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> It isn't $10000 off the default option, it's $10000 off the better for society option to bring it more in line with the default option.

Again you're assuming the default option is buying a car. Society shouldn't be paying people to buy cars, especially rich people: that's not a good thing to incentivise.

> We can talk about alternatives to car, that isn't where politics is at, and I'm not sure tax credits would be a particularly good tool for encouraging alternatives.

Surely if you believe tax credits work for electric cars then you should believe they would work for other things too.

> As I said don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Is it even good though? It's hard to believe that paying rich people to buy cars (which still have negative externalities - land use, congestion, traffic deaths) is a better-than-replacement-level use of public funds.
>> I wonder if the target audience of this article is actually non-english speaking people...

> this article does seem especially simplistic and would probably be easy to run through some translation software compared to some articles.

Though, in this case, that's probably not necessary for the main non-English audience for this article. The BBC has a Chinese-language website (https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp).

Unfortunately they discontinued their Mandarin shortwave service (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12864041), which is still probably the best technology to bypass censorship.
>He could unilaterally decide that quarterly profits, hell, any profits, do not matter and there is nothing anyone could do.

That’s not entirely accurate, see Henry Ford suspending shareholder dividends, raising employee wages and lowering price of cars for consumers to fulfill vision of every American family owning a (Ford) car.

Shareholders sued and won because Ford owed and violated his duty to shareholders.

Since that time the Law has evolved to extend director/officer protections - even allowing officers to raid corporate funds to ensure directors re-elect the officers - but The voting rights don’t relieve Zuck of his duties to other shareholders in his capacity as director and/or officer.
Twice a day of brush, floss, and rinse is the bare minimum to keep healthy teeth and gums

I bought a nice electric toothbrush and water flosser, so I feel like I get a better job done faster (Sonicare and Waterpik)
I think he’s inspired a lot of things, not all of them good, but it’s really hard to say he hasn’t had any influence.
That was my path as well. There's a very large segment of the tech community with the same story. Started with Android, why not? Fully customizable, had features earlier like 4G. Then realizing that they can be as stable and as much of a hassle as maintaining another desktop computer too (if you're doing it well/right). While I had multiple Android phones over the course of 5 years, it became a habit to restart them daily. The best one I had in that regard was a Samsung Galaxy S3, but it still wasn't up to scratch with the iPhone.

Going with Cyanogenmod (now LineageOS) helped a lot but did not resolve the need to restart often. Then my device which is primarily a phone that absolutely must work reliably and must be secure and updated, is at the whims of a rather lackadaisical volunteer effort.

Irregardless of arguing merits, the bottom line is that it's clear to me that Android's quality does not match what Apple is doing with iOS. Ultimately, I need calls and texts to guarantee to not be laggy and be reliable. It doesn't just need to be reliable, it also needs to feel reliable. I can't remember a single time an iOS app crashed on me. Android failed me in both of those regards in favor of being a mini-PC, with all the positive and negative connotations that includes.

I moved over with the iPhone5S, loved it, still usable as a backup phone unlike all of my old Android devices which are useless today and not even supported by LineageOS builds that aren't years old. I'm using an iPhone SE today, 3 years on with zero issues, still secure, private, fast and stable. It'll be getting iOS 13 in the fall, which looks better than ever.

If Apple releases an iPhone XE, I'll be buying it at launch at any stated price. I would hand Apple $1,000 for the rumored XE. Even if I only used it 3 years, which is on the minimum end of an iPhone's lifespan, per month cost is $28 at that price for 3 years. Considering the support, build quality and reliable utility, it's an absolute no brainer. A bargain. Anyone ever use the 'Apple Support' app? If you have an issue, they help you, really help you, for $0.0. I'm speaking from my own personal experience alone. I don't work for Apple, and only buy index funds. They're simply doing business right, and making everyone else look like fools. They've built their own value through reliable, hard work. Even if the iPhone costs $50 to manufacture.

Apple is one of the very few companies that from what I've seen, gave me the impression that they actually give a damn or two about their own products. I'm actually a .Net developer, a Thinkpad fan (and Macbook, because of the copious service locations), and if it's not clear yet.. love my iPhone.
Has anyone attempted a mobile grocery store that drives to food deserts on a fixed schedule? It could say be a container with a single aisle, stocked with the basics and a checkout at one end.
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I found stimulants (e.g. coffee or something stronger) achieve that quite well.
What did they do to the bodies? But then, since the Party is/was in power the burial sites would be off limits and cleaned many times over.

I wonder what would have happened to China at that time had the Government fallen? Civil war, many smaller states...? They have no history of democracy
the buck should have stopped at the engineer who wrote the code, and for far too long we've lost sight of that.
Therac-25 is definitely not the only incident involving radiation in medical applications:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/radiation-treatment-...

http://indico.ictp.it/event/a12208/session/65/contribution/4...
> Weakness of theories is only relevant compared to each other,

Surely not. We're also interested in how explanatory a theory is, and in whether or not we have strong grounds to think it true.

If what you were saying were correct, it would have been wrong to point out in 1860 that Newton's theory made incorrect predictions regarding the orbit of Mercury.
It's widely used around the world for teaching about engineering failure.
Great point, thanks, I'll address this!
WinRT ran on the original Surface RT and maybe 2 Asus devices. After less than a year Asus bounced, as nobody wanted a Windows equivalent of a Chromebook. Even MS themselves killed the OS well before discontinuing the Windows Phone division altogether.
>The main idea is that the end result of the spruce (commonly used for top wood on an acoustic guitar) is closer to a piece of spruce that is many years old which affects the tone and "improves" it to some ears.

Torrefied tops can definitely make an instrument sound better. With the right thermal treatment, you get a slight increase in stiffness and a fairly significant reduction in damping due to the lower equilibrium moisture content and the depolymerisation of hemicelluloses. If the top is properly braced to account for the different properties, you get a more open-sounding instrument with more volume and/or sustain. Torrefied necks are substantially more stable, particularly for the flatsawn maple necks on most Fender-style electric guitars. The durability of tops is very much swings and roundabouts - you gain a fair bit of stability with respect to atmospheric changes, but the top becomes weaker and more brittle, so more prone to impact cracking.

>But yes, especially when luthiers started using this technique there were all sorts of issues with the end result in terms of superficial results/coloring. However, they've gotten better at this and now we see the wood being a bit darker but without all the other cosmetic issues from past years.

If anything, the caramel colour of torrefied maple or spruce has become a status symbol. We're starting to see a lot of roasted ash bodies on electric guitars and basses, which doesn't really do anything tonally but looks cool.
> You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies.

No, that is not the reason for my comment.

It seems clear to me, both by life experience and reading related research that humans require meaning to have lives worth living. This might be a hard pill to swallow, but I suspect that it is ultimately our mortality that gives our lives meaning. If there is nothing to strive for, then there is only pleasure seeking. Your life becomes an infinitely long hedonistic binge. Human beings were not designed to withstand hedonistic binges for too long without dark consequences (as in, dissolution of meaning, extreme depression, etc).

I guess you could argue that with infinite time, you could figure out how to redesign yourself until you are comfortable with immortality. But are you still yourself by then? Or is this problem also already solved by... just dying?
> "Still better than a master of one" is a recent addendum to the phrase.

Your wikipedia link says the last line is not included in the original phrase
Maturation means improvement. If something is getting worse, then it's not maturation.
The larger the organization (private sector or not), the more likely it is to favor specialists, not least because smaller organizations simply cannot allow most of the people to be specialists (there aren't enough of them to do all the things).

So, if you want positions at large organizations, there will be more demand for specialists, and the reverse is true with small organizations. Whether you made a "mistake" or not, depends on whether you would rather work at small organizations, or large ones.

Note: yes, there are a minority of generalists at large organizations, and a few specialists at small ones, but the percentages are very different.
Until the government decides it’s a right, which they don’t seem to be doing (license plate scanners, facial recognition, etc) it’s not a right.

So this is the best we get.
It's pretty obvious that these probes aren't in good faith at all. If the government gave a shit about antitrust law or consumers, we wouldn't see things like Equifax/Transunion or Verizon/AT&T and other oligopolies that currently exist in the states.

The government and both parties want more control over the internet and the tech industry. Antitrust is a convenient trojan horse to get it.
They're also much much more expensive and less flexible. With earth based satellites new experiments with new instrumentation is easy, in space currently we have no way to fix any issues.
It's the established, standard name for such internment camps, going back to the Boer War. There's a popular assumption that "concentration camp" always means "death camp" but that's not the established definition of the term.
In sports, one popular example is NFL players taking ballet classes.
But then again brushing with fluoridated toothpaste is one of the few dental interventions with good evidence supporting it's effectiveness (unlike flossing for instance).
> They choose to work for evil

that's quite an extreme view. Have you ever considered you might be mistaken?
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If you align the interface's packet hashing with kernel and application space cpu pining, most of the tcp locking is limited to a single cpu, so there's no cross cpu contention.

Microsoft calls this receive side scaling, and it's also available in FreeBSD. On FreeBSD, this really helps with tcp data packets, but connection setup still has bottlenecks; there's not an api for setting up outgoing sockets to align with the cpu you're on, but it's possible to do it with manual port assignment on outgoing connections.
Those generalist qualities can be very valuable at a large company, if you can handle the politics. Main thing is you probably will have a hard time going in through the front door as there are generally too many gatekeepers filling checkboxes. You need to go through the hiring manager or leadership recruiting directly to be able to tell your story to people who will get it.
I think that is the point. He is doing it to increase earnings, he isn't doing it for shareholder benefit, it is for his benefit directly. He could forego some growth in revenue in return for not destroying his users privacy but he, Zuckerberg directly, elects not to.
As someone who uses statistics all the time at work, I sympathize so much with this article and greatly enjoyed it. Every time I try to introduce a Bayesian prior, coworkers either look at me like I'm crazy (because they've never heard of or used Bayesian stats) or like I've suddenly gone soft and introduced a bunch of nebulous, touchy-feely context into the objective truth (if they're dedicated frequentists).

Then we promptly switch back to p-values of .05, a lot of the time not even bothering with a statistical power calculation. I've had better success with introducing power, though. I suspect that's because we can fit it into the existing frequentist framework.
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Is it too much to ask that this vote of no confidence inspires any facebook employees to re-evaluate their life choices and decide to work somewhere else? Maybe somewhere that does good?

I think it's too much to ask, but I hope that it isn't.
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We can and have fixed space telescopes before, probably the most famous example is Hubble and its poor sight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Flawed_...
It's basically Cumberland Farms.
What I'd like to more accurately identify is the point at which we get diminishing returns to health from strenuous exercise, in measurable form. Exercise of course provides enormous health benefits, but progressive overload for instance demands ever increasing caloric intake which runs counter to health recommendations. This is probably easier to track than high intensity cardio except in terms of pure caloric need. I deadlift twice my bodyweight at up to 5 reps and consume somewhere in the range of 2000-2500 calories a day. But is reaching the 1000 pound club worth it from a health standpoint? I doubt it, but the evidence surrounding this is sorely lacking.
You're right. Thanks for calling that out.
"Trucks were built for a purpose, and some folks use trucks to fulfill that purpose!" Hmm, imagine that, Midwestern farm folk using trucks to haul shit. Now let's go take a look in the beds of the pickups in the parking lot of my suburban workplace and see if we can find any scratches, trucks that were driven by a solo driver with no passenger and nothing in the bed.
On being surprising: thousands of illegal business would imply a massive network of parallel activities (banking, real estate, supply management, employment, and so on).

But I read it wrong, thanks @fnodsensei. It reads “licit”, which makes it not so surprising after all. Nothing to see here.

The gist of my comment was that the parent was characterizing everybody as naive (as in the follow-up comment below) while not commenting on the findings. New census, mapping data provided to Google with possibly far-reaching positive consequences, but somehow we need to comment on an imagined public reaction and high moral ground instead.
> concentration camp. n. a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area

It's literally a camp where you "concentrate" some minority group in a small area to make them easier to deal with; that's exactly what was done to the Japanese. The fact that the concentration camps in Germany were worse (because they enslaved and killed mass numbers of them) doesn't make the one in the US any less a concentration camp.
I don't know where I picked up the idea, but I've long thought that it makes a kind of sense that oral plaque and gum disease would be linked to heart and brain diseases.
> She verified everything else and turned on the beam. The machine stopped and the computer screen flashed "Malfunction 54," a mysterious message not even mentioned in the Therac-25 manual.

> [...] the Therac-25 typically issued up to four error messages a day. It did so by displaying "Malfunction" plus a number, from 1 through 64. No explanation was offered by the computer nor was there any reference to the malfunction codes in the operator's manual. Technicians could, in most cases, bypass the irritating malfunctions simply by pressing the "p" key, for "proceed." Doing so became a matter of habit.

Even if you're not doing safety-critical systems, there are many lessons to be learned just from this bit alone.

Use human-readable error messages, and make sure they are understandable to the users/operators of your software (not just developers). Including a specific error code is fine -- it can disambiguate similar errors, and make it very easy to do a 'find all' in source to go directly to the offending spot -- but that doesn't help your user.

If you're going to allow users to bypass an error, make it deliberate. The best way to do this is debatable, but through years of bad software, users have been trained to dismiss popup messages by pressing OK or 'yes' or 'proceed'.

When you show an important error, make sure it's different from informational messages or warnings. Showing users routine warnings and messages is fatiguing and basically just trains them to always press the 'p' key.

> According to a computer system's analysis of FDA documents, the computer would not accept new information on a particular phase of treatment (in the case of both Tyler accidents, changing the x-ray mode to electron mode) if the technician made the changes within eight seconds after reaching the end of the prescription data. That's what Malfunction 54 meant.

Consider if they had actually tried to show an error message for this (or even document what it meant). Something like "Data on screen does not reflect actual parameters being used. Proceed?" Hopefully at some point during development, someone would question that: "why are we allowing them to proceed in this case?" "If we can detect that is the case, why even show this as an error, instead of just updating the parameters?"
Yet Dragonfly's network performance is nowhere near as good as that of Linux, let alone FreeBSD.
I dont like when they dont define the subject. eg if you're a "fullstack developer" are you a generalist or a specialist? If you're an artist who does some web design work are you a generalist or a specialist?
So if they dumped all their Facebook stock I wonder how that would affect Zuck? I don't like what Facebook is doing right now either, but I also don't own any Facebook stock. if they choose to continue owning the stock despite his behavior, then aren't they complicit here?

I've also floated the notion that if one started putting Zuckerberg deepfake videos on Facebook, I think the thin-skinned tyrant (I mean this is the guy who supposedly threatened employees with a samurai sword in the early days) would suddenly do an about-face about promoting such content.
> since there's significantly less 'keyboard warriors' over there - especially ones with any strong political lean.

Really? I was under the impression that had quite a few, and even thousands that are paid by the government to post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party.
In the reference you cite, it says ""Still better than a master of one" is a recent addendum to the phrase."

Whereas it says "Jack of all trades, master of none" (without your recent addition) is from 1721.

See also https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/jack-of-all-trades.html
I'm sorry, but this article just seems to muddle the issues, based on some misguided idea that open source was a method for plucky independent developers to profit from the code paid by big corporations (in this case, Chromium) while being immune from their power.

The whole premise that "capitalism hacked open-source" is itself ahistorical: if anything, open-source was a creation of capitalism, by people who disliked that Free Software had ethical implications, and wanted a term that would strip those and make it "corporation friendly".

Does Google and other big corps profit off open source developers? No shit; that was the point.
Weird economics for this one. They claim to produce one piece of plastic every 60 seconds. Probably with post-processing, this translates to a part per 2 minutes, or 240 per day at most. In this low volume, you'd need to be selling high-value products to make economic sense. But then, if you have the budget for more than a few dollars per plastic, why wouldn't you go for a 3D printing service like Shapeways, or low volume molds, like ProtoMold ?
People don't use Windows and iPhone at the same time?

Or Mac and Android?

or Android and iPad?
but then the whole family group message is green not blue.
Interesting. However, Last modified: 2014. There has happened a lot in the Linux Kernel since then. I wonder what the state of the art is nowadays and how it compares to the Kernel.
The US canps were exactly historically normal concentration camps, designed to concentrate a disfavored population for easier control, as had been used by many powers for quite a long time before WWII.

The idea that the label is inappropriate comes entirely from going beyond accepting the term’s ludicrously euphemistic use for Nazi extermination camps, but to preferring that use exclusively, which is about like saying it's inappropriate to use the term “shower” for washing chambers with overhead water sprayers because the term was euphemistically used for Nazi extermination chambers.
How narrowly do you you want me to word it, for better or worse buying a car is the default. I'm not saying I like it.

Bicycles are relatively cheaper, I suspect the barrier to cycling isn't cost. Its infrastructure, culture, etc.
about whether facebook is evil? Not in the last decade, and I have a hunch most addicted users agree.

It's been years since I've even seen a pro-facebook take on HN, let alone anywhere else.

Most people echo something similar to "I don't like it, but everyone else is there, and I don't want to feel left out."
> Are you stating that the Misleading verdict can not [be] given in EU countries in B2C advertisements?

No.
A watchdog timer is so named because it watches for some undesirable condition (usually a hang) and takes action if the condition lasts too long. This sort of auto-rollback is not that because it doesn't detect if something is bad, just rolls it back unless you tell it not to.
No, because so far no one has been able to make one.
Too many people want to travel
another issue is, even if there are charging stations in convenient locations, what do you do if you get there and all the slots are being used. I rarely, if ever, have to wait to fill up at the gas station, and when I do it takes less than five minutes for the car in front of me to finish filling up. worse case scenario is I wait for the other person to buy a bag of chips inside the station.

it takes about an hour to charge a tesla most of the way full at a supercharger. no one is gonna wait that long with their car. who knows when they'll be back?