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I don't see that point.

About 15-20 years ago, pickups were the go-to vehicle for DIY electric conversions (particularly the Chevy S-10). You could put the heavy lead-acid batteries under the bed and therefore lose no space.

There's no fundamental reason why trucks are less likely to electrify than other vehicles. In fact, the greater fuel savings makes it seem even more likely.

The only thing standing in the way is that some people who buy pickups are part of the idiotic anti-environment movement that likes to "roll coal" (i.e. modify their trucks to spew black smoke). But not everyone who buys pickups is like this, which is why fuel-efficient pickups are a thing.

The torque and power of the electric drivetrain make it possible to make an insanely good truck. It'll happen sooner than you think, certainly before 2022.
As far as I am aware, there are no A380s in the charter market yet (which is a lot of budget market) and very very few in the discount carrier world (EasyJet, RyanAir, Sprit, Norwegian, Iceland Air, etc). The charter carriers and discount carriers typically don't have the traffic to sustain these flights, and really don't have first or business class traffic to sustain the flight.

The a380 was made for large traffic to and from Asian cities. If there is going to be a savior for the program, that's where it will come from.

There are rumors that Airbus has approached China to talk about taking over a large portion of the project, in exchange for Chinese orders. That's something to keep a eye on.
I'm in PDX with the same speed and rate. I have Wave Broadband. I don't think it is available everywhere - possibly only in condo and apartment buildings.
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Every insurance company in the United States, along with Medicare and Medicaid, already has a fixed amount that they will pay the caregiver for administration of TPA. I guarantee it, even without bothering to look up what TPA is. If the procedure is covered by insurance at all, there's a pre-approved reimbursement amount for doing it.

Outside of an expensive, time-consuming, and almost always useless appeals process, that flat rate is all the doctors are going to get. They can take it or leave it.

There are medical codes for every imaginable procedure, and essentially every medical code has a fixed, preset amount that the insurance company will pay to have it performed.
Good points in this article. Prop 13 and land use regulation here is out of control. It's at the point where the government should be buying neighborhoods at market rate and selling to developers who will build at a high density.
I would love a reader with a physical page-turn button (preferably bluetooth like those tiny bluetooth camera shutter buttons).

I have a Kobo Glo and I hate having to use two hands - one to hold the reader and one to press the touchscreen. If I had a page-turn button, I could prop the reader up and use the bluetooth button in a comfortable position.

Also all the other requirements that OP listed.
That's a fine analogy...except for all the murders committed by family members in houses. It happens sufficiently frequently that there's the well known (and possibly apocryphal) idea that police always treat a spouse as a primary suspect.

So, while I'm willing to bet my wife isn't murderous (I don't -know-, but I'll assume so)...do I really want to assume a -stranger- isn't, knowing that there are murderous people out there, and that if I'm wrong my entire family will die?

I mean, you say "someone who is sane will never seriously consider killing someone else" - great, how possible is it for an insane person to end up heading a nuclear armed country? I mean, I don't think I want to trust 192 (or whatever our country count is at) random strangers to all be sane.
This is a fantastic point. I count myself among those desperate youth fleeing the stagnation that exists in the rest of our country. I’ve been able to, as a high school dropout, move here to California and teach myself enough skills to make more money than I could have remotely even imagined 5 years ago. I am homeless now though, drifting between motels because even though I have the money to pay for it, I simply cannot get someone to rent me a studio apartment within reasonable commuting distance to my east bay tech job. It’s miserable being unable to put down any roots here, to spend your days begging a landlord just to look at your application. But the thought of leaving and taking my shot at getting by anywhere else is terrifying. The rest of this country is slowly becoming either a racist red state hell hole, or a dead end pit of poverty and despair for anyone with ambition.
While we are on the topic of cdecl, does anyone know where I can find a succinct algorithm for producing valid C declarations from a structured description of the type? Basically, what the examples in the parent post are doing (and NOT the other way around, which is parsing valid C declarations).

I tried looking at cdecl's source code but everything is implemented as a big yacc grammar, which obscures the control flow of the algorithm. While this is necessary for the parsing feature, I suspect that for producing declarations it might be possible to use a simple recursive algorithm instead...
It does. It's the banking debt problem. When you owe the bank money, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a lot of money, they have a problem.
My adviser in grad school was like this. Thanks for the validation.
This has to be supported by the UART hardware in order for it to work reliably. The idea is in essence that the receiver measures the length of start bit, this requires the expected character to have first transmitted bit (LSB usually) set to 1. For example this is done by almost all Hayes compatible modems and is the reason why commands start with 'AT' (or in fact, the 'A' itself).

IIRC there is also somewhat reliable and simple (ie. not involving sampling the whole waveform and analysing it after the fact) for doing autodetection for random unknown data, but I cannot find the reference where I've seen it described at the moment (it was in some TI appnote or something similar)
I agree that it is a shame everything has to be so politicized, both of the left and right, even when a good point is made. We clearly have a problem in California, but it is unlikely that this is because of a welfare system that support people in need.

As pointed out elsewhere a more likely culprit is exclusionary zoning that has increased living costs to unsustainable levels even for high paid employees. A lot of problems solve themselves when having a roof over your head doesn't costs $3600 for a very low-standard one-bedroom.
And in general, Twins are just lower maintenance.
Am I the only one reading this on a mobile? What?
The US will have to raise taxes dramatically at all levels, to do everything that people want it to do (or figure out how to grow the economy far faster). 40-50 years ago, entitlements for example were a small cost for states and the Federal Govt (a huge slush fund for the Federal Govt in fact, they wasted trillions of dollars in entitlement money they were supposed to save). Costs have climbed a lot in all regards, while revenue as a share of GDP has largely not gone up with it.

If the US had fiscally responsible politicians, it would have a modest public debt, and trillions of dollars in a sovereign wealth fund derived from decades of surplus revenue for eg Social Security. Infrastructure would be a non-issue.

Simply put, priorities. You can do this (spending up), but you have to do that (taxes up); or you can choose not to have that (spending down), and so you can do this (taxes down).

Taxes are going up a lot either way, given the massive explosion in entitlement costs inbound, or QE is going to handle it with inflation. The US will hit a trillion per year in deficits in a few years, primarily due to entitlement costs, and partially due to excesss military spending.
>so even a percentage point increase in engine efficiency is huge.

I interviewed with Boeing out of school many moons ago. To be precise, they offered me a job in response to my mailing them my resume. (In an envelope with a stamp on it; this was a while ago.) But I asked to come out to talk to people.

Did get me the opportunity for a plant tour in Everett (?) if I remember.

Anyway, the engineer who took me out to dinner talked about his project for the past couple of years--some fuel system design of an upcoming design that saved something like a fraction of a percent fuel consumption.

I decided the job didn't sound very appealing.
I agree with you that full EVs are ultimately the future, but the Chevy Volt is a fantastic interim step. It's not higher maintenance than a regular ICE vehicle because the engine is rarely used.

The battery is also big enough that you can drive it pure electric for the vast majority of trips, at full highway speeds. Most other plug-in hybrids can't do that, and I agree they suck.

(The Volt's battery is also carefully used only in the middle ~65%, i.e. not charged all the way and not fully discharged. That extends the battery life dramatically. It can get away with that because the battery is much larger than most other plug-in hybrids.)
But this is also the Dubai business model. Nobody wants to stay there, it's just a convenient stop. With more direct flights Dubai will also die.

Also the EU is strongly behind this project. This is more than just Airbus or Emirates.

So I see no death of the A380, even if the market moved on since.
Just triggered the thought that we should be trying to exploit the property of light to pursue the shortest path as a means to calculate hard problems. No idea how this would actually work... but I would gander someone already thought of this and it didn't pan out.
It happened to me. I was in the middle of having half of my thyroid removed when my surgeon realized she had to remove the other half. She interrupted the surgery to call my wife and get permission even though she had already obtained it from me before I was put under.
Most of these systems are not socialized. They're from municipally-owned utilities that recover their expenses from ratepayers, not tax dollars.
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It says that `func` is a type whose values are all functions with the signature `int foo(into arg)`.

The way to read a typedef (in general) is when you strip off the word "typedef", instead of declaring a type, it declares a value of that type. This applies to all types, not just function types. For example, an array of 5 ints is declared as

int foo[5];

So the type of all 5-element arrays is defined by

typedef int FiveLongIntArray[5];
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Science disagrees with you. The commercialization may be pandering, but mindfulness itself is not.
I wholeheartedly agree, and believe that this model is the only way to make electric vehicles mainstream.

Battery performance/range can only be improved so much with the current technology (and future battery tech. is still a looong ways off), and not everyone is willing to wait tens of minutes to charge their vehicles (e.g. when on long-distance trips.)
Slightly off topic but articles like this make me weep as I look at my infrastructure and think about all the best practices that we by all means should be following, but aren't because of a senior engineer stuck in the 1990's and is seemingly not only paralyzed by analysis (and bikeshedding), but seems to subscribe to the notion as a way of living, and management who defers to him at every turn despite all evidence of how it holds us back (not to mention directly contributing to outages). I'd give my first born child for immutable servers.

Consistency in database systems refers to the requirement that any given database transaction must change affected data only in allowed ways. Any data written to the database must be valid according to all defined rules

I would LOVE for this to be a thing. Just as soon as I can convince people that maybe storing my.cnf in VCS is a better idea than updating it in prod. Live.

Sighs.
It allows the later definition of func * f which is more readable and maintainable than int (* f)(int arg)

This pattern is common in well-structured applications, and is especially useful for clarifying external and internal APIs. e.g. from the Dovecot IMAP server:

typedef bool event_callback_t(struct event *event,
enum event_callback_type type,
struct failure_context *ctx,
const char *fmt, va_list args);

You can now define a function pointer or declare a parameter using event_callback_t. This is both concise and intention revealing.
There are plenty of circumstances under which it is possible to contribute in a meaningful way to the discussion without reading the article. If you are failing to participate in a good way, no mod hacks can force you to do so.

This is a personal issue. You need to find some means to solve it for yourself. Clicking on something doesn't make you read it. Asking the mods to force you to click isn't a cure for what ails you.
Nothing happened to it.

apt install cdecl
I am so sorry for the situation that you're in. Stay strong buddy. Don't feel inadequate for taking some you time. I don't know that you do but, man, some down time after a loss is so important. It'll drag it out so much longer if you don't just let yourself sit in it. Great luck to you, friend. I'm sorry for you both.
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That is fancy, but not very readable. I would have been on the side of the code review which would favor readability over conciseness. Cool trick though.
Wow. 1 letter wide columns!
Higher humidity too
It’s been rumored CEMU was bootstrapped by Nintendo code that’s under NDA, so it can’t be open sourced without facing DCMA requests
> Where do they think Baidu, Google, Tesla & Uber will be in 2 years?

Tesla will be nowhere. They simply do not have the sensor hardware needed to be competitive.

Uber is likely not doing much better[0]. I suspect they will run out of cash before they can deliver a production-ready self-driving car.

The smart money is on Waymo, GM, or Volvo (maybe Toyota).

[0] https://www.recode.net/2017/3/16/14938116/uber-travis-kalani...
That depends on their target audience actually. It’s not objective like you phrased it.
> Why would there be so many people who 1.) have enough crypto to be worried

Because it's easy to have enough crypto to be worried. For example, if I had bought 10 BTC @ 100€/BTC = 1.000€ (which, at the time, was a reasonable investment size for a crypto starter, and a droplet of water for a seasoned person with a bit of money to throw around) and held them until now, I'd have 100k€ worth of BTC.

That's more than enough motivation for a criminal for example to fleece your home while you're away (e.g. if you posted on your HN-relatable Twitter account that you're off to a conference) and look for a paper wallet. I have seen people literally stab each other over 100€ worth of marijuana, to put things into perspective...
If the “science is settled” and an outcome better than the predictions is impossible, then an outcome worse than the predictions is also impossible.
might have something to do with hydro electric dams and cheap electricity, so they can subsidize the costs

(Just guessing)
There's no "algorithm" in that it's the same way you traverse over any tree to produce output, a la compilers.
I'm not sure owning a house or reasonable apartment should be considered "lifestyle inflation", when working in an industry that continually creates some of the richest people in the world.
The 777X program is already well advanced, with first flight expected sometime next year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
Stemming carbon emissions (as well as other environmental toxins), improves life by reducing medical costs due to pollution. Not that CA is perfect at that, see Exide lead contamination in LA.
How do you mitigate the effects of marijuana on REM? I (mostly) quit even light drinking because I need a good nights sleep to function.

I don't smoke much anymore, but more because I don't feel like I have a safe place to kick back and smoke than anything else. When I do smoke I feel tired the next day.
Most likely, they just adjusted the price down to what the Patients Bill of Rights said, and ate the cost.

Or pushed it onto tax payers somehow.
This is all accurate, with the caveat that we could still have univeral broadband and other first world services provided to all if we cut back on unnecessary military spending (a conversation for another thread!).

Quite a bit of the problem isn’t spending per se, but waste, inefficiencies, and corruption (not to mention us dragging forward GDP, impoverishing the future).
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to ask or
> tell us something. Instead, please
> send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

For reference, I can still flag comments, and one can never flag comments that are replying to your submissions or comments.
The dot com bubble was also much bigger than this current cryptocoin bubble. The market cap was bigger by multiples. I would also guess that this market cap reflected vastly more actual capital flowing into the market than we see now flowing into the “digital token” markets.

The prices are so easily manipulated on unregulated exchanges, coupled with other scams, means the nominal price can be moved with a lot less capital.
The problem is that the miners -- whose fraud is proven with a transaction -- have the responsibility of including this transaction in the chain they control. Which means the only solution is to fork: now we have two or more chains (any number of valid chains which includes this proof can exist) -- how do we reach consensus on which to follow?

Before the fraud, the miners were allegedly responsible for reaching consensus. And when they commit fraud, it's assumed that the network can reach consensus without the miners (on a single, valid chain which includes the proof of miner fraud). If everyone except the miners were able to reach consensus on a single chain in the first place, why did we need the miners?
San Francisco - Sonic - (~$40/mo) for symmetric 1Gbps up/down
Specifically, as far as I can tell, this is how trehalose has to be labelled in the EU (article 2): http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A3...
Would love a how-to of community organized fiber. Seems like a simple concept with a ton of paperwork and hoops to jump.
I think you have the Central Park analogy backwards here. What Central Park provides (nature and openness) is scarce among what surrounds it (an incredibly urban and dense landscape). On the contrary, research institutions compose the majority of top U.S. universities, and are not in danger of being supplanted by something else should they adapt their charters. Similarly, NYC wouldn't be putting it's urban character at risk by zoning more parks.

I have trouble understanding why there can be no middle ground between the status quo and pure vocational training. As I mentioned in a comment below, most arguments against middle ground that I've heard boil down to, at the core, nothing more than circular-reasoning like, "this is the way it's always been, and we want it to stay this way because things have always been this way." Why don't universities make an addendum to their charters to maintain the goal of being world-class research institutions AND provide pragmatic, real-world training? What sacrifice would be made? Would the quality of university research truly decline?

Whether students are wrong to pursue higher education for purely economic reasons is a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact. What is a fact is that many students do pursue higher education for purely economic reasons, because society tells them from a young age to do so, and it's reasonable to assume that a degree from a top institution in a technical field will lead to a high paying job. The business community certainly could do more to shoulder any perceived burden for professional training and/or certification; however, traditionally research-focused universities should also work to better support the motivations of the majority of their undergraduate (and paying) student body, as Stanford has done here.
>I would LOVE for this to be a thing.

It is a thing, just not at that company.

Seriously, get a year or two, then look for escape options.

There's a Mt. Everest climb's worth of distance and effort between "it works" and "best practices", and like successfully climbing Everest, very few companies are doing all of the best practices, and I suspect your dude going the opposite direction by digging with a spoon.
Let me get this straight, if you're not in California you're either in a racist, red state hell hole or a dead end pit of poverty and despair? Dropping out of high-school clearly did you wonders.
But again that presumes the markets are substitutatable at the same sort of scale and they're just not.

This line of thinking feels like a hold over from the 80s and the notion of drug pushers.

High school kids aren't going to just start doing meth.
Atmel's AVRs are harward architecture (separate data and code address space) and are almost exclusively programmed using gcc. They are widely used too.
> You could demolish that and build high rise flats for a thousand people there, maybe more.

That sounds like a big argument in favour of "building more units will fix the problem" then. :)

> Anybody who doesn't think this is a problem just needs to take a look at one Hyde park.

I'm going to stick with data over anecdotes. If the data we have is flawed, then we need better data in order to make decisions; it doesn't mean we should just ignore data.
For sure it wasn't a serious comment, but there is a more serious facet of it I think. If our states aren't able to properly deal with the poverty that's already here, why are we inviting more of it in?

US psychiatric, APS, and CPS services are poor, and can't adequately deal with the needs of those already here. It's only going to get worse.
This guy had even been previously condemned of sexual violence in Greece, and sentenced to 10 years...

"Wegen einer Gewalttat an einer jungen Frau im Jahr 2013 war K. in Griechenland zu zehn Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt, im Oktober 2015 aber vorzeitig gegen Auflagen entlassen worden."
Seriously, get a year or two, then look for escape options.

Been a year and a half. Have a 2nd round interview lined up for Thursday to get off this crazy train.

I also happen to be reading The Phoenix Project. Which is...strangely therapeutic ;)
Look at Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics and subsequent formulations for quantum field theory.

Hidden variables are possible for quantum mechanics, they just necessitate that the Universe is fundamentally non-local, offering a possible explanation for quantum entanglement results.

Von Neumann's rejection of hidden variables was not an absolute one but a conditional one; if the universe is local, then hidden variables cannot be invoked to explain the weirdness of the quantum world. Non locality opens the door to hidden variables.
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For me, the price needs to be quite a bit lower to justify a layover even on pure financial grounds. I can't back this up with any hard math, but my sense is that time in transit curtails my productivity severely enough that there'd have to be a pretty enormous savings in ticket price to offset the cost of having me spend (say) twice as much time camping out in airport waiting areas and being subject to takeoff/landing laptop embargos.
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This is really good marketing but not really true. A recent study of pressurization found that 747s tend to be operated at lower pressurization the a380s (which are typically run a bit higher then their rates). Almost 1k feet IIRC.

What makes a huge huge difference is humidity. I get off a Denver to narita 787 feeling like it was a long Colorado to California flight, whereas a SFO to Narita flight on a 380 or 747 wrecks me.