skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Two miles per day is still not nothing."

I didn't say it was nothing, I said it was below the noise floor, which is a much more interesting way of putting it. It's not worth putting a big solar panel on the car and pretending it's going to do anything if the effect of the solar panel is literally swamped by whether or not you had coffee this morning and its effects on whether or not you have a lead foot this morning. Since "literally" has been devalued, let me highlight that I mean it in its original sense; it doesn't take that much of a commute before that will be the case. Or any number of other things that will just swamp this signal, like whether you had to use the electric heater or AC and how much of it you needed, whether you got stuck behind a semi doing 65 for a good portion of your commute or were cruising by yourself at 80 in the left lane, whether the wind was blowing against or with you today, and so on. It's not zero, but it's lost in the noise.

"Solar charge makes long-term parking feasible, and enables telematics modems to stay awake, etc."

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/how-much-battery-charg... suggests drain can vary in the 1-10 mile/day range just sitting there. This wouldn't even cover that entire range, with the optimistic assumptions on how much solar this is producing. YMMV depending on a lot of exact conditions, but it's certainly not the obvious win you'd hope where the solar can overpower normal drain by a clear order of magnitude. (I'm not loving trying to compare two amounts of energy loss in terms of "miles" here, though they're probably roughly comparable.)

It makes me wonder if they've got some other optimistic assumptions in there we weren't thinking of in terms of the car not draining very fast, or even if the number was generated simply by dividing the amount of power it generates by how much power/mile is necessary. Arguing in favor of the latter is that marketers like the bigger numbers, and especially the positive numbers rather than negatives. That post suggests it is likely to be the case that many real customers will at best notice that this solar panel slows down battery drain from just sitting there, but due to cloudy days, winter sun, etc. is not actually capable of overcoming it!
The longer I'm alive the more firmly I commit to never assume anything.

I have seen things. Terrible things.
"so you lose little or nothing by using Twitter directly"

You lose the credibility of a primary source.
I do occasionally see people with AirPods, not so sure about Apple Watches though.
Damn I miss Visual Basic.
The Art World’s Health Care Crisis (2018)
Also maybe they literally had blue wine?
> 1. The only thing making you fat is excess calories - it cannot be any other way.

So, why do you consume so much? Who calls for more and more calories? Why do you get hungry all the time? Why do you not get the needed nutrients from the food you eat? What destroyed the function of your digestive system? Why is your microbiome so different from a healthy person?
PHP is way more "batteries included" than C# without ASP.NET
Commenting here for later, thank you for the recommendations
Lisk Price Analysis for August 2019
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms
It would be a lot more useful to just put up solar panels wherever the car is being charged - it's not like the car is going to be able to gain any reasonable amount of range from the roof-based solar between charges anyways, so there isn't much benefit from having the solar panels on the car itself. Why put them on something that moves when you don't have to, for the cost of the solar panels on the car you could probably build much bigger solar panels over your parking spot or garage. Interesting gimmick, but I don't see how it is useful unless you don't have anywhere else to put solar, and even then it isn't saving you much.
That's a fair point. But saying pesticides causes obesity just paints the wrong picture imo.

Contributes would've been a better word.
...an FAA spokesperson wrote in a statement to WIRED that it's "satisfied with the manufacturer’s assessment of the issue."

Can't help but read this as: "We don't have a clue and depend on the manufacturer to tell us everything is 5 by 5."
[0] did you.. did you even the bipartisan followup? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/nasa-climate-science...

[1] is exactly my contention

[2] not really relevant. That order was highly specific and targeted to policy statements that could be confused with administration policy. I may not agree with it, but it's really really edge case.

[3] cut is a really fun word. 31% reduction to 6 billion. Not the disaster you're looking for. Also WaPo, not exactly non partisan. And the left has everything to gain from lying or dishonestly framing to get back in power.
I would assume in-flight entertainment is Level E and wasn't ever subjected to verification. And yeah that requires physical separation from higher-level systems. So... surprisingly I think I'm on Boeing's side here?
It's kind of the same reasoning why voting machines are closed source and can only be audited by authorized personnel.
I agree as I build some terrible applications in .Net MVC, which is a decent framework. I think you have to build shit software not to build shit software.

First, professional web app I developed 3 years ago is still being build upon now. Even though it is pure garbage and I hate touching it, because I "made it work". As I gained experience and got burned because I did something a certain way I slowly but surely looked for alternative approaches.

Now 3 years later, I'm building an app with layered architecture, proper separation of concerns, dependency injection. Plus, before I start hammering code away, I think about what is the number 1 priority for a piece of code, am I gonna use it once and forget it? Will I use it all the time? Then, proceed accordingly.
This is an interesting notion.

Do you mean to imply that productivity increases when your standard of living does? I'd agree with that (for a definition of productive that isn't so narrowly defined as production of wealth for a private entity like a company.)

If not, we need to deal with the fact that "productivity" doesn't directly correlate with your standard of living, unless your definition of the word is just the rate at which you accumulate capital.
It's not just for business, it's also relevant for old games fans - and will become ever more important for those of us who refuse to buy the "new" games that require a whole ssd for space, are plagued with drm and bugs and to top it off are pay2win upon paying 40€+.
Stop with the math guys, that solar panel simply feels right. Feels sell very well.

/Yes, its a tax on stupid.
Mangling back button functionality isn't inherent of SPAs.
There’s hoards of people out there waiting for a new phone with new specs and camera but without anti-features like removal of headphone jack and faceid
How does any nonsense get published far and wide?

People are trying to be helpful, perhaps, by amplifying some concern, while at the same time not having the expertise necessary to see it as false.
It seems like 90% of startups have the business plan "step 1: get as many users as possible at any cost, step 3: profit." Hardly anyone talks about it or seems to think it's weird. I don't get it.
Who is considered a "real" developer these days?
Reference? I've never heard that before. Sounds highly unlikely. Would be fascinated to see evidence showing otherwise.

What is true is that the studios take a higher percentage of ticket sales during opening week, possibly 55-65% or more in some cases. I believe it depends on the movie. The percentage starts to flatten out back below 50% in the following weeks. So it's true that the theater chains do want to optimize for concession sales, since so few films have legs these days.

EDIT: I originally wrote that the studios sometimes take 90% during opening week. I found an article that purports this to be a very rare if not apocryphal number: https://stephenfollows.com/how-a-cinemas-box-office-income-i...
SPAs don't need to be complicated, people have been developing native GUIs for decades. The source of the problem is the browser event and rendering loop which remains a mystery.
So... You can't outwalk climate change? Tell me more about how the sea levels are rising that fast.
Levine's article "Arbitrage Discovered" might be my all-time favorite econ essay. It's about an investment product that let you trade on past stock prices in the present. Levine is usually pretty calm and wonkish, but this arrangement was so breathtakingly self-destructive that he spends the piece writing things like "It's not actually an arbitrage. EXCEPT NO HOLY GOD IT IS THIS IS AMAZING."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-02-27/arbitr...
Buy shares in a miner? https://www.mining.com/top-nickel-miners-ranked-2017-product...
Just don't build software and then we won't have shit software
I'm all for it, but one gripe I have about Consumer Affairs' reporting is that they interchange the words "regulations" and "law" to mean the same thing. As we witnessed during the Net Neutrality see-saw, regulations enacted by the FCC are not "law", and can change at the whim of a new administration.
Bitcoin expert scams a scammer, donates the money to charity
Evan Rachel Wood is teaming up with Sophia the Robot for a new movie
I'm not sure this is only about people who have an extra 130 lbs.

Supposedly "obese" is about 30% overweight. A lot of people are more than half of the way there. And it's probably due to the same factors that could get them to official obesity. Which often does _not_ include eating when bored. The biggest one may be directly related to aging.
Clever and it takes the format of an old quote: "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
I absolutely need to get back into front-end so thanks for that!
Was writing about filesystem drivers. They're not tied to WSL, but rather improve interoperability.
See this in regards to the new Slack application: https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-30.... It's much faster now.

Also, I would be hard pressed to find a 5 sec increase in an electron app vs a native app.

This article is also worth a read, focusing on why Electron fills a necessary niche: https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/defeating-electron-e1464d...,
It most certainly is actionable advice, but it's usefulness depends on how well you take blunt advice.
So I signed up for Cinemark with 2 email ids. I get 2 tickets per month and 4 people in the household so need to do only a movie every 2 months. I know Cinemark allows me to close my account AND keep the earned tickets, but I did not want to do that ... dont experiment with such things.

As a result, I am trying to consume all the tickets in one account, still not there, and sitting holding double digit tickets in my other account. Oh I will get out of this ... on to my last ticket in account #1, just need to find one more movie to watch, but this is not how I expected life will work when I signed up.

Many people like me in this world.
[ Thanks Disney/Marvel for the burn rate this year]
DTLA is the most walkable and accessible to public transit place in the city, the only issue is there's nothing there worth walking to besides the Staples Center.

And Disney Hall, the Broad, and MOCA on Bunker Hill. Grand Avenue park for events. The Arts District and its many restaurants and breweries. Little Tokyo and the 3 museums there. FiDi's many restaurants. Historic Core and the old Broadway theaters, some still in use. The tens of thousands of new apartments constructed in South Park, Skid West, and Skidrokyo. For architecture nerds, nearly 100 years and a dozen different architectural styles spread out between all of the DTLA districts but especially in FiDi and HC.

We have one metro stop in the SFV, which serves the 3 million residents. It's no wonder it's surrounded by a massive parking lot, and most commuters don't use it anyway.

The sooner the Sepulveda Pass rail/monorail is built, the better.
Pro-tip for anyone that finds themselves in this situation when trying to steal another company's data - say you bought the shirt for 50c at a second hand store. That, or don't wear your company polo on an espionage mission.
You can use rendering libraries, ORMs and session management libraries without a framework.

I think it's way nicer. I much prefer environments like Sinatra, Express or Flask than full-blown MVC frameworks.
This looks really cool, but I must admit - when I saw the name I hoped it was a HoloLens AR gamification of tidying up my house that gives me points for each dish washed or item of clothing folded. But hey, data is cool too.
I remember seeing this one post on HN from some PHP consultancy that had open sourced some kind of PHP web app that was "engineered from the start to be secure".

I took a look at the code on GitHub and it was absolutely horrible. They basically built their own mini-framework, poorly, with mixed concerns and poor, ad-hoc and inconsistent validation everywhere. Terrible.

I left an issue on GitHub with my findings and got into an argument with the author in the HN submission about how it's disingenous to say something is engineered from the ground up to be secure, if you're eschewing all the man hours that have gone into something like Larvel. I think his reasoning boiled down to "Larvel has CVE's so it's not secure".

Some people are just like that I guess.

Edit: found it - "How We Engineered CMS Airship to Be Simply Secure" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905055
I wish I could have done that. I lost 33 btc.
One could argue that it isn't the stabilization of specs but that of appearance that is harming sales. Many consumers purchase an over-priced product/brand because it is over-priced if they can show it off in public. But that only works if it looks different from the lower cost or older models.
I think the structure of that post is a fitting portrayal of the structure of modern frontend development... And no, I am not one of those JavaScript naysayers. In fact, I started building my first Progressive Web App three years ago.

But what I feel quite frustrated about, is the pace at which tools become obsolete. It seems that you can be happy if you have two projects which actually use the same set of tools. And every time you want to fix a bug in some project which you didn't touch for a few months, you run into some kind of trouble while updating the dependencies.

Just today, I spent an hour getting a project to build again, which I built two years ago. I just hope that in the near future the community will settle on a common set of tools which will become stable and stay for a decade or so.
Can ads on a page read my password?
The problem with that, is that flash even as an IDE was not really suited our new responsive web. Its not really good for content or development of anything other than games, animations and ads.
I don’t think I agree; hobbyists have rarely, if ever, made truly compelling end products. I don’t think hobbyists could have produced Uber in every city I visit, or the iPhone, or a usable desktop OS (not kernel - OS), or even the microprocessor.
>People who only see a couple movies a year will not subscribe.

This is what a lot of people leave out when discussing the gym membership analogy. There is a societal and personal pressure to be in shape and have a gym membership. Many people also don't enjoy the actual process of working out. Therefore people feel guilted into purchasing the service but disincentivized from actually using it.

There is no societal pressure to go to the movies regularly (maybe there is a little pressure to see a handful of blockbusters a year, but not enough to justify the service) and people generally enjoy the experience. So the only incentive to purchase the service is to save money and people have a positive incentive to use the service. That is totally different than the gym membership model.
From a end user we aren't really seeing drastic changes in quality of life. My midrange Android phone is going on 3 years and is still snappy and fast. Used to be after 3 years you were starting to rethink your app choices, constantly closing stuff, and looking for replacement phones.

Also seems I see fewer spiderweb phone screens which is probably a combination of more durable screens and reasonably priced screen replacement services.

So folks who like new things are handing down their functional devices to family members, selling used, etc. when they upgrade.
There should actually be three distinct "air-gaped" networks (or at least classifications of network).

Secure: The network that connects and controls the airplane. Absolutely only essential things allowed on, and if possible isolated using mathematically proven secure vlan/isolation techniques.

"Employee": pilots, crew, etc. This is more just a distinct network for corporate operations security.

"Customer": Still try to keep this one secure so that virus and just don't spread, but this is the 'DMZ' area.

Communication from the secure network should be outbound only, and might best be done over a fixed rate serial data connection of some sort.

The modern version might be to configure a point to point network link on a CDMA based system and just disconnect the secure side's RX path entirely. Then you just export the data blind via UDP with like 10X redundancy.
I think one of the point of using Markdown is that you can read it unformatted. Using `<details>` & `<summary>` kinda breaks that mentality don't you think?
Its too late for that. There is already a lot of federal control and influence over local police stations. You really think every po-dunk town can afford those MRAP's and other military equipment?
That's not what fraud is, and MoviePass was not a fraudulent operation.
> Saying "pesticides make you fat" is wrong,

It may be, but your argument doesn't support that.

> it is not a direct cause of the buildup of fat.

Indirect causes are still causes, and often the more important causes in terms of practical decision making.

“My stabbing him didn't kill him, his brain tissue being oxygen deprived killed him” may often be true if you limit concern to the most immediate direct cause, but we tend to look beyond that in assigning responsibility for good reason.
If the tool allows you to shoot yourself in the face without warning, and has a reputation/history of doing it to a lot of other people, then the tooling is indeed the problem.
> The researchers developed a proof-of-concept device — the warship, which has a similar size to a small phone — into a package and dropped it off in the mail. The device, which cost about $100 to build, was equipped with a 3G-enabled modem, allowing it to be remote-controlled so long as it had cell service. With its onboard wireless chip, the device would periodically scan for nearby networks — like most laptops do when they’re switched on — to track the location of the device in its parcel.

This is beyond belief to me and an example of why there are more security breaches than would happen if everyone out there (security researcher in particular and ironic) wasn't eager for their glory of discovering an exploit that very well might have taken years to uncover if at all.

So they come up with an idea, create and proof of concept, then they publicize it so that actual hackers can be turned on to a new idea under the guise that they are going to prevent a problem so that people can protect against it.

> “If we can educate a company about an attack vector like this, it dramatically reduces the likelihood of the success of it by criminals,” Henderson said.

Like all the other similar 'research' it completely ignores that it is also educating people who will now know of the exploit and it will give them ideas on what can be done.
Good, let's keep it that way!
Congress asks 8chan’s owner to testify following recent mass shootings
There's no guarantee that good approaches in 2019 will still be good approaches in 2029 and beyond. OOP was considered a good approach many years ago, and now in many circles it is derided and bashed.
Yes, but if it were missing the other factors and was only calorically dense, it also wouldn't make people fat.
One of my favorite security stories came from a well known security researcher who was asked to try to penetrate the computer system of a national research lab. On the day of the test he came in and logged in using his own credential and had full system access. Leaving everyone in the room stunned.

The system was made by DEC and DEC had the process of sending software updates by magnetic tape. This researcher had made a follow up meeting request and brought with them a tape that looked exactly like an update tape with label and all the trimmings. Further they dropped it on to a mail delivery cart that was already through the 'verify the mail' process. As a result the tape got delivered to the operators, they mounted it and installed the "updates." Of course that created an account the pentester used to log in.

Caught the customer by surprise of course, nobody likes to be surprised by the pentesters but it is always a good thing to have them find something rather than be penetrated.

The story (which has clearly stuck with me for a long time) left me with an appreciation for looking at things which aren't normally considered "part of the IT infrastructure" as part of the attack surface that needs to be protected.
Developers who don’t care if anyone thinks they’re real developers, I guess!
You want communications from the flight controls to the maintenance system. And you want communications from the entertainment system to the maintenance system, so technicians have a single list of everything that needs fixing.

It's hard to implement strict one-way communications -- usually you at least need some kind of ACK for reliable transmission.

Put all those together with a vulnerability in the middle, and you have an attack.
Playing with Vue and Vuex – Lemonade Stand
We entirely agree, that is not what I stated either. I'm simply saying that it isn't a direct causation.
1) Install NodeJS

2) npx create-react-app demo

How many steps does it take to start from scratch with other toolchains?
What a beautiful comment

1. Complement audience
2. Establish credibility
3. Set up punchline ("I needed no napkin")
4. Explain first hand experience to make point
5. Deliver punchline ("Wipe burrito sauce")
I think this is it more than anything. People wanted to make the web complicated because it made them feel cooler developing it.

Some SPAs are cool. Easyeda.com is pretty cool.

But also: storing information about a page in the URL is pretty cool too. It makes it possible to link to the page, for instance!
I have been trying to learn web dev on my own for a while and I just can't make it past CSS. I don't get it. How do I even organise it? I get JS as I have done significant C/C++?java/Python. But it still seems a little too evovled on its own. I always end up creating the backend APIs and never the UI.
As a single anecdotal datapoint, I haven't bought a new phone since my iPhone SE, and I got that on an installation plan. I also have not upgraded my OS for quite a while either. Ultimately, I can't afford to just buy a new phone in cash without thinking ahead, and I am loathe to add another $30+ a month to my expenses for little perceived benefit. I don't care about the camera. I don't like the bigger phones, and I do not like how each new OS update from apple slowly "breaks" the older phones. I'm pretty much going to hold out until either all my apps no longer work or the phone actually has a hardware failure. I still get a great battery life. I'm pretty sure I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud though.