skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also quite unsafe to run lithium ion batteries in series with different levels of wear / charge state, the old ones can easily be pushed too hard and fail (spectacularly).
I agree - the truth is that in Python it's easy to define DSLs only if they consist of expressions.

It's not that easy to define an arbitrary language that allows you to write code that is close to something else completely (like Ecto vs SQL).
Are there any tools that you can just run on binaries to find unreachable code?
Really depends on your perspective. To me a plug in hybrid seems like the best of both worlds. Enough range to do my daily commute all electric, but the ability to go on a longer road trip without having to worry about where a charging station is located.
Estonia is running its country like a tech company
App that ejects water from your phone's speakers after getting it wet
More than once a rogue GPS decision has directed my vehicle down an Australian road only an experienced 4WD group should attempt. The significance grows when you’re 300km from the nearest settlement.

It’s a big country, and mostly empty.
I don't think they're using lidar, but I don't know much about it.

However your comment made me think of this awesome article about Google maps and 3d buildings https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
they already have- you can still unlock it if you have admin but ve default you’re restricted to signed and sandboxed mac app store apps.
The area has been built up with skyscrapers over the past decade, well before HQ2 had even been announced. Development in New York is not so quick that you could shovel a project through in the four months after the announcement.

New York's economy is plenty diverse. There's real estate and Wall Street, sure, but there's also legal services, advertising, media, health, education (NYC has the largest student population in the country), hospitality, tourism, etc. This is no one company town like Gary.
IT Consulting Industry Hardest Hit by Jump in H-1B Denials
c++20 gets a new formatting library based on fmtlib which is able to print data structures.
Sickening how easy it was for the telcoms to push their agenda through in spite of overwhelming public opposition.

I'm pretty sure most individuals following the story of net neutrality knew the fcc's ballot box was compromised.

It would be nice if someone could face consequences for the fraud put on by the FCC. I won't hold my breath though.
EV is a 50 mile technology

Sssshhhh, don't tell Tesla or Hyundai that.

PHEV is a solution looking for a problem. You only add a little bit more range versus a plain ICE, and that's at the expense of lugging around an extra motor and battery array. The whole carpool lane eligibility for hybrids is a crutch and the only selling distinction for PHEVs. (If you're driving far enough for a carpool lane to even matter, you're going beyond your battery range on the trip... so you're ultimately releasing as much carbon.)
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Amazing video
As an introvert, visibility has always been an issue for me. Last week I had a big task for which I put in well over 10 hours a day. When people see it's done sooner than expected they just assume that is was easier. Meanwhile, other people get a lot of credits for some things because they are apt at subtly (or not so subtly) mentioning it. Maybe it's something I still have to learn.
In liberal democracies there's a line between civilian technology and military technology...

This isn't true. Consider Boeing, Colt, Texas Instruments, CamelBak, AM General. Even companies, like Colt, that are dedicated to making arms also sell products into the civilian market. That is in part because in a liberal democracy the government can not restrict a company to doing business solely with them: companies are allowed to recycle their know-how in the civilian market.

Working with private enterprise and repurposing civilian capabilities is how liberal democracies do defence. Should it be otherwise? It would seem to imply even greater scope for secrecy and mismanagement, and even less civilian control and input, if defence agencies didn't work with private enterprises for most of their needs.
Interestingly, although 70% of New Yorkers felt positively about the Amazon HQ2, I wonder what that percentage looks like for the actual current inhabitants of LIC. For many of the folks I know who rent in Queens, they were very much against the HQ2 and fearful of how it may affect their ability to afford living in Queens. Additionally, many New Yorkers I know who are around my age were very much against HQ2 because we felt that it was already so incredibly hard to even think about owning property in NYC, and that this was just one more notch that would make us feel like the possibility was slipping away. Not everyone works in tech/finance/RE and enjoys the salaries in those industries. Another common fear was how will this affect the subway system?

For many of the people I know who were against HQ2, it wasn't about the tax relief. It was about the feeling that the most valuable corporation in the world was going to move a lot more money into the city, and make it a lot harder for folks not in the industry to live.

A lot of these concerns where not addressed. It was always about jobs, jobs, jobs. And if they were addressed, it was not communicated effectively.
Disclosure: im an automotive engine mechanic by trade.

The Volt was a political nightmare. trade rags beat this car night and day for being a fake. but honestly its a damn good car. it was never going to see tesla style torque or mileage but the people driving it werent the whole foods kind of crowd anyway.

the hybrid electric was borne out of the need to create something that couldnt be patent-struck by toyota, whos hybrid synergy drive is basically the entire hybrid market outside of Komatsu/Caterpillar these days. electric motor final drives until the engine kicks in to drive the electric motors also allowed them to avoid the honda tax on motors in the transmission that assisted the drive inline.

the engine drive was crucified by its owners for ever starting. in-town drivers would be well under the range of the vehicles batteries, yet routinely traded the car in or returned it when the engine kicked on. What they didnt understand is that this was done to prevent stale fuel or cycling problems in cold weather. The ECU was smart enough to maintain the engine even when you didnt need it.

If you find one of these used and youre into hybrid (mostly) electric drives, id recommend it. it has a planted and firm drive, similar to a windstar minivan but without the body roll.

The stereo is also surprisingly overpowered for something like this as it borrows heavily from Fords Shaker platform (harmon kardon.)
> I have been in many different environments almost exclusively technical organizations selling tech in some form or another ... he only time I remember anybody really caring about email was my first job at a university

So when a sales person recieved an email from a prospect they would ignore it? When a developer recieved an email about a bug in production they would ignore it? All communication was done over chat? It's not impossible, but pretty implausible.
The thing that worries me the most about these technologies is when we make changes with them, those changes seem fine in the lab, and then when those changes spread in an ecosystem for long enough, suddenly, problems start popping up due to those changes.

By then, it's far too late to undo those changes. The genetic pollution remains forever.

It is therefore far better to have never done any genetic modification at all, because we simply don't understand how one change interacts with everything else.

Nature has done so much better than we have ~ therefore, because we don't understand nature's decision-making process, and never have, and most probably never will, we should never interfere with tinkering with something extremely and profoundly complicated like DNA.

Selective breeding is superior to humans tinkering with the genome directly.
Sounds like Mozilla.
I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
By default, macOS Mojave does not let you so much as ls many folders in your own home directory.
already got it
https://imgur.com/gallery/5pYR3Es
https://takeabreathtoo.wordpress.com

I started this blog last year to share interesting reads that I come across (includes the ones recommended by HN). It covers varied subjects and would love to improve with your feedback.

Thanks.
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/cuda-turing-new-gpu-compute-poss...
> The thing that worries me the most about these technologies is when we make changes with them, those changes seem fine in the lab, and then when those changes spread in an ecosystem for long enough, suddenly, problems start popping up due to those changes.

I agree with your concern, but I don't see this technology as fundamentally different from humans have been doing for hundreds of years. We've already released so many chemicals and materials into the environment that have had many harmful and irreversible effects on the environment. Releasing a genetically modified mosquito does raise concerns, but it's not too different from putting some new chemical into the environment, which we do all the time.
A FrankenPad Story: T25 with Quad-Core CPU and UHD LCD Panel
Just don't pat yourself on the back too hard for that. That route takes you through some of the most CO2-intensive electricity grids. A Tesla charged in Poland is a much dirtier car than a Tesla charged in California or Switzerland.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that making that trip is a terrible thing to do. I do worse things myself, e.g. traveling by plane. We all have the option of instantly reducing or CO2 footprint to that of our bodies decomposing but none of us is willing to go that far.
All leaf blowers must be destroyed.
I think the author would appreciate Zig (https://ziglang.org).

Zig strikes the perfect balance between C and Rust.

The documentation is the best place to start.

It's worth supporting Zig on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk
Get to Hubble - possibly. But they lack the ability to conduct the repairs, like they are missing an air lock for activities outside of the vehicle.
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Given that r&d is a sunk cost and that producing the vehicle is cash flow positive and will be even more so in 5 years, GM should be pedal to the metal. The loss per unit sold is a non-real accounting artifact.

Frankly, it should be accounted for on the basis of the carrying cost of the r&d debt. If I open a bakery and buy a ton of expensive equipment, I will have huge accounting losses per cookie for years but I may very well still be cash flow positive. That’s all that matters.
Putin threatens escalation re Inf treaty exit
Challenge the Thinking Cat
Or one just builds a new telescope and puts it onto a F9.
Wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol
Right, I'll back off a bit. I can admit that I've been especially hostile these past few days.

But, I am starting to see a serious issue with posters on HN engaging in bad faith arguments and spreading heavily anti-scientific nonsense. Not only have I seen posters here openly defending pedophilia [1], arguing in bad faith by making deliberately misleading arguments [2], people not even attempting to make an argument [3] and many more non-arguments [4]. This is without even mentioning the posts I have seen being highly transphobic and comments/articles made by trans-people (with good arguments!) being voted down into the abyss, both of which I could find examples were it not 3AM. I have flagged many comments and tend to err towards only the most egregious and while I can understand that the moderation team can only do so much at a certain point the trend I'm noticing is deeply concerning. If you don't want HN to be a site with any sort of political battles, then HN needs to better define what kinds of things make up politics. I avoid making threads here and I generally don't stray from the topic of said threads. But ultimately if the goal of the site is to flag and move on when you see someone make a bad faith argument or make a political post: That's tacitly leaving bad arguments unchallenged, especially when the flagging system fails to work.

And I want to make it clear that this isn't an argument against you in particular dang; but rather the issues I see looming on the horizon for HN. Hence my increasing frustration.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213130

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19189546

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18984096

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19005731
I don't think this is anything 2019 specific, but working in a niche startup is probably the only plausible way of working on anything niche like say blockchain or serverless.
I still don't understand. How does it work with normal maps when they blur or obfuscate sensitive information upon governments' requests ? Surely they don't remove the whole map.
Regarding "novice and expert" mode. Default should be novice mode. Extra steps to go into "expert" mode. Examples I could think of:
* Launch control (maximum acceleration from a stop.)
* Track mode (turn down or disable stability control)
* One pedal drive mode. (Nissan Leaf e-pedal or just B-mode for strong regen)

Ah well... It would be interesting to hear more of the reasons behind decisions.
Since Volta, NVidia GPUs are designed taking into account C++'s semantics.

http://cppcast.com/2017/09/olivier-giroux/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=86seb-iZCnI
> The Volt was a political nightmare. trade rags beat this car night and day for being a fake. but honestly its a damn good car.

So you're saying widely publicized biased opinions based on antiquated but longstanding social norms were able to prevent good engineering, measurably better than the status quo, from coming to market? Are you saying that marketing and media can often overcome solid facts? Welcome to humanity.
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Yes, more precisely the elementary unit is the difference between the width and height of a 1x1x1 brick, which is also:

* half the height of a plate.

* the distance between the edge of the brick and the edge of the stud (half the distance between studs)

* one third the diameter of studs

* the height of the studs, except for the LEGO logo (which means that in some cases hollow or recessed studs are very helpful, because an illegal connection can become legal with hollow studs; https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=8586... is a very useful element in some intricate builds).

* the difference between the base and the top of the headlight brick https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4070

* the thickness of angle brackets such as https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=109...

The LEGO system is great and everything makes a lot more sense once you figure out that the height of 1 brick and 2 plates is the same as the width of 2 bricks. For example I made a car where the sides are built "front to back" and attached sideways to the chassis (https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-7455/bonzinip/awd-champions...).

In addition, the inside diameter of hollow studs is
the same as the diameter of clips and minifigure hands, and the same as the inside diameter of Technic pegs. There are a lot of newer parts that use this "secondary" system, but the basic measurements were established in the 70s. See http://www.newelementary.com/2016/12/bravo-three-one-eight.h... for more information.
That's usually how I give my email to access free public wifi:

Jvkrhgjrjng@jcifjf.com

Invalid email

Jvkrhgjrjng@gmail.com

Thanks!
There are 28 countries with cheaper gas than the USA per https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

(I don't know how well they account for taxes)
Navy files for patent on room-temperature supraconductivity
I needed to go to the other side of the world for three events spaced over a couple of months. My company wasn't a remote working company though. I suggested my three options were:

* travel to each event separately (my least preferred)

* have a couple of months off without pay

* work remotely for the couple of months while I was away

I'd earned a good rep at my company by smashing out the previous project on time/budget, so the working remotely was approved and all went well.

I liked it so much (escaping the northern hemisphere Winter), that I started my own consultancy and did the annual migration for the next 8 years. Most of that work was remote, so as long as I managed timezones, all was good.
> Devices that used to work and used to get updates simply stopped at one point.

Which devices? I kept using my G5 iMac until 2008 without any issues and with regular OS updates.

> Pages

From what I recall, and perhaps what I'm thinking of happened further down the track, Pages had issues in spite of changes to hardware, not because of it. Apple pared back the functionality of its office software when it transitioned from paid to free software, breaking some of the formatting features.
Second, as aid in design. I had the pleasure to use languages capable of deriving implementations from types directly (where otherwise you'd use reflection) and ones with type-directed search and typed-holes (even though unsafeCoerce fitting every hole is a bit annoying :)
"A horrible place where people go to misunderstand eachother"
You are basically talking about the A76 core[1] and modified derivatives and its successors (e.g. neoverse[2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A76

[2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures...
It also makes the code a pain to read and maintain.
> and I doubt it would be possible to do so with the techniques being investigated

the doublesex gene targeted by this gene drive is similar in all insects, so if this works we'll have a powerful tool not only against mosquitos, but also against all agricultural pests, which is very exciting.
As someone who has been the manager in those discussions I see four things to help your manager be supportive:

1. The company policy: of the company has a no-remote policy this will be very difficult. If the company has a limited-remote policy, it’s already much easier, it means asking for additional remote days on top of existing policy and provides you an opportunity to show that you are productive working remote

2. Your productivity and mutual trust: on the individual level I like to believe everybody can be productive remote. On the aggregate it didn’t work that way though. Some people would use the remote time for personal matters and chalk up a day with limited output to ‘I was doing research’, others would have twice the output they had at the office. It’s difficult to know up front where someone will fall on that scale. If you can show with 1-2 days remote that you can be productive, it’s a huge help in this decision

3. Spill-over effects. If others in your team are (possibly) not productive remote it might be difficult to give you a full remote opportunity. Others will expect the same privileges and it might be easier to limit it for everybody rather than explaining individuals that I dont trust them remote yet.

4. Interactions: if the office has a weekly townhall, or if we have a quarterly long-term planning session, can you join these, or do we need to setup video and mics for that? It helps if you can be in person on these moments (even if you’re not convinced they’re always useful)
They don't appear to be doing that much blurring: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Vauxhall+Bridge,+London/...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/gchq/@51.8995016,-2.124...
Think of phev as replacing two cars

Or as an ICE towing an EV, or vice-versa. You're lugging around both motors at all times.
Like how much?
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Ah this explains why my kid brought me that cylinder-through-cone for me to take apart.

BTW the last slide says "Play Well". That's what you get when you tranlate "Leg Godt" from Danish. Which is where you get Lego from.
This channel is amazing! At some point, yt recommended it and that was the only time it recommended something truly unique. The channel not only does hoisting tests but also rev-tests, which are interesting as well.
3 years of remote work experience here:

1) Report frequently

2) Ask for paring if boss likes or whenever you need non-trivial discussion (it's better than chat obviously)

3) Tell boss what you will do today, your expectation on results

4) When problems occurs, let him know immediately or within 4 hours

I did all of these just for less than a year. After that he doesn't give a shit what I do anymore. It's kind of lonely now lol
Well, yeah, Cleave.js isn't a very usable example, as the dozens of comments are proving. But it proves that it's _possible_. Your comment is saying that it's impossible:

> no amount of clever prediction will put it back in the right place in all cases

If you're instead changing your argument to say that it's impossible to do _well_, that's a different argument which I also disagree with: most implementations of tab-completion definitely have more fans than opponents. Not to mention keyboard shortcuts like Cmd+I to bold, or Cmd+B to italicize. Or even OS features like copy/paste. Many features require modifying the contents of a textbox, and it's far from impossible to do well.
Well, if you start going on that path you'll also reach the complicated topic of ad-blocking. It's all about dividing control how content can or should be consumed, and how should various parties involved be compensated.
I am on my own ( which is not easy in Japan ) but many of my closest friends are manager-level engineers in big companies ( NTT, etc ) and rarely earn more than 5-7 million yen a year. This is with teams of dozens of people under them for which they are responsible. Reading your post is quite shocking for me.
> People sometimes complain about laws that appear out of the blue. His tweet above is the start of a long slow proces of building a law. It's a clear warning: get better at self-regulating, or we'll regulate you.

You're absolutely right! One reading is that it's a request. Please fix this problem, before we have to regulate you into fixing it.

Is it possible that there may be an alternative reading? A cynic might suggest that humoring such a plea is a great way to demonstrate that content problems like this can be solved! Then regulators can require those very useful tools be applied to whatever they please in a much more general way.

The odds of whatever Secretary Hancock gets to solve the very real, pressing problem he has so wisely pointed to being completely inapplicable to literally anything else are virtually zero. I can think of a few places where safety and social responsibility means things like never disagreeing with The Party.

As technologists, it's on us to think through the consequences of our choices where we can. It's often not plausible - nobody thought TCP/IP would lead to malgorithmic ads! But tools designed to enforce arbitrarily defined social mores?
it really depends. if the accepted coroutines hides memory allocations willy-nilly, it means that there is a whole body of code that will never ever use coroutines in their code. While waiting for non-magic-allocating coroutines would have made those better in five years.
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