skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still waiting on that E-Ink phone that lasts a month between charges.
This alleged photo shows no cover over the wheels. You can probably just not use it if you don't like it.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a12771645/t...
European or African?
"Any potentially addictive software/service should offer a way for users to lock themselves out of their own account for a predetermined set of hours."

It's really noticeable that Hacker News provides exactly this feature, and absolutely no other site that I've seen does.
> Yes, it performed way better than Firefox, which is exactly my point.

No, you specifically called out the speed and speed only - "on the simple basis that it was _really fast_" - nothing about it working right in other areas (which are the ones that grabbed people, not the speed.)
Google helminthic therapy and old friends hypothesis.
Have you ever looked at typical template compiler errors in C++? The same problem occurs, I suppose, but then much worse. I regularly have multiple screens of text where your own single line of code is hidden like a needle in a haystack. Clang seems to do this _slightly_ better than gcc, but it's both bad.
They collaborate because they have been forced to, not because they are collaborative. That's a significant difference.

Once they regain their market share you will see their true character.
Both of those things are already things that we have and do not need any more of to justify a full-scale nuclear war. I'm pretty sure the thing keeping it from becoming a real war zone is mutually assured destruction. Even mutually assured destruction aside, I think most people realize whatever kind of conflict occurs it won't be pretty for the parties involved.

Of course, letting things go for long enough to actually allow North Korea to produce working nuclear weapons is probably not very smart either, but I guess hindsight is 20:20.
Sending DNS queries in open does not protect from DNS hijacking which is ubiquitous in SE Asia for example. So you end up getting ‘free security solution’ that at the last mile is deliberately slowed down, registered and falsified.

Much better and more secure solution could be assembled in 15 minutes using dnscrypt-proxy with ip and domain filtering and caching. [^1]

Additionally I am always suspicious why IBM suddenly wants to collect my DNS queries? Sorry big corpo but I don’t trust your good intentions any more. We are long past the innocence of first years of the Internet.

If IBM or any other big name really wants to help with DNS security why don’t they give financial and material help to heroes like jedisct1, Martin 'd0wn' Albus, soltysiak and others who put their time, effort and money into running DNSCrypt servers? Money plunged just in design of Quad9 webpage they could have kept some servers running for years[^2]

[1] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki

[2] According to soltysiak his monthly costs are c.a. 40€/month but as it is his private expense he had to limit memory in his server.

https://dnscrypt.pl/2017/04/02/finacials-in-q1-2017/
MS should pay tribute to Open Source community for the rest of its days. Amen.
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You only got found if you explicitly marked yourself as available for a chat, which was an opt-in choice that could be easily toggled on and off, or left off all the time if you just wanted to use ICQ to chat with your friends as current IMs are used. And you could omit information, e.g. you could fill in your hobbies but not gender if you didn't want to be found by gender. And the privacy settings were much more understandable and transparent than in e.g. Facebook.

I guess there would be creeps, as anywhere where you can be exposed to unknown people, but I don't think the problem was worse than elsewhere. In fact, in my later experiences in chats, dating sites, etc., most women seemed to be (understandably) on the defensive due to the amount of stalkers and creeps they had to endure regularly, and in ICQ it didn't seem so much that way, I got plenty of conversations, girls (and guys) giving me their address for exchanging stamps or letters, etc., which I found much harder later in other media. Although maybe it's that both the Internet and myself were young and naive back then.

Anyway, if stalkers did become a big problem, surely the tech could have improved to deal with it.

There are probably several factors, but I think the main reason it was abandoned is simply network effects. MSN Messenger rose for reasons orthogonal to this, and then no one of the main IMs that succeeded it implemented this. Sadly, the question of what IMs gain more traction depends more on network effects than actual quality (see Whatsapp vs. Telegram, etc.)
> This is what makes a European a European, and an American, American. We have different standards and expectations about the social contract between enterprises and society.

As an American this is what I truly hate about corporations. They are afforded person-hood and "citizenship" where it benefits them but are treated as a company / corporation / non-living entity when that benefits them most.

I've been tired of telling international friends that I don't set nor agree with the vast majority of American policies. I, sadly, have no faith that the day will ever come where I won't feel so defensive when the topic of my country and it's influence on the globe becomes the topic for discussion.
> I gave in another comment

Yeah, sorry about the duplication here, I'm extremely interested in this specific topic.

> Now someone finds a png decoder exploit that works against my build.

I think this is the part I don't get. Specifically, how would an exploit work within wasm? That is, in the wasm environment is different than in native; the memory is bounds checked, for example. Basically, I 100% agree that some security bugs are logic bugs, but take the above stack smash, for example: that can't happen, in my understanding. Again, modulo interpreter bugs, like any sandboxing technique.

> it's hard for me to imagine how a JS PNG decoder would end up with the same sort of attack possible on it since it's parsing binary data into pixel buffers. At worst, you'd crash it.

It's hard for me to imagine how wasm is any different than JS here.
Their demo car uses Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, which are also used on the Buggati Chiron and Koenigsegg Agera RS (which recently set two records for fastest 0-400kph-0 and fastest production car road speed). These tires are street legal.

The Roadster is significantly faster than other supercars from 0-60 on the same tires, so the advantage must come from much more efficient anti-wheel slipping from the three electric motors coupled to AWD. This dramatic speed advantage is probably a result of the ability to quickly alter the power output per wheel to minimize efficiency losses from breaking traction.
Nice article, thanks for publishing this. However:

>This panic is caused by dereferencing a nil pointer, as indicated by the first line of the output. These types of errors are much less common in Go than in other languages like C or Java thanks to Go’s idioms around error handling.

I often see assertions made like this about Go. My experience at companies which use Go as their primary development language with reasonably-sized teams (30-50 people working on hundreds/thousands of Go programs) does not agree with this. I would say nil pointer dereference errors are just as common as if they were writing code in C or Java. I don't have hard data to back this up though; perhaps you do.
With their acceleration stats that cause all the excitement?
Why is this so newsworthy ? Crackers do it every day :)
A fiscal conservative’s worst nightmare you mean - slashing programs to fund bigger military, rich people initiatives and boondoggles. none of the policies enacted r dudes the size or spend of government, it just redirects it to benefit the elite ruling class.
Python, not sure where I might use it other than a few odd utilities but it's quite a nice language.
Can't reinstall when already installed. Web store says 'added in chrome'.
Why do you say it is a fraction of the cost to operate? Because the advert says so? I'll wait for concerns like the parent's to be weighed in before reaching any conclusion.
You're discounting the fact that this will be released in 2020. We've had a 4x increase in density between 2010-2016.

Also, Model 3 benefits from the new smaller gigafactory-made battery packages (at least a 35% increase in density over older Model S battery packs).

When you take all of this into account, it's very likely that they could fit an older Model S-size battery pack (which is more from 2015-2016 era) in a Roadster 2 with 2x the density.
API / AI government. It seems that we could replace a lot of politicians with a simple bash script.

Voting reform.

It seems that with fake news and real news labelled as fake news, stupid facebook memes, junk internet adverts on everything... I thought the internet would be better. It started off with so much promise. Lots of smart people connected together, they all chanted "Get the masses online!" ... it turns out that comes with its own set of issues.
How to run DECENT backup mining node
The specs are astonishing, and I believe they can deliver. The original Roadster is the iconic car that made electric vehicles cool.

Would be nice if they could get production of the Model 3 properly ramped up so us peasants who've been drooling over performance electric cars since before we had our driver's licenses can actually get our hands on them...
The quoted example in https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html does make reference to software quality.
Most of the time when a developer needs loop unrolling - numpy will work best anyway. Why does everyone always start mentioning this fact when performance is mentioned?

For example, in my case I always need high-performance code to work with strings loaded from loads of CSV files. That includes: merging strings, matching them, comparing them. Loop unrolling/SIMD would not really help here, while an ability to write safe, checked code fast - would.

On the other hand I do need the pythonic dynamics, so that's what I stick to.
The Amiga was awesome and it did sell quite well in some areas like in Europe. Its failure on the US market is clearly what killed it, as well as the lack of innovation after the Amiga 500... It did take over the world by storm with the Video Toaster though - and stayed there even long after it was dead.
My understanding is that 3d printing has greatly transformed product design work. You can do a lot of fast prototyping that used to take a lot of manual labour and turn around designs much faster. Then once the design is finalized you build your injection mold for mass production.

But I agree that desktop 3d printing certainly didn't transform much in the home.
And here I am, manually patching Docker containers...
Ha. I met my wife on ICQ, looking for people to practice my German with.
There's only two reasons I can think of why they'd patch the binary directly: either they've lost the source-code, or they no longer have an environment they can build it in.
Probably not sped up. What you're seeing is a sudden acceleration of the camera's viewpoint when panning to the left in order to keep up with the 1.9s to get to 60mph.
I think My Language is a good compromise. The only problem are not My Language speakers and other communities who disdain My Language for patriotic, historic or political reasons.
Look at my sibling post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15720518

700lb-ft is apparently 950Nm. So assuming the same gearing as in the sibling post (very likely a false assumption -- I guess these cars had longer gears), you'd end up with 12.7kNm of torque at the wheels.

BTW, if such traditional hot rods had automatic transmissions (they did, didn't they?), the torque converter would have amplified the torque even beyond the numbers I just gave you.
Market size would be a challenge. You likely represent a very niche segment - a highly technically savvy hobbyist who wants to work on tools yourself for the love of it.

For anyone doing requiring 3D printing, CNC etc professionally or even as a semi serious hobby, I'm sure there would be firms who can execute and fedex you the job.

Here in Singapore when I moved into our apartment, I ended up having to design a custom child safety lock for my windows. I found quite a few 3D print shops which could deliver the next day at quite a reasonable rate - fast enough for me to iterate the final design within a week.
Well yeah, it says so in the post[0].

0. "...developers can use their favorite database as a fully managed service on Microsoft Azure that will soon include MariaDB"
It's this kind of ridiculous bootlicking that makes me dislike the Musk cult with a passion.
So Microsoft lost the source code? Or maybe the engineer couldn't be bothered to set up the old toolchain used to build this executable?
I totally agree this is a really shitty article.

What I like about Watsi is that is finds a model of charity that is transparent, low-overhead and not-creating-dependencies. By not-creating-dependencies I mean that supplying food (unless in crises) will make people dependent on your handouts, thus creating a dependency. Getting an individual's medical problem fixed, that will otherwise FOR SURE go unfixed due to lack of money, will truly benefit that person (and their families).

Watsi provides me a clear way to do charity without most of the common drawbacks (high overhead and creating dependencies).

Thanks Watsi.
>>> Donna Brazile wrote a whole book about [HRC corruption]
>> Her claims were bullshit and she walked them back.
> Maybe so, but nonetheless, it shows [...]

No, look, you can't say "this proves it", have that proved to be bullshit, and just go "maybe so but" and carry on with your disproven argument!
No need to be racist about it!
Debunking the Duct Tape Programmer (2009)
No. I disagree. When you have 600 miles of range, you're going to charge your car at home 99%+ of the time.

Even when you travel that should be enough for a full day driving, which means you will charge it at a hotel or whatever.

Only in rare occasions will the 30 minute fast-charging "inconvenience" you.

Once most EVs will have 100+ kWh batteries, the "slow charging" argument will die off. This is why I hope the 100 kWh battery becomes standard for 2021+ EVs, which should be cheaper than current 60 kWh batteries by that point.

Although I wouldn't discount most carmakers' laziness and greed for profits to keep the batteries a smaller size for as long as possible, unless Model 3 is refreshed with 100, 120, and 150 kWh battery options by 2021, which will force them to make the change, too.
same problem. trying to find. strange.
Cquery: highly-scalable, low-latency language server for C++
Well, inverting is a trivial operation, pseudo-implementation: swap(left, right); recurse(left); recurse(right);

If one doesn't know what is meant one can talk to the interviewer and get a hint about what is meant. It can be that the interviewer is bad and misleading, but usually they have some specific training, this seems unlikely as the candidate didn't complain about the interviewer but admitted he had no clue.

The follow-up question would probably be the question about the complexity, that is also trivial f you know fundamentals of big O notation, as one has to walk over each node.

It's hard to find a more trivial algorithms question. Algorithms are fundamental knowledge for programmers (other than script kiddies)
Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They call it 'co-living'
Check out FunFair - a well thought out/executed blockchain gambling system.
> The Microsoft of today

What about tomorrow? Their history needs to be remembered.

They play very nicely in areas where they're the underdog, but not when they're on top where lock-in is rife.

Make use of them, by all means.. but never depend on them - ever. Always have an exit strategy.

(same goes for most other companies, but Microsoft especially)
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In case you're wondering, or just want to confirm the reason for the presence of a "privacy statement" --- yes, it does phone home:

https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio/tree/master/src/vs...

At least the source is available, so it should be relatively easy to remove, but as the saying goes, "look before you leap"...
This entire article is nothing but making perfect the enemy of good.
And it's called "airport english"
Per your links, the minimum permissible weight of an F1 car is 731kg including the driver, but not fuel. For FE it is 800kg. The 2011 Tesla Roadster weighed 1235kg, sans driver. The 2011 Bugatti Veyron 1834kg.

The very long range also suggests that this car will weigh considerably more than the old Roadster. Maybe there is an improvement to traction with all that extra weight? Or maybe the weight just helps with keeping the wheels on the ground at 250mph?
For ages Alan Kay has been claiming to know that MS has lost part of the Word codebase.
Flickr should have owned the simple sharing of pictures in a social network because ... they already had one. I'd consider that the biggest, most damning failure of Yahoo!'s management that they didn't immediately devote huge resources to countering Instagram when it appeared.
Microsoft (Xamarin) Workbooks – .NET coding scratchpad goes open source
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> As an American this is what I truly hate about corporations. They are afforded person-hood and "citizenship" where it benefits them but are treated as a company / corporation / non-living entity when that benefits them most.

As an American, I detest this meme, because it perpetuates major misconceptions about corporate law in the US.

Corporations are not granted "personhood and citizenship". People are citizens. People can exercise their rights. Both of those statements are true whether they do so as individuals or whether they do so as a group. In other words, a group of people has the same legal rights collectively that they do as individuals.

This concept is often abbreviated as "corporate personhood", which is unfortunate because it's a seriously misleading term. It's not that corporations become people - it's a way of referring to way individuals can exercise their rights through a group. Corporate personhood isn't even a single provision; it's a way of summarizing a collection of unrelated case law in a short phrase.
the "dumbing down" is what made it successful - and attainable - in the first place.
Paternity DNA test to determine conclusive relationship
And that you can pretty much find anything you can think of on amazon & competitors. I really wanted to design and 3d print something, but it took me several years to find something I couldn't just order for under $5 on amazon. And even then I could have done something good enough and cheaper with lego bricks!
That is both pretty impressive and horrific.

I wonder if they patched this way because they wanted to maintain as much binary compatibility as possible, or if they don't have the original source/couldn't reproduce the build process.
for (c1, c2) in val.chars().zip(val.chars().skip(1))

chars() iterates by unicode scalar values. It'd be bytes() for bytes.

If you wanted to do it by grapheme clusters, you'd add https://crates.io/crates/unicode-segmentation to your Cargo.toml, add the relevant imports you see on that page to your code, and change the above line to

for (c1, c2) in UnicodeSegmentation::graphemes(val, true).zip(UnicodeSegmentation::graphemes(val, true).skip(1))

... possibly splitting that up into variables becuase dang, that's a long line.

Then, you're getting &strs instead of chars for the iteration, but I think the body still says the same, as == checks by value.
I think that's because you have multiple factors with thin smartphone glass. The harder it gets, the more brittle it becomes. You probably won't be able to cut into it even with a pretty sharp knife, but if you were to drop it at the right angle it'd shard into a billion tiny pieces.

I have no idea how automotive glass differs, but I imagine the difference in weight and thickness requirements does impact things a lot.

This reminds me of the unfolding problem of sun roof explosions.
SNS algorithms are running amok
How did you "meet" people on ICQ, was there a discovery functionality? I used it too, but only for chatting with people I knew and whose account ids were known to me..
Ugh, yeah, handling errors sounds like work because it is.

But imagine the consequences of a program that doesn't do this work. If it is doing something important, fingers crossed.

(Keep in mind: unhandled exceptions are like panics. Not good.)
Interesting. I haven't even tried Facebook Graph search as I think it never even became available in my country. But I think the main difference is probably that in Facebook, it's generally not socially OK to contact strangers. In ICQ, you could set and communicate explicitly if you wanted to be contacted by strangers or not (and if not, you weren't searchable).
Another reason could be that it has dependencies that link to specific addresses in the exe. It's very peculiar that they made the effort to keep all the original adresses.
My car has 1092nm of torque from about 1500rpm and it's mind-boggling... 10,000nm is hard to comprehend and surely more than enough to give the occupants some serious whiplash if not sat properly.
This stuff is in preview https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/10/04/red-hat-adds-g...
Your population density is minimal, though.
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> to get featured on TopGear/The Grand Tour

I doubt they'd allow that judging by what happened the last time they were featured.
Think of it this way, if some server or database came out claiming incredible benchmark numbers you’d say okay now show me some real world workloads. Same here. 0-60 is an artificial benchmark, a circuit time is a real world workload.
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Virtual reality.. It was a solution looking for a problem last decade and is still.
Traction control has been banned in F1 since 2008, so this severely limits how quickly they can start from a standstill. The tires themselves certainly have enough grip to handle the acceleration; F1 cars routinely hit several lateral Gs in cornering (though with the help of downforce), well exceeding the ~1.4G required to accelerate to 60 in 1.9s.
Graph search was a lot deeper than any bot ever could. At some point you could match against likes that were set private on profiles. 'girls between 20 and 25, that like drum and bass and visit [location]. Was a actual query that enabled finding pretty much any girl I saw at any party. Without further Infos.
Doesn't really matter, it is just marketing. I guess somewhere through the design phase they did some calculations on how much force it can take and checked it against silly things for Musk to say.

The only point is that it's stronger than normal glass, which is backed up with the video comparing the two different types of glass in a more realistic scenario.
Is the UK signing up for a war with NK?
Apple allows you to reset your password if you forget it. This feature is why it can respond to subpoenas for iCloud data like iMessages.

It's an unfortunate tradeoff.
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60 years? North Korea used to be more industrialized and further along than the south at the beginning.
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