skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't just intercept the installation.

Yesterday an old neighbor phoned me that after an update he lost everything and he could not connect to the Internet anymore. He spent most of his life without computers and clearly is not a tech guy, but he's also not an idiot and if some update warned of software deletion he would not allow it. Long story short and in his words because I wasn't there, at every boot a requester told him he had to allow an update, so he allowed it. The PC then kept making its own business for some time and when he logged in back, everything was gone.
I took a look at the machine in the evening and yes, the desktop was just like it had been freshly installed, with only the background and profile avatar and credentials exception. The system also left a file on the desktop containing a list of the deleted software; there were about 5 or 6 entries and both Firefox and Chrome were on that list. Luckily all his documents were still in their directory, but after reinstalling Firefox, all his bookmarks and saved passwords were gone without a single warning and no way to recover the profile data.
I won't go further describing how annoying then became Edge in remembering us it's the best possible web experience. Just no thanks, he'll stick with Firefox (Chrome has become suspicious as well), and the Migration to Linux is about one week away; he won't be the first 70+ years old user I convert.
I think that's the destiny of any large corporation. I don't feel very inspired by Google or Apple either these days. Amazon is starting to suck too.
80% of radio stations in the U.S. are owned by one company (iHeartMedia, formerly ClearChannel), and despite this monopoly negotiating power, the company is still operating out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a $20B debt load.
I still have a buckazoid around here somewhere.
100 miles is enough range to get out of the way of worst effects of most natural disasters, and plenty of people get by without a car at all.
More than you think. A hybrid car gets more mileage out of its engine for two reasons:

- regenerative braking reduces the efficiency penalty of city driving. While a normal car sees a 25-30% mileage drop in stop-and-go traffic, a hybrid sees about 5-8%.

- the actual engine is more efficient! The gasoline engine in hybrid vehicles usually replaces the Otto cycle with the Atkinson cycle. The latter is more efficient but has lower power, which in hybrids is compensated by an electric assist that turns on when accelerating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_cycle

By taking these two effects together a non-plug-in hybrid can reduce fuel use in a city driving condition by more than 40%. I didn't make that number up: the 2019 standard Camry has 29 city mpg, while the 2019 hybrid Camry is rated for 51. The hybrid uses 56% as much fuel as the conventional engine! With a plug-in hybrid that can drop even lower.

Unfortunately the marketing around all of this was muddled and most consumers have never heard of the Atkinson cycle. The original hybrids (Prius, Insight) were molded for a Japanese market, where simple and cute is a winning proposition, but American gearheads thought it looked and drove like a toy, a perception which was compounded by the fact that early hybrids made self-maintenance nearly impossible. Just replacing the 12V battery on a Prius is a major pain (speaking from experience!). Atkinson hybrids quickly became associated with a certain type of person and, for a while, many/most car geeks thought the real efficiency breakthrough were the German companies' maintenance-friendly and appropriately-scented turbodiesels, and we all know how that turned out. Hybrids have never captured more than 3.2% of the US market, but even if no highway-viable electric cars appear, a switch to plug-in hybrids could erase more than half of car-related GHG emissions.

I know all of this mostly because of one very old and very stubborn former engineer who was impervious to every kind of advertisement and cultural stereotype, and who studied the technology in the Prius and bought one new in 2009. Everyone else in the family made fun of him, but Grandpa just didn't care, and raved about the Prius to anyone who would listen. Most of us, including me at the time, believed the meme that Atkinson hybrids were a marketing gimmick and only relevant if you drove in the city often enough to take advantage of the regenerative brakes, and anyway, turbodiesels were the future. Grandpa didn't live long enough to see himself get proven right, but I still drive his car.
Claris Home Page looks like it also came out in 1994.
More like a few months, I would say. Some insurers were already giving credits for the last version of the Apple Watch, because it encourages exercise so much.
The web is a deployment technology as much as it is a display technology. Even when you design something that's only supposed to be displayed on desktop screens, it may still make sense to use web technologies if it makes your deployment easier (e.g. because the target environment is heterogenous, with lots of different OSes).
I don't understand. Is there a certain context you are referring to, or is this how you feel about all online advertising? I'll accept one's claim to rights to browse without advertising if it's accepted that one doesn't have a right to consume ad-supported content without consuming advertisements. It seems only fair to me.
> The DMCA (section 117) allows creation of archival copies from the original media that you legally own.
It does not allow you to obtain a copy from another entity, either by archiving theirs, downloading it from a torrent, or whatever other means. The copyright they had can't be transferred to your copy.

Sequences of bits are fungible. If you have a license to possess the work, you have a license to possess the work.

(disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)
An extreme event that happened once every few years (or decades) might be tolerable, and become a vastly larger problem if it starts happening once a month instead.

New York recovered from Sandy, but the city would need massive changes if that water level became routine.
Come on, you knew this was coming the day they launched it, right? They were not going to maintain both gmail and Inbox, and Inbox just could not win.

But it looks like gmail is getting Inbox features.
Typical Google
Lots of commodity producers (...and other businesses) depend on market conditions for viability. There's nothing fake about that.
Using Bitcoin doesn't allow "growth hacks" like giving away free tokens.
Just to be clear, as bad as this is, passing the European Parliament stage does not make it law. Now the national governments get their say. Plenty to fight for yet.
Not at all. Fraud is more like ad-stacking; triggering false impressions, bot-driven click-farms, and more.
Just not true. The key here is they are one of the few countries mining the “rare earths”, which are not really that rare.
What are you claiming?

That in a picture with line graphs varying X, Y, people can't understand if the lines are different colours or the same colours (a third dimension)?

That people can't play 3D games because they can't understand that the image is depicting length, width and depth?

That people can't use windowing GUIs with overlapping windows, because they can't understand the Z-order of which window is "in front"?

It seems intuitive that people can cope with more than 2 variables and more than 2 "dimensions" spatially or otherwise.

What do you mean when you say they can't - what, specifically, can't people do?
I have to ask the question, why isn't there one already in that case? Is everyone really putting up with the high pricing and very long parts delays reportedly associated with repairs the OEM experience entails?
Zoox is offering autonomous rides in SF this week
I never said they were off the table. I'm saying it makes no sense to replace Java with .net based on the reasons provided.

Comparing evils is always hard. Oracle is definitely not my favourite company. However today this was posted about Microsoft: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/12/microsoft-intercepting-fir...
Earliest known drawing found in South Africa
Oh cool. Thanks for the tip! Hopefully they polish it up and get it out.
It hit 1.0 about a month ago. Its always been a pretty exciting language, but it was hard to seriously use it without stability for an ecosystem to build around.
Generally speaking, the federal emergency response is an adjunct to the state emergency response and is supposed to help fill gaps, so we can blame both for their parts. The extenuating circumstance of the debt crisis of Puerto Rico means there is a lot of federal oversight of the budget of Puerto Rico for decades, the subsidies we might see prop up states in a similar circumstance have been drying up for Puerto Rico over the same time period, but that blame can be extended over many sessions of Congress and administrations prior to Trump.
> So you're replacing ads with other ads, and you have reasons.

If a website owner changes from an ad supported website to reading ad copy in a podcast, your same criticism would apply.

Yet:

* by changing from ads to ads they get rid of entire classes of bugs: cryptominers, drive-by malware, click-jacking, etc. Perpetuating a capitalist system by requiring users to take undue risks to support my content != perpetuating a capitalist system without making users take those risks.

* by changing from ads to ads, I get rid of an entire class of privacy-invasions for my audience. Perpetuating a capitalist system while making users leak enormous amounts of data to who knows where != an perpetuating a capitalist system without making users do that.

There are probably other points to make. But that's enough to assert that ads != ads in your comment.

Halting.
> how will a competing product even gain marketshare.

One of the reasons against developing for the desktop.
The problem I see with larger group discussion is that the idea permutates far enough from the original idea after 4 turns that a participant's response to the topic may no longer be valid in the new discussion context. It can be very frustrating to have to unwind the progress to an early point for the input to be valid.
Lua doesn't try to detect whether a table is an array. The way it works is that a table is internally composed of two data structures, a hash part and an array part. Normally, integer keys go to the array part and everything else to the hash part. However, integer keys of a certain size will overflow into the hash part so that, e.g., storing a single integer key of 2^32 doesn't allocate an enormous empty array part.

In this way Lua already optimizes the array use case naturally. It never tries to infer whether a table is supposed to have array semantics or hash semantics. You can use a table as a hash, as an array, or (commonly) as both.

The cost of this simplicity and concision is born by the semantics of the length operator (#). The default __len metamethod on a table does a binary search looking for the first missing positive integer key, the boundary that marks the end of a logical array. The binary search will work even if your integer keys have spilled over into the hash part, though it works much faster if it doesn't have to inspect the hash part.

This why in Lua your arrays can't have holes (non-sequential positive integer keys), at least not if you want #t to behave as expected. Lua has no way of knowing the size of your array otherwise, at least not for plain tables lacking user-defined metamethods.

That said, there's a convention that uses the string key "n" to record the intended length. For example, table.pack() assigns the argument list to a table and sets "n" to the number of arguments. It does this because a nil argument value would create a hole. Also, since Lua 5.3 you can overload the __len metamethod, which could simply return t.n. Similarly, you can overload the __index and __newindex metamethods so that insertions update t.n or some other marker.

FWIW, I've tried hard not to express any value judgments in the above description. I've also deliberately abstained from discussing array-related language proposals.
Batteries don’t use rare earths, nor does China have a monopoly on them. There are mines for example in Nevada. They were closed though when China flooded the markets with cheap rare earths. But they can be reopened.
We're experimenting with that model today; users can simply purchase BAT from someplace like Uphold, and give it to the sites they visit most.

For users who don't necessarily have the funds to purchase BAT, safe, private ads offers an option to learn BAT (which can, in turn, be given to their favorite sites).
Sounds like the QardioCore has a 3 lead ECG. Couldn't find too much more on that, as their website is painful at best. Holter monitor is a 12 lead ECG but with some decreased signal fidelity. This is just a single lead monitoring for rhythm like a tele strip.
It hasn't been decided yet. The EU parliament can stop a law, but not force one through. It is still a long way from being ratified
Ugh. I while back I switched all my gcal events which emailed me to reminders. Now I have to change them all back again.
I am assuming there is some copyright thing going on. There is also not much pressure for Tesla owners to look for alternatives as long as Tesla is around so the potential volume is low.
I agree with you, but most Apple launch events even under Steve Jobs were boring incremental affairs.

Seems to me that the entire legacy of Jobs at Apple is colored by one launch event: the iPhone, which was probably one of the top 5 best demos in the history of technology. It was a really great presentation in the moment, and of course now we can recognize it as an enormous pivot point in the industry, and arguably in human society. But most Steve Jobs Apple events weren't like that.

The iPod, iPad, and Macbook Air are good examples or products that have had a big impact (and done big sales), but were underwhelming when they launched. I would put the Apple Watch in that category. I think its long-term impact is underappreciated right now.
> all electric cars except Tesla are uniformly ugly.

Fact. And the reason is that many people that buy electric/hybrid cars are like vegans -- they want everyone to know about it. The Prius is a horrible monstrosity of visual appeal but it sells because people like to be seen being "better" or "more woke" than their neighbors -- while a Honda Civic hybrid looks exactly like a Honda Civic. That's the only explanation for the almost universally ugly and "distinctive" profile of electrics and hybrids. Even with other hybrids with similar specs (and less "distinctive" designs,) they didn't see anywhere near the sales numbers as the Prius. A Ford Fusion Energi can only be discerned from a normal Ford Fusion by a badge on the door, even if it gets better mileage than a Prius. But the Energi only sold about 15,000 copies in 2015, vs the Prius’ 200,000 or so.

An all-electric Suburban without adequately noticeable badging would earn the condemnation from more "enlightened" parents waiting in the school pickup line.

Tesla doesn't have to be ugly because a Tesla already looks fairly unique (although borrowing heavily from Maserati..) https://www.mikewardmaserati.com/2018-maserati-ghibli-vs-201...
Posted my comment before reading the challenge, you are right it is definitely not about newcomers.
> It turns out there are 48 exceptions, which means I can get 5 bits of information out of a single test run that raises a coded exception...

Oh my. Well done, sir. But wait, I'm not particularly familiar with Python, but could you not create new types of exceptions and grow the error space?
Companies under shareholder capitalism also have integrity failures. What evidence do we have that it's a superior system?
That's still a problem in its own right if Tesla can't retain its top talent. Why are they so uncompetitive? Are the working conditions miserable? They're worth on par with the biggest automobile manufacturers, so surely they should be able to pay competitive stock options!

Also, many of the departing people are just leaving. They're not being poached by competitors, they're just leaving. Something smells fishy.
Government, through the legal system and regulation, already has that authority. We all live and operate under the law; there are many things businesses (and individuals) can't do and and others they must do. I still don't see what distinguishes these rules from existing rules in that respect.

> I guarantee, the Office of United States Corporations will be able to change the corporation's charter and direction via guidance, regulation, and oversight without the board's assent (or consent).

Could you provide a substantial basis for this prediction?
Or just not, if there's no nexus to europe. I suspect for a small business, the right thing to do would be to simply ignore EU directives. I would not be surprised if the US passes a law to make judgements against US companies without a European nexus (users in Europe would not count) unenforceable in the US. That was done with the SPEECH act to stop libel tourism.
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The Rise of Immer in React
The way I see it is that in the Tim Cook era, Apple releases good, solid products. And I buy them religiously. But they don't really make great, exciting, ground breaking products anymore (perhaps Face Id is the exception). I wasn't really waiting in anticipation for today's iPhone launch as I knew it will be a solid, well built phone, with a few incremental improvements.
I don't like this law, but I don't think that the ones who made it are as stupid as most people here think it is.

They are just ignorant of all the fallout and they care much more about, that this is directed against the "tech-giants", who happen to be mostly US companys.
"We maybe cannot compete on internet technology, but we can regulate you".
Plus, there is also allmost a economy war going on right now ...

And of course to set up censorship in general.
To start to fight hate speech, fake news, terror propaganda ... and whatever else might be inconvinient.
I work in this industry. To answer your question, yes, there are oil and gas producers horizontally drilling wells, but not fracking them. This is actually quite common in offshore (Gulf of Mexico) environments. Your offshore pad is in a fixed location, and you often drill horizontally to get to the target.

These wells are productive enough that you don't need to hydraulically fracture them.
It hasn't made a decision. The EU parliament is just one step.
Not to mention that it launched with a lot of missing features that existed in Gmail.
From a European viewpoint, needing to registering to vote is pretty much only an US and UK concept. Mostly doesn't exist in the rest of Europe.

And same goes prisoners or former prisoners not being able to vote (felony disenfranchisement). As far as I know, most European countries organize voting in prisons, too.
Chromium is a tool; how you use it is up to you. Brave removes any parts that may phone-home to Google. At the end of the day though, Chromium is less important than the principles upon which the company is founded. With Brave vs Google, that's "Can't be evil" vs "Don't be evil". The difference is subtle, yet profound.
>The beautiful part is that once home charging is no longer required, people will be happy to charge at home! We are an adorably irrational species.

The problem isn't that people are unhappy to charge at home now, it's that if and when I need to travel more than 200 miles without stopping at home, I need supporting infrastructure (and planning to find it) or to use another vehicle.
You're right, with that perspective an hourly check to compare that what is online mirrors what is supposed to be online is a good additional defense.
Why would a bank spend any money on insurance to cover accounts in the event that they run out of money? That's just the end of the bank, they don't care at that point. It's not like the executive officers would have a chance of going to jail over it.
Does the EU have a problem with wealthy donors? I've heard this criticism levelled against US politicians and it's justified, but in this case I think it might just be sheer ignorance on the part of the EU legislators.
It's understood that, to paraphrase Steve, life must goes and make way for the new, but it really bums me out that we'll never know what new thing he might have done.
You just need to remember that only false and nil are false.
Fx63 (on Beta and Developer Edition) is on track to ship with clang-cl as the Windows compiler too.
Lawmakers should appreciate the risk of unintended consequences - especially on this scale.

I think "stupid" is a fairly reasonable appraisal.
The author is a she, and when she says this:

"And what fascinated me about this industry is it doesn't make money. These companies lose billions of dollars. They've never produced free cash flow. They're really dependent on Wall Street's willingness to fund them. "

That's where I made the interpretation that the idea being presented here is that fracking is not long-run profitable. So I now have to wonder, when "profitable" at $40/bbl is quoted, does that might mean some form of operational profit but not payback of capital layout - or maybe not including debt service or equipment wear out if she's talking about free cash flow.
I don't understand why. Could you elaborate more? Isn't the whole point of reducing the minimum feature size to increase the number of transistors that you can pack in a layout or in other words the smaller the node, the more density you get and therefore more processing power with less energy consumption? How is that not supposed to impact performance?
"Energy independence" originated as a "talking point" with the warmongers in the military-industrial-media complex. They didn't think it was possible, so they could cry some crocodile tears about that while fomenting more death and suffering in the Middle East. The innovators took them at face value, and decided that it's good to make money by avoiding war. That's when we started hearing about chemical weapons...
2005? Try 1995.
>We seem to be losing our playfulness.

I think that's a good thing. The early hackers could get away with being playful because their work was, in the grand scheme of things, not actually all that important. No businesses were using their code to run payroll and inventory systems. No hospitals were using their code to make treatment decisions. No oil refineries were using their code to runs pumps and valves.

However, as more and more things have become computerized, it's important that we, as a profession, recognize the increasing responsibility that has been placed upon our shoulders. It is time to put away childish things, and focus on what really matters: building fast, reliable, secure software.

I'm not opposed to antirez coming up with a new playful hack to celebrate each edition of Redis. But why does it have to be part of the Redis codebase? Why does it have to be invocable with a Redis command?
On Android, you can assign volume buttons to be there shutter button. You can also open the camera at anytime even when locked, by double clicking part button.
FCC claims it can pre-empt state Net Neutrality rules
No. It makes me click a lot more checkboxes to do the same stuff I was prepared to do beforehand.
Do you have anywhere I could read the list of people who have left? I tried searching but all I can find are a bunch of either outdated or one-off articles.
Apple is claiming only 15% performance improvement for the A12 CPU cores; in the past it was more like 30-50% per generation. But 15% is far more than the ~5%/year that we've seen in PC processors.