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80% completion rate with 20 levels works out as a ~1% chance of ever finishing the game (which i'd say counts as fairly hard). Looking at the graph, the pass rate seems to be higher, but there are also a lot more than 20 (non-optional) levels, so I would guesstimate the finish rate to be less than 1% (90% per level for 40 levels is also around 1% to finish the game, for example).
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The blog post mentions that OpenCensus supports .NET, but on https://opencensus.io/language-support/ .NET is not mentioned. What is true? Has anyone used opencensus with .NET ?
There is plenty of client source code available on github, the remaining parts are the server which understandably might pose some issues if it contains either patents or third party proprietary code.
Almost all credit card companies in the US allow you to dispute charges. Some even allow you to do it online. Typically it's then up to the merchant to prove the charges are legitimate. And from what I've heard that's very difficult sometimes. Most larger companies simply eat the cost. And it's a significant problem for small businesses as some folks use this to cheat the system and get free things.
> Signal

You can sideload signal and it works without google cloud messaging. I use signal every day. It works fine.

> Firefox

You can sideload Firefox or use Fennec from fdroid, a firefox rebuild without proprietary software.

> Whatsapp

Yep that probably won't work. Most proprietary android applications use google play framework. This will only get worse. "Android" is less and less free with every release. Google keeps adding functionality to the proprietary libraries on top of the free base.

> VLC

It used to be in fdroid but is a nightmare to build so it was removed.

> No one can seriously expect a normal user to do without Google Play Services

Probably. I was just sharing my personal experience.

> very little influence on the surveillance state

Ha! Most HN readers are enthusiastically building the surveillance state.
I wish people were better acquainted with the literature, e.g. https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/ECO-002

(Ed: yeah, that's just a sample of the book but has a large bibliography at the end.)
I wouldn't take Reddit seriously not many people there read the article. I suspected the same until I read your comment. It inspired me to read the article. It wasn't a simple Inspect Element hack.
When I started to drink beer in the mid-1970s, Schlitz was pretty terrible. I don't know that it had that reputation--it was in a lot of stores and on tap in a lot of bars. However, even in a world of undistinguished lagers, it stood out as bad.
Just use Yalp Store.
You can get all those apps without having Google Services (and without google play service, which is part of Google Services.)
Does 1 person's weekly buying habits affect a store?

I feel like everything I buy has gotten more variety since I started shopping there.

Also, how did you find out about HN?
As I understand it, G. Heileman sold the Old Style brand, but not the recipe. The original Old Style recipe is reputedly[0] brewed under the La Crosse Lager label, by City Brewery.

[0] I've read it in various reviews; confirmed with acquaintances who have sampled original Old Style, new Old Style, and La Crosse Lager; and got the "we can neither confirm nor deny" plus eye wink when I asked their brewer at a beer festival. And I'm just some guy on the internet, so all this is quite speculative.
This is a technical forum after all. Most devs and engineers ive meant are pretty blunt.
I know the movie as 'The KGB, the computer, and me': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac
> deposits to HDFC do not fix the liability imbalance

They don't, but it gives the bank cash. Cash makes life easier.
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I'm pretty sure the concept of a hunting "accident" is pretty universal across cultures.
That sounds like a retroactive arse covering exercise.
America has been invaded, actually.

First in 1812, by the British.

There were two more invasions by foreign armies in 1915 and 1916, but I'm not sure they count, since they weren't sovereign powers and were quickly dealt with.

But you're right, there is no living American who remembers an invasion of our territory.
Countries are building lots of solar and wind. However, these techs only operate/run during the daytime or when the wind is blowing... which is not 100% of the time.

If they continue to build out solar/wind and thereby drive FF-production "out of business" what happens when solar/wind cannot meet demand? Are they building stored energy reserves as well? What happens then?
Your username would appear to be appropriate.
The point is that it doesn't need to record that data.

It doesn't give technical details, but the article seems to make it clear that it does record locations.

If I just open Google Maps, I don't expect Google to permanently remember my location. I expect them to just serve the right map data anonymously.
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I think it's worth framing it as the possible decline of the U.S. The whole world does not share the Americans' fate.
I suppose it's somewhat debatable whether they count as a computer but I would say the mechanical engine speed governors on lawn mowers.
How's the culture? Are devs actually busy and productive or is the the typical never ending wait for requirements to materialize that's so common at moribund large enterprises?
>Innocent people typically dont talk like this.

Over the course of a conversation innocent people say all sorts of things that can be used to implicate them when taken out of context. That's one of the reasons anyone with more brain cells than you can count on one hand doesn't talk to cops in an even remotely adversarial context.
To keep your hands clean you also need to look outwards.
We could open a repo and start writing things down?

I can handle the FPGA side. Start with essentially DOS for RISCV. Use qemu for kernel development, and Verilator as the simulator for RTL. Develop a simple graphics unit that is "pluggable" so you can replace it with a more advanced one later (or if the user requires it). Same for networking.

We'll target one of the ICE40 fpgas with an open toolchain. Not that they're great FPGAs, but the open toolchain is what's important.

I've been batting this idea around for a while.
Any idea why the Saudi (government) wants to buy Tesla?

Is it part of the oil conspiracy to kill electric vehicles?

Given how GM, Nissan, and others have electric vehicles, I dont think this could stop the new wave of buyers.

Anyone want to take a stab at why this is happening?
Since signs are not legally enforceable in Nevada they don't plaster the doors with them, but trust me, Casinos explicitly ban concealed carry and if they see you printing they will escort you out.
Or read the Old Testament, or any of the Eastern scriptures. All those stories, with the possible exception of the Maccabees, were originally passed down orally, even after they got written down.

The New Testament loses a lot, in my opinion, by being written almost purely for literary composition.
$420? He must be high!
And don't think for a minute that the first human company that gets that tech wouldn't do the exact same thing.

Wilbur and Orville Wright did precisely that for flight until the US govt dismissed the patents due to WWI. The patents, and their insane lawsuits, were poisoning the whole US on flight. Europe grew by leaps and bounds, and had all sorts of aircraft.
I dont believe what comes out of Elon's mouth anymore.

I take his words lightly at best.
Frink has been around for a long, long time, and the author has had a great sense of humour about some of the units he's thrown in. While I rarely need the tool, it's great to know that I can deal with cubits whenever I need to.
> the Managing Director of the [Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth] fund

Does anyone know to whom this refers?
Yes, but it'll affect the whole market. The EU is a wealthy market with 510 million consumers - if Google's stranglehold on Android is broken there, then it is profoundly undermined internationally. Google might continue with anti-competitive practices outside the EU, but non-EU citizens will be free to import a device that is compliant with the EU ruling. In many cases, it will be possible to install an EU-compliant ROM on devices bought elsewhere. Some non-EU countries may decide to follow the lead of the European Commission and pass similar antitrust rulings.
Sounds like trying to get the SEC away.
>They first met with me at the beginning of 2017 to express this interest because of the important need to diversify away from oil.
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Exactly my thoughts when reading this.
Also, CCC event management was given discretion in handling any situations short of maybe cases where they did not fix a problem. This led to a surprising calmness inside, due to the mutual understanding.
They have oil money and want to diversify their assets. It's part of the plan not to depend 100% on oil because their profits suffered during the last two years as oil prices bottomed. They cannot kill the EV this time. The Saudis and UAE also invested in solar in the last few years. This is consistent with other Big Oil investments into renewables.
Did you read the article? She was working with the mayor's office, and even contacted the DOT to obtain licenses. They just refused and ordered them removed anyway, since the law literally doesn't allow for issuing of licenses for this type of product.
>GE was going to own the industrial internet.

I have a friend that works in mechanical maintenance. Heck, i used to work for him while i was putting myself through automotive trade school. Mitsui, Mitutoyo, Kuka, and Motoman not to mention Fanuc are all household names for industry automation based on a well defined platform of experience dragging back more than 30 years. Hell, even mitsubishi controllers are massively more invested in tooling and automation than GE ever could be.

And, they listen to customers...theyre open by default. I can plug motor control data and Fanuc probe logic systems into my Infinity QS SPC software and get accurate runout and ID/OD grind data in REAL TIME. no licenses required because in machining or component part shops that are large enough, its more important to meet JIT deadlines than it is to pay licenses (they get paid after the fact, and vendors are happy to subscribe to this model.)

The only GE stuff we used was in the substation transformers used by the building to feed power to the cymbal cutters and CNC systems in the shop. never networked, because it didnt have to be.
> Any idea why the Saudi (government) wants to buy Tesla?

They believe it to be a good investment and think (a) Tesla's management will do better without the public market's constant scrutiny and/or (b) their own books could benefit from less apparent volatility.

> Is it part of the oil conspiracy to kill electric vehicles?

Probably not. The Saudi sovereign wealth fund has been set up as a hedge against their oil-based economy.
It would make sense to hold companies such as Tesla as a hedge against oil.
It's bizarre reading comments on this from people in countries where these taxes do little or nothing to rectify the issue that's being taxed in the first place.

The UK is far from perfect but at least revenue raised from smoking is invested into both preventative care (ie cessation programmes) and actual treatment.

Arguments that the tax should be even higher, or substances banned, obviously come from people who have no understanding of how black markets work. Vast networks of tobacco smuggling already exist. You have to pick a balance.
Also, while it's simpler, it's not really much cheaper (which is the big driver of a lot of automotive decisions). Motors and power electronics are far more expensive than the mechanical components which you are removing (and this is not easy to change, though there is more headroom for economies of scale on the EV motors ATM).
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My bad, I read through the document but I misread it as 1998.
It is about monopoly abuse, an OS vendor should not abuse it's market share to get more web search market share.

If Apple would have a monopoly in EU and forced it's other services then I think Apple will have same issue Google and Microsoft had.

My opinion is that Apple should be forced to be repair friendly and give the user full control of his hardware(let me install what I want like in OSX) , so I am not an Apple fan.
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp...

that's what "PIF managing director" on google gives me.
‘It wasn’t a lack of stone that ended the Stone Age’

That was one of their own oil ministers. They can see the writing on the wall.
Google's a monopoly in multiple areas by any reasonable definition.

So yes, I hope they are being entangled in a Cambridge Analytica type scandal. It is the job of the press to do so.

Personally, I think the YouTube recommendation algorithm is a huge problem. Once everyone understands it, that will be the relevant scandal.

How YouTube's recommendation algorithm makes everyone more extreme, in all directions: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

How YouTube's recommendation algorithm causes creation of appalling content targeted at children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w

It is harming our society in deep and scary ways.
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I found it noteworthy that the article cites Juliet Barbara, communications director at the Wikimedia foundation, as saying "'It’s a good thing it works in practice because it would never work in theory." but the author of the article clearly takes exception to that viewpoint. Tribalism is on the rise.
Oh boy, trying to debug some miscompile because of a subtlety in aliasing rules would make me disagree.
As the above post says, the main known motive is to diversify Saudi's sovereign wealth away from Oil as their primary investment.
It will take 10 years before MicroLED screens of monitor or living room sizes are commercially competitive. If it ever happens
How is someone personal life relevant to their work legacy? We all know what he suffers from, even his official website explains the situation. We do not need to archive every single symptom of it. The man deserves some privacy, especially when it's about a medical condition.
Saudi Arabia? I know they have money but it's like selling your chicken coop to a snake
No, it sounds like real life.

Of course HN downvotes this.

Dan Grossman earns a paycheck moderating this site. This is a culture he's literally paid to promote.
I think so?

“As an embedded engineer I can’t agree that C “has problems” because it treats you like a big boy with your big boy pants on. :)”
From the first Google result for 'Managing Director of the [Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth] fund' it's Yasir al-Rumayyan
"But officer, I wasn't speeding! If I was, I'd be going 90mph and my engine would explode!"

"So you were going 89mph and knowingly operating a vehicle with a dangerous engine?"
Mighty interesting article, thanks for sharing. One problem I see is that the tools for counting nutrient intake (cronometer.com in my case) base on the nutrients before fermentation. I have no idea what fermentation happens in my body (I expect nothing close to that of a gorilla, but not sure either). It would still be HCLF by "intake" (while possible/potentially being HFLC by "uptake").

The article makes a suggestion ("potentially"), and does so for one type of gorilla (the foliage eating one). How can you generalize from this to all apes? Just curious.
Remember when Microsoft used very basic telemetry in Windows 10 and everybody on HN lost their shit as if it's the privacy armageddon?

Google: (very intrasparently tracks your location history, even when settings are off)

HN: Yeah, nah, it's chill dude. Can't be that bad.
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Exactly. Reading closely, it seems that funding was not secured at all when Musk posted his Tweet.
Also, I'm reading that major shareholders were not aware of the information that Musk was basing his Tweet on. I can imagine that they are not amused.
Oil & electric are fairly good complements in an investment portfolio -- if one does poorly the other will tend to do well, and vice versa.
> I left the July 31st meeting with no question that a deal with the Saudi sovereign fund could be closed, and that it was just a matter of getting the process moving. This is why I referred to “funding secured” in the August 7th announcement.

He has a waaaaaayyy different definition of "secured" than I (and I think the SEC) do. That tweet is going to cost Tesla and Musk big time.
I can't even fathom a dystopic view at this point. All of my senses indicate that both the near and far term future are going to be amazing, and just get better all the time. I'm not a big fan of the current Javascript meta, but metas come and go. The current job market does depress me a bit, labor liquidity seems to be veering sharply downwards at the moment.

The only thing that worries me right now is World War 3. And losing the whales. That's really sad.
The blue nowhere is one that I hugely enjoyed.
Also Kevin Mitnick's "ghost in the wire". I read that one after kingpin and enjoyed it more, but it is in a similar trend :)
I guess the SEC prefers companies to make formal filings instead of tweets followed by FAQs to avoid this kind of confusion and subsequent litigation.
Can't upvote this comment enough. Incredible story.
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For me the television ads were a "bad smell", just as they were for IBM Watson.

Somebody should start an ETF which disinvests in B2B companies that run bullshit ads.
We have a European market of Energy. If it's not sunny && windy in France, maybe it is in Germany or Spain etc.
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Buying that Sailfish phone was a prescient move in retrospect...
"Security experts"

https://twitter.com/beauwoods/status/1028387331927986176/pho...

This is as useless as sharing a Facebook status update saying you don't consent to your data being used.
It was very confusing, I hope and wish something could be done
I think hydro or nuclear can be turned on when wind/solar isn't available.
Most French electicity comes from Nuclear Power not from fossil fuels.
>What happens then?

If that happens often enough, it will be profitable to run something serves electricity in these demand peaks. For example, storing excess electricity in batteries or by pumping water to elevated reservoirs, and generating electricity with them in that moment.
For folks interested in the "minimal" aspect of this project, there is a similar one with a single Go file: https://github.com/jsha/minica
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It's different when a phone-level tracking suddenly appears on your desktop. No privacy-minded person was using Android before, but they used Windows. Now they don't.
This should probably say "some parts of Europe", or a specific country. At least in the UK, the reversal can be initiated with a single call to the bank. They contact the merchant then and give you the money back immediately. In good banks it actually works with both credit and debit cards.
Nothing, it's a false premise. In reality, what will happen is that we'll be using the more expensive FF power when we can't get cheap renewable power, and supply will adjust to that demand. Why would FF plants go "out of business" when there's a need they could meet?
So what's the solution?

Reinventing itself?

That's essentially what the German "rust belt" (Ruhrgebiet) attempted to do (partially quite successfully) in the last couple decades.[1]

[1] https://theconversation.com/redesigning-the-rust-belt-an-old...
How is Tesla going private if the goal is for potentially all its current shareholders to remain? Isn't there a limit on the number of investors a private company can have[1]? What if I own Tesla stock? Do I become a private shareholder afterwards? Does this just mean I don't get quarterly reports anymore? What if I still want to get quarterly reports? If I am still getting the same reporting as before, in what meaningful way is Tesla private?

None of this makes a lick of sense.

[1] https://blog.gust.com/limiting-the-number-of-shareholders-in...
I sometimes wonder if HN is just another conspiracy-theorists forum.

You can disable Google News feed, you can remove Google Search from home screen, you can even use Bing as Assist app (long press on Home icon) in place of Google. Everything on stock Android Oreo on Sony Xperia.

Hey, you can even disable location services. Use VPN with split tunelling for Google Play Services.

Google is no saint but it ain't a devil either.
I certainly cannot speak for all teams, but most teams are fairly autonomous as long as they deliver. Like any big company, there are lots of stakeholders so that means that final decisions, for example a feature being in or out of scope, can take an unnecessary long time, but it does not mean you are stuck waiting. There are always lots of things to implement, refactor or improve that do not require a seal of approval.
Negative prices (i.e. excess of energy), and really high ones (lack of it) rarely happen. When they do, there is ancillary services that take over (which there is plenty in Europe).

Actually, the share of intermittent renewable energy is negligible in France. Let's worry about that later, as there will be plenty of choices (demand response, PHES, and even tesla, which is building AS plants without us noticing (Belgium))
To me it seems that the deal relies on 2/3 of current investors being willing to keep their money in the company while losing any leverage they have to control Elon at least in some way. I wonder if these estimations are correct, especially for bigger funds.
cnx.org was the URL used when the organization was called Connexions. It was re-branded a few years ago to reflect its growth and expanded missions. Connexions became OpenStax CNX, within the larger OpenStax organization.

They are all a part of Rice University and based out of Houston, and have been pursuing the goal of providing open education resources since the 1990s.

They're also open source and active on GitHub:
https://github.com/Connexions
https://github.com/openstax

Source/Disclaimer: I'm a former employee and developer for Connexions and later OpenStax CNX.
Apple don't have anything like a dominant position in the smartphone market, with about 15% global market share. The European Commission's ruling was strongly influenced by the fact that Android devices represent the majority of the market and that the Android OS is really the only choice for device manufacturers. Android has become the Windows of mobile, so it's inevitable that Google will face far more scrutiny than Apple. The greatest single issue in the Google antitrust case was that Google were found to be using their dominance in one area (mobile operating systems) to support their dominance in another area (search).

There are serious antitrust concerns about the iTunes Store, with a relevant case due to be heard by the US Supreme Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper
Specifically the section on "funding secured". Any reasonable person would interpret that as Musk having a term sheet in hand. This sounds more like "funding potentially interested".
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I would throw in the sequel "Head on". Same universe - just some time later. The audiobook is also narrated by Wil Wheaton. And it is great as always.

Offtopic. I would blindly recommend all books in the combination Wheaton narrating Scalzi. But esp. "The Collapsing Empire" (I can't wait for the next part to be released in October).