skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry but the i8 is not what i'd consider an ev being a hybrid only...

from: https://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/bmwi/bmw-i8.html?

"With the electric motor and combustion engine providing a total output of 369hp and 420 lb-ft of torque, the i8 Coupe and i8 Roadster more than live up to the sporting heritage of BMW – blowing through 0-60mph in as little as 4.2 seconds."

so it's also not particularly fast either... considering a non performance tesla model s with 4+ seats does 4.0s and is really an ev...

so the i8 is more of a gas car... this IMO is why it didn't sell very well either. It's not an ev and it's not that fast compared to a tesla that it was trying to position itself against...
My token battery gets me to work 20 miles away, and I rarely fire up the ICE, but it means that I can still drive from London to Scotland with only a single stop for petrol.
My abomination i3 is the best car I’ve ever owned. To each there own, I personally think it looks like it came out of Blade Runner and the only real complaint I have is I wish it were AWD and had wider, less bicycle-like tires.
Cross-Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features (2017) [pdf]
Oh no. Nextera Energy, according to [1] is "... one of the largest wind and solar energy developers in North America". According to the article, 800 metric tons of concrete go into building a wind turbine.

Replacing all of the fossil fuel based power generation in the USA could require one million wind turbines according to some sources! My own back of the envelope calculations indicate that we would need close to 500,000 wind turbine to be built. I suppose that additional infrastructure and changes to the power grid for such a massive number of turbines could require addition concrete as well, spelling doom for sand.

[1] http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2013/04/17/nextera-energy...
Worth reëxamining in 50 years time when it’s a little warmer I reckon
This is a temporary state of things and people need to be less caught up with the technical shortcomings. It’s the world where machine vision is fully accurate that is the real problem, not only the one where the machines are buggy
From a couple other comments... the combination is 6 distinctions on two feature classes. Shoot, do I need red, or yellow for this device? It'd be worse than mini/micro usb transition.
I get the feeling that the commercial part of this law might hold up, but the election part is highly questionable based on Supreme Court rulings.
Whole HardenedBSD single man PR campaign started here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473

Author thought that having ASLR is absolutely must (hint: it's not[1].) HardenedBSD is poorly reviewed ASLR implementation by a person who didn't take criticism well + recommended new defaults from subj.

Later hBSD added neat things like different update mechanism (hint: it's the same minus delta patches), retpoline enabled by default a little earlier than FreeBSD and probably still haven't disabled it.

It's a fact that FreeBSD had poor defaults for ages and only recently (last couple of years) started cleaning things up. That said I never seen FreeBSD user running default system settings. Many not even running GENERIC kernel, me included.

I think FreeBSD has a lot of issues, but 90% are political bullshit.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/new-a...
Intel laid off most of their CPU designers 5 years ago. That's when their CPUs became frozen in time and it's when the marketing morons took over the executive boardroom. It is well known that they are mostly a semiconductor physics shop and don't have a clue about how to design circuits or software. The challenge of making a good modem is mostly in the handoff software (most calls are in some sort of handoff most of the time) and software is the Intel Achilles Heel.
Just a note, it doesn't seem to have all the latest updates, since those can sometimes change what's on the setup screen.
not quite

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
It will on an older Leaf with a smaller battery. In Norway, you might be forced to turn of the heating in winter if traffic gets bad. But with double-digit kWh of battery capacity as a normally-unuser buffer, it won’t be much of a worry, if at all.
> since 1999

That is really impressive. I purchased my first domain around that year. But, I failed to keep it up to date. I have moved 4 times to different domains. And, it has been the last one that I have updated for the past 5 years or so. The rest are lost.

I really like your "Slashdotted" section. It brings back a lot of memories.
Why? Is this opinion rooted in the American hatred/demonization of unions? I come from a scandinavian country and it would be pretty normal for a union spokesman to comment on something like this.

What would be his "political" point here?
[...]in the UK as we have a significantly lower percentage of tree cover compared to Europe,[...]

Please use "...compared to _the rest of_ Europe" next time. That stresses the very real commonalities between European countries. Civilised people using inclusive language are our only hope for a brexit process without too much bruising. Little things like this can really help.

I apologise for injecting that completely off topic remark into this conversation and will shut up now. I probably deserve some karma burning, just not too much please.

P.S. Thank you for you comment about tree cover and the world wars in the UK. I just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestry_in_the_United_Kingdom with great interest.
Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_contact_bonding

Super interesting stuff.
What applications directly consume Haskell code? The only examples I can think of off the top of my head are apps written in Haskell that actually get recompiled any time you change the "configuration" Haskell code.

As for Python, that's because the Python interpreter can be embedded in an app.

That said, Dhall is exposed as a Haskell library, so if you're writing a Haskell app you could consume Dhall directly and skip the YAML. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-1.24.0/docs/Dhall-... shows examples of this.
I like nuclear but the death numbers are not as relevant when exposure time to radiation is the relevant factor and we've abandoned many cities to prevent those types of deaths.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned using robots to automate planting of trees.
Many modern Hybrids run the AC off battery so would it be sufficient to buy a hybrid with an app that can do "remote start" so you can turn on the car an hour before you leave work?
Excessive buybacks are bound to doom companies. If you can't compete, if you can't innovate, if your destroy your brand's reputation in order to maximize share buybacks, you will no longer have the revenue to continue the buybacks.

Like most things, a happy medium is good. Too few buybacks, you might be wasteful in your R&D spending. Too much, you get a Boeing situation. A middle ground optimizes for continuing to produce innovations, while maintaining (and hopefully growing) revenues.
You're right, misunderstanding was on my end
This quote is powerful and resonates: “The cost-cutting culture is the opposite of a culture built on productivity, innovation, safety or quality”

I know investors must see a profit and business must keep moving but honoring the careful balance of these two ideas is a must or what are you really left with?
I knew AvE's video would show up :D
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Honestly, I suspect there isn't a single place on the planet where the majority of the population likes PC culture, or thinks like many of the more vocal types on Twitter do. The stats would probably be pretty similar in the UK, much of Europe, Australia, etc.

Either way, the stats provided also likely hint that the best way to deal with online controversies over political correctness and offensiveness now is simply to ignore them altogether. I mean, at the end of the day, how much of a sales drop does an angry mob on Twitter account for? For many businesses, probably about 0.01% at most. Ignore it, and any issues will just go away on their own eventually.
Small correction: it was not the air traffic controller primarily at fault, but the captain of the KLM aircraft for taking off without explicit clearance.
Higher orbits require higher velocities, which aren't going to be reached by collision debris.
This reminds me of a phenomenon called cold welding, where if the surfaces are flat and clean enough, the blocks of metal will fuse. Just touching two sufficienly thin gold wires will weld them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding
It doesn't really work that way. Or, at least, you need some more information.

There are two big assumptions you haven't made explicit. One, that the FN rate is low. If it isn't you haven't necessarily improved your SNR at all, you're just spent resources looking in the wrong place. Two, that the cost of a FP is 0. The latter obviously isn't true, so you have to weight the positive and negative impacts across all scenarios before you can tell if this is a net win.

Think of this in a different context; say I have a new cancer screening protocol, with a low FN but also a high FP rate. So everyone we mark as positive gets a follow up biopsy. You say "great, we catch x% more cancers now than the old way, good win". Until someone points out that biopsies have a y% rate of catastrophic infection resulting in death. Depending how these rates balance out, we may be killing more people that we are saving....
Are they replacing the old keyboards with new ones?
Also, the headline "Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737" is a little bit misleading -- he left Boeing in 2000, long before development on the 737 MAX started and has been working for the union since then.
Maybe you and dang have a different ability to recognize sarcasm. Sometimes this is really difficult. Looking at comment history can often help you figure out if something is sarcasm or not.

There can also be words that some people find offensive. Not everybody agrees on the words that qualify.
Who knew intermolecular forces could be so strong? This blew my mind.
There's a few, but mostly AWS.

If you're going to put up satellites to do low latency internet, they need to be in LEO. (Speed of light is slow and GEO is far away) This ends up allowing you to provide internet in most locations as well. Kinda a spin-off.

So they want to provide high speed internet to any first world without having to build tons of physical towers (you still need them). I also wouldn't be surprised if Sl Americans who live in sparsely populated areas use Amazon as a primary place to obtain things (I know I did).

So now we can also do things like provide high speed and low latency internet to ships, islands, and people all over the world. Remember that most of Amazon's business is AWS, not Amazon.com. Less than half the world population is on the internet. More users means more servers. Easy to see the the major advantage. Amazon doesn't care if they're using Amazon.com but if they're using AWS. Which there's a good chance they will.

Tldr: AWS is where they currently make their money and where more users will just increase that capital.
https://www.google.com/search?q=microsite

A small website, often targeted to a specific marketing channel or campaign.
One of Starlink's planned markets is global high frequency trading. The latency of radio and laser transmission in atmosphere and space is much lower than undersea fiber optic cables. (Light moves significantly slower through glass than through air.) Even with the longer distance and retransmission they stand a good chance of being lower latency across oceans than undersea cables.
Wouldn't chucking a bucket of water over the car with the evaporation help cool the car down quicker initially? Along with least reducing the amount of time needed to run idle for cooling.

Though this would depend upon the humidity, would not work in high humidity and equally work better in low humidity.
That means this problem has been going on for over 20 years, and probably longer. Which is kind of scary.
There are vast swaths of land that can be planted as forest without any negative economic impact.
Personally I didn't read it as having to do with hatred of unions, more just a reminder of political incentives. It's very much in a union's best interest to divert blame from the engineers it represents onto the companies "cost-cutting culture".

It could very well be the truth that the cost-cutting culture is to blame. But it's always worth noting incentives of parties in cases like this.
Are you sure? The date/time was live for me.

Edit: Looked at the network requests, it's not images. It's returning config files with the information to emulate it.
https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/schemas/ThinkPad%20X1%20Car...
> I think the US market is only a smaller but profitable part of BMW's business.

The US is the second largest single market for BMWs, behind China (China buys nearly twice as many BMWs as the US market now). It's about 14% of their total group unit volume (~350k out of ~2.5m). It's a similar number for Mercedes. For Porsche the US is about 20% of their sales.

In 1995 they sold 95,000 BMWs in the US. By 2007 that was up to 293,000. They haven't seen a huge collapse in units sold in the US (10%-12% or so), however I think the slide backwards and continued rise of Tesla is obviously very concerning as a threat. They know they have to do something right now.
So the machines think all <insert-identity-group> look alike.
Not really. As you’ve seen with any other person speaking out from any company, squeaky wheels tend to get disappeared.

A union allows workers to speak out without fear of losing their jobs. The implicit approval gives more credibility to the author.
Sounds like that big innovator IBM.
> "what maximum level of crime can we accept?"

I agree with you.

Said that way seems that you are given up. I think that it can be better to say "do you prefer to catch 0.5% more criminals or to reduce 0.4% deaths by cancer". Or something like that.

People usually want 100% safety, that is not possible to achieve, and to try to get it they will give away thousands of lives that could have been saved with the time and effort invested in that impossible goal.
I think that while leiningen does a lot of what tools.deps/deps.edn and the CLI tools do, the reverse is not true.

tools.deps/deps.edn is about building a classpath to run a clojure process. The clojure CLI tools has some additional machinery for starting a simple REPL. That's it.

What this allows is a potentially more composable ecosystem, where instead of having every new build tool implement a way of declaring dependencies and building a classpath, they could instead use tools.deps + deps.edn.

It also has a slightly different feature set, allowing local dirs and remote git repos to act as first-class deps.

Lein and boot are incumbent, and have legacy projects to think about, so they can't go about just adopting deps.edn + tools.deps without breaking things. So at the moment, things are a bit fragmented. C'est la vie.
It's traumatic of course to have that happen but you still remember your life, you don't forget about first grade or something. Our mental state is affected by the health state of our bodies. I just read the wikipedia bio of Damasio, I see he's a real neuroscientist (I am not). But how can it be that our memories are not only in our brain?
The biggest issue with what USB-C has caused is that now instead of it being a port you can easily identify you have a port that can do anything and an anonymous cable that may or may not support the actual functionality of the port! The only real solution is to buy your own expensive cables stock and only really use the cord a device came with if you want to be 100% sure it will work.

Though even that isn't a complete fix because there are some hidden gotcha's like length limits for external docks, to get full speed out of an external GPU enclosure for example you're pretty much stuck either using a very nice cable (good luck determining which actually support it and which are just lying to you since manufacturers can claim any capabilities) or sticking with a very short cable limiting the utility.
Your second point implies that it doesn’t really matter when this function was explained properly.. the outcome would have been the same
Union spokespeople are in the business of (literally paid to be) preserving local, union jobs.

They are likely going to speak negatively of even the greatest off-shoring/out-sourcing or other labor cost-savings effort.
I am not sure why this is not talked about often enough.

Prior to the 1980s, Japan's economy functioned as a sort of War economy. Companies would spend and invest to gain market share at the cost of margins. share prices were rarely something a company worried about, it was always about product.

This was key to Japan's insane post WW2 success.

Then came the 80s, with it US style shareholder capitalism. and within 10 years Japan's economy collapsed - never to recover.

If you notice, China is following the same exact pattern, running a War economy with a razor focus on market share over profitability. It's what causes great fortunes to be made and lost in China.

Coming back to Boeing, because of the monopolist dynamic here, nothing is going to change. Especially since the people who died were mostly foreign nationals. I doubt even if some unfortunate event like that happens in the EU,NA Boeing would go bankrupt - there would be a lot of noise for a few years, maybe some board members get fired. Too many pension plans and retirement plans depend on Boeing's survival.
> It almost certainly reduces demand for abuse videos, and possibly reduces demand for the creation of new abuse videos

And thus it's expected to reduce the abuse done in the process of creating said videos. I provisionally believe your substitution argument. I have no clue if the total abuse is decreasing or increasing here.
It's been known for decades that some infections can kill cancer.
Yep... two 747 crashing.

#2 deadliest is another 747 - JAL123 loaded with 520 passengers.

A mid air collision killing 300+ in 90s, and air india bombing killing 350 in 80s.

These crashes + lockerbie bombing add up to 2000 people.

Crazy.
Is it that difficult to see that dry dog food is wildly different from dogs natural varied diet?
Not GP, but early versions of Kafka had a lot of poorly-chosen default settings and sharp edges. eg, it was tuned for speed and availability over reliability, so it could lose your data if you weren't careful (not dissimilar to early versions of MongoDB that way). It was possible/easy to set up topics with no replication, so you'd lose data on your first server outage. KStreams had no real error handling - it would just explode and not even really tell you why. I wasn't as close to the operational side, but there were a lot of problems there too.

IME it has gotten better over time, but it's still pretty easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't understand what you're doing with it.
Exactly this. It seems to be a natural cycle in most industries where there comes out a viable disrupter. Newcomer comes in to lead the pack in a differentiated part of a given market. They lead for years and displace their existing counterparts who fail to pivot for the sake of short term profit. "How can we risk X number of quarters or even years to sink profits back into R&D to become better and compete for years to come? What about next quarter?". The message is always the same from the incumbent side: they claim they're not concerned as new tech is a niche, then they realize the miss and spread FUD, and then they half ass enter to see if anyone's paying attention but the product still isn't near their competitor.

I saw this first hand in the firewall market starting back in 2012ish. Palo Alto Networks came to the plate with a fundamental shift. "Safely enable applications" was one of their original selling tactics. This went against other firewalls that were playing whack-a-mole with ports and IPs, where PAN was focusing on applications (App-ID). The founder, Nir Zuk, even made fun of his competitors (he had a very public rivalry with Gil Shwed, CEO of Checkpoint) by using "Innovators Dilemma" to showcase their failures to innovate based on the fact that they had a huge customer base they didn't want to disrupt, again in the name of quartely earnings and appeasing Wall Street. Fast forward 7+ years and PAN has eaten it's competition, but hasn't innovated in 4+ years. Now the company just buys up competition preemptively and will eventually realize the same fate Checkpoint did. Nir has fallen victim to his own hypocrisy. Successful? For sure. But that doesn't change the reality of their focus today (profit) vs earlier (R&D).

I think these cycles are natural and likely good for innovation within industries. Will BMW survive? Most likely. But over the next couple of decades they may be forced to reinvent, and as the article states they may be behind the rest of the pack playing catch-up due to the debt of not moving early and ignoring the intrinsic market signals.
IIRC, at that time there was no standard unambiguous way to communicate standard procedures and misunderstandings were often (albeit not fatal). It was after that crash when FAA introduced very strict rules on air traffic communication (e.g. the word "clearance" can only be said by the air traffic controller if the clearance is actually granted). Talk about rules written in blood.
I tried to pay my Indian contractor through Paypal. Their system flagged the transaction, so I contacted support. After several days of trying to get anyone to respond, I was literally told that there is nothing that they can do and that I should use a different service :D
One of the worst services I've ever used.
This isn't the right question. Cars help the police to move much more quickly than they could on foot, for example, and properly used can be part of a system that values justice and human rights.

A better question might be: "given how accurate this facial recognition system is, what if anything in addition to a match should be required for an officer to detain someone matched by it?".

I don't have an answer for this one. This tech is new, and complex, and hard. We'll likely abuse it before we figure out how to properly balance human rights and protecting the public.
I'll throw my hat into the ring along with everyone else and say 'yes please'!
I did the math on this. It probably wouldn't be good for hft. The highly profitable hft is done on the floor of the nyse. There's some from Boston but they typically use directed radio instead of fiber-optic. Satellites will be even slower, but maybe cheaper if you're sending date from California or Australia. But it's still probably cheaper (and more profitable) to put a machine on the floor or even just in NYC.

I'm not sure why hft would be a major pitch. These people fight for floor space at the nyse because that much latency matters.
By comparison, CFLs also increased marketshare after the ban but quickly lost most of it to LED bulbs - regulation can't help if the product is poor compared to alternatives.
It's not an abomination it has some flaws which don't affect me, others that make me compromise a bit (drive more slowly, stop more often), but some reasons I chose it other than it being the only affordable electric car available that met all my requirements, was because of the bmw quality and attention to detail which are also hallmarks of the brand.