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No you’re right. There is no integer-like type in Javascript. Only floating point
All of your statements are false for a variety of reasons.

1) There is a roughly 15-20 year lag time between battery technology breakthroughs and their appearance in retail products. As their are no current battery technologies with meaningful lifespans, sufficient power output, and a recharge time measured in seconds, my point stands that for the foreseeable future EVs simply cannot compete. And that doesn't even take into account the 10-20 years of research into hybrid/fuel cell/NG technology to make those vehicles more efficient.

2) Clearly you've never commuted in Southern California. Commutes of 100 miles each way aren't rare. SoCal is by far the largest market for EVs and other non-fuel vehicles.

3) Clearly you've never lived through a fire or rolling blackout. A pump can be powered by a short-lived battery at the refill site. Moreover, physical fuels have this amazing property called "physical storage" which allows them to be transported and stored entirely without the use of electricity. An electric recharge station is dead without power.

3b) Good luck with that. By the time your solar panels have recharged your car enough to make a trip to the corner market, a fuel cell car could have made a cross-country trip. And back.

3) Windmills are high-maintenance. EVs are almost as high-maintenance as ICEs. Engines are the most reliable parts of a car. The unreliable parts are common to EVs and ICEs. And as Tesla has demonstrated, it's quite possible for EVs to be even less reliable than the worse ICEs.

4) Electric charging would require us to make immense upgrades to the existing electrical transmission grid, which includes finding ways to improve transmission 100fold. That would cost tens of billions. Fuel/NG/fuel cell based distributions systems are far more efficient because there are many fewer "stations" that need to be built/upgraded to handle demand.
I did the WFH for a year, and while the freedom is enjoyable it is very easy to slip into working very late going into 'hermit mode'. You have to be very diligent in training yourself to be productive during normal hours so you can be social in the evening.

My new situation is categorized as flexible office hours. I go into the office 2-3 days a week, enjoy good rapport with the people I work with, then WFH on Mondays and Fridays (typically). I find this to be a good balance - I have enough structure Tuesday to Thursday that I can continue this trend Monday and Friday.
This is exactly what critics of GDPR feared will happen. Meanwhile, the pro-GDPR hysteria went on until the inevitable happened.

But hey, at least now every tiny blog will dump a huge pop up every time I visit telling me how important is my "privacy" to them.
Acosta is a massive douchebag. He larps like he's some paragon of justice "journalist" but he's just a disrespectful grandstanding jackass, and his behavior has been getting more and more egregious from press conference to press conference. If you watch the whole clip and don't even focus on the physical interaction between Acosta and the woman, it's not only really apparent that this guy is the hero of a movie in his own mind, but you can hear other journalists in the crowd groaning as he continues to grandstand after being told his time was over and it was the next person's turn for a question. If you completely ignore the physical interaction between Acosta and the woman, you see more than enough reason to revoke his press pass. This whole thing blew up over accusations of a "karate chop" which obviously did not happen, but that's an easy headline, made even more believable with possibly altered footage. Putting that aside though, the dude's unarguably inappropriately (at a professional level) touching a woman as she tries to take the mic away from him after he's been told his time is up. Focusing on the force involved in the touching seems like a red herring as the touching, especially after not willingly giving the mic up when he was told to, was inappropriate to begin with.

It seems like a core "Trump" tactic is to slightly mislead, such that people tear the misleading bit apart, and in doing so, get the point he wants across to the people watching, while making the dissecters seems silly. For example, there was that time when he tweeted about how the costs of a new Air Force One were out of control, and would cost more than four billion dollars. Everyone tore him apart over this saying he was "lying," and that the actual cost was... four point nine billion. So yes, he made a factually inaccurate statement by exaggerating the number, but in doing so, got the press to make his point for him.

This seems like another one of these kinds of things.

Or it could just be an encoding aberration.
I know Dart isn't that loved on here, but I had a pretty similar idea a couple of weeks back, a PoC serverless platform using Dart's Isolates, which are shared-nothing:
https://github.com/thosakwe/serverless_dart_platform

I know that the article briefly addressed security, but in my head, I can't even work out how they manage to securely manage multiple tenants within the same process. This isn't a knock on them, it's a lack of knowledge on my part, and I'm wondering how that would even work.

Isolates in Dart can be run based on different dependency graphs (i.e. you can have an Isolate for user A's project, and a separate on for user B's, within the same process). However, things like the current working directory are shared by default. There's an IOOverrides class that lets you change this contextually, so theoretically you could hack something together that patches the entry point code to use it. I'm not sure how that could work in Node, though. What if someone were trying to overwrite another user's files?

Overall, though, the #1 thing that I can't reconcile in my head is that if all the isolates are running in the same process, wouldn't they all have the same permissions? What is there to prevent someone from touching another person's files, or, if they run in the same process as the server, more sensitive data? AFAIK you can't run a Worker/Isolate as a different user within the same process?

Not only that, but what about fork(2) bombs, etc.? The only thing I can think of is for Isolates to run under the context of some user who not only has no home directory, but also cannot spawn processes, or read/write/delete files.

Lastly, the only other thing I can't work out is how whether the Isolates run in the same process as the server (and if so, how do they do this securely), or how they communicate with the separate process, if technically any Isolate could console.log (maybe via TCP sockets?).

The whole CloudFlare workers concept is super cool... I just don't understand how it works. I feel like I'm missing some key here.
Yeah, I totally agree. That's why I hedged with "if it's fresh."

You can actually tell the quality of a RD by pressing on them with your thumb. The mealy ones will give. The crispy ones won't.

I suspect even a honeycrisp will get mushy if you let it sit on the shelf long enough.
Is this meant to be on loudspeaker, so the whole office is beating to the same drum? I can imagine a weird scenario with a quiet office, can hear a pin drop then suddenly everyone is dancing on their desks.
This is really interesting, too because of the decentralized implementation/enforcement.

Compare Romania's one sentence implementation of the journalism exception (translated by the EU website so perhaps not the best):

>In order to ensure a balance between the right to the protection of personal data, freedom of expression and the right to information, processing for journalistic purposes or for the purpose of academic, artistic or literary expression, it may be carried out if it concerns personal data which have been made manifestly publicly disclosed by the data subject or closely related to the public personality of the person concerned or the public nature of the facts in which he is involved

With the U.K.'s implementation of that same exception [at Part 5]: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/schedule/2
Every browser on iOS including Chrome has to use Safari's render engine
For parallel programs, streams are problematic because they enforce a strict order to communication. (I assume you're talking about creating distributed istream/ostream classes.)

Also, stream communication is explicitly two-sided; if you want to pull in a value on an istream, there needs to be a corresponding process on the other side inserting something into an ostream. I've found pointers to be a much better abstraction for data structures, which often require irregular access that two-sided communication can't satisfy easily.

Streams also have the problem that, while the underlying interface (a socket, file, etc.) is untyped, the interface is typed. This leads to the unfortunate situation where you can attempt to pull an std::string in on an istream and get junk because you're using the wrong type.

This does depend a lot on the kinds of programs you're writing and what your assumptions are--in the HPC world, we don't generally care about fault tolerance, and we actually have hardware that gives us fast RDMA read/write. In a distributed systems setting where processes are communicating with messages and need to be fault tolerant and reach consensus using algorithms like Paxos or something, I could see abstractions like streams being really useful.
"640 computers inside a computer ought to be enough for anyone." -Gill Bates
I got tired of bookmarking & forgetting about the articles. So I just started to email them to myself but with a filterable address <myhandle>+bookmarks@gmail.com

This way I could redirect it to a sub folder while having it unread. I could also jot down notes in the same email thread for later reference. It has worked well for me so far.
Toyota has had plug-ins models for nearly a decade, and has actually made them available (for lease) in the US (well, SoCal) for about 3-4 years.

Toyota's research into EVs predates Tesla's existence. However, the last time Toyota invested significant research into EVs, battery technology simply wasn't at the place it needed to be for viable consumer products.
I think you'll eventually run into this scenario in most places. My advice would be create a case from possibly a "velocity" point of view. For example, I spend x minutes dealing with this issue on a daily basis which slows me down. It can be solved with this etc. As a team we can move forward and benefit by this etc.

Mostly with start ups, it's about delivering the results but not necessarily in the cleanest way. Many start ups accure technical debt which they eventually have to go back and visit. I think best way is to see your technical lead as someone who is meeting his goals that are being set by management and as long as he is meeting them there is no need to change. But if you can help him speed up his goals or help him achieve more then it will interest him.
Tech is probably a big part of the problem to begin with, I'm not sure more tech can fix it. Especially not if it's something like Tinder, where being attractive means you get all the attention and being unattractive means you get none.

There are a lot of organisations and volunteering options that deal with loneliness though, at least where I'm from, but they aren't really working. I mean, they are better than the alternative, which is often no social contact, but they aren't curing loneliness because the people involved in the programs are often painfully aware of the fact that they are being helped.

I think what is needed is more environment for adults to hang out. The basic recipe for friendship is basically spending time together outside of work. Spend enough time together and you grow on each other.

That's easy when you're young, but once you finish your education, it stops completely, and if you don't have a friend circle or some hobby activity where you'll get stuck with the same people on a regular basis, then you'll probably end up being lonely.

Can tech fix that? I doubt it. But board game cafes are doing an excellent job all over Europe.
In USA, "good" laws are a tiny minority of the total. How could it be otherwise? We have thousands of scoundrels working all day long every day writing more of them.
I wish AMD could catch up in single core performance as despite having huge potential in offline parallel processing it falls short in real-time applications.
From the article: "Loneliness is understood in this type of research as an emotional state rather than a physical one. We can be lonely in a crowd or delighted with an entire week of solitude to finally finish a project. It’s the emotional state that is bad for human health."
Lessons Learnt by Booz Allen Data Scientist Kirk Borne
Similarly, it just feels plain wrong whenever there is a government shutdown and huge national parks are "closed". I'm sure there are good arguments on both side of this, but to me the idea that you can close a large expanse of wilderness seems absurd.
They don't, because AMD is not affected by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabili...
AMD reveals Zen 2 processor architecture in bid to stay ahead of Intel
Well, CF always charges you for full 10,000,000 requests/mo too.

Also, it is super-common (especially on low end) to offer burstable CPU VMs [1,2]. So you are not getting charged for full CPU, unless you specifically ask for it.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us (bottom of the page, toggle between "default" and "dedicated CPU")

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t3/ (product details, "Baseline Performance/vCPU" column)
You know your problem: "I don't really see the advantages of using docker executors at all.."
Advise them that new pipelines should be docker. If you can do that, then you can show them the difference. Then migrate everything else over as needed.
I think we can agree on 1 and I think we agree two wrongs don't make a right.
But 2 is more so nuance and takes a little unpacking. From the article: "There's no evidence that the video was deliberately sped up — but the change in format, from a high-quality video to a low-quality GIF, turns the question of whether it was "doctored" into a semantic debate."

I agree with that statement and like I said this conversation is a distraction from the event that took place and if we think this is acceptable behavior.
My response to your response was "It isn't ok to fabricate evidence." Again I don't think this was fabricated in that it never happened. If we change the term to "doctored" if it is or isn't doesn't change to that event didn't happen. It would be foolish to intentionally create a doctored video given the amount of coverage this got, the amount of scrutiny around it, and it didn't look good in the first place.

>The White House lied, accused him of assault
This is the part that I don't think I agree with you or at least I'm not sure what you mean. I haven't seen trump or the sanders come out and call this assault. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that. Now absolutely some in the media and trump supporters have called it that or used that wording and I don't agree. Trump even talked to the press today about this and said 'he was not nice to that young women. I don't hold him for that since it wasn't overly horrible'[1] and also called him unprofessional. I'm not sure what you mean by lied unless you're referring that to the video.

>You can't accuse people of serious crimes without evidence. And the fact that you won't even nod to this in the slightest tells me you aren't being serious here.

I've never said he committed a crime and said I'm not in the camp to call this assault. Some absolutely have and I don't agree with that. There is evidence though the he touched her without consent so again that's an argument of if it is or isn't assault and I wouldn't call it that. Its not as if we'll see charges pressed and if we did that would be ridiculous.

> You can't accuse people of serious crimes without evidence
I agreed that isn't right. Again there is a video showing there was contact so there is evidence something happened. I say again I don't think what he did was acceptable behavior and never accused him of a serious crime.

>You seem genuinely fine with lying people if you think they're assholes.
I'm ok with liers so long as I think they're aholes? I'm being civil here and enjoying the discussion. Please don't say I'm ok with this.

[1]https://youtu.be/1jT8Ait1jEc?t=633
I prefer same type design as opposed to going off piste..

In fact, if I want to leard about something or somebody I will often choose Wikipedia primarily over something else because I know it's format and can get straight to digesting the information I came for.

(The issue of me using a crowdsourced platform as a prioritised source of something else for a different discussion)
What's your solution to parks like Zion that because of geographic constraints, only has 420 parking spaces but more than 2 million visitors per year? That is already 13 people per parking space per day (obviously much worse on weekends and less on weekdays). Your options are
1) charge people more
2) institute a permit system with a lottery or multi-year waiting list (this is what they do on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. How many people do you know that have rafted it?)
3) just let everyone's experience be ruined by more people than the park can handle.
4) Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

Those are the options you have to pick. Given those are the options, number 1 seems pretty darn appealing.
Lately it feels like there has been more negative news articles about Robinhood. It's been super popular with the younger investors, and I have a feeling that the larger investment platforms are starting to realize that Robinhood is not a joke, so might be trying to bring up anything that is negative.
Someone is working on matching by smell (saw previously on HN):

http://smell.dating/
The parks are heavily curated and managed — think of them as open air museums. Personally I don’t like visiting national parks because of this - I prefer the pretty unregulated wilderness and BLM land. But many people aren’t prepared for the wild (and it really is wild; there’s nothing like it in the UK, more like the Aussie bush in level of isolation) so these parks are great to get people exposed to the outdoors.

Parks constitute a tiny percentage of public open land. And for the ones I’ve visited really have been built around special places (Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Larsen, etc) and why not? If it’s someone’s only exposure to nature why not make it the best. And I won’t have to see them when I’m in the desolation wilderness.
That’s an ambiguous question. If you want to accurately simulate matter, the larger the block of matter the more processing power it takes. We think of DNA as more complex than a crystalline structure becase crystals have more order, but that’s abstracting away a lot of the details. Which means manufacturing a super computer is vastly more complex in terms of matter.

In some ways we better understand how super computers are made, but we can also far more easily replicate cells than a supercomputer. So, again supper computers are more complex.

In terms of the minimum amount of information to turn raw matter into a simple cell, again super computers take more information.

I suspect you want some sort of third definion where cells are more complex, but that’s more begging the question than how things actually are.
Or that it's so hard to do well enough to be useful, that hardly anyone can, except possibly Google, as a special case.
For some reason HN turned against WikiLeaks over the past few years, but this kind of thing is why Wikileaks is a good idea. Governments should not have the option of forcing journalists to do anything.
The cpu also has typically multiple independent CPUs to control things like power saving and turbo boost. Modern intel cpus have multiple 486-class CPUs, one for this, one for the ME, and one that vendors can use that has SMM access (which is as scary or more so than the ME).

OpenPOWER is pretty neat because you can actually see what commercially relevant implementations of these firmwares look like https://github.com/open-power/occ

A lot of NICs are also completely based on multiple general purpose MIPS cores like Broadcom and Mellanox. The most common SAS HBA from LSI/Broadcom was a PowerPC SoC. And SATA/SAS drives are running multiple ARM Cortex M series MCUs for the bus interface, drive geometry, and FTL in the case of flash.

The BMC (IPMI) is also a self sufficient ARM computer.
The difference being that Canada has 10 times fewer people than the USA. They also charge money to access the national parks, by the way.
From the article:

The other big box to check is Spectre mitigations are now rolled in to the core but Meltdown and L1TF/Foreshadow are not. Why? Because AMD wasn’t affected by either one and never will be. Patching can work but to be immune from the start is always a better choice.
Reddit gets the runner up trophy here.

No Reddit, I am not installing your fucking app. I clicked decline a dozen times in a row, get the hint.
By Wall, 'msvan' meant News Feed I guess.
I actually think that well before the useless class becomes useless for economic productivity, they will be put to use for another purpose — mass violence.

The elites will simply put guns and bombs in the hands of the unemployable masses and use them to take what they can’t win in the market place.

You can already see sustained and successful efforts to radicalize people online and it’s only going to get worse.

Asymmetric warfare is always going to work and no matter how many drones and missions you have, enough armed radicals will eventually bring anyone to their knees.

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a global spasm of violence but I think we’ve been inching closer and closer towards it, year by year since 9/11.
Thinking about disabilities that are not necessarily physical such as dyslexia, adhd, and other things that affect cognition--I would say an optimal programming language should be as easy to understand and read as possible. This would mean choosing the style of the language and the syntax so that it optimizes for readability. Also, removing the amount of the context someone needs to understand a piece of code. Perhaps this could be accomplished by strict enforcement of modularity and things like auto-generated or required documentation so that interfaces can be understood without diving into them if possible.

Obviously, inherent to programming is diving deep into chained function calls and managing all those levels in abstraction in one's mind. However, for someone with a limited working memory for whatever reason--adhd, depression, chronic pain, anxiety, headaches and more--having this minimized as much as possible would be a lifesaver.
In our maps blog post we have a section where we talk about applying different rate limits for different paths (https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-maps/#r...). For this I'd change the path fetch to a req.hdr(authorization) (or however you send API keys) to limit per API key. You could also add a 20/second with another stick table using the methods in this DDoS post (just with a string key to store API key rather than ip/src to store the IP address).

You can put HAProxy directly on a box running another service to provide protection/reporting if you don't want to replace or add HAProxy to your ELB's (though sometimes that just adds too much complexity), we also talk about using HAProxy and ELB in our AWS blog post (https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-amazon-aws-best-practic...).
Still no proof, just accusations. In fact the business owners say Yelp didn't actually say these things.

"What I got without spoken direct words..."

"The restaurateur says the representative didn’t blatantly tell Dloomy he could solve his problem by paying up, but he believes that was the underlying message"

It sounds like motivated reasoning and applying an existing narrative to the advertising calls.