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Upcoming western bureaucracy and regulation compel automotive manufacturers to go EV. This economic wave hasn't really started yet
Okay I am done with this thread and everyone (what I can only assume is intentionally) putting words in my mouth that I never said, while ignoring words that I did say.

I never said companies must spend all their money on stock buybacks, yet that argument is being used to paint me like an idiot.

I never said every company who does buybacks is doing it to manipulate the market, yet that argument is being used to paint me like an idiot.

I never said anything about dividends or profits or ownership, in fact I literally said I'm just criticizing companies who do buybacks in order to increase their share price during a down market, yet the argument that "not everyone who does buybacks is manipulating the market" keeps getting thrown at me like that thought has never crossed my mind. I know you think I'm an idiot but I did say words that have meaning and I used those words intentionally to convey the exact meaning that society has agreed those words are supposed to mean. It is not my fault you intentionally choose to ignore those words and their meaning.

I've had enough of it. Either read my words then comment or don't comment at all. I'm sick of this, defending my comments against people who only have bad faith and want to pretend that they're smarter than me because they purposefully misread my comments.

Your entire argument is based on an intentional misreading of words I never said and in direct response to the comment where I argued against that intentional misinterpretation and I'm not engaging with this any more.
Right? Because of that interruption we never get to have Don Knuth approved compsci T-shirts. Think before you act!
> To all those who evangelize Firefox, please also see if you can donate money to Mozilla

As a Firefox user for years I lost all the motivation to donate to Mozilla because of their mixed messages.

I would like my money to go to their engineering efforts, to make the best browser in the world. You could guess to what kind of "places" I don't want my money to go to. It's nice to advocate for the free web but in the end if your browser isn't competitive everything else will fall apart.

There's a lot of FUD with things like the Mr Robot "ad" (Mozilla wasn't paid for that) but there are legitimate concerns about some of their behavior. It wasn't so long ago that I clicked on anything Mozilla with joy, but now my brain bullshit detector is automatically deployed. I love reading about Servo and anything tech related but that's about it.
I'm not OP, but here's what I thought about when I read that, and pardon me while I don my old man cap and reminisce about how much better it used to be.

Used to be I'd buy something at a store, use it for a week, it breaks and I head back to the shop and say, "Hey, this broke and it's brand-new." The proprietor would apologize and get me a new one. As years went on, people started cheating the system a little: take stuff back to shops where they didn't originally purchase it. Okay, now we need a receipt for returns. Save the receipt, no big deal. But a little bit of trust was lost there. Shop keeper assumed that if you're returning it, you must have purchased it there, but that's no longer a safe assumption. Save your receipt.

REI and L. L. Bean, as two examples, would warrant their stuff for life even if the manufacturer didn't. If you thought a pair of boots should have lasted three years instead of two, take/send 'em back and get new ones. But then people started going skiing on new skis and returning them on Monday. Or (again) returning stuff that REI sells, but wasn't purchased there. Now REI and L. L. Bean don't do that anymore.

From the seller's end, I present rebates that they have no intention of honoring if at all possible. 'nuf said on that side.

And so on, until today where I feel like I'm in a never-ending loop of that scene from The Big Short: I'll do the deal, but you have to tell me how you're going to fuck me. Because shopping online in many respects makes me feel the need constantly look over my virtual shoulder. Trust is completely gone. Amazon, as a simplistic example, just takes a bunch of shit of varying quality, tosses it all in the same bin with a single label, and it's up to you to figure out which is the genuine lightning cable and which one will burn your house down.

In summary, my view of a trust-based system is that I can assume what you're selling is what you say it is, and I the customer will not try and game whatever customer-oriented system you have in place.
We use a Soda Stream and now quite easily just use tap water and carbonate it. I highly recommend it. The downside is that not many local places do the canister exchange where I live so we try to stock up.
> As far as I remember (I can't check now) articles in foreign Wikipedias that have a "silver" or "gold" status are shown with a star in the list.

That's the case, at least when not on the mobile site; apparently the mobile site instead show the "best" version at the top of the list of versions, but I don't know how it is determined.
China doesn't need to export EVs to make their EV industry profitable. China is already the biggest auto market in the world, with strong government mandate, it's biggest EV market as well, with the help of Trump administration's rollback on EPA emission policy and trade wars.
Companies with low growth have a few options (assuming strong cash flow).

1. Distribute cash back to shareholders via buybacks or dividends

2. Increase R&D spending on new initiatives

3. Acquisitions

Buybacks are at least much more tax effective than issuing dividends. Large acquisitions tend to fail and I imagine it could be hard for an established company to regain the "growth mindset" of a startup.

Should a company load up on debt or pursue buybacks way above intrinsic value? Probably not. But, if a company is paying a 4% dividend, and can borrow at 3.5%, buying back stock reduces the dividend payout, and the company avoids lowering the dividend per share (something that is considered sacrilegious in America).
Check performance of khttpd https://github.com/cobyism/edimax-br-6528n/tree/master/linux... in http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/performance.html
The entire streaming paradigm is a step backwards. Paying ala carts for the content you want would make it much easier for the end customer and enable greater diversity of content. There is no reason for the streaming service middleman when quality content can be independently financed/produced/marketed and then sold point-to-point as in the Apple ITunes model. I am involved with financing and producing independent TV content. The existing distribution model of cable channels and streaming services is nothing but an obstacle. But so long as this is the dominant industry model I have to live with it.

Netflix “beat” the iTunes ala carte purchase model the old fashion Silicon Valley way - by subsidizing an unsustainable provision of services with very foriving capital markets. No it was never realistic to fund all the content you wanted to see for $12 a month.

Now everyone wants their own streaming service which just means we end up replicating the old bundled cable model. It’s funny that this is happening without the actual technological reasons that original cable model existed in the first place.

I do think this (unfortunately) ultimately leads to greater piracy. I don’t see streaming services 6-20 getting a place on the average consumer’s monthly spend.
Product teams: our products are not our products
The hassle-free way of deploying applications on Kubernetes
I struggle to understand the point of the article.

>Rich clients have taken a closer look at private banks’ high fees and murky incentives, and balked.

OK. Rich clients were not happy with the way external managers managed their funds and decided to do it themselves. I get it.

>As they grow even bigger in an era of populism, family offices are destined to face uncomfortable questions about how they concentrate power and feed inequality.

How on Earth is it related to populism?

>Family offices have created inequality.

If the author's explanation of what family offices are is correct, they didn't create inequality. If you take your money from a deposit and decide to invest yourself you don't create inequality. You undertake higher risk and potentially receive higher award.

What's the point of the article?
The typography is definitely competitive. It's unfortunate that TeX and Metafont are so dated and so austere in terms of what they offer the programmer. It's a big barrier to figuring out what is going on. The author of the c82.net version is obviously a meticulous graphic designer, but his priorities are clearly so far away from the mindset needed to enjoy writing complex TeX that the comparison is a bit difficult to make.

Where the ConTeXt one falls down, aesthetically speaking, is the lettrines (which, by the way, are more usually called initials in English). They show the marks of having been procedurally generated rather than hand-drawn, for example in the way that the line width doesn't vary, and the way the curves appear to be piecewise circular arcs.

It's not possible to make beautiful organic arabesques with a few piecewise circular arcs, it just ends up looking crude and mechanical. Mathematicians are inclined to be insensitive to this problem.

Take the following invented curve, for example. The junctions between different arcs aren't smooth enough. No typographer would accept it, although it goes without saying that typeface design is not a highly complex intellectual activity comparable with math—it's about judging things by eye.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numb...

It's a shame that fragmentation of expertise means that the mathematicians and the typeface designers don't generally communicate.
A dream come true: Android is finally using DRM/KMS
We need this farmland, right?
Honest answer: You reallocate non-fulfillment staff to fulfillment during crunch periods.

> In Final Holiday Push, UPS Grabs Its Accountants to Deliver Packages

> Parcel giant works to clear problems caused by surge of e-commerce orders coupled with tight market for seasonal workers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-final-holiday-push-ups-grabs...

Not much choice in the matter when unemployment is at historic lows. If you can avoid the AMZN fulfillment sweatshop as a seasonal contract worker, you're going to.
Unfortunately not.

The only evidence I can provide is I once knew the groundskeeper for a group of properties owned by the super rich. One of his responsibilities was accepting the deliveries.

These properties were in a built up residential area.
When I was a kid, I learned Pascal from a book. We didn't even have a PC at home (it was the 80s) but my mother was a college professor and had access to the mainframe there. I wrote out a whole program to run Conway's Game of Life on a bunch of notebook paper, and one day when I was off from school I came in and typed the whole thing in at a terminal. I ran the command to compile it, and it spit out hundreds of syntax errors. Then it was time to go home.

It was not an auspicious start to my career in computer science.
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They do make less expensive movies, and good ones, at that. They fail in competition in the marketplace.
Google announces major expansion in New York City
I first came across Basilisk when I noticed a stage user agent in my website's access log - my site gets so few hits that this stood out. I noticed that Basilisk didn't ping the beacon I use for my hacked-together visitor analytics system - I guess this could be considered bug or a feature depending on which side of the tracking divide you sit.
> We figure that Intel is hedging a bit these days, and aims to convert the monolithic Cores and Xeons into multichip module designs, mixing chiplets with different functions in appropriate processes, as AMD, Xilinx, and Barefoot Networks have confirmed they are doing with their chips coming in 2019. We will not be surprised at all if processing cores of the future “Ice Lake” Xeons are implemented in 10 nanometers but other parts of the socket – probably memory and I/O controllers – stay in a very refined and mature 14 nanometer process.

So this would improve performance/watt for compute but not I/O?
I've stopped buying electronics from Amazon - it's not like I don't use Amazon for loads of other things (books, audiobooks etc.) but the risk is too high for anything electrical.
One winter in the 1970s, I got a job over the winter break as a stockboy at Montgomery Wards. The chain referred to all its employees as associates. Once Christmas was over, I looked at the schedule for the next week, and found myself not on it, ergo presumably... dissociated. I thought it an odd way to let me know, but in any case I would not have continued to work when school resumes.

For that matter my father earned the money for the engagement ring he gave my mother by working evening hours as a holiday-season mail handler for the United States Post Office. That would have been about 1952. He may have been on break from graduate school, or he may have been employed by the Geological Survey.

I don't object to there being seasonal jobs. I do object to them being the model for employment in general.

[edit: corrected typo]
Recently bought some auto parts from Amazon. What I got was low quality, and threads stripped as I was installing. That's now another category of things I won't buy on Amazon.
Keeping a WebDev/Tech Notebook in Org Mode
During big refactorings, I admit I sometimes find myself relying on compiler errors as a crutch to find (for example) which API layer I haven’t added the parameter to yet.

I’ll also rely heavily on my IDE’s function signature completion, to remind me whether some method I’m calling takes an int or an unsigned int, rather than have it memorized like I used to.

This might be why a lot of people (including me) hate whiteboard-coding interviews: we’ve gotten so spoiled by our tools that we can’t code without them!
The financial position of the United States includes assets of at least $269.6 trillion (1576% of GDP) and debts of $145.8 trillion (852% of GDP) to produce a net worth of at least $123.8 trillion (723% of GDP)[a] as of Q1 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Unit...
On by default analytics makes me not want to touch this, sorry.
Belgian here. Curious to hear why you'd consider Belgium!
There are homemade soda carbonators for sale on ebay that can be a pretty good deal. Something like this is what I have: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Kegman-Seltzer-Making-Bottling-Kit-...

The price is basically the same as sourcing the parts (regulator, tubing, tank, etc) yourself, it comes pre-assembled, that size CO2 tank will last a while (around a year for us with multiple people in the hot south), costs $15 to refill, and you can dial up/down the pressure to change the bubbliness of your soda.

It's also useful for seating tubeless tires if you ride mountain bikes. :)
Could I trouble you to share the code with me as well? Email in profile about box. Thanks!
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Modernizing Math Typesetting with SVG
Before getting married my wife and me lived about 100km apart.
The middle point was the city we both worked, so it made sense.
Now she's remote worker and we live near our son's school. Makes live easier to all.
Maze generation code in c generating weird characters
> Isn't it exactly as unlikely that the 1st is the most long-lived, as the 17th being the longest-lived?

No, because lifespan is not some completely random thing. It is continually improving over time.

This would be like if the fastest 100m time was set 30 years ago, and hasn’t been broken since. This would be very strange, since the record actually keeps improving over time. It is not impossible (the long jump record stood for many years) but is at least not probable.
> For that level of expense, you could instead have a one-man office or other service provider that can buy the individual stocks comprising (or closely approximating) the index, and not have to pay any expenses other than his salary and trading costs. Meanwhile he can provide tax planning/philanthropic services as well.

But then you have to trust that guy not to fuck it up, while Vanguard has a stellar reputation and a whole office of people making sure things go as expected.
My work involves software testing consumer electronics with GPS and I always find it amusing when the requirement comes up that the devices should not be capable of accurately tracking position when traveling at 1200 mph.

I'm curious if Galileo will still have this limitation as I assume the purpose is not to be able to jerry rig long range missiles.
Serverless Latency
Maybe we can convince the companies bottlibg water to use glass or steel cans like they do for juice and sugar water.
> actual chemistry seems really undervalued / rare these days.

It's because they are almost always forced board-room designed politically correct arrangements of hosts: the old white guy with plenty of industry experience, the sassy girl who keeps the guys in check, and third is usually an ex-athlete (usually black) guy OR (more often on radio) the "wild and crazy" guy who says wacky stuff.

They aren't chosen for their chemistry together, existing friendships, or w/e else makes people gel... but instead for fitting some Hollywood-esque pre-existing model that checks off all the checkboxes.

NBA inside works because they have a couple of rare personalities you wouldnt normally find in the usual talking-head talent pools with Shaq and Barkley plus a really great "old industry experienced guy" Ernie Johnson... (and honourable mention neutral guy Kenny Smith).
The headline is misleading: the ‘crisis’ in the headline is in the drinks industry.

If you’re here for the environmental crisis rather than the drink industry crisis, cigarette filters remain the highest volume plastic waste.
Ask HN: Who was your favorite teacher?
VitalTag Delivers Faster Response Time for Paramedics
"Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right"

Uhhh what now?
Good point re age. I try not to think of that.
You mean Yelp is sort of like a hipster version of the BBB since the BBB predates Yelp by a couple of decades
> These fears are largely unfounded, say experts.

So were fears of the NSA/Five Eyes dragnet, until the Snowden revelations proved that they could and were happening.
Personally, I think C deserves mention, not because it became THE portable language after 8 x n-bit implementations became standard, but rather, it was the first neutral, agnostic language about control structures (for, while, and do .. until) and argument-passing methods (call by name, value, reference, ...), and block-terminating methds (begin .. end?
Begin ... End.? no, {}=;) and it buried all the idiotic academic flame wars claiming one of each choice was THE ONLY "right" way to build a programming language. C was also the first language to popularize access to nearly the entire instruction set of a machine with it's rich set of operators. C++ DOES NOT deserve mention because it once again tried to "force" programmers to follow "the one true way" to write object oriented programs, by outlawing a number of useful programming constructs that Stroustroup judged unworthy (such as consts without storage in base classes, which could not be subclassed so he nuked them even though they are useful, e.g. for the gravitational constant etc.)
OK, thanks for the explanation.
I didn't look into it in detail, my mistake.
Designing Efficient Web Forms
Say the people who passed the law.
More likely Knuth made an earnest comment about being impressed about reading all his books.

That comment was then misinterpreted as sarcasm, which is what the folklore author remembered. Later having forgotten the words, and only remembering the mistaken interpretation's overall feel, it was paraphrased, poorly.
Meat pies and science publishing?
The Embraer ERJ series does not have fly-by-wire, just to name one. So the assertion that every "Every commercial passenger jet since the A340 has been fly-by-wire" is simply false.
I have the distinct disadvantage of not having any children or even young ones around me. I guess the child audience I had in mind was myself and the stuff I wish I learnt then...
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Could be useful for platforms which don’t have Rust support (Mac OS X < 10.7 comes to mind)
this is just a regulator, a nozzle and some plastic?
Perrier does come in cans.
I'm wondering why this was flagged?
Yeah I know, but he seemed to imply that he was using some sort of paywall based on BATs, I was interested in that.
I thought about that..but doesn’t education ruin learning?
> Do you really encounter compiler errors that frequently?

He skipped the "ctrl+enter" part of the workflow.
If you're having strength issues you should consider exercising more. They aren't heavy and are well balanced.
Why are they very very important? Not the companies, but the fact that Jeff Bezos in particular has invested in them; what's "very very important" about that?

Do you think these companies wouldn't exist or be as capable without Bezos? Why do you think that?
Acts do not occur in a vacuum. Especially with regard to economic inequality.

And why the fixation on janitors? I never said janitors should be paid like executives, only that the paths to higher paying positions need to be more widely available.
I am into imaginary creatures! I draw a lot from Japanese yokai. I adore those creatures.
I would put that transition at perhaps the Austro-Prussian or Franco-Prussian wars, at least for Europe.
Hey! This is a post by matklad [1], one of the members of the Ferrous Systems [2] team. The Rust Analyzer project [3] is an experimental compiler front-end, designed to power things like code completion, syntax error reporting, and other things that are necessary when building IDE support. Let us know if you have any questions!

[1]: https://github.com/matklad

[2]: https://ferrous-systems.com

[3]: https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer
Improvisational theater can reduce anxiety in teens who struggle socially
Oh!! Thanks for the ideas. All
good ones!
> "What will Microsoft gain if they Win?"

Uh, money? It might not exactly be a noble incentive for a lawsuit, but it's sure as hell an incentive, isn't it?
Bringing more Nigerian small businesses online
Just started reading it! Love it!! Will ping soon!
Do any of these people have their own sites for these reviews? The problem is that they are getting buried on Amazon, but I would still like to read them.
Rich people bad.
Right but shipping Sprite around is just as wasteful. It’s almost all water.
They’re right in one respect: statistically, they only need to dragoon ~one person per tech company.

So, therefore, they are “highly unlikely”, simply because of the inherent infrequency of needing to dragoon a single individual as they fully exercise their desires to spy on us all.

Framing is everything.
Apple FaceTime car crash lawsuit dismissed
Need to be? Or else compensation isn't fair? No, that's wrong. The concept that everyone needs to be able to be obscenely wealthy or else obscene wealth is inherently unfair makes sense only if you believe everyone is entitled to everything, which simply isn't true.

Everyone is entitled to some things, but no one is entitled to everything.
The same product can be sold by both amazon and 3rd party. The reviews will be mixed together.

Ex: amazon sells tshirt. People post reviews. 3rd party sells tshirt with the same product page as amazon's and the quality is poor. Reviews are mixed together and you can't see the seller on which the review is based.