skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was down for around 40 minutes (8.8.4.4 was working ok) from multiple locations. Portugal in my case, but i have confirmations from India, UK, Brazil and other countries.
Even my Galaxy S7 Edge from 2015 came with an undeletable Facebook app. Why is the article portraying this as a recent development?
> While Tesla’s website shows roughly 600 Supercharger stations in the U.S., it has only around 400 in Europe, 65 of them in France (with a total of 220 charging docks). That doesn’t feel like much for a country roughly the size of Texas with more than double its population.

The supercharger network in Europe is strongly weighted towards the west, there's a map [1].

Texas seems to have 39 superchargers, and the journalist didn't have to wait while others were charging.

So my guess is a 715 mile road trip in the USA would be similar — particularly on a leisure road trip, which is less likely to follow the main motorways.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/en_EU/findus#/bounds/65,55,34,-11,d?se...
> As for mitigation, does anyone know if MVNO users are also subjected to their data being sold?

As a Google Fi user I am very interested in this.
Yes, when hiring developers I see that as a positive: often people with this kind of background can tackle larger projects well due to good self-organization.

As a bonus, they tend to have more empathy for what i have to deal with, so when they ask for support or process changes their ideas tend to be practical and reasonable.
I live about 15-20 mins away from Apple and Netflix. The house next to ours has been empty for more than 2 years (as long as we lived in the neighborhood). Once a year, a Chinese lady (other neighbors say she lives in China now) appears in it for a day or two. The house is not for sale or rent and its estimate is over 1.5M.
Have you started learning Chinese yet? It is quite fascinating. I've been learning for 4 years now.
Yup. Judging by his recent actions Vinod Khosla believes that you build the future by getting enmeshed in costly litigation with government agencies over access to public property.
> trying to fully top off at every charge, a typical newbie mistake

A quick Google didn't give me anything clear here - why is that a mistake?
I don't find that true at all, and I live in a small EU country. Multiple coworkers of mine commute more than that every weekends. Trains are great, but they don't reach everywhere roads do.
I'm using the bundled install, micro I think. It's okay, it works just fine.

I always wondered what to replace my Nexus 5 with, thanx for the info.
So even if you drank 10 pints of 1% beer, that's equivalent to 2 pints of 5% beer. Spread over a day, I don't think 2 pints is getting anyone drunk at all, except maybe for children who somehow got their hands on 10 whole pints of 1% beer.
They became a "services" company which means they want that recurring revenue. When they sold a few million dollars in hardware to a company they didn't make another sale like that to that company for awhile. Sure, they could sell some software to the company but at the time, that paled in comparison to the hardware sale. Which was fine because a lot of companies back then were buying that hardware and the hardware kept getting faster and faster and after awhile IBM could convince those companies that an upgrade would result in faster revenue, which it would.

But in the early 90's things got fast enough. Little old PC's, in particular, could crunch things that the mainframes choked on 25 years prior, so companies started buying lower margin PC's instead of the mainframes. Companies like Microsoft and Dell were in the positions of power that IBM used to hold.

So Lou Gerstner came along and said, "Let's transition into a services company. Customers will pay recurring revenue to have IBM solve their problems on IBM hardware that the company buys or leases. And the sky's the limit on how much we can bill in services!"

As an aside; this happened to Qwest (now CenturyLink). IBM literally bought Qwests IT staff and leased them back to Qwest. I know someone who was part of that. It was a nightmare. The level of bureaucracy that IBM added was obscene. It took weeks of emails back and forth and meetings just to get approval to change a password.

Within about 15 years those hardware margins got so thin that IBM sold off its PC business to Lenovo and doubled down on services. And, as one commenter mentioned, they now had a direct incentive to make things even more complicated so that their services team could bill out even more.

Do they overcomplicate on purpose? I honestly don't think so. I think it's an emergence effect of a) trying to do things too fast without thinking them through, b) the aforementioned bureaucracy which is crippling, and c) offshoring a lot and which doesn't always get you the best quality. They still have a semblance of "Nobody ever got fired for going with IBM" working in their favor and they know it so nobody in a position of authority corrects that emergence effect, if they're even able to see it happening at all.
I'm 41 and learning 2 languages right now. I might learn slower than a 5 year old but I retain my learning and it isn't a race...
If we had science-fiction engines, we could do a propulsive brake and skip messing with the atmosphere altogether.
Exactly this. The fellow in the desk right next to me is doing the power/lighting work for a new restaurant going in in my apartment building - which is how I found out that’s what he does, when I ran into him outside my building entrance.
Why would you hand-write LaTeX if you don't like it? You can just use LyX, basically a structured WYSIWYG word processor.
I've just been learning Nim lately, and, for the most part I like a lot of how Nim handles these things. Getting to choose between mutability and immutability, together with procs having to explictly say when they intend to mutate one of their arguments, is fantastic.

That said, I do agree with GP's first point, and can at least elaborate on it from my own perspective: At first I liked the implicit `result` variable, mostly just because it saved some typing. I quickly found it to be a source of confusing bugs, though, because accidental mismanagement of the feature would result in default values being implicitly returned rather than compiler errors. I think I ultimately agree with the Zen of Python here: Explicit is better than implicit.

Also, Nim has, by my count, three different ways of returning a value from a proc: The implicit `result` var, returning the value of the last expression, and explicit `return` statements. It has four if you count modifying ref arguments. That's pretty TMTOWTDI for my tastes.
How we created a customer support system for $0 and with no code
An Apology for Roger Ebert [video]
Although I suspect it isn't as powerful, Pages will do TeX and MathML these days in its editor. For people coming from Word however, having to port their styles to another app is probably still a challenge.
As an obsessive organizer at home, almost to the point of my family's dismay until they cackle at how easy it is to find things now, I feel like I need to binge watch the whole series and hone my skills.

As well as the initial discard phase, organizational part (loads of plastic boxes, label printer connected to a computer), the piece most people don't mention is how to keep it tidy afterwards. In my experience the key to this is making it absurdly easy to put something away - this means easy to access storage, clear, easy to read labels and perhaps most importantly, plenty of capacity to grow. It's no good putting all your widgets in a box that's only just big enough to hold them. Later on when you acquire more, there will be nowhere to put them so you'll likely leave them out or dump them in a different box. I've used this approach in my garage, my home-office and our medicine cupboard (closet) to great effect. Next up is the pantry..
This is great. The same author also wrote insect, which is cool, too. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
And closed-source hardware drivers.
Unity game engine is the place to start.
https://unity3d.com/
I suppose it will be their fourth language for many, as they will still want them learn Swahili and/or English. But I know almost nothing about Kenya, so I may be wrong.
(somewhat related) Still my favorite essay by Paul Graham:

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
The world of video streaming: Top players and what they do
> Also, direct updates from Google for 2 years without interference from the brand (Xiaomi in this case). Which means I have security updates every month.

You got exactly NONE updates from google. "Android One" has a requirement for vendors to provide updates. All those updates were from xiaomi.
ARM is the Future
Replacing Caffeine.app with 2 lines of Autumn code
After doing research in order to buy a new phone, I find it strange that Xaomi products are being suggested as an alternative to vendor anti-privacy and bloat.

MIUI is baked in and you need to register an account with Xaomi if you want to unlock your bootloader and put, say, LineageOS on your phone. Xaomi has a bootloader lockout period on their phones, during which you must wait and use MIUI for a period until your bootloader unlocks. They've increased that period from what was once a couple of weeks, to over a month on new models. That's plenty of time for Xaomi to harvest your data.

Meanwhile, there are other phones that allow you to unlock your bootloader without a data harvesting period.
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> Is there a more moral alternative to Netflix and Spotify?

Yes. If I had to rank the options in order of morality, they would go like this: Buy DRM free content > Abstain from consuming content > Pirate the content >>> Pay for DRMed content.

Supporting DRM means supporting a world where you have to pay rent and seek permission from corporate overlords to use your own devices in the way you wish.
I really don't get why all the charging networks in Europe require you to sign up, get a card, download an app, etc. It's ridiculous. My sister drives an electric car, they have 5 cards from different charging networks, and she still struggles to find a charger that actually lets her charge.

Every gas station accepts normal debit and credit cards. There is no gas station that requires you to sign up before filling your tank. It is ridiculous.

Why can't the charging networks just install a normal credit/debit card reader and let people pay with their normal cards? It's mind-boggling.
Better Object Oriented Code – Achieving Maintainability
The advantage of pictograms is you can infer meaning from component radicals when looking at more complicated pictograms. Pinyin is useful but limited, e.g. there is a number of different pictograms that are all pronouced 'shi4' so simply by looking at pinyin you won't be able to differentiate without additional context that might not be available in written scenario.
This reminds me of the last scene of the movie "Thank you for smoking". The tobacco lobbyist was out of job when FDC declared smoking is not safe. He became the lobbyist for the cellular industry.

At that last scene, he was training the Cell phone executive: "Repeat after me: There are no conclusive evident that cell phone usage can cause brain cancer." Since I worked in Nokia at that time, that scene just etches into my mind even after so many years.

I was afraid that 20,30 years from now, some percentage of generate of kids grow up with cell phone next to their head were detected with some brain abnormality. Someone will do an experiment by putting cell phone / wifi next to lab rats and find some correlations between long extend exposure of wifi/cell signals and some kind brain damages.

Wifi/Cellular microwave can't cook turkey with its 1 watts output. But I can certain feel the warm on the side of face/ear next to it for just a few minutes. I definitively WILL NOT do that for an extend period of time.

I asked my family to reduce the bluetooth headset usage although I know for sure BT's power is much lower than wifi. Using wire headset or speaker is much better in my mind.
That's not a legitimate use. 911 is for emergencies. Emergency, security, terrorism are always the excuse used to strip us of our rights and our privacy.
The reviews of the Essential PH-1 were hilarious in this regard.

People were annoyed that they had to install "obvious" apps for their Essential that every other manufacturer forcibly included.
Ask HN: In my mid 20's and considering graduate school, seeking advice/insight
I'm considering a MS in Computer Science.

I am 26, graduated a few years ago from a good uni in the US with a BS in Economics. I currently work as a Business Analyst in a "traditional" company. I feel like Peter Gibbons in Office Space.

Really though, I am curious if others here, in their mid 20s, decided that what they were doing was not fulfilling and pivoted their career...how they did it, schooling, etc.

I have the math aptitude to go back to school and the course descriptions regarding intelligent systems and robotics really interests me. I'd like to apply myself with technology and be a part of building something.

I'm out in Boulder, CO

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!
For me it was the opposite, the removal of the obnoxious and ancient headphone jack was one of the reason I bought a 6T.
Current assets/valuation as well. Kinda hack this together in Google Sheets currently with Zillow, 401K, assets, liabilities, investment accounts, etc.
Because they can't harvest your information if you don't sign up for stuff.
To be honest, I don't understand your reasons at all.

http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
While on paper there is are still limits on direct contributions to campaign organizations, the Citizen's United decision (combined with SpeechNOW vs. FEC) enables companies to instead donate to SuperPACs which are in theory independently controlled. I personally believe the distinction is for all intents and purposes meaningless. Doubly so when considering how little enforcement of the separation has actually been pursued.

So, yes, I do believe companies finance political campaigns. Whether the money flows through campaign organizations is not an important distinction to me.
We voters don't make either decision; our rulers in the military-industrial-media complex decide when to drag us into war. It's still the case that sanctions are usually just pretexts for war. If sanctions themselves were neutral policies, that might be acceptable. However as documented upthread they kill lots of innocent children directly. Most humans would consider that to be a bad thing.
While this is technically true, it's de facto false. With the Citizens United ruling, corporations can donate unlimited funds: "[Super PACs] can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee
Thoughts on Unlimited Vacation
+1, that is a brilliant observation.
AT&T variants usually came with crapware. You could uninstall most/all of it though. AT&T Android phones are of course far worse though.
This stuff makes me so mad. It's to the point I don't want to carry a phone anymore. Why is it that people aren't allowed to record my conversations but they can record my real time location?

It's a problem at every level of the stack. I have a phone device that I have very little control over (thanks Apple and Google!) that talks to service providers who know who I am. Those service providers are shady and sell my real time location and I have literally no choices for a cell provider who doesn't do this. Then there is obviously a huge market for buying this collected data.

Where in the stack do we fix this? Do we need a data custody law first so I can track who the problem players are? Do we need devices that we have some control over so we can manage when they beacon out? Can we simply say that we (US citizens) have some right to privacy over our electronic data?

Seriously, these practices are abhorrent.
I did a 4-day 16 hour round trip drive just this past weekend through the Midwest into the South. Can't imagine having to stop any more often than I already did; in fact at the pace Teslas charge, I'm not sure the trip would have even been possible.
Evolution through composition is not a bug.
Frankly, given carrier behavior, re-nationalizing telecom starts looking appealing.

If you're concerned with privacy from government, don't be - you already lost that war.

If you're concerned with a drop in innovation, don't be - we're already far behind most of the rest of the developed world.

If you're concerned about prices going up, don't be - we already pay insanely high rates compared to peer-countries.

Welcome to the "free" "market".
We’re in a decades long reaction to government regulation that pervades the west. The government used to tell airlines and trucking companies what routes they could sell and what prices they could charge. That level of government regulation proved to be such a disaster, that everybody abandoned it starting in the 1980s. As a result, you have an entire generation of administrators, on both sides of the aisle, who grew up with an extreme aversion to government intervention.
Looking at the curriculum linked, it seems like Mandarin is being offered as an elective while English is a mandatory subject.
I wrote 3 years of papers in LaTeX (ancient philosophy, so minimal math). I generally did markdown>pandoc>xelatex. I never really had to touch up the final output (except for a single script I made that removed some incorrect line breaks): I would just use inline LaTeX as needed to get things like figures into the output.
There is now quite a range of low/zero alcohol beers and they are getting more drinkable. Some of them can be fairly nice is small quantities but they all lack the depth of a good beer. I had an interesting one brewed with Kombucha recently, that was quite an interesting drink but still not as good as a real beer can be. Erdinger Alkoholfrei wheat beer is pretty good. https://wisebartender.co.uk/ has a really good range.

All the non alcoholic wines I’ve tried have been pretty bad, more like a sweet vermouth. Can be made drinkable with some tonic water.

There is also a boom in distilled non alcoholic 'spirits' which can be OK. Again they don't have the depths of a spirit and tend to be quite light with wither floral or spicy notes. They are also expensive, Seedlip is one of the better ones but at £26 a bottle it's comparable to a decent quality spirit.

It's great that there has been so much development but they're still quite different drinks.
I'm really curious why you think that. Obnoxious why? How?

And ancient = bad? Boy, do I have some bad news about power sockets you have at home.......
I always liked Anthony Bourdain's take on "Meez" from Kitchen Confidential:

Mise-en-place is the religion of all good line cooks. Do not fuck with a line cook’s ‘meez’ — meaning his setup, his carefully arranged supplies of sea salt, rough-cracked pepper, softened butter, cooking oil, wine, backups, and so on. As a cook, your station, and its condition, its state of readiness, is an extension of your nervous system... The universe is in order when your station is set up the way you like it: you know where to find everything with your eyes closed, everything you need during the course of the shift is at the ready at arm’s reach, your defenses are deployed. If you let your mise-en-place run down, get dirty and disorganized, you’ll quickly find yourself spinning in place and calling for backup. I worked with a chef who used to step behind the line to a dirty cook’s station in the middle of a rush to explain why the offending cook was falling behind. He’d press his palm down on the cutting board, which was littered with peppercorns, spattered sauce, bits of parsley, bread crumbs and the usual flotsam and jetsam that accumulates quickly on a station if not constantly wiped away with a moist side towel. “You see this?” he’d inquire, raising his palm so that the cook could see the bits of dirt and scraps sticking to his chef’s palm. “That’s what the inside of your head looks like now.”

I imagine most developers will recognize the obvious parallels with our craft.

The full passage:

https://books.google.com/books?id=XAsRYpsX9dEC&lpg=PA65&ots=...
Reassess and tax property as the primary means of funding the city. That will almost completely eliminate the problem very quickly.
I know immigrants who moved to the US in their 20s and 30s. Quite a few didn’t have much of an accent and I would’ve guessed they were born here but learned English in school due to immigrant parents.

Without fail the best speakers told me they lost their accent because they wanted to describe a huge up hill battle. Hard work, practice, and a commitment to figure out the right way to say it. Plus loads and loads of English TV.
Ask HN: How do you lower the impact of Windows reboots on servers after updates?
A customer of mine has to run a program on a Windows server. We start the server in an OpenStack cloud, start the program, call its API from remote, get the results of the computation, destroy the server without even stopping it. Every few months we rebuild the image after spending half a day applying Windows updates. We have to start using an always on Windows server now (due to changes in licensing, no alternatives.) We are worried about the unavailability of the server during the reboots Windows does during the updates. Reboots would also break any running computation. We're all using Linux or Macs so our Windows administration skills are pretty low. Is there any standard way to defer the reboots of Windows to when we want them to happen without interfering with the update process? As a comparison, Linux can keep downloading new kernels and system libraries for months and start using the most recent ones when we finally reboot it. All it takes is a single few seconds long reboot.
What the current political climate is doing to our country and our universities
The funny thing is, I made the trip from Lille, France (near where I live) to Poznan in Poland, a few stops required all along and no problem - more than 2000km on a few days.

In the summer, in France, Lille to Alps then Ardeche and no problem.

Same for my past vacations here in the South of France (Ardeche, France), around 1000 km long trip and same for getting back here.

I've been using my Tesla (TS85D) since Nov2015, and the only time I had a short stress was while I went seeing Elon Musk in Paris because there were hundred of Teslas in the same area.

So, frankly, I respect the author of this article, but I think if you're following what is displayed on board and adding a little logical thinking and planning a bit your trip in some remote areas (Britany for example) (with OpenChargeMap or ChargeMap applications among others), then it's all good.
That industry shouldn’t exist the way it does either imho. It’s wrought with tax evasion itself. And minimum wage needs to be respected.
My pixel doesn't have google+ installed. But I can use the play store.

And I am not sure what spyware apps you are referring to.
I think this is really what it comes down to in Nim. I personally prefer immutable strings, but I don't think it would be wise to force them to always be immutable in Nim, because then you'd have this weird language wart where

let foo = someValue
var bar = someOtherValue

yields an immutable foo and a mutable bar for all types except strings.

I'm guessing that's a detail that's lost on folks who haven't spent much time with Nim, because the way mutability and immutability work in Nim is different from how it works in any mainstream language.
For most intents and purposes this changed with Citizens United v FEC.
As a Britishism? I didn't say it wasn't used at all.
It's mysterious to you. For the rest of us is thoroughly documented:

http://postgrest.org/en/v5.2/tutorials/tut1.html

http://postgrest.org/en/v5.2/auth.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/user-manag.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html