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>> More than anything else, self-driving cars could revolutionize seniors'
transportation options.

But the problem is created by the over-reliance on cars in the first place,
and the fact that cities are planned for cars rather than humans. Self-driving
cars aren't a solution, when the problem is too many cars.

A real solution would be some kind of pulbic transport that's as convenient
and as efficient as privately owned automobiles, but somehow we're much more
interested in trying to solve the much harder problem of vehicle autonomy.

For the record, I live in a town in the South of London, on the East coast.
From the first moment I moved here I was amazed at the number of people with
mobility issues -disabled folks, seniors, parents with prams etc- taking the
bus for shor hops around town. I understand it's very different in the US,
where owning a car is a very big deal, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Choices made in the past dictate the current situation; choices that can be
undone.
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Since the danger seems to be receding -- I hope NWS & related agencies can use this as a good drill to fix their web properties.

Tsunami.gov couldn't handle the load, and many other official links (like mobile.weather.gov) just dump you into a government shutdown notice. Cell.weather.gov isn't even resolving.

I'm sure someone thought the critical products would still be easily available even with a government shutdown, it sure didn't work out that way.
Twisted Turing test. There's a novel waiting to be written about this.
They're so much cheaper than the big cloud providers that I've made quite a lot of money migrating clients off AWS and Google Cloud to Hetzner when they start getting big invoices and want to cut costs.
How Growth Team Brazil managed to grab 5.5K emails through word of mouth
Yes, if someone said anything about video editing I would suggest a 64 bit system.
But these aren’t those kind of binding. Here the Python just sets things up, and that’s the end of Python. That’s my understanding.
Cheaper to keep cool.
Based on a recommendation from HN, I switched to fastmail.com. I create aliases for most new services I sign up for, and treat the actual email address like a secret. Being able to "turn off" annoying services is a delight!
Oh, I didn't realize this one worked without that. I guess it uses the DOM rather than the API.
Search for "hyperscript" :)
What real-world speedup will you see? There's no data in that issue to support the idea that this is worth doing. Surely someone hacked up a split version and ran some benchmarks, right? Maybe you could include that data somewhere as the closest thing to that I can find is:

> Benefits: We will have files separated. It’s going to be better.
Companies with actually performance constrained software without a doubt. There are not so few of them.

There is a big pit in between own DC, and a lot of VM's in terms of economic scalability.

Own DC pays pack when you have 500+ to 1000+ machines in a single location.
This is how Dynamicland currently works, also, but their goal is what you've stated. It's a hardware limitation.
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> require the user (or someone they trust) to be online in order to verify that they aren't being defrauded

You're right but to clarify, the user getting online once a week or so is enough. They don't have to continuously be online.
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Bitcoin May Split Many Times in 2018
Really? Bitcoin pays no dividend and people buy it, even though at this point it's basically as useless as a stock that pays no dividend. I say this as a Bitcoin holder who does nothing with his Bitcoin because it's too slow and the transaction fees are too high.
Maybe you are already committed to gitlab and its workflow but Gogs and Gitea are small and fast GitHub clones written in Go if you need something light-weight.
> how much they have dodged a bullet by growing up in western nations.

I think GP's comment is concerned more with the health of Non-Westerners.
Yes, I meant "highly". Thanks :)
http://documentaryheaven.com/who-killed-the-electric-car/
See https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript
From the article:

> There have been few efforts to create a cheaper insulin. Walmart, for instance, sells Novo Nordisk's human insulin under the name ReliOn for $25 a vial. Eli Lilly is expected to release the first copycat insulin analog, a chemically altered form of insulin, at the end of this year.

You can buy this product right now, it is the same formulation you would have taken if you were diabetic in the 1990s. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pharmacy-Relion-Humulin-Insulin/1...

I am amazed by how many diabetics and GPs don't know this exists.
Compared to Perl, the overall under-use of special characters and the forced indentation make it objectively more readable; there is a reason it's often compared to pseudocode.

Age of release is a meaningless metric, btw. For starters, what Python was in 1991 is very different from what it was in the early 2000s, when it reached critical mass. Its modernity is measurable by the influence it had on most languages designed after its success, like Go and Swift.
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So, no, it wouldn't work in space.
It's only a problem until you do it. If you are a regular customer the paper work is easy both for you mentally and for the provider of the rental car, and if you join a car pool you just check where there is a car free and go there to pick it up. I usually parked my cargo bicycle beside the carpool for easy transport home.
Most commercial airline autopilots in use today could land the plane on auto if desired by the flight crew, so no, they don’t “just maintains a heading and an altitude”.
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> Instead of raising capital by issuing new shares, companies burn their earnings buying back existing shares from the public. It's insane!

You're ignoring all the ways that companies use their stock as a currency. From employee compensation to non-cash acquisitions, companies absolutely benefit from the secondary market. Especially in an era of low interest rates, it makes more sense for companies to borrow capital when they need it rather than raising money by issuing new equity, especially when other ways of issuing equity come with tax advantages.
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Don't you think that's how a lot of training data can be generated efficient for future ML/AI breakthroughs?
No government is capable of friendship with a private person, any more than a human can be friends with a single white blood cell. What they are, governments in general and the EU in particular, is a useful ally.
Canards.
I don't know much about Kubernetes, but isn't the conventional wisdom that the database should not be containerised? Has that changed?
> They do not move the physical gold

If you're not moving the gold, who needs escrow? You're just describing a cash settled spot market.

> the cost of trusting a delivery person remains fairly constant

Indeed, as you're having no effect on either escrow or post-settlement delivery. But that's my point, smart contracts don't make a blind bit of difference.

> Amazon and eBay are also facilitators of value transactions

The value is in the goods turning up. Smart contracts don't help at all outside digital assets. Or more specifically, the payment process is trivial compared to the logistics process. The value is almost all in the latter.

That's not generally true for digital assets. But today, the main challenges with those are to do with rights and marketing/discovery. Again, that's the value, today, of Amazon in that space. Disrupting transactions is irrelevant.

Now, I'm not saying the tricky bits can't be disintermediated. That's already started. But TBH if and when that does occur, why go to all that trouble and leave the transaction system as a fee taker? Disintermediate that too.
It seems you are not reading my posts at all. You are coming across like a zealot who is on some kind of holy crusade. I already said that the conclusions you draw are far fetched, you claim they're entirely logical. We don't agree, and we clearly won't agree either.

Furthermore, you put words in my mouth, and you paraphrase me with words I didn't use and would avoid. I would not describe Torvalds as a programmer, and I would carefully avoid the word "aspie" or "asperger" ever since I learned they're superseded (since my diagnosis, Sept 2017). Because THAT word is stereotypical whereas the spectrum is far more broad. There is no shame in being autistic/ASD/part of spectrum either. I certainly don't feel ashamed about it (I'm not proud about it either btw).

I have no interest in discussing this further with you because I have no interest in getting convinced by you that autistics aren't part of IT while I am getting signals that people within the spectrum are indeed overly represented in certain professions, including IT. But that wasn't my point because if I wanted to draw a caricature of an autist in IT I got far better examples available.

Go spend your time convincing someone else instead, and perhaps consider a worthwhile subject instead of nitpicking on a conclusion you drew and aren't refuting with data either.

TL;DR:

> If you don't believe it, then don't say it, because it perpetuates this unhealthy viewpoint.

You won't censor me. Au revoir.
Of course if you start googling for street signs a lot, they'll hit you with a captcha for each search, so that you can't ask Google to solve their captchas for you until you solve their captchas.
Regarding the new AI powered narrators, do you have any recommendations already?
> Where are the lispers to talk about how much better sexps are?

Well... there is the OP...
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The author presents a problem in the lack of device model and battery level information. A website/web application may disable functionality due to browser feature availablity, but if you disable functionality based on the device model, you're doing something wrong.

If you have a scenario where you can disable some thing to make the experience better while maintaining functionality, then why in the world would you ever enable those things? This is simply beyond me.

Any suggestions that improve the situation are simply generic performance optimizations that benefit everyone.
The idea that you have no requirement to is wrong - your site may not have sensitive information but without SSL it can be MITM'd and used as a vector for malware, ad injection, etc.
Anyone know why this was upvoted?

I can't tell it apart from the dozens of other "good" cloud providers (Lightsail, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode)
If you include 'steam turbines' into the steam engine category then steam has never left. And even if you don't there are some interesting tricks that steam can do that only electrical comes close (such as all the torque at 0 RPM) which makes steam uniquely suitable for some purposes (very heavy offshore cranes for instance, deck catapults on flight decks for another).
> Europe can buy all the yuan in the world and it won’t have any effect.

That is entirely wrong.

There is only a limited amount of Yuan, so by definition the supply of Yuan is affected, no matter in which currency it is bought. Therefore, the price is affected as well.

Will wheat in USD get more expensive if I buy all your wheat with Ruble? You bet it will.
Such bs--nobody in the US .gov is persecuting people based on their religion. The US is trying very hard to protect its citizens while still being a beacon of hope to refugees and emigres. The problem is that there is tremendous demand to get to the US because well, it's not currently as bad a place to live as wherever they are coming from.

As far as Islam goes, if Muslims would like to act decent and get up with the 21st century and not usurp and undermine our country and non-Muslims, then the are welcome to be here and nobody is going to bother them and we aren't.

On the other hand, if you're coming to the US looking for trouble or to create your Caliphate or what have you, well, the gloves are off. Americans have to have a peaceful place to live and we work hard to build nice communities.
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I think the reasoning goes because you are used to using carbs as your energy source most of the time, your body doesn't know what to do at first when it doesn't have any available. The body adapts surprisingly well to different energy sources, so if you drop all carbs, your body will burn fat for energy and create ketones.

It kinda sounds crazy, and I used to think it was, but I'm currently low carb to lose weight (lost 28 pounds in 3 months with it so far!). It just takes a couple weeks of training while on the diet to get your body to catch on and be back to your usual performance.

There are actually a surprising number of world records set by athletes on low carb diets who destroyed previous records that claim their diet is the main reason they were able to accomplish their goals
No, and I had no even considered that as a possible misinterpretation, so thanks for checking. I mean post-2000.
Generics still require FDA approval, which costs on the order of single digit $millions to obtain. Plus you’ve got to set up the plant to create the drug, which costs more $. Would you invest $millions in a product when a competitor (who probably already has plant capacity from when they made the drug while it was under patent) could come in and undercut you at a moments notice?

Obviously not - so the system ends up in a metastable state where one monopoly producer can charge high prices for a drug & no competitor will enter the market because they know the producer can and will undercut them the moment they try and do so.

This one of the reasons why the health care system in the US is completely borked.
Equities are only one sector. As a very simplistic model, imagine that companies were growing at the same time that property was getting less valuable, then we might see flat GDP but a growth in stocks and a fall in real-estate values. (Of course some real-estate holders are equity-funded, but many aren't; since returns are predictable and consistent, real-estate tends to be mostly funded by debt, whereas equity funding is more appropriate for more volatile things like research- or consumption-driven companies). The stock market correlates decently with "the economy" generally, but it's not the whole thing, and many would consider a portfolio that included both stocks and bonds, and perhaps property or other assets as well, to be more reflective of the overall economy.
We (I) just like Hetzner a lot, they have cheap and reliable (from the little I've used them) bare metal servers.
A lot of it was a backstop in case it was needed, but those reserves were not tapped.

Basically the Fed made lines of credit (with strings attached) open to banks to guarantee liquidity, increasing trust in markets. Banks didn't withdraw the money, and some that did (or were forced to take it to dissuade bank runs on the others) paid it back quickly to get out from under the strings.

Here's [1] a decent source on the finances of the bailout (which were actually loans).

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
There are plenty of lawyers who love to make money out of unlawful use of the German "Impressum" and send you an "Abmahnung" which requires you to pay fees even if you comply and change your website afterwards.
Yeah, no more than a bit of swell does though. Best example I can find is this -> https://youtu.be/ZS6EmSxncz4?t=78
Well one experience doesn't necessarily mean anything (on either side) but I'm absolutely surprised that that was your experience since everything we found was nothing but an amazing product that was not proportional to the price we paid in the good sense.
>echo "a" > test.txt

test.txt will contain "a\n" not just "a"

-n to disable adding \n
I could not disagree more. If having a sexual identity is a luxury, I hate to think what actually enjoing life is. What a sad point of view.
To avoid confusion, those reserves are used for technical forex operations and are not a way to guarantee the value of euro. Relevant ecb web page : https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/tasks/reserves/html/index.en.h...
Insulin is being “grown” genetically modified organisms in vats. It is not a simple molecule you get by mixing chemicals together.

The very first application of the human genome project.

The whole process of production is non-trivial, every step heavily patented and secured. Also pretty expensive.

There are new biotechs currently working on CURING diabetes, but no one is doing trials on humans yet. Means we’re at least 10 years away from a cure.

And no, those are not crazy 18 year olds in a garage. Spark Therapeutics now has an injection to cure macular degeneration, Moderna is building a whole RNA modification platform with 19(!) individual drugs in the pipeline.

It is very likely that we’ll see a major shift of medicine to curing, rather than treating in the next 20-25 years. Hep-C now has a cure. Still so, so amazing. The Human Genome project will turn out to be one of the most live-saving accomplishments of humanity, next to the green revolution in farming.
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In the UK, at least, the Bank of England used QE money to buy government bonds. This meant that the bond-holders could exchange their illiquid bonds for cash, which they then needed to do something with.

The BoE then collected and destroyed government payments on the bonds, so the net amount of money doesn't change in the long-term.

One side-effect of this is that the cost of bonds went up -- demand had increased -- so the profitability of buying them went down, meaning the banks were naturally incentivised to do something else with that money.

It's not a panacea, but it is quite a neat lever to have when you want to increase the supply of money without actually spending any. Unfortunately it still looks like the banks are being given lots of free cash, but it's not actually free.
Only true for rare and ultra-rare diseases.
In Unix we have the idiom of "Everything Is A File".
As such, when grep gets a file descriptor, it cannot always get the file-size, the file-size might be infinite, or might vary over time.
Instead, like other have said, the only way to know you've read 'until the end' is to read reports you've reached the end of the file.

Consider for example what should happen when grepping /dev/null/?
Or, a more sensible case, piping the output of some command to grep.
Grep will read from 'standard in' which is "Just A File" so it just calls read until it reports end of file.
I need a newtwork load balancer so i don't have to spend 25 eur for additional server to act as a loadbalancer in simpler and budget restricted scenarios.
I've heard people pay $200-$400 for parking in Brooklyn and Glendale, also ten times that on Manhattan.
I've been asking for this for well over a year. Nothing yet. I think they need a fairly fundamental shift in design thinking.
You can freeze a VPS, save its state and restore it later without affecting the uptime. The clock would get skewed (system time vs hardware time difference), but unless you have something that detects that you won't even notice it.
But if somebody stands between the transmitter and the target, the "object" would disappear. I'm guessing this would make the UX pretty crappy.

Also, what if the tractor beam inadvertently attaches to your eardrum? (Ok, headphones could solve that)
Good thoughts. :)
Indeed, why would reduced diversity be a problem if we're moving towards engineering the optimal human?
Why do I see a higher price in the web console than on the product page?
This is awesome work. Great job.

Dynamicland looks awesome. I wish I could visit. I both live on the wrong coast and it doesn't seem to be open to the public yet.

One fascinating aspect I found on this project was compiling OpenCV[1] to web assembly. I find it difficult and frustrating to compile OpenCV for my Mac never-mind compiling it to web assembly and running it in a browser. I love the idea of doing that, I'll have to try it.

[1] Open Computer Vision to save a few people a google
Indeed, I am speculating about US McD's, not about UK. The quality here looks much better.
I wish we could skip the commentary part of the headline that is a signature part of clickbait.
nevow.stan did that back in 2004 :)

https://github.com/twisted/nevow/blob/master/nevow/stan.py
I use Fastmail to punt all of my domains' catchall inbound mail into my Gmail account.

> you must be someone who cares about their privacy

That's quite an assumption. I care about privacy but use Gmail. Email is not, has never been, will never be private. It's a postcard protocol.
Which is really annoying when you want to pipe grep to less, and need to add --color=always to get grep to understand less takes color codes (when using less -R).
Because product page doesn't include VAT. But once you login the VAT is applied on the prices.
"Hit the ground running" is an English (well, actually American) idiom. It seems to have originated among the hobos, who judged it the best way to jump from a moving train. MbS might not physically be ready to run anywhere. Still, no one outside Saudi had heard of him four years ago. Since then, he seems to have been much more effective in pursuing his political goals than anyone else on the peninsula?
I see: we aren't having a scientific debate, we have a political disagreement about the place of science in society.
> cyclists generally don't present a serious safety hazard to others.

If they behave dangerously and put themselves at risk of being hit, even if they are the one taking the risk, the car driver will always be at fault, no matter what. And yes, like some others have echoed in comments here, many bike riders do not stop at red lights. I see that every - single - day, multiple times.
> The town she's in recently made it illegal for residents of her park to drive their electric carts across the street to Publix or down the sidewalk to the doctor's office

This right here is the problem - how? Why? Doesn't this violate disability discrimination law? I thought seniors were quite an effective voting bloc in cases like this?
Good catch. Another universal ESL mistake is to use "funny" when one means "fun."

Meanwhile, in Spanish I would mix up cebolla vs cepillo vs cabello vs caballo.

Approaching a woman in a bar: "I like your onion."
What makes you think contractors on public works won't use tumblers?
IANAGB (Genetic Biologist)... but pathogens rely on markers for identifying targets susceptible to their attacks and sometimes for finding their specific attack points. Additionally, some types of attacks are only viable for specific organisms (based upon their genetics).
I'm thinking soon "enough" (as in: personal server) compute/ram/disk will be free and you can play with servers for nothing riding completely on the backs of larger paying customers. Like with wordpress.com or any service with a free tier really.
You can still order the previous CX line of servers (the "vServers") via the customer administration interface. There is no official EOL posted yet for the previous CX line. --Katie, Marketing
But do you need sugar? Or you don't need either sugar nor carbs? It seems strange to me.
EDIT: it seems that if you use only your fat, you'll end up producing too much Ketones which leads to Ketoacidosis. Doesn't sound good.
this, step folding is definitely missing in gitlab-ci compare to travis, especially as it seems most CI product have it and (I think) it something that only require frontend developement ?