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and those huge fuel tanks sunk into the ground aren't going anywhere

You think I’m letting that pass without pointing out that the fuel tanks are a sunk cost? Gas stations are really convenience stores, they don’t make money on fuel. The only difference will be that we pull up in an EV to get our Big Gulp. Gas or no, that real estate will still be used to sell you chips and lottery tickets.

In the Seattle area, I know of at least three shops that specialize in VW vans, a vehicle last sold in the U. S. over 25 years ago. Three, for a vehicle that wasn’t that popular in the U. S. when you could buy them new. Yeah, yeah, hippy-wannabes and nostalgia, but the fact remains that more than one shop stays in business working on ICE vehicles that are old enough to have been doing keg stands for four years.
Not everybody believed in the mission of an ever closer union.

Some countries want to take their sovereignty back.

Sneakily creating their own currency could be step 1.
A general guide to upgrading Ruby in Rails applications
Seeing as you can get used 2nd Gen Volts for 20k I'm not so sure about that, and used 1st Gens for around 10k.

I cross shopped the i3 to the Volt when I was looking and the i3 feels like a car you can only justify by looking at the badge, it's seriously overpriced for what it is. Getting it used helps to some extent, but only by so much.

Leasing EVs is also not a bad deal, there's people who've gotten brand new Volts for ~150 a month with a minimal downpayments.
> This will probably prevent Google from indexing your site, killing your page ranking and driving away potential customers.

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Google used some sort of AI to recognise the resulting images of text. What this would do is make it exponentially more difficult to start a search competitor to Google. Which might explain why Google is all-in on WebAssembly …
Not really, no. It’s a neighborhood. A ball is one description of a neighborhood in a specific context. I hesitate to link to Wikipedia, but: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood_(mathematics)

It would not be correct to use terminology like “ball” to describe a “neighborhood”, even if, in specific instances, they are the same representation in different contexts (i.e. geometric vs analytic).
I remember the anecdote about ending the use of a Morse code only distress channel by the Coast Guard. On the last day, the land based radio operators spent the time sending each other Shakespeare quotes and similar until they received an actual emergency distress call! Seems a small cargo ship had lost a lot of systems - including rudder control - and were forced to use the Morse channel to ask for help.
Ask HN: How would you design a better Meetup?
I love the idea of Meetup but find the execution to be really lacking and there doesn't seem to be any alternatives. On the organizer side, you set capacity and there's no penalty to RSVP on attendee side even if you aren't going to go, so good Meetups fill up really quickly even though maybe 1/3 of the people who actually RSVP end up going.

Organizers are hacking Eventbrite to do paid events on top of Meetup (confusing), messaging is really clunky, email notifications for each individual meetup fill up my inbox, search/discovery is terrible (digging through abandoned meetups, low attended meetups, etc.)

Are there alternatives? Is there opportunity to build something better?
Yes, but your friends don’t get automatic sublicenses to all of your IP licenses.
Using futures is not 100% stupid when it makes issue (4) a non-issue.
> I remember thinking, wait, Javascript will catch up eventually then why would anyone use flash? At the same time, we probably owe a lot to flash existing (especially WebRTC). Flash helped us get browsers to this point faster both through it's tech and increasing consumer awareness/demand for media.

i don't think most people remember how bad Javascript was, how limited web API were, and how different browsers implemented totally different flavors of JS and DOM and standards were weak.

Flash pushed the web forward and demonstrated that it could be used to deliver real desktop like applications,videos and games, not just text and images.

Obviously it also came with a catch: the player was proprietary and full of bugs and security holes.

Ultimately, Web API progress also staled when Flash died. You still can't mesure canvas text properly in most browsers and API such as file system and WebSQL were dropped, which is a horrible mistake IMHO.
It wasn't with crumpets and tea the British fought the Germans.
Did WhatsApp charge anything? I thought for contracts you needed some kind of actual dollar amount (even $1) for it to be binding? Is that very US-law specific or am I way off here?
> PHEVs are no less EVs than pure EVs from the technology perspective.

What? This doesn't make any sense. From wikipedia PHEVs have

> an on-board internal combustion engine and generator.

If the factory that makes these cars is building ICE engines and putting them in cars, and consumers have cars with ICE engines in them, then "from the technology perspective" there is a massive difference! A car manufactured to burn gas sometimes is not an electric car. The patents on the car have gasoline engines. The people who make it are investing in and building gas engines. The people buying the cars are assisting in development of gas engines. From a technology perspective there are huge, huge differences.

I'm not against the bridge technology. I get that it has uses. But it's not an electric car.
Version control conflicts in this case don't necessarily map to disagreement.

Imagine 2 team members that are in agreement add leaf 2 nodes. That would trigger a version control conflict.

Now imagine that situation in a team of 5, or 10. It becomes hard to maintain.
So you mean I can't use <insert shitty country>'s child pornography app in the US?

I know it's an extreme case, but yeah, of course countries expect people who do business in them to respect their laws.
None so fast. It allows us to corroborate the Spanish records with the actual records kept by the natives. That’s a pretty big deal in terms of finding out what parts of the conquest were fact what were fiction.
Drug Products Labeled as Homeopathic: Guidance for FDA Staff and Industry [pdf]
"we expect people to act like an owner"

This has got to be the most stupid thing I've ever heard in an interview. Okay then, I'll act like an owner. Make me an owner. Oh, wait, you didn't mean it like that?
Bolt: anonymous payment channels for decentralized currencies – part I
That's all true.

But the domain serving the ads might be the same one serving the rest of the content. And if that server is motivated enough to show you that ad, they will do all of the things you mentioned. I've been worried for sometime that this will be the end-game of the ad-blocker wars.
You would have better checkout conversion if you switched to Stripe.

That checkout prompt is too much on mobile.

Also, I wanted to see a preview of what is in the book ;_;, could not find and abandoned cart.
> Including buses, right? Or do they never crash?

Oh, I forgot about all those buses constantly crashing. They account for 0.6% of all traffic accidents.

> Yes, because it comes with great utility as well.

A small portion of drivers need their vehicles for a utilitarian purpose. The vast majority use them simply as personal transportation. It's similar to guns. A very small amount of them are used for a utilitarian purpose, and the rest are owned for fun, yet they kill 33,000 every year. If ownership were limited only for utilitarian purpose, these numbers would go way, way down.

> You could ask the same questions about smoking (in private), drinking alcohol, lack of exercise, flying in airplanes etc. - are you going to forbid all of these?

Flying in airplanes? There is no significant health risk from airplanes. The rest are perfectly fine to do in private. The reasons why cars might be eliminated has nothing to do with private use - it has to do with its impact on the public.

> If you take away a market, you'll hamper progress.

An existing market does not necessarily result in progress. We (the US) had the largest auto market in the world for almost the entire history of automobiles, now second to China. We had not only the technology, but actual electric cars, 130 years ago.

Rough timeline:

The first crude electric car was introduced 185 years ago, around 1832. The first successful American electric car was introduced in 1891, with multiple makes and models produced in 1893.

By 1900, one third of all cars produced in the US were electric.

In 1908, the Model T gas-powered car was introduced, and in 1912, the electric starter. The practicality of this method ends the commercial viability of electric cars by 1920.

In 1966, Congress introduced a bill recommending electric cars to reduce air pollution. In the 70s, an oil crisis sparks massive consumer interest in electric vehicles.

In 1997, 30 years later, Toyota introduced the Prius, a hybrid. Within three years Honda, GM, Ford, Nissan, Chevy, and Toyota all produce ALL-electric vehicles.

Here we are, 20 years later, with a lot of hybrids, and one or two all-electric vehicles, pretty much all of which are too expensive or impractical for widespread adoption.

We have invented electric cars twice. Both times the market did not choose progress.
Yes, I think this advice isn't quite right.

A pictorial formalism is possible for most if not all mathematical concepts as much as a symbolic.

It just won't be naive and may not have been systematically developed and communicated / taught anywhere.

The issue here is mostly just an awareness that, naively, the pictures change fast than the formula. (r^1, r^2, r^3... look more a like than lines, circles and spheres).
Not only do TCO's already include the time value of money, there's multiple business models around taking monthly payments from EV owners equal to their usual monthly gas usage minus monthly electric usage which lets people pay as they save so the prices are more directly comparable.
I disagree. If you're in a developer bubble you may believe that everyone is using react or angular or vue but if you're beginner you're more likely to stumble upon on something like codecademy or freecodecamp. On freecodecamp they start by teaching you some basic css/html then javascript and (!) jquery and after that you start building simple projects/sites using codepen. I think codepen is really great begginer tool. You don't have to worry about bundling stuff, what text editor you use, etc. etc.
People scraping together a few thousand dollars to buy a beater ICE so they can get to work are not doing TCO analyses.

It's also a pretty open question what the cost of EVs looks like long-term. Even if we limit the discussion to new vehicles, you can buy a new ICE econobox for close to $15K which could last you 10 years and 150K miles fairly easily. I sure wouldn't bet on an electric car doing that on its original battery pack.
I was more pointing out that with current panels, putting panels on the car isn’t a good idea.
A year ago, no one knew the price was going to go up 1000%, so some amount of luck is involved. Price could have just as easily stayed the same or even gone down 90%. If you bought in there is some amount of risk involved.

The 70% profit made by an arbitrage opportunity doesn't require you to guess where the price will go in the next 12 months. You know for a fact that as long as neither of these companies go bankrupt, you'll be making 70% on your investment.
I know that is the standard history, I took economics at Berkeley and was taught all that. I simply don't believe that's the major factor. I think productive capacity and innovation are more important than international trade, beyond a certain scale.

I do cry for the middle class and lower classes in the west, and for the beset upon labor of the third world. It worries me greatly: my class lives very well, but friends and family that didn't win the IQ lottery are falling apart.
If you haven't watched the video, especially the one with the two pilots chatting about the object, you should. If anything it is at least entertaining and will remind you quite a bit of the ATC scene from Close Encounters.
So China thought that the plot of a Black Mirror episode[1] was a great idea to enact in reality? Spectacular.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
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We're not talking about a $12,000 Toyota. That's the kind of car that is purchased at the median in Estonia, which can't be purchased at the median in Kazakhstan, which is exactly my point.

The median income in Kazhakstan is a few hundred dollars per month. A median person in Kazakhstan couldn't pay for a $12,000 Toyota in a decade.

There is an extremely large list of standard of living concepts that come into play, that collapse under PPP and are entirely ignored, which is what I was alluding to in saying that my examples were represenative concepts.

Here's another one: can you afford to travel? A person making $300 per month in Kazakhstan, do they have the same global travel capabilities of someone making $1,100 per month in Estonia? No they do not.
There is a lot of tiny details out today. The newest Xeon Phi has the virtualization extensions unlike its predecessors, making it useful for more general purpose servers.
bcuz anything with governments and ufos is basically printing money
Yeah, good point. I like 3Blue1Brown’s videos but in fairness I would say that video is quite a bit closer to the formal side of things than the visual side. I was talking about naive representations - if you build up to the compound visualization 3B1B walks through you’ve covered a lot of the rigor implicitly.
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Postico 1.3 adds autocomplete (postgres client)
I wish they wouldn't call hybrids and "electrified" (whatever that means) vehicles "electric vehicles," which at least in my mind, refers to fully battery-powered cars. I think it's quite established that this is what the term means.

The other cars can have their own names. They don't have to call hybrids electric cars, nor do they (like Toyota) need to call their hydrogen-powered cars electric cars, either.

They're only doing this to be misleading, create confusion, and make it look like they're more ahead in the EV revolution than they really are.

However, if they continue to be misleading like this, then we and the media need to start using more specific names for battery-powered electric cars (BEVs, I guess), to make it hard for these car makers to abuse the term by using it to refer to something else. But even BEVs probably wouldn't work, because they'll then say "well, our gas-powered car has a battery in it, and it has electricity, so I guess we'll call it a BEV, too. Look here, we now sell 300,000 BEVs a year! Take that Tesla!".
I think the idea that "access to source code == freedom" is out of date. Imagine someone gave you a thumbdrive with the complete source code for all of Facebook's products, build system, infrastructure, everything that's checked into their repositories. They also gave you legal carte blanche to do as you feel with it.

Would you be free of Facebook? Would you be able to do anything useful with at all?

No. The problem is that Facebook still has all of the data and that's where the freedom and control live today. The code is just an interface for it.

Online multiplayer game developers figured this out decades ago. The primary way to prevent people from cheating is not by preventing them from hacking or cracking the client application code. It's keeping the game state — the data — only on the server.
I wonder if this means EU users get less creepy specific advertising. I run uBlockOrigin so I don't see many ads, but I've heard cases of Facebook/Adobe/Google algorithms being so good that people see ads for things they've never looked up online, yet talked about out loud (leading many to believe Facebook/Instagram are capturing microphone data).

As a side not, this gets into the whole "Right to be Forgotten" which the EFF is mostly against, since in the EU it can be used by many as a form of censorship.
It used to be the case. There were yearly subscriptions until some time after Facebook bought the service.
While I agree with your sentiment, I would argue that translating digital information for physical consumption (paper, e-ink, etc.) does lead to improved access for people with disability.

Digital textual encoding is only universally accessible if the context it is situated within is also textually encoded. The lack of context (i.e., poor accessibility compliance) across digital mediums is the single largest inhibitor for the visually impaired community. Once digital information is prepared for print, the source of output is simply a matter of changing peripherals (printer, braille embosser, braille display, text-to-speech).

The authors may not have intended to directly address the needs of disability, but I do not think that their use of "universality" is misplaced. We should applaud any effort that encourages society to think beyond the constraints of the graphical interface.
Even with only two real parties if things were drawn to maximize competitiveness then at least the parties would be forced to play towards the center instead of their more extreme bases.

Not ideal but much better than what has been going on since the 2000s.
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This stuff has been documented in private circles for over a decade now, and hasn't been made public because these games aren't available to play outside of owning a cabinet in Japan or acquiring the data via less-legit methods. While it's a fun exercise to explore, the real-world application is sadly limited to grey-market implementations that Konami frowns upon, which reinforces why the exposure has been limited.
In absolute generality, it's impossible. The game is Turing complete: https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/

Of course you may still be able to find a strategy that works well against humans, but that would still be a cutting-edge research task.

Hidden information is a big problem, the classic benchmark for that is poker. The latest breakthrough I'm aware of was for heads-up limit Texas hold'em http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145 That may be a difficult game, but it has vastly fewer possible states. The same approach as used in the paper would almost certainly not scale for MTG.

Dealing with cards that can arbitrarily change the rules of the game would require human-level AI almost by definition, unless you want to manually translate them into code, in which case the system would be unable to deal with new cards.

Now that I have told all about how the problems you identified are much too difficult, I want to add that that shouldn't discourage you from just playing around. Starting with a minimal test case is how poker research took off, so you're definitely on the right track.
You don't have to fully stop seeking to see benefits. I have seen many benefits to my mental health through yoga, where you practice seeing the seeking/avoidance patterns and learn to breathe into them and accept it.

The practice (IMO) isn't to break the loop as much as it is to see the loop. And to see it while it's happening/during triggers.
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Was it really less trouble to rewrite the codebase than to enhance something like shumway and run the existing code on a modern platform? I think there's a temptation to view platforms as given, inviolate, and immutable entities, when in reality, we can and should make our own when necessary.
A sphere is the surface of a ball. Your criticism applies to (2) but not to (1).

However, 'ball' is from geometry, while 'neighborhood' is from analysis. They overlap, but they're not to be confused, because 'neighborhood' is used to emphasize that one should not visualize it.
I'd argue that most recipes that call for kosher salt do so because

1. Kosher salt has larger granules which are easier to measure between your fingers.

2. Kosher salt is very different from table salt by volume so they're not directly interchangeable

3. Kosher salt has acquired a certain reputation like extra virgin olive oil so it's used even when not necessary

Unless you're fermenting or canning, iodine makes no difference to food.
That's not even a little bit true.
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Not knowing much about the biochemical effects of iodine: is it possible Western people need less iodine? Northern Europeans evolved to have lighter skin because they needed more Vitamin D from the limited sunlight. I wonder how much genetics play a part in what defines the "ideal state".
Yeah, but salt, unlike many other alternatives, was almost universally used—no challenges getting people to use it—and is ideal as a vehicle. So salt it was.

And, sure, there may have been some other equally good alternatives, but analysis paralysis helps no one. So, salt.
A global public database is still useful. It allows everyone to easily verify the chain.

The only centralized part would be the issuing.

Blockchain is completely different than a decentralized proof of work algorithm, and I am not sure why everyone always confuses the 2.
I'd like to understand you better, I don't think I do yet.

From the user's perspective, isn't emcc a C++ compiler that directly compiles to wasm? There are some internal IRs along the way, but you shouldn't notice them, like you don't notice the GIMPLE IR when using gcc?

The emscripten sdk isn't small, that's true, but that's because LLVM+clang are not small, plus the musl libc and libc++ are not small either. But all those pieces are necessary in order to provide emcc which can compile C++ to wasm. So it can't be just a single repo, multiple components are needed here - in fact, regardless of emscripten, more will be needed soon since the LLVM wasm backend will depend on the lld linker.

What we can maybe do to make this unavoidable complexity seem simpler, is to compile all the necessary things into wasm, and have a single repo containing those builds. So it would contain clang compiled to wasm, lld compiled to wasm, etc. Then the user would check out that one repo and have all the tools immediately usable, on any OS. The wasm builds would be a little slower than native ones, but perhaps the ease of use would justify that - what do you think?
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It was more of a lighthearted joke about the attitude that many have toward JavaScript than an attack on the language itself.

I have nothing against JavaScript, although it is not a splendid example of design it certainly works for what was designed for. But I think it also undeniable that would choose something else for many tasks, if they had the option.

If you wanted, you could also use JavaScript for an entire operating systems just for JavaScript[1]. However this does not mean that it is good idea to do so.

[1] https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS
Make sure to trigger the warranty replacement of the battery if it degrades to 8 capacity bars or less.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/5s22yq/battery_capaci...

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/48c37x/question_about...
I found the article confusing at first, because they said they discarded HTML5 as an option but in fact ended up using Haxe to generate HTML5.

The explanation is that they wanted a desktop-first, multi-platform solution that is able to generate both HTML5 and iOS/Android native code. Quite interesting, as I didn't know you can use Haxe to achieve this.

I still wonder if React + React Native could offer a similar platform, although it would probably not be very optimized for games.
Welch Labs has a wonderful series on youtube on imaginary numbers, "Imaginary Numbers Are Real":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T647CGsuOVU

I like to tell my kids that imaginary numbers aren't really imaginary .. that in many ways they're more real than the Reals.
Show HN: Emoji Country Flags for Python
You can buy a new volt for 20-21k after rebates.

Volt also gets 50-60 miles electric range. And can do full speed on ice unlike the i3 Rex
FB's.