skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propelling air to move on the ground is far less efficient than wheel propulsion. You have to give the air at least as much momentum as the vehicle, and without a very large propeller, this requires accelerating it to a high velocity, giving it much more kinetic energy than the vehicle itself. The energy use while taxiing can be substantial, and the range of electric planes is critical.

Wheel propulsion on the other hand can impart momentum at very high efficiency, as well as regeneratively brake.
I would trust Google and Gmail way more than protonmail and whatever company behind it for protecting my private data to be honest.
I pay Rs150 ($2.16 USD - maybe can buy a hotdog at Costco with some spare change) per month (stress the Month.. ) and get 1.5 GB per day (yes, that's data per day) .
> no privacy issues yet (money is directly debited from account without a mastercard/visa involved)

Isn’t Aadhar (fingerprints + iris scan) needed to have a bank account? If yes, then it’s a bit disingenuous to say there are no privacy issues.

> No risk of fraud

A cursory search will show plenty of press articles re UPI fraud. For instance [1].

[1] https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/personal-finance/...
I have no doubt that both are large factors in the boardroom. Easy sale, easy repeat sale. It would be un-capitalistic to do anything else?! Consumers will probably choose the cheap option for the few jobs they have. Professionals will choose the high end option. How else would Harbor Freight exist?!

I think a good system of borrowing high end equipment within your local community would be far more environmentally friendly, but that doesn’t really fit the macho all American DIY persona very well.
Allow me to sell your organisation some VR goggles with iris-reading DRM protection. Your browser won't display on any other screen. And Google Services won't work in any other browser.
e2e encryption solves a totally different problem. If you don't trust the intended recipient of a message don't send it. e2e helps make sure nobody else receives the message.

Google is making an entirely different claim about controlling the actions of a third party. It's fundamentally impossible to do what Google is claiming.
I would love to see Anathem as a 3 season animated series.
> I never know what exactly evaluates to true vs false in PHP or JavaScript for example.

You don't have to know if you don't use implicit type-casting. Make it explicit and you won't really have to worry about it.

"Explicit is better than implicit" is part of the Zen of Python for a very good reason.
But see also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... and especially https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... — that comment is increasingly stale unless you support browsers which are no longer supported by their vendors like IE8.
It can be a website also. Animations are cool, as long as they are not overwhelming.
I'm the same. I mostly watch to get some sort of satisfaction thinking I'm "not really" wasting my time, since whatever I'm watching might be useful for me... which it never proves to be.

Some are visual thinkers, I'm more intuitive.
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But as a worker in a corporation, the chances that you would want an email so badly that you start breaking more corporate rules trying to get a copy of an email is very unlikely at least for common everyday work.

This could be a useful feature when dealing with PHI, legal, HR, etc.
So what you are saying is that JVM copying surviving object between generational pools might expose secrets in memory?

A very good point, thank you.

What could be done to mitigate this? Direct ByteBuffer per

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5670862/bytebuffer-alloc...

?
The 80% figure are flights longer than 1500 km. 1500 and less are the 20%.

So even if all those flights were switched to magic zero emission electricity, the aggregate improvement over the whole industry would barely beat the relative improvement between a 737 NG and a MAX. (yes, this is an apples to orchards comparison)
parseInt will use the first few characters in the string as a heuristic to determine the radix. It’s not reliable for some types of common decimal strings(padded zeros will cause erroneous parsing)
and real estate is up there too. right-of-way for fiber and renting rooftops for base stations is a major telcom cost driver.
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> I get you and others are calling to the sentiment of “how can we be free if we aren’t free to x” but the value of that sentiment isn’t independent of what X is.

Do you propose an objective criteria by which a state can legitimately dictate behavior on one set of Xs and not another set of Xs? If not, then you are by omission saying that every totalitarian state is legitimate. I suspect you might want to say, if the 51% wants something, that makes it legitimate. In that case you are're saying a murderous state is legitimate. (I won't go full Godwyn here, but suffice to say that many democratically elected regimes have committed legal murder on a massive scale and continued to enjoy majority support.)

Hey, here's an idea for an objective criteria: Does X invade any other particular person's life, liberty or property? Banning crypto fails that test.
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There was an hacker news item, where some one analysed stackoverflow metrics and Amazon requirements (of sort) and predicted NOVA is going to be the location of HQ2 months if not a year ahead.

I disagree that VA was pre-decided, the way I see it is, they kind of knew what the front horses are but wanted what others can surprise them and/or improve their negotiation position.

* Austin had something given Whole Foods
* Dallas is said to finish #3 for HQ2 (probable rumour) until a tell all from some one in search committee.
So in summary:

JS map doesn't behave like anybody else's map.

JS argument passing prefers doing the wrong thing to interrupting the programmer.

These two things conspire together and poor parseInt does its best with the resulting garble.
Especially when there are only 7 in that room.
So i dont know should i feel happy for Virginia for succeeding attracting a tax-evading megacorporation to its area. "Close to regulators", yey. Now Amazon employees can just drive down to their office and negoatiate campaign money directly.
Lutris looks cool, given steam using Proton or whatever it is called is there an advantage to using this today?
Thanks for educating me!
No, that's exactly backwards -- jet engines are far less efficient at low speed than at cruise speed. Various numbers I found say 100-300 kg of fuel used taxiing for single aisle planes like 737 [0][1] all the way up to two tons of fuel for large aircraft like 747 at large airports like JFK [0].

This can be extremely relevant for shorter flights: "[taxiing] aircraft fuel burn which is estimated to be as high as 27% of total fuel burn for a 90-minute flight where waiting in queue adds to the time on the ground" [2]

[0] https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=747735

[1] https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/05/01/electric-taxiing-sy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxiing
> tidyverse code, which is essentially the only thing keeping R in the game

From my experience this is not the case. In biomedicine and bioinformatics few people actually use tidyverse because the data is much better represented as a matrix, and not in the "tidy" form.

Outside of that corporations (well at least 2 I contracted with) used `data.table` explicitly. Join 3 ad-click dataframes matching by userID, sessionID and closest possible time-point - that's one line in `data.table`.

Tidyverse is well suited for learning and for managing (relatively) simple datasets. But becomes cumbersome for more complex data. It can be used for those data too of course, just that it will be adding ad-hoc solutions and maybe get in a way more than help.
I actually have the opposite take - I've seen "the Amazon HQ is definitely at <place>" reported so many times, with different places, that I won't believe that they're actually putting it there until the electricity is on, people are commuting to it, and they have a contract with a landscaping firm.
Would you elaborate please?
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It seems to me that CloudFlare should just sponsor servers for inclusion in the long-standing global NTP pools.

https://www.ntppool.org/en/
CNET is still autoplaying videos with sound in 2019.

I thought companies already figured out in the 90s that there's nothing more annoying than that. I guess I was mistaken.
I've developed applications in JS, but don't have extensive experience with it, and I couldn't spot the problem. Frankly, I think if `['1', '2'].map(parseInt)` is both valid and does not result in a collection containing the integers 1 and 2 in that order, that indicates a catastrophic failure of design at some level. These things happen, but usually you have to dig down to a less bog standard example to find it. The "you just have to know" argument is often unavoidably valid, but in this case I think it's way off the mark.
Then: felt like a year between major holidays.

Now: feels like about two weeks between major holidays. "Wait, fireworks stands? Wasn't it just Easter?"
Because It's JavaScript.. stop using unsafe languages, really
Telenor rolled-out first 5G base station in Serbia
People still this Snapchat is secure. Frustratingly, you're not going to win this battle.
Plus with Netflix, you can share an account with family members around the world (2 simultaneous streams) and with a premium account, which is only a bit extra, you can get 4 simultaneous streams. Technically 4+ households could share a single subscription to watch with a TV.
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Well, the average developer should use a lint tool with Javascript.

A bunch of confusion points in Javascript (including this one) have been well understood for a long time, best practices have been developed to deal with them, and mature tooling exists to easily enforce them.

Put another way: If you are unsure, go download eslint along with the plugins for your environment, and find/create a ruleset that turns on almost everything.
The example given is taken from Rust. Rust does not allow overloading (even in terms of optional parameters, I believe). Well, Rust allows overloading by implementing different traits but then forces you to disambiguate where necessary.
What does parseInt work with a radix of 0 but not 1? Neither really makes any sense.
I would love if websites tried to autodetect my country from my IP address, and then gave me a upper bound on the potential shipping cost given where it thinks I am.
This can be said about pretty much any bug.
I thought the IPv6 change in India looked odd, thanks for pointing that out.

Although I’d imagine such a large addition should also be reflected in Google’s aggregate statistics, I don’t know how often they update the weightings for each country though.
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
The India data is per day..so for 90 days total bw is 1.5x90 GB
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parseInt and the map callback signature both declare the second argument as integers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

The thing which would actually catch this would be the mismatch in the number of arguments (modulo someone declaring that third argument as optional) or breaking compatibility to change one of them not to be a basic integer.
Wow, this is a giant FU to their customers

> Replacing the battery, however, "may take 1 to 2 weeks" with the company advising users to make sure to back up their data first.

Peacing out with a laptop that someone uses for 7-14 days is unbelievable.
I pay $60 for unlimited data and also get Direct TV Now with ATT. Also use a family members Netflix.

What is the cost for the service you mentioned in India in US dollars?
This can be parsed two different ways, though:

We will not scan your messages. (One possible reason we would have done this would be for advertising.)

vs.

We will not use the scans we perform on your messages to make advertising decisions.

I'm honestly not sure which it is (although I also don't care much personally since I don't use Gmail).
> in most cases there is no need for the average developer to know it

This may come off as arrogant but.. I'll proceed nonetheless. There is a need for the average developer to know the interfaces of the functions they're choosing to use. They're well documented, and the documentation is neither hard to find, nor difficult to read.

There may be an argument here for strongly typed languages -vs- weakly typed ones, where often some of the ambiguity around optional function parameters is eased, but most languages have optional function parameters, this is not in any way unique to JS. And parseInt and [].map are very common JS methods: this is not some obscure API not all devs would be unfamiliar with, these are built-ins.
Virginia won because it scored well on everything but cost of living. I think it's quite likely that the criteria was essentially selected with NoVA in mind.
Although electric motors are capable of very high power density. If the flight is substantially shorter than the full range, flying at a faster speed, or higher altitude may be practical.
Thanks. I suppose my question was less about the affordability of a landline connection, but consumption of. Interesting that you said its a marker of wealth - but are you essentially saying that for everyone else it's not that common. At the heart of what I'm asking is: Did India skip this generation of high-landline consumption, and jump straight to mobile internet?
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My city :) I'm happy that this is finally happening, however it's still a very "test"-type of project, so only one location, small coverage area, and [almost] no devices that can utilize the network. Telenor is a leader in 4G and 4G+ coverage in Serbia, and I'm quite happy that they're the ones to commit to 5G so early on.

Disclosure: I'm not employed or compensated by Telenor or any other associated subsidiaries or parent companies. I'm just someone who loves fast mobile broadband and new technologies :)
What would be wrong if Apple customers would have choices? Nobody would force you to use a third party repair shop.
Would it be possible to involve him in the process of looking for solutions?

He might have a head-start in terms of familiarity with existing tools. And he's best positioned to get an early sense of which solutions are (from his perspective) viable.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting he should have to solve this by himself, especially in his off-hours. Nor should it necessarily crowd out the work he wants to be doing. But logistically it makes sense for him to help with the task.
> our aim should be to will the freedom of others

It used to be that every individual didn't have to figure out for themselves what to believe, they just believed the same as their family and neighbors.

It used to be that every individual didn't have to figure out for themselves what their life's work would be, they just continued the same occupation as their father or mother.

Unlimited freedom is a lot of work, and it doesn't make everyone happy.

Americans now live in a time and a place in which freedom and autonomy are valued above all else and in which expanded opportunities for self-determination are regarded as a sign of the psychological well-being of individuals and the moral well-being of the culture. This article argues that freedom, autonomy, and self-determination can become excessive, and that when that happens, freedom can be experienced as a kind of tyranny.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5044/cf122d8903a8506871d67f...
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So you reference Snowden then pretend dragnet surveillance doesn't exist?

If you are on the internet the NSA is spying on you and everyone else.

This is not an improvement because it makes guarantees that simply aren't true. These compromises are made to further Google's bottom line, not protect users. Don't pretend this is some kind of incremental improvement. It's a marketing gimmick.
Just keep in mind that multiplexing makes phishing risks significantly higher. ssh wont log multiplexed auth and phished connections are auth free, up to 9 more sessions by default.
I wish there was a better support for MacOS X on Virtual box, so you can virtualize it on a Linux/Windows laptop with latest hardware, in case you need it.

Apple hardware is too pricey and sucks recently
Not end well for who? Those who are in charge aren't going to be affected, and they don't care about the others.
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Nobody said the emails aren't scanned; they're just not used as context for ads. Obviously they're scanned, otherwise spam filtering wouldn't be possible.
Good point. I've edited my comment to be more qualified.
pool.ntp.org is a open source project (under Apache License) with a open group of contributors (volunteers). Basically the opposite of what Cloudflare is and stands for.

Sponsoring servers in pool.ntp.org wouldn't support Cloudflare's goal(s).
> The article makes the classic mistake of assuming everyone has the full security apparatus of a country after them.

Why build something half ass when you can do it right? I'll tell you why... it's because of those secret letters from the NSA... (the NSA = the real leader in our Government)
How strange we are.
I've read every other Stephenson book more than 3 times and loved every minute of all of them.
Never could get into Anathem.
> Now Amazon employees can just drive down to their office and negoatiate campaign money directly.

Well, at least the gridlock around 395 should keep them at bay for a little while until Bezos figures out how to bore a private tunnel under the Potomac.
>Note: Although confidential mode helps prevent the recipients from accidentally sharing your email, it doesn't prevent recipients from taking screenshots or photos of your messages or attachments. Recipients who have malicious programs on their computer may still be able to copy or download your messages or attachments.

If you click the "learn more" in gmail it says that ^. Gmail seems pretty upfront about what "confidentiality mode" does.
"Ring species" are a fascinating thing, they really turn out to be a litmus test for testing notions of speciation.

I think it turns out just that "species" is just a human construct. It's not something hard-and-fast that nature hews to. It's nothing but a construct we use for convenience in our drive for labels.
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Have you tried stating on your website that you don't ship to the EU?
How much of the 50mbps do you get though? Contention is one of the names of a high speed internet connection if the company doesn’t invest enough in the backend.

Or to put it another way, would you stream 4K video with it?
Nor is it email!
Most of the Jio services are free if you are on their SIM card. So no extra cost apart from paying for data.
Many games ban the players for using that setup.

Examples: Rust, Rainbow Six Siege, DayZ. All the games using BattlEye can be banned.

On the other hand LoL handles GPU passthrough well.
The problem is that this article is attributing this problem to JS, whereas the problem is with either computer science or human decimal bias: i.e. the radix is not a concept invented by JS.

If you think it should be ok for all devs to believe that parseInt === parseDecimalInt then maybe all languages should be decimal-only. That isn't the case though.
Are those really suffering of the same degree though? Surely the ennui of unexamined comfort is preferable to the agony of war and starvation--and an individual has almost total power to solve the former, effectively nil against the latter.
Hey! I'm the founder of Pavlok. That's odd -- I don't think we have a beacon of any sort doing that. You might have opted in on our discount offer, or if you added it to cart and began checkout it would know your email.

Very curious about your experience! Thanks.
0 is a special case where the parser tries to guess based on how the number is formatted. 1 just doesn't make sense at all.

Using 0 is the source of many interesting bugs, like when someone puts in an IP address like so:

192.168.010.001

and the client tells you it can't connect (to 192.168.8.1).
I wonder why Wine doesn't have those libraries on standby. I can understand keeping installer/total install size and footprint down for any application but especially emulation which is already complex and going to push hardware. If Wine includes the right components, what performance hit may be suffered? Or maybe I have this wrong and it won't really matter.
I'm seconding this. I'm also really enjoying the discussion thats coming from people who have run online stores/checkouts. Its an entire world that I don't really spend time in, but lots of the techniques feel really relevant as I do plenty of checking out online.
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>reading way too far into it

Dunno, your earlier comments seem to imply otherwise:

>we'd like to know that its not heavily degrading to the existing purpose... which is why we'd like numbers
> One local figure spoke to Metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld and urged him to make sure Amazon got to ride on one of its newest, 7000-Series trains. Wiedefeld, who says he can’t recall whether the official was from Virginia, Maryland, or the District, responded by explaining that public transportation doesn’t work that way.

Wiedefeld, incidentally, is a total bad-ass. He was hired at the end of 2015. In 2017, the first year they started measuring end-to-end travel time, on-time performance was a dismal 66%. In Q2 of 2019, it was 87%. In 2016, he shut down the entire system for days, and entire lines for weeks at a time, for emergency repairs. He's steam-rolled over NIMBYs, dramatically shutting down entire stations all summer so crumbling platforms can be completely rebuilt: https://ggwash.org/view/72561/metro-reasons-loud-yellow-and-.... (Accomplishing in three months what took years of delays and disruptions during prior, partial shut-downs.) He's brought the hammer down on the WMATA union, controlling costs and resisting calls to overtax the system by extending service: https://wamu.org/story/17/04/27/transit-union-turns-back-met... https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/09/18/metro... https://wamu.org/story/16/11/03/wmata_board_struggles_to_rea.... Not all heroes wear capes.
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Understated, but awesome! Thanks for the insight!
Which is one of its big selling points - old DOS games were used to direct hardware access. Some of them even depend on the clock rate of the PC they're running on. So an emulator that can convert Roland and Soundblaster to modern sound and such is necessary for making old DOS games playable.
I would have thought that IBM and other corporates would be keen to have things Like Confirmed Delivery , Non-repudiation and all the other nice things that x.400 (88) and X.500 promised.
Those sound like two sides of the same coin.
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> Recipients who have malicious programs on their computer may still be able to copy or download your messages or attachments.

I guess me exercising my right to do whatever I want with my bits on my computer is me having "malicious programs". What in the actual fsck.