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As EVs go mainstream, a charging network will need to be provided on a vastly larger scale than anything Tesla has ever done so far, and it will need to be standardised so all vehicles can use it. Whether or not Tesla's existing charging network provides a useful advantage by then remains to be seen.

The important parts of the software don't seem to be anything special with Tesla so far either. Many other brands have had driver assistance for years too, they just don't slap fancy titles on it and pretend the car will soon be fully autonomous.

If anything, it seems like the biggest real lead Tesla might have right now is in battery development, but again as EVs go mainstream we're going to need to solve that problem on a much larger scale so it remains to be seen whether Tesla's progress to date will provide a decisive advantage.
> They're refocussing on the user experience of the browser.

What does that even mean concretely ?

Isn't Wasm supposed to be the cornerstone to give user faster (and ultimately better) experience in the browser ?
Meanwhile, other apps get banned for having donation buttons.
Not having the legal right to do something does not count as evidence that it didn't happen.
Are you suggesting that they should eat cake instead?

Honestly I don't know how dire Mozilla's situation is, but I would not assume it was unwarranted.
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Right, I’m a big fan of the monolith, but that doesn’t preclude anything you just described. Absolutely use RDS. Absolutely use S3. Even on a low traffic app.

But what I see a lot of is engineering teams making sweeping consistency judgements. RDS and S3 are great as services, everything should be a (micro)service. Our calendar feels amazing as a React SPA—everything should be built in React.

No. 90% of a product is just CRUD to support the 10% of magic that customers really value. Ship the 90% as a monolithic CRUD app and spend those cycles on that 10%.
Is it against Apple terms to be offering multiple payment methods?
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You seem to be in a violent agreement with parent.

What parent calls "[flawed] culture", you call "layers of indirection between the principals and the agents". The number of these layers is a vital characteristic of the business culture, and you cannot just wish them away and claim victory.

Have an idea for a system that will work with as many people but less layers - please do tell about it (and about its relation to individualism, if there is any). But my guess it'd be radically different from the current one.
working at a tech company does not make one tech savvy, and you know what they say about assuming. I wouldnt assume the decisions makers are always fully understanding of the tech they manage at any company. ive seen it personally at a few.
One reason thinkers usually place riots outside the discourse is because they are an artificial spectacle, and which are necessarily tolerated by a faction in the establishment who could easily suppress them with violence, but they don't because the effect of the riots supports their strategy for change in their institution.

Situationism, and anarchist ideas like "the propaganda of the deed" covered rioting from a more earnest perspective, but in watching movements and protests for a couple of decades, there is always someone within the establishment in whose interest it is to tolerate rioting. This also explains the regular use of police provocateurs to break up peaceful protests by manufacturing riots, and instead of mere explanatory power, you can use it to predict how long an establishment will tolerate a spate of rioting. It's a ritualized performance and a spectacle.
Snowden could have exposed this too.
Probably not too common. The only people I‘ve seen do this were enthusiasts that had high end gaming rigs and spent a lot of money on their computers. It probably would’ve been cheaper for them to replace everything every 3-4 years. But it‘s their hobby and who am I to judge?
Top Facebook Official: Our Aim Is to Make Lying on the Platform 'More Difficult'
Tesla's current vehicle portfolio doesn't suit the current market trends in Europe. Only the Model 3, S, and X are currently available. Two are sedans which are losing market share to SUV type vehicles and the model X SUV is very expensive for most consumers.

Most vehicle sales in Europe are in the B or C car segment (relatively small vehicles by North American standards). Increasingly the sales of B and C cars are moving away from hatchback models to CUVs (crossover utility vehicle) models which offer a raised seating position and more interior space. Tesla offer nothing in these segments which the likes of Volkswagen, Hyundai and Renault do.

The Model Y should do well once it launches but I can imagine competitors who can offer a lower price albeit compromising the range doing better in this segment. Given that the distances driven in Europe are on average lower, the additional range Tesla can offer is not massively compelling unless they can undercut their rivals on price.

On a slight tangent, the other threat is the increasing hybridisation of powertrains in Europe. Due to EU rules on the EU fleet -wide average Co2 levels of 95 gCo2/km coming into effect from 2021, vehicle manufacturers are now offering hybrid options on many name plates to reach this target. These PHEV and FHEV hybrid powertrains come at a significantly lower price compared with full electric vehicles with the benefit of short range electric driving only mode. Previously PHEV and FHEV were separate name plates which had unique (read: polarising) designs. Now PHEV and FHEV are pretty much available in all C car and above class vehicles in body styles not dissimilar from their combustion powertrain counterparts. These hybrid powertrains offer the short range electric only range consumers want for everyday driving with the potential for long range driving using the combustion engine all with no threat of range anxiety.
This is a weird take. Is an armed robbery not violence if the victim gives up their money and doesn’t actually get shot? A riot is violent because it caries the threat of violence for anyone who tries to stop it, in the same way that a stick-up is violent because the alternative to losing your money is getting shot. If you limit someone’s choices via force, that is violence.
I thought he seemed pretty exasperated in that interview on corona response. Maybe he let his guard down, I was surprised to read the encryption stuff too.
While true, I regard that as premature optimization. I think we should stick to something simple until we can measure what kind of workload is needed until we have a good idea of the load we're going to be looking at up front.
Here's the thing these arguments always miss: writing C/C++ is like writing your entire Rust program using unsafe. Sure, unsafe Rust code will always exist and can cause memory safety bugs. It's a lot easier to verify a few unsafe blocks in a Rust program than it is to keep all of your C++ program's invariants in your head and manually make sure you don't violate them.
Ok. They're lost. Again. Or should we say More ?
I don't think calling it mostly hype is anywhere near reasonable. It's a mature language with a large ecosystem in use by a variety of companies.
They forbid you from using any other distribution mechanism on their device, though. The only reason Apple has to pay for App Store overhead for every single app is because Apple mandated it that way.
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Are you sure Epic hasn't negotiated some sort of deal with Xbox and playstation to lower the cut to a more reasonable rate given their volume of transactions.
What about billing this cost plus some margin to the app developers instead of taking a cut on everything?
I've never made any real money from my apps so I can't comment too much but something similar was discussed on ATP podcast fairly recently, I think this approach would go a really long way to solving 90% of iOS developers current frustrations with the appstore.
Unless you're Amazon, in which case you're absolutely allowed to sell digital goods (e.g. movies, TV shows) without using In-App Purchases. The rules are unfairly applied.
Mozilla's decision makes a lot of economic sense. They got rid of projects requiring lots of engineering effort with negligible benefits for the company or for the internet or for our privacy.

I'm not sure at this point if it makes sense for them to keep the Firefox code base or give up, switch to Chromium and focus on what they do best - spy less on us than Google. When Microsoft gave up anyone paying attention knew this was coming.

The only company that can still afford to develop a Chromium competitor is Apple. I hope they're not forced by the masses of web developers to switch to Chromium too.
Pro-Democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under CCP anti-sedition law
Tim Cook vs Tim Sweeney, this is a serious round, with possible big implications for many developers and companies.

In the end, both Epic and Apple are big corporations that should not be blindly trusted, but my money is on Sweeney, I have greater faith in the uber-nerd vs the perfect production manager.
Behind REI's decision to abandon its new eight-acre, state-of-the-art campus
>concrete blocks since fairly early in the 19th

That's the thing. I don't think that's the case. I think they are a 1900's-earliest, 1930's mainstream kind of thing.

So by the time they became mainstream, the UK was already beginning the second world war, which would mark the end of the time when they were really rich or powerful enough to be an imperial state.
Thanks for the interesting article. I didn’t know their mechanism of mating really besides the specialized arm.

However, it is my understanding from previous reading that male octopuses die within months of mating and that female octopuses die after laying its eggs. I am surprised this article doesn’t mention it because it puts the cannibalism into perspective. It seems the biologically triggered death after mating and laying eggs is an evolutionary strategy, so it makes the female eating the already dying male less cannibalistic and more strategic.

https://www.sciencealert.com/mother-octopus-senescence-death...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/12/01/o...
They should make $0 and they should be manufactured in America by robots for 10x less at scale. Not to mention polluting the environment less by not sending a boat halfway around the world for some shoes.
Node v14.8.0 Released with Top Level Await Support
Firefox has dev tools, and they are very similar for basic things.

There are some differences with some of the more advanced dev tools.

I like both
How We Experience Code
They're also processing payments / dealing with fraud checks / chargebacks. But I also don't think it's reasonable for Apple for force their payment option, especially when other apps can directly take payment. This idea that "in-app purchases" can only be paid for through apple is insane.
Not saying I agree with the lay-offs here, but it's incredibly rare I find myself wishing I was using Chrome's developer tools whilst doing web development.

I have missed functionality when I've had to use Chrome though - like Edit & Re-send for network requests, copy as cURL (which arrived a few years later to Chrome), the accessibility inspector (which is not Lighthouse), services like https://profiler.firefox.com/ etc

I think the only thing I have found that Chrome sometimes performs better on is source maps and breakpoints in prettified code.
Many mobile games are built on unreal. They could make this an option for developers to simply 'turn on' in their mobile games built on their engine.
Are you suggesting that they should eat cake instead?

I'm not sure what you mean. I think capableweb had the best suggestion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144625
Considering the discount provided on console stores is 20% and not 30%, I think Epic probably agrees. It looks like the consoles are probably taking ~10-15% cuts compared to Apple's 30%, and Epic doesn't see this as worth challenging at the current time.
I have ADHD (and chronic sleep issues) that were undiagnosed until I was in my early 20's.

With a less than stellar childhood under my belt with an abusive, narcissistic father and enabling mother, I ended up being a social recluse and only recently in my mid 20's have I figured out that I'm severely lacking in my "executive functioning" skills (along with other ideal skills like social skills, people skills, etc.) thanks to finally seeing a psychiatrist about it... (5 years seeing them on and off and I'm still working through my issues - for those with problems, please stick with your mental health care, it helps a lot even if it doesn't seem like it most times)

It's insurmountably hard to dig out of the hole I've dug with numerous issues (ADHD, anxiety, depression, chronic issues with restful sleep since a young age - not helped by my obesity and my apparent "ability" to convince myself not to exercise even though I think about doing it - and get angry when I don't do it
- fairly often)

I guess I can congratulate myself that I was able to make it through college and have a full-time job in Engineering making somewhat decent money.

I get angry at myself pretty much almost daily for the things that I've failed to do, awkward situations I've been in, things I regret doing or not doing... It's taken (and is still taking) a very big toll on my mental health and I don't think any medication will help me with that. It gets to the point where I'm so frustrated, I'll make angry "noises" out loud (when alone - that's weird to do publicly) in a way to try and help get what's bugging me out because I can't talk to anybody around me about it.

Now, with that MASSIVE tangent - I can see the paper making sense in that ADHD will allow people to take more "risks" without thinking of the consequences too much, which could be interpreted as "entrepreneurial", however I think it's just renaming/re-badging something that should be addressed and corrected/adjusted, not celebrated...
Even during the nicest weather of the year, I don't typically spend 15+ minutes outside every single day, and even when I am outside, only my arms below the elbow and face are exposed.

It simply does not follow from "the sun shines" that "everyone basks in it all the time".
Smells like ideology to me.
It's nothing fancy - I just use a typical k8s Service/Deployment object on GKE. A deploy is:

1. docker build (most layers cached) - 2s
2. docker push - 2s
3. update deploy.yaml
4. kubectl apply -f deploy.yaml
5. kubectl rollout status deployments {name} - 6s
yes, I meant that more for hosting providers. However, I have never received a response from a registrar when I have contacted them about abuse so I am not sure how useful it is.
Someone did that 10–15 years ago, and they did it with a staff 1/10 the size and on a budget 10–20% the one that the current generation of executives are working with.

The job was also different. Compare someone trying to get into shape with someone trying to maintain their current body weight.

Early Mozilla did a lot of good work. Leadership during the 2010s undid almost all of it in ways that were predictable.
Tencent will pay to fight this in court forever. Sad to be hoping for epic/tencent to succeed but apples policies are worse.
That I’m not sure. Do you have any sources?
I'm relatively new to Python and I was looking for something like this. I do wonder if there is a well-known Python equivalent of Dapper: https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
When was the last time a legacy automaker added a new feature to their cars and pushed it out over the air as a free update? Tesla does that about once a month.

Their software is better because they listen to customer feedback and continually improve it. It’s not one massive thing related to autonomy that’s better, it’s the 100 small things that Tesla has been adding over the past three years that when combined make the overall package superior.
I played Age2 in exactly the same way!
Yeah, good idea — I’m not in these fields so it’s difficult for me to judge. Also, it sounds like we should be prioritizing niche images that only a handful of papers use rather than images that people rely upon regularly.
You seem to be moving the goalposts here.

> Epic has no "walled garden".

Epic is explicitly a walled garden regarding the games it has paid to be exclusive within that walled gardren (Permanently or temporarily).

> The PC is an open platform. An iPhone is not.

You are conflating hardware / software here. PC hardware is an open platform. The software is running on it is not necessarily. You could be running Linux or Windows for example. (Of which only Windows has an official Epic Games Launcher client).

> If I don't like the Epic store, I can install software from other sources just fine.

We are talking about the context of games so "software" means a particular game of which there is only one. Not "Any random note-taking application". Therefore, in the context of games, no you cannot get that software (game) legally from any other source if Epic paid for it to be exclusive.
Ah, didn't know that. I thought they could make the argument of Fortnite being cross platform but it seems Game as a category is disallowed.
Apple has to move against Epic here. If they are acting fairly with all developers (which was one of the questions to Tim Cook), then letting this be would be showing favoritism towards Epic.

Or...make a sudden update to their TOS
The French revolution led in fairly short order to the French empire, which is generally not considered to have been a net social benefit.

I suppose the Boston Massacre could be an example.
I think that the legal definition of a riot is incredibly relevant to this conversation.

It's one that's applied in practice, as justification for police violence, over and over again.

In practice, a lot of the time, peaceful protests turn into 'clear, unambiguous riots' after police violence starts. Generally speaking, protesters try to police themselves - but when you're half-blind, stumbling away from clouds of teargas, you aren't going to do anything to stop the idiots who took advantage of the chaos to start throwing bricks at store windows.
Windows 10 LSASS Flaw patched by Microsoft is still vulnerable says researcher
I don't know what to make of results without any idea how to reproduce them.

For what it's worth, BLIS' generic C DGEMM code gave around 60% of the hand-coded kernel on Haswell with GCC (8, from memory) on large matrices without any real effort to speed it up. Obviously that's not a simple triply-nested loop, since just vectorizing is useless for large dimensions, and the generic code does get well auto-vectorized.

There are results from Polly/LLVM showing it do well against tuned GEMM. However, Polly apparently pattern-matches the loop nest and replaces it with a Goto BLAS-like implementation, and I don't know whether it's now in clang/flang. I also don't know how well the straight Pluto optimization does relative to BLAS, and whether that's what original Polly uses; it's a pity GCC's version isn't useful.
>Does a new payment method on mobile mean purchases there are less safe?

>No. Thousands of apps on the App Store approved by Apple accept direct payments, including commonly used apps like Amazon, Grubhub, Nike SNKRS, Best Buy, DoorDash, Fandango, McDonalds, Uber, Lyft, and StubHub. We think all developers should be free to support direct payments in all apps. [0]

All of these services provide something physical. You can't buy Kindle Books, for example, on Amazon's app on iOS. This a bit disingenuous.

>We think all developers should be free to support direct payments in all apps.

Does this mean Epic will start allowing users of the Epic Games Store on PC to directly pay game developers and bypass the EGS cut?

[0] https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/fortnite-mega-drop-faq
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Sketch2Code uses AI to convert hand-written drawings to working HTML prototypes
This sorts of stuff is very often experienced by staff as lame box-ticking exercises they have to suffer through annually or quarterly, put together by people who spend most of the time keeping their chair from floating to the ceiling, and were only hired to make things look better if anything bad happens ("well look, we did something, look at all these records of training videos and ridiculous quizzes we made everyone take!")

That may not have been the case at Mozilla but it absolutely is at a lot of bigcos and in government.
Retry Mechanisms in Apache Camel
As a film camera guy, I can say that I am unashamedly more of a camera hobbyist than a photography hobbyist. I mostly take pictures to keep the mechanisms operational.
Except that Epic is using the cheaper prices on consoles, where the platform owner is taking a 30% cut. Clearly Epic's pricing isn't actually driven by the app store costs on mobile platforms.
He said social signal, not status symbol.

Both cars say something about how much money you make. It's the other stuff that's different.
No one has ever made a vacuum tube 600km long with a cross-section of over a meter. Much less one that has to maintain vacuum with a super heavy train going at 400m/s. This is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than anything of the same nature. It's really not comparable to anything in existence. CERN is a Tonka truck by comparison.

Burying the lines would already make it an order of magnitude more expensive than what was promised. And now you have to compensate for ground movements, since your tube is fat and hundreds of kilometers in length, which makes it even more expensive.

Insulating the tubes to maintain temperature would be incredibly costly, and if there ever was a failure or natural disaster that prevented you from keeping up the power need, your tube will break.

Materials that have such little temperature change coefficients are much too expensive to build a 600km long multiple meter wide tube with.

If you allow the tubes to change length, your stations will move, sometimes in unpredictable directions. You also risk gigantic stresses caused by temperature differentials causing bending forces.

Vacuum expansion joints of that scale, for such a length, with such reliability are literally unheard of. And would likely be insanely expensive.
Replying to my own comment, and very much related to that, another is thread safety. In most languages, if I have a type with some method that e.g. increments a member variable, that method is non-thread-safe by default. (Modifying internal data structures can be even worse of course, depending on the language and the data structure.) In Rust, such a type is trivially thread safe by default, because the languages just won't let you modify it from multiple threads without a Mutex or similar. When you want types that can be shared and modified without locks, the author of the type has to take steps to implement this (using atomics, lock-free data structures, etc). That means that there's generally no need to trawl through docs or source code to find out whether a method is thread-safe or not. The type itself knows.
The First Wave of GPT-3 Enabled Applications Offer a Preview of Our AI Future
oops, a third of a _billion_, not million
They need to find a build new products to actually make a decent income. Firefox alone doesn't do that. They are still committed to the core browser.
It does provide value thats the thing, it's relatively easy to setup IAP and subscriptions, IMO they can keep the 30% but they should just allow apps to offer other payment methods.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Car designs change every few years to keep sales up. Teslas look the same since the S was introduced (except for minor differentiations in updated lights/grill etc).
The case against American truck bloat
The New York Times DealBook newsletter had a link to it in today's issue [0]. It's at the very bottom.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/business/dealbook/stock-m...