseminated. Otherwise anybody could argue that "not enough" attackers know about an exploit as justification for criticizing disclosure.
This thread makes me happy.
'I know half the money I spent on advertising is wasted, but I don't know which half.'

A lot of research is supposed to be new, uncertain, high-risk, high-reward. So it should fail often.

[A lot is also to be meticulous fact-checking, building certainty to later build new breakthroughs on.]

IMO, there is a real problem with people doing bad research they know is bad, but I wouldn't say that the 50% unread figure is the thing to focus on.
I'd imagine they have a special agreement with Twitter anyway, at least to keep someone from programmatically grabbing @POTUS as soon as a script realized that @POTUS44 had been created.
As long as it does the antialiasing correctly, then yeah! But I've seen .swf->.js stuff which has the telltale garish seams between adjacent vector objects, showing it's just deferring to the broken AA use of the immediate-mode canvas renderer.

Does anybody know how much of the Flash plugin AA runs on CPU vs GPU? Obviously the older versions were CPU-only, though I'm not sure how much of actual Flash object rendering has moved to the GPU in recent years, especially as a ton of it is bezier based. If it is still fully CPU-based, with GPU just doing blits & blends, then wasm should allow fast enough use of a proper .swf AA renderer without going through canvas's forgetful AA.
Leases do not 'artificially' inflate new car sales. They are not really different from regular financing. In both cases the new car is sold and paid for by a financial institution. And the customer can use the car as long as all financial conditions of the deal are met. For instance, in both cases you can pay off your balance earlier to own the car outright. Or you can sell car before the end of the lease/loan terms and use proceeds to payoff the balance.
For the most part though, reliability has improved a lot. You have to factor in mileage too of course (and weather--which can lead to rust problems). But a 10 year old car isn't necessarily an unreliable clunker these days.

You're right of course about features, including safety features. Personally, I'm not going to get rid of a reliable running car for most new technology. But then I've always been a drive car until (or a little bit past :-)) the point where it's not reliable transportation any longer.
Sure, but then you don't need to go through the whole process of publishing it. You could just post it on your blog.
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LIDAR is still not that good for driving. It's better than cameras but it's still pretty bad, because its vision can be obscured by weather conditions. Radar is the gold standard for vision like this.

That being said, I thought they were using radar.
> because that meant they could set their phone down

Now instead they have to worry about:

- charging stations

- how the headphones identify themselves to the computer

- skype and/or Windows arbitrarily refusing to acknowledge them as headphones during calls

- DRM

- more than 20$ on average price increase

- Security and privacy
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It seems like the transition away from professional users has been happening for quite some time on both the hardware and software fronts. Most new OSX features seem heavily tilted towards the home user, not the power user, and especially not developers. The question does become, who are these 'pro' machines really intended for now? The cynic in me says that Apple intends MBP's to be used to mainly create apps and content for iOS devices...
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Yeah, especially when you consider all the current buzz about Neural Networks. The original papers on MLPs, CNNs, etc were published more than two decades ago but were not given much attention until recently.

And I certainly wouldn't consider that a failure.

I'm sure there are other examples of research catching on decades later.
Embedded devices usually can't compile the entire C++ language, because of limited hardware and/or compiler tools.
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"Purely in jest" is probably not the right phrasing if it is based on long experience, thus a sincere prediction of the likely outcome.

I get what you are going for, but, my experiences suggest that if you want to take a position that opposes that of the majority view of the group in question, this sort of commentary is extremely counterproductive.

Not that you need to care. I am just someone who likes talking with people and you made the mistake of talking to me, so I am now talking to you. (shrugs)
The linking was just an example (although important for those who generate native binaries). With java or c# there are other, but similar low-level issues that the programmer should be aware, because they can affect the deployment. The typical example may be a 3rd-party library or SDK you are using was compiled with the same library as you are using, just with different version. Maybe even the runtime you are using supplies some version too (think a Java application server like JBoss, your .ear containing your app with dependencies and one of those dependencies is a third-party jar with the same-but-different lib). Even in PHP or JavaScript you can end up with dependency hell, solving which is miles away from organizing your files in the IDE and necessity to know how things work under the hood.
No doubt. But, with no electronic edition available, it represents a larger investment of time and effort than otherwise; I can much more easily watch videos on the train than schlep a paper book along.
Please do not use the word we in this context. Half of my colleagues are paying very hefty federal and state taxes but do not have the right to vote.
Maybe in the past couple of years, but there's a big reason why a lot of mobile browsers were based on WebKit a few years ago.
Not at all.

To start, do three things.

Find a bouldering wall. Get a hold of some climbing shoes. Watch videos 5, 6, 7 of Climbing for Beginners [0].

Don't spend a lot on shoes, you will wreck them really quickly and you will certainly buy the wrong sizing when you start.

Boulder a bit and have fun. I enjoy bouldering with a friend the most as it really challenges me. Bouldering walls are often full of really cool and helpful people.

If you like it then watch some more videos to improve technique, think about what you are doing and practice. Consider trying rope climbing (you will want to take a short intro course for this, the rope skills are important).

Then you will start watching super cool videos [1], find yourself at the wall waay too often, and be more interested in finding out somebodies beta than their name.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbIDnMmSLsc&index=5&list=PL-...

[1] http://www.ukclimbing.com/videos/