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The problem is that the screen needs to integrate with other car features (at the minimum, backup camera).

Even so, there could have been a standard hardware interface for this, if it was a requirement. But as it is, why would they bother, if they can sell you the car anyway?
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Dane here, but I have literally no idea what you mean by 'going above your station'.
> the Great Firewall is trivial to circumvent with the right VPN subscription.

We tried this for a few months. We would subscribe to a VPN that worked, we paid our yearly fee, and it stopped working the next month. We did this a few times before finally giving up, it is far from trivial, the GFW is real.
Also, unlike the for loop alternative, it clearly expresses the intent. "I am filtering this array, using this condition". The functional programming style really shines here, and it shines even more whan you start chaining the operations.

I guess the rule of thumb is to write code to most clearly express the intent of it. Often harder said than done but a good goal to strive for.
I had to stay in the hospital for 7 days because I was past my due date and needed monitoring. I had 4 rounds of a drug used overnight to help soften the cervix, one injection of Terbutaline (to stop one long contraction that had caused the baby's heart rate to drop prior to being in real labor), less than 1 bag of pitocin, a few bags of saline and an electronic monitor placed on the baby's head to monitor heart rate once they had descended far enough to make the normal telemetry ineffective.

I did not have an epidural or any pain medication during labor and had a relatively uneventful birth once things actually started moving. The doctor was great, but was only there intermittently until the very end. I needed some stitches but was walking unassisted within a few hours and was discharged early (after a week in the hospital, we really wanted to go home).

Total "bill": over $100,000, most of it covered by insurance. It did not cost them almost $15,000 per night for me to stay there. That's just what they send to the insurance company in this absurd game they play with each other.
It is wierd that companies are like this.

I love everything else about Gitlab yet I am having a less than stellar time with Gitlab support.

Is it because for most companies the perception is that if someone needs support they are already more likely to be a bad / lost customer anyway so don't put too much effort into it?
We've banned this account for using HN for political and nationalistic battle, which is not allowed here. Stooping to personal details (real or imagined) in a political argument is also not allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was referring to System Preferences -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive, which backs up my files.

Though, in addition, I'm a pretty big utilizer of the ecosystem: iCloud Music Library, Photos, etc.
Taking HN into political and nationalistic flamewar is a bannable offense, and we've banned this account.

All: please don't spoil this thread still further by taking this kind of bait. If you want a poster child for what happens, look below for a reductio ad absurdum in two steps: (1) bickering about wars of aggression (yes they were no they weren't); (2) relitigating Vietnam. If this is what you want to do on the internet, Hacker News is not the site you are looking for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Possibly. But I think the immediate results from browser make this one easier for people to see what is happening.
Of course a boycott doesn't have to be 100%. I think the only person in this entire thread that has suggested as such is the poster that I originally responded to.

I'm definitely not part of the China Internet Defense Force that seems to troll many parts of the web but I find it interesting that whenever China comes up on HN some green username usually shows up to chastise everyone for not participating in a boycott that is 100%.
With the continued reporting of these possible attack vectors, it makes me feel that there's a lot to be said about having a carburettor and points running your car, instead of a computer with network connectivity.
Nah, read my other comment. On the Mac it's called iCloud Drive. It backs up your home directory, with exceptions you allow for.

I have a dotfiles git repo I use, in addition to personal repos I check into.

I'm not sure what I'm missing (I don't spend a lot of time messing around with manual configurations that aren't checked into my dotfiles git repo).
Are we talking about the American-Vietnam war or the Sino-Vietnam war? If the latter, China wanted to give Vietnam a taste of Chinese freedom for something going on in Cambodia.
> 1/3 of male African American are locked up in U.S. prisons

Huh, no. I agree it's much too high, but it's more like 2.3% according to the 2010 US census: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_Afr...

(I think that includes women too, but still nowhere near 33%)
The UI on my Pioneer GPS from 2009 was way better than the current UIs on Google, Here and Waze maps. I like the distance indicator as you approach a turn.

I suspect these UI elements are patented and Google/Here don't want to pay to incorporate them into their apps. After having and Android head unit, I think I'd rather go back to a Pioneer dedicated nav unit with Bluetooth connection to my cell/music.
I haven't programmed in C# or Jave, but I was recently looking into expository literature on why functional programming helps write more modular code [1]. I found the following Haskell-based example to be really enlightening: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way...

I think it's okay to skim over the Haskell specific parts; what I really liked how the end result (version 10 of the program) is nicely composed out of orthogonal pieces, compared to version 1, which is a monolithic blob, while "simple". So, if you want to solve a related but different problem, you can reuse everything you've written instead of duplicating code. So any bugfixes/improvements to one part can trivially be propagated to all other use cases.

[1]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/14/why-functional-programmi...
>flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers

Seriously. It hurts me to see the "anti-vaxxers" term thrown around so loosely. There are very legitimate reasons for being skeptical of vaccine research. Events like this appear quite frequently [1]. It is not at all in the same league as "flat-earths".

[1] https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/12/flaws-in-the-cl...
Depends on your laptop and its manufacturer. Check the manual, or, if using aftermarket firmware, the manual for that.
That was the joke - I believe it is or was used in the US too.

Also Windows CE.
$1,000 for the starter pack - what kind of use can you get out of that, and how much are the ongoing costs for the flowcells and anything else that needs to be replenished?

Are you using it for fun? professionally? academically?
how many hours are needed to solve outstanding issues? 1,000,000? if each hour costs $20 / worker, that's what, $20 million? Haven't they raised over a billion?
Isn't it obvious that how you describe a job changes neither the requirements of that job nor the qualifications desired nor how you're going to select the applicants?

If certain words pull in a more gender-neutral applicant pool, that's great! You're still only going to pick the best person for the job at the end, but you'll have a better pool to pick from.

Come on man, use a little bit of reasoning skill here.
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I only mention this quote because it sheds some light on how a very privileged person might still legitimately think of themselves as struggling and suffering when making a startup.
I wondered same things. This stuff has calories, but won't make you feel much less hungry.

I also wondered about downvotes.
The cost is not transmitting the js by wire, but executing it. 100k of js is very CPU heavy.

SSR does help though. But then there's this whole rehydration...
> It is often the case that the simplest solutions require the greatest skill in achieving.

Totally agree, and I think this is what a lot of the "keep code simple" articles miss. To create something simple, you almost always have to create something complex first. All the best designs I've seen created were the result of 10+ iterations and several major refactors.
This is true in theory. Unfortunately, it doesn't prevent people from patenting algorithms in practice.

There's an interesting loophole: just also include in your invention the machine (memory + CPU) running the algorithm. Then you're patenting a device, instead of simply math.

Stallman described this method more than 10 years ago. I was hoping this wasn't true, until the (french) company I work in successfully used it to patent an underlying algorithm from the software I had written.

Maybe such a patent would be debunked in an european court? I'd be glad if this were the case.
It appears that NCR and Diebold made the decision to migrate from OS/2 to Win XP a while ago.
If a typical Nigerian faces a calamity every 14 days and a Japanese citizen every 140 days, you will get a much more relieved and appreciative average answer for daily life from the Nigerians to this question. Especially if those who faced a calamity in the last couple of days are less likely to participate in the survey.
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I learned more from this comment than I did from 6 months of trial and error installation/provisioning/partitioning of various lab computers (macs, hackintoshes, mac/hack + windows, windows, and BSD OSes). Thanks for all your hard work!
One word mentioned here that I absolutely loathe seeing in jobs descriptions is "nerd".

I don't get why we all think "nerd" has anything to do with software engineering or the workforce in general. Is it "nerdy" to work 9-5 and juggle office politics and meetings, etc? What's "nerdy" about needing to write lots and lots of error-reporting, exception-catching, type assertions, etc etc?

"Nerd" is almost always a way of signaling that you like people who like specific cultural fixtures like Star Wars and Start Trek or comic book movies whatever else. And there's just no real reason to have that in a job description unless you're LucasFilm. You'll never achieve a diverse workforce if you're actively trying to field people who like all the same unimportant pop culture things you do.
The reasons why women in China are becoming independent are quite different from their counterparts in the West.
Not much to comment on the other than the technology woes. I made a day trip to Shenzhen from Hong Kong last July. It was my second time in China last year, but first time to Shenzhen. So I was very aware of all of the "GFW" issues. I used my Pixel with VyprVPN installed prior to with no issues. Also I always downloading maps and languages with keyboards anytime I travel in case my connection is not 100%. Though I had a strong signal all around Shenzhen.

I did run into some trouble finding an ATM that accepted my card. I did not want to trade a lot of currency since it was only a day trip, and not knowing if I would buy anything at all, or how much. There were many ATM's, though it is hard to find anywhere in China banks that are compatible with American cards. Not impossible, just far fewer than other countries.

WeChat is a must all over China. They use it for everything! Though I haven't figured out how to get money onto it to use the pay feature, which they love to use. I think you have to have a China Bank account to tie it to your WeChat, or have someone with CNY who gives/transfer it to you from their account.
How far away we are from a 100$ genome? I've heard that the cost/performance development rate is 'super-Moorean'.
> If I can think of it, then I hope it already exists and I can just reuse it.

There is also a cognitive load of 'using it' for simple algos and packages, like left-pad. Some end up the de facto standard of a community (Python's `requests` package), but other communities fracture (Node's SuperAgent, Axios, got, Request, reqwest, ...).

I like to think of code I write today as automatically being 'obsolete' 12 months from now. I might not replace it +12 mo, but if I _were_ to replace it, what comments, patterns, and hints might I leave my future-self to make that easier? Simpler code is easier to test and replace. Less magic code is easier to swap out with other languages. Verbose code is easier for my new team of +N engineers to digest, even if it takes twice as long to read.
I can't say enough good things about this project. In particular I love GDScript. It's a lot like Python and it makes the cost of learning the engine negligible.

You can also use C++, C# and a visual scripting language to make stuff. There's also community support for python and some other languages.

It's hard to believe that it's a 20mb when Unity is 1.5gb.
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But they will spend a lot to get tiny miniaturized products. And rectilinear watermelons.
And, at least two years ago, could be trivially worked around if you bought appropriate SIM cards in Hong Kong, which - apparently completely legally, and with cooperation of one of China's telcos - gave you completely unfiltered access in the Shenzhen area.

Sadly, I learned about this only a month into my stay in Shenzhen; before, I was playing the BPN cat&mouse game.

China seems to have a weird dual stance about GFW. I even heard rumors that companies could pay someone to get a legal, unfiltered link.
Google and Apple and other map providers scrub some of their data by request of the government. Will the government do something similar here? Kudos to whomever found out that they could identify military stuff through this.
I have also observed that TripAdvisor seems to have rather poor fraud control on their reviews.

Recently I was driving home after cutting a trip short due to health issues, and then to compound difficulties, my car was overheating. I asked my girlfriend to help me find a motel - I knew of one on the way back to town, about 20 miles closer, and requested she look up reviews online. She told me the one I was thinking of looked fine, and had several positive reviews online. One even said “the best part about our trip to Colorado”, she quoted as I parked and walked inside.

It turned out to be decidely not the best part about anything in Colorado, unless you are a Satanist who pairs a fondness for shabby 70s decor with an aversion to cleanliness. I had already paid when I fully realized this, and only spent 25 minutes at the hotel before I essentially fled in terror.

When researching how this could have happened, I found that Yelp gave this motel only 1.5 stars, and had several reviews with similar stories, noting things like how the clerk seemed to be on drugs and was wearing a large pentagram necklace. This man looked somewhat like an elderly mixture of Frank Zappa and Bowie with anorexia, and insisted on walking me to my room for reasons unknown. I was not provided with a key, and the room had no way to lock from the inside.

Google has mixed reviews for them, with some likely fakes standing out and also reviews sourced from TripAdvisor. The TripAdvisor reviews are mixed as well, with many glowing 5 stars reviews balanced by many 1 stars for a total of 3 stars. Many of the 5 star reviews are defensive about the specifics of other negative reviews.

I looked into this motel on FB, and found it had the highest rating there - 4.4 stars. Not a trace of anything negative. I was also able to find the personal page of the man I talked to, who was cited as seemingly drug-addled and pentagram-adorned in other reviews as well as my experience. His page mentioned how his partner, owner of the motel, promoted him from clerk to manager on their 30th anniversary as a couple. He had many pictures of their satanic altars, references to demons, the pitbulls (referred to negatively in reviews) being ‘possessed’, and pictures around the motel. I feel somewhat lucky to have escaped.

So, in summary, Yelp had the most accurate reviews and presented the most realistic picture. Facebook presented the motel as they would like to be seen. Google and TripAdvisor are in between, showing equal amounts of true and false reviews.
Where do you see PacBio?
Not sure I get where "diversity vs equality" comes into play here...

It says that government officials engage in positive discrimination towards women + minorities. I don't know much about Australia, but in America government hiring is supposed to exhibit positive discrimination (because governments are supposed to hire according to affirmative action guidelines), so what's the point of this study?
I think this has been the way of the tech industry, and particularly SV, for a long time now. My uncle, now passed away, started at Atari in the early 80s and hopped companies every three years until his final job with Nvidia in a fairly senior position. He stayed with Nvidia until his death a little over a year ago.

Each time he switched it up he grew his salary exponentially.
I've used both for hobby projects and Godot is superior in my opinion because of the scripting language, the open sourciness and the small package size.

Why is unity 1.5gb anyways?
I just came from 14 day trip to Shanghai-Beijing-Shenzhen. Here's a couple of more pointers:

- DiDi is the Uber of China. Wonderful UX, English language UI with automatic two-way translation of messages and support for western credit cards.

- AliPay & WeChat wallet are the primary methods of payment in China. You can enable a WeChat Wallet using a western credit card, but in most cases that card cannot be used for payments. You can have easily exchange cash for WeChat RMB, as other users can transfer RMB to your account free of charge. AliPay requires a local phone number & bank account (and no, the one you use for AliExpress does not work for mobile payments.)

- The subway system in Shenzhen, Shanghai & Beijing is really well maintained. You can use cash or Alipay/Wechat to pay.

- All foreign cell contracts pipe traffic through their local servers, so they automatically VPN through the Great Firewall.

- ProjectFI recently lost 99% of LTE coverage in China. T-Mobile cancelled their contract with China Unicom, and Nexus phones do not support the LTE bandwith China Mobile uses. You're stuck on the EDGE network 99% of the time.

- China Construction Bank opens up accounts for foreigners without Visa.

- One thing that was not mentioned in Karim's post: advanced manufacturing facilities. Try booking a tour: they can significantly alter what you think is possible.
Another book recommendation:

How Schopenhauer Got Me Through My Mid-Life Crisis by Charles Alonso
https://www.amazon.com/How-Schopenhauer-Through-Mid-Life-Cri...

It's fiction, funny, philosophical, about middle age and a quick read.
Tall poppy syndrome, being moderate (lagom in Sweden?). Basically, things people have said on here or I've heard elsewhere that the cultural psyche is a bit different than the more individualistic American one, at least in terms of business. That sort of thing is what I was getting at.
Looks like even less than 30% - the chart in this article shows panels are only around 10% of total cost for residential, meaning further panel price declines now have very little effect:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/06/12/u-s-utility-scale-sol...

As you imply, for utility scale the other costs are much lower, so falling panel costs still have a significant impact on total price.
Any investment in open source makes me happy, especially if there are 5 zeros or more, that means things can get done for a while, which makes things better, longer.

The Riot IM site confuses me a bit, I had thought it was an open source client you could run on own server - but I don't see anything about that there. Did some digging on matrix and found one mention of vector code on github - not many details...

Is there someone I can send $100 that can spend some time explaining to me how to set this up on my own server, and how to mod it a bit so that for example, most logged info is destroyed after 24 hours and things like that?

After spending time and money on rocket chat I've come to find the value in hiring an expert / professional in the sphere to consult with before drinking the koolaid and going all in on the flashy promises on home pages.

added contact info to my profile thing here, I hope it works.

Now if someone would put $2 million into buddypress, and mastadon (I think that's what its called) I would think we have a future that is possible without the F and G overlords.
Would you please read and follow the site guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A hong kong SIM wouldn't work well in Beijing. Also, I noticed hotels in Guangzhou had GFW-free internet, something that would never happen in Beijing or Shanghai.
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I find these kinds of articles ultimately unhelpful. I do agree with the overall message, but with the lack of practical examples, all I came away with is a description of the problem we're all too familiar with already (software design is hard, simplicity is desirable) but no answers to how to achieve that in the real world.

"Don't use recursion to solve a problem easily solved by a for-loop, except when recursion is the right tool for the job."

You're not wrong. Just not terribly useful advice when fighting against real complexity in systems.
No, that is how IP(v4) is commonly deployed: With a single IP, NAT, UPnP for port forwarding, and a stateful firewall.

Yes, that could change with IPv6. But it still doesn't have anything to do with NAT. Just because stateful firewalling happens on the same device as NAT, doesn't somehow make it a property of NAT. There also usually is a web interface on the same device. Now, with IPv6 that could change as well. Does that mean that web interfaces are a property of NAT? Or that it would be sensible to say "NAT is commonly deployed with a web interface"?
I have been using ExpressVPN for the past year (just renewed my subscription) and although throughput sometimes drops to abysmally slow levels, it has never completely stopped working for me.
I have to completely agree with the article, and that has been my learning working for biggies in the US. But not all people agree on that. They consider themselves smarter, after writing complex code with no documentation. Also, certain people make value with complex stuff instead of making it easy as a breeze for others to understand and contribute.
With all due respect, the scale of support enquiries you handle is probably orders of magnitude below what Coinbase has to deal with. Scaling any kind of support well is hard, scaling tech support for something as complicated and user-hostile as cryptocurrencies is harder.
Best case: the linux foundation is, despite corporate influence, genuinely trying to advance the state of the art for its own sake.

Worst case: this is how open source software development has always been, caveat a few "genesis innovations" several decades ago that kicked off the current business/buzzword-backed hype-fest.

Either way, it's no use complaining.
As a layperson, I find this article deficient of worthwhile information, because while it juxtaposes two examples of skulls which are clearly different, it says nothing about the variance in modern human brain shape. It doesn't seem interesting to me unless one were to characterize the variance and describe the ancient skull in terms of the modern distribution.
I'll never get the whole "wait until you can afford to be married" thing because isn't one of the great advantages of marriage the joining of two incomes and the lessening of personal expenses (sharing expenses means less per person)?