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+1 here.

The hardware is great, except for battery management.

The OS is stable and performant, but a usability shit show.

I feel like a lot of Mac users probably see beautiful, static screenshots of Windows 10, make the switch and then realize screenshots don't tell the usability story.

I won't even go into the occasional ads in the OS, the games and apps installed by default, and the fight to disable all the telemetry. All the while with Microsoft working against you and hiding and changing the settings around.
ac is later and presumably better. No idea if there are any trade offs
Lisp is arguably too abstract for rank-and-file use. For more on this hypothesis, search below (Ctrl F) for "Domain-specific languages tend to herd people into certain styles and idioms, making cross-staff reading easier, even if it's more typing. Standardization often trumps linguistic parsimony in real-world work."
I remember Mercedes and particularly Volvo started on self-driving very early. In addition, Google has probably passed 10 million self-driving miles.

What makes you think Tesla is the most advanced, rather than simply the most willing to toss what they have out into the public?
Yes but thats 20% of the 150% so more like 30%.

As the system is now, it will be 40% of the 150% by january.
Event Sourcing in Action with eBay's Continuous Delivery Team
Car manufacturers are now looking at using 48v powered turbochargers to eliminate turbo lag. I wonder if that could be seen as an electrification of the powertrain?
Apple’s Tim Cook is sending a privacy bat-signal to US lawmakers
Indeed. Not only do I charge at home primarily, I installed two public chargers out on my large driveway for additional EV charging in the event my nearby Supercharger is full (my chargers are ClipperCreek, are EV agnostic, and advertised on PlugShare).

My employer installed several stations as well at my request when Tesla was still offering equipment for free (equal parts Tesla specific chargers and generic EV chargers), which I plug into when at the office, but only to stay topped up while my vehicle actively keeps itself cool in the Florida sun.
Great project folks :)
get in touch if you want to expand to Ghana...! on twitter you can chat with me at sammydeeknight
> For any constant nonzero density form of matter, if you pack enough of it together in a sphere in a flat spacetime, its Schwarzchild radius will eventually exceed its radius.

You can't do this in flat spacetime, because the matter curves spacetime, and the denser you pack it, the more it curves spacetime.
Yes, by the time Euro 7 is out, no one will make highway-rated petrol engines that small.
I don’t know about Android, but standard iOS text controls allow for using voice input, and I’m pretty sure iOS has a voice recognition API as well. So, is this just a UI library?
It does, the Sufrace doesn't
> They also have a history of selling x86 systems while articulating vague hopes that the blob/owner control situation will improve in the future, despite this being clearly implausible.

It’s not that implausible; the situation has improved considerably since 2014. They’ve managed to reduce the size of the blob on the ME processor considerably, to just that required for boot. That’s a pretty large increase in freedom, and a decrease in attack surface.

Even better, by getting those devices on the market, other vendors like System76 have been cajoled to follow suit in disabling the ME.

It’s not good enough for RYF certification, but it’s the best that you can buy on a laptop, outside of Librebooted ThinkPads from 2008.

I think a lot of people get annoyed by Purism’s lofty marketing and press releases, but they are actually doing great work.
Productivity coach uses 'compartmentalization' to focus and reduce stress
Me to, personally I drop GMail for a personal mail (20 euros per years, with a bunch of mailbox + unlimited aliases altogether with a personal domain. Benefit: alias to tell anyone a different mail so I know where the spam came from and I can easy drop anyone I dislike. Lightweight webmail (Roundcube) instead of monsters like actual GMail, login with user and password visible at the same time without the absurdity of Google that demand user-enter-password-enter cycle. A STANDARD IMAP so I can properly delete my mails from my local maildir without the need of moving to trash, sync back, delete from trash and sync back again.

For search IMVHO there is no point in switching between Google search and other equivalent search engine, simply because DDG, QWant etc are still company offering something from their own server. So I try to switch to YaCy (FOSS distributed search engine, a bit a java monster but not as monstrous as many Java crap we all know. I still use few time a day Google search mostly because it work far better...

On Keep I switch to Orgzly on mobile and sync my notes or to be more precise the sole parts of them I want on mobile, via org-mode+rsync. On Android sync without cloud is a pity due to limited fs access, however Termux work wall enough...

I have no need of Drive and I use personal calendar (via CardDav/Radicale) and contacts so I'm less bound.

However I'm still on Android seeing no real alternatives, SailFish was a substantial fail, Purism phone it's not there, OpenMoko, GreenPhone, ... are all old dead projects...
HLS is HTTP Live Streaming, an open, pure-http approach to live streaming video with support for adaptive bitrate delivery. first popularized on iOS circa 2008 as an alternative to Flash and other proprietary streaming systems.
A bugfix is not done when the bug disappears. It is done when you understand why it occurred and why it no longer does.
Maybe add 'NY' in the title to clarify which MTA?
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I would put 802.11a as 3 together with 802.11g, since they have the same rates (and are basically the same tech in a different band, 802.11g feels like 802.11a ported to 2.4GHz plus some extra compatibility stuff).
I get the impression that Tesla says their hardware is more capable than it actually is and they ok doing things that would give other companies pause for concern with regards to safety.

Cadillac Super Cruise seems to be just as capable as Tesla's Autopilot but kept on a much tighter leash because GM is more tempered and pragmatic about it.

I have aspirations to own a Model 3 eventually but I have absolutely no interest in Autopilot or any Lvl 3 autonomy and will not purchase a vehicle with it. You should either be 100% engaged or 100% disengaged from the driving process.
I couldn’t agree more - I’ve made most progress in MOOCs whenever there is a set of relatively small but valuable, achievable goals. And I’m pretty sure the MOOCs I ran out of time for required big chunks of work.
Standard Notes looks interesting, but isn't the root issue that these services tend to drift over time into places we don't like? Evernote, Apple Notes, etc.

Would it be better to just use something like Emacs org mode and store the data in .git?
> student portal straight out of 1977

I remember when signing up for classes at my uni circa 2002, the easiest way was to call into the scheduling system. The man speaking to you from the automated system was a professor who had died years earlier.

So I'll one-up your old student portal by saying that to sign up for classes at my university, I had to communicate with the dead. :)
There are some disadvantages of electric cars which may or may not be solvable.
What about IO? I half suspect its the file notification apis that cause the slowness (since disabling antivirus seems to help a fair amount) but would love to hear more from people in the know. What are the things standing between how things are now and matching linux on the time it takes to git clone a large repo + compile it.
Is fasting the fountain of youth?
You're questioning if other currencies are up to the US's level. I don't see that happening quickly (or at all really with how the competition is going & their own internal problems).

What's far more likely is the US's status dropping to other's level. If the US continues in the track that it's been on with the Gov't shutdowns and antagonistic policies towards other nations, people are going to want to rely less and less on the US. We've got a lot of inertia, but that can be overcome.
Ask HN: How to find software developer mentors willing to mentor?
how do i find one? how to engage them? Pay them? cookies?
Whatsapp Got PIP Mode for Video Playback
IIRC, MUSCULAR was the program where they were getting direct access, and they did so without Google's knowledge. That was the program that had the slides with the infamous (at least within Google) smiley talking about how SSL is removed at the edge of Google's network.
Couldn't it also be just as likely to be detrimental to an invasive species?
Mark ended up designing several things in JS (like WeakMaps), influenced by his work on Caja (object capabilities for JS). I ran into him a couple of times while he was doing standards work with Dave Herman.

I would be surprised if he was not involved with Fuchsia. Fuchsia has object capabilities written all over it.
already pledged! Was looking forward to it!
Keep up!
I think Firefox should rollout its own search engine
I think you could make a very similar argument about most private industries too - surely there's a lot of overhead with all the lawyers, accountants, etc not to mention a lot of redundancy with many companies doing the same thing. Wouldn't it be more efficient to just have the government do everything?

I think the advantages of charities are along the same lines, smaller organizations can be more efficient, redundancy avoids a single point of failure, etc.

Would I want to rely on charities to provide all essential services? No. But if for political reasons, the government doesn't provide some service I don't think it is a bad thing to have charities around that might be able to mitigate things somewhat.

I guess the tax policy really depends on the numbers for me. If 50% of public spending is charity spending / 50% is gov. that's very high and maybe they should consider scaling back the deductions. But if it's 5% charity 95% government, I'd say leave the deduction alone since charities have a valuable purpose.

This is all independent of preventing any sort of abuse which should be done first, then the remaining number could be looked at.
There are only 2 alternatives to the US Dollar as the reserve currency of the world, the Euro and the Renminbi. With respect to the Euro, how sure are you that the European Union will be around 50 years from now as a political entity? With regards to China, their transparency needs to get a lot better before it becomes the reserve currency.
I hope they roll out augmented driving.

I don't need full autonomy everywhere, but there are a few things that definitely could be rolled out now.

Give me a virtual bumper. Never let me get closer than a meter to the car in front of me. If it stops, stop my car too. Get moving again? Go.

Stay in the lane at low speeds. Combine with above, get a far more relaxed experience in stop and go rush hour traffic.

Extend the virtual bumper to parking. Rather than video and beeping or full autonomy, just stop the car from hitting anything, 5cm distance control.

Or does this exist? Haven't seen it in my Tesla test drive.
Looks like penetration and range decrease with each new WiFi generation.
Best of luck with your wifi deployments.

In all seriousness, I had an interesting dealing with triplebyte regarding an internal job posting.

Took an assesment, was sent a message of acceptance, followed shortly by a rejection.

Felt 'weird'.
It’s inportant to recognise that all overtime has a cost (both to you and the business). If I crunch this week, I typically lose more than I gained next week. I believe that Peopleware has a section on this.

Basically this means that crunch is fine to get out of a pinch, as long as it’s very infrequent and the cost is allowed for. Eg if there is an important deadline due this week, by all means, crunch to meet it, but next week is going to be unproductive and these tight deadlines cannot he a regular thing.
Hassle-Free Luxury Car Rental Service – Baby Seat Taxi
Another way to think of this is that spacetime has mass. Spacetime and dark matter are both referring to the same 'stuff'. The stuff is a supersolid that is displaced by ordinary matter.

The Earth displaces the 'stuff'. The displaced 'stuff' pushes back. The displaced 'stuff' pushing back is gravity.

Curved spacetime = Geometrical representation of gravity.

Displaced supersolid dark matter = Physical representation of gravity.
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If you have done the research, then a) why did you cite an unreviewed opinion piece as your only evidence, and b) why did you ask me to do the work of disputing your claims instead of just providing the evidence?

I obviously have looked and do believe it's a thing. Even individual CEOs discover it's a thing within their companies. For example, Salesforce: https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/the-ceo-of-salesforce-f...

If it didn't exist, it's certainly surprising that companies keep finding it internally and correcting it.
Maybe downloaded content as an extra metric to track views. Also it is harder to fake thousands of views if you have to download it every time.

Managing cache in my opinion is also complicated. For how long will should it last? Will you delete it on finish/page close? Or will ppl accept watching yt will take a big chunk of space, and disk performance? What if the browser crash? In mobile it would not be possible.
> but it hasn't historically been developER friendly (i.e. power user)

I have no idea on what basis you are making that assertion. I feel like until Windows 10, Windows enabled me as a user far more than any other contemporary OS.
My commute is down market st, 4th to Castro, which is particularly bad. I bike. What happens is that at _every_ major market st crossing, cars will run their red (actual red, not yellow), and then stop just before the crosswalk due to pedestrians beginning to cross. They'll remain stopped in the middle of cross lane traffic for essentially the entirety of the light (Hey, if they didn't get to go why should anyone get to?!) , though sometimes they'll try to wedge themselves through pedestrian traffic, because driving a car turns people into assholes and necessitates neglecting the safety of others. It is possible that pedestrians might not notice this nearly as often, due to being much less impacted by it. It's also a significantly worse problem during typical commute hours.

Due to the number of aggressively awful drivers in the city, I've ordered a dashcam for my bike, so I'll likely have some footage to demonstrate this soon. (Well, I hope not, but.)
If you have internalized the concepts Haskell is built on (to the point that you don't have to think about them), then Haskell can be as simple as any other language, maybe even simpler. But if you have to still have to think about the underlying concepts, Haskell probably is more cognitively demanding.
The supposed influence of Putin is really poorly manifested in US policy, which remains as hostile as ever (Mattis is going around talking about the need to prepare for military conflict with Russia and China, for Heaven's sake).
First it’s about specs. Now it’s price and polish... sigh.
At first blush, it is a good and maybe even great article.

But there's a serious problem that the author is writing about his very small sample of experience and claiming it applies broadly.

First, he sets up a false dichotomy between the (good) lean startup and the (bad) regulated enterprise. Because his enterprise experience was in a regulated industry, BTW regulated for Very Good Reasons.

But actually most enterprises are not regulated, and don't just take a cautionary approach because the government bogeyman told them to and it's out of their control -- with very strong implication they would not choose that life if they could make up their own mind. The real truth is that when you, as cowboy devops, make a mistake that causes downtime or data loss, you bring huge losses to the company in downtime, loss of productivity, actual cash out, maybe even public perception if the fault is externally visible.

The priorities are different, plain and simple, and rightly so. Enterprises have to protect themselves. Startups have to take risks.

One way is not good and the other bad. They are just different. The idea that one needs to fight the valiant fight from within is absurd. Switch jobs to a smaller company! The author claims that it "feels like failure" which just means he is in the wrong job at the wrong company. That's all.

It's pretty bad conclusion to hold up Bezos' mandate as some shining example. In reality it has caused lots of internal strife and Bezos is known to have pet projects and the rest of you losers can suck it.

I do love, and will steal, the decagon of despair.
How is it unadulterated garbage? I've had an MBP with one since the beginning of this year and I really don't see the big deal.
Honda and Waymo have been 'in talks' for years, with the first formal announcement of a vaguely defined partnership arriving in April earlier this year. Supposedly they were going to build a purpose built delivery vehicle together.

The odds that that deal has gone up in smoke I'm guessing are high.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-02/waymo-isn...
> Or does it share a number with b, because they're the same technology?

802.11b is part of 802.11-1999. 802.11-1997 describes the older Direct Spread (DS) and Frequency-Hopping (FS) standards in 2.4GHz.

802.11a and 802.11b were both ratified on 16 September 1999.
802.11g wasn't ratified until 12 June 2003.

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/802.11_Timelin...
Do not over engineer solutions. Get good at communicating with the business side to find out exactly what they need.

Practice things like TDD to ensure you have a good set of tests that will allow you to maintain the software for years to come.
It's not a bad thing. Base stations are cheap and it's better than having everyone's network clog everyone else's.

As someone who lives within reach of 30+ networks, this is a step up.
That's rather surprising because pretty much everything you are asking for is already available in Tesla cars (it has been in mine for quite a while).
pledged 50! looking forward to seeing a little openPGP on this guy!
There are many 'identifiers', but commonly, at least, a long-living cookie that ties your browser session to ads, tracking, etc.

More granular targeting, especially for portable devices that will change WAN IP.
The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert
I just pulled a fourteen hour day of straight coding minus lunch and commute (15min commute). Then after six hours of sleep had to finish off the fire in the morning.

I had to do this to prevent a customer from having another reason not to renew.
I wouldn't say it's the norm - just that it happens.
I recognize that this is just anecdote v. anecdote, but from TA-ing a number of college courses I have found the correlation between attendance and grades to be extremely strong. There are undoubtedly exceptions such as yourself and your friends- interestingly I myself was such an exception as an undergrad- but in general students with better attendance seem to get better grades.

_That said_, I suspect that this effect is almost entirely attributable to lurking variables such as discipline and interest. A lot of students with poor attendance are either students with poor work habits, or ones don't care about the course. Both of those tend to produce poor grades. The study cited addressed study habits, and maybe touched on interest a little, but It's hard for me to say exactly how well they adjusted for those since it's paywalled.
The idea that the US would enjoy it's current trading relationships in a world where the EU's defense industry is selling to itself (remembering the idea of the EU falling is absurd - it's a nuclear ICBM equipped collection of nations, Russian expansionism ends at Germany's borders purely on some guesstimating about whether nuclear annihilation is worth saving Estonia) is laughable.

And why would an expansionist China let any country in its sphere of influence give preferable trade deals to Americans at all? The point of an empire is to get it to pay tribute to you, which is what the US currently does via it's various economic relationships backed by its military.

The reality is that if other country's build up their military's, then any money from trade the US is getting is diverted since what are they going to buy from you? The first thing you do for a self-reliant military is build your own industries, or make military alliances with your neighbors to share industrial capacity. All of which would have lost any reason to bother with US hardware.
Certainly there are many countries that do worse on those metrics. But there are others which are comparable or better. Then again, those countries do not have the world's largest military apparatus spanning the globe.
Yes, the university life portrayed in American tv shows is also quite unfamiliar to Nordics.

Your experience mirrors mine in Finland. You could enrol for a course and only turn up for the exams. No one cared whether you attended the lectures or the exercise sessions, you were simply expected to be able to apply the material by the end of the course.

However it depended heavily on faculty or even field. I think the humanists had to attend many of their lectures, while the exact sciences didn't have such requirements (although the physics department also insisted on handing in exercises; profs probably got tired of grading people trying their luck).

I felt I was lucky for the freedom I was granted, although I too felt I would have liked more face to face teaching for some courses (it also allowed for making poor decisions regarding priorities, though I have no regrets).

I think other students had the same sentiments, and difficult courses began having more free-form sessions in addition to lectures and exercises. I feel this is a pretty good compromise of sorts, as it allows for different styles of learning, and you could even hold a day job while studying, or live out of city etc. as you're not forced to be physically present.
That goes without saying. Anyone who thinks about it for even the least amount of time understands that you can get more labor if you pay a lot for it. "There is not enough labor to go around," means, "There is not enough labor to go around at prices such that we could competitively produce our goods and retain a desirable amount of profit," in essentially one hundred percent of cases. Your objection doesn't take anything away from the thesis that automation may be a way to become more competitive by cutting labor costs.
> I've come around though. I think all the bastardized carbon accounting, market based solutions are on average quite bad.

Carbon taxing works well when it's applied - but it's very hard to create the political consensus to impose it. For example, the high cost of fuel in Europe has driven cars to an average MPG equivalent of 45 versus the average of 33 in US. That's nothing to sneeze at, it's 40% more for a given amount of CO2 - and that's after the continous fuel efficiency improvements happening on both sides in recent decades:
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/0...

However, the EU fuel taxes are not actually carbon taxes, they are road taxes. Imposing the same tax on industry and power generation, as pure carbon taxes, would have immense political blow back.

So I really wonder how do you think "ban all non-renewable electric stations and cement factories" would work if we can't even accept a 3-10% price increase on these products?