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>Apple is just about the only company with a similar ethos and enough money and patience to be a viable competitor and have a competitive brand known for quality.

Mostly agree, though I suspect a few of the major car companies like Volkswagon/Audi and Toyota/Lexus are capable of this as well.

But yes, Apple has the cash reserves to not just manufacture electric cars, but to build out the necessary infrastructure network as well:

- charging stations blanketing the country

- battery replacement stations for faster "charging" on the fly

- local maintenance stations

- etc..

Apple could centralize sales to Apple's website, and transform "dealer networks" into "maintenance networks". Sales can be handled in a centralized manner, but maintenance still requires locality.

All that requires large upfront CapEx, but Apple is one of the few that has more than enough cash reserves for that.
How would they have known in advance that Wistron was going to behave this way?

Frankly, how do you know that Wistron wasn’t recommended to Apple by government officials? That would be the typical Indian way.
Will your ISP or whoever is suing really care? It’ll cost you too much to defend yourself, I’d think.
We went through this period where people bought an APS-C DSLR with a relatively cheap kit zoom lens which never came off the camera shooting on (A)utomatic. They weren't "wrong" but a lot of those folks would have been just as happy with a higher end P&S like Canon's G series. And, today, they're just fine with a smartphone.
Interesting site. Interesting to know how different this is to twitter itself?
Electric vehicles are _incredibly_ simple to begin with so a decent chance.

But I also think that the electric car space is already very simple. Apple would be going head-to-head with Tesla which has already stripped away almost everything into a large dash-mounted monitor.
I would expect that more than a few traditional automakers would trip over themselves to make a deal with Apple too.
Partial lists of organizations infected with Sunburst malware released online
>Element AI invested heavily in hype and and earned international renown, largely due to its association with Dr. Bengio. It raised US$102-million in venture capital in 2017 just nine months after its founding, an unheard of amount for a new Canadian company, from international backers including Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Nvidia Corp., Tencent Holdings Ltd., Fidelity Investments, a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund and venture capital firms.

This has been bothering me for a while. Ridiculous sums of money invested purely on name recognition, in particular in 'AI', rather than allocating capital to people who actually at least have a product.
On the Lexical Distinguishability of Source Code (2018)
Originally NoteCalc used a library for handling arbitrarily large numbers.
Unfortunately, some operations were so slow that as a quick fix, I replaced the library with a lighter one without dynamic allocations (which is 96 bit integer with 28scale).

This serves well the primary goal of NoteCalc so I did not spend more time on it yet, but I am on the same page as you, and if NoteCalc will be feature-complete, I will give an other shot to arbitrarily large calculations/precision.
Or, you get someone very influential (like YC) to start that revolution. Oh, wait: they don't have a strong incentive to do that.

Even if my guess is that YC partners are well intentioned, doing something this radical would make many enemies in the VC ranks, and damage YC in the long run.

I don't know... Perhaps a "revolution", like you're saying.
It's true that in the demo video, it's only called out that a third party dependency was removed from the client bundle. And it's true that these types of "infra" dependencies don't make up a large % of your codebase to begin with.

But there's another angle to consider. In thick client apps, product code (everything else) tends to take up the majority of the size of the client bundle. There's a real opportunity here to move some of that into Server Components which would help reduce that footprint significantly. For example consider the case of deeply wrapped components that ultimately render to a single <div>. Server Components could help remove that abstraction tax.
Oh, besides the back-end technical mess that is AMP, just from the standpoint of a user, one can encounter catastrophic faults with its design:

- can't share articles using android's builtin share widgets because it points to the amp pages

- Navigating away using "Open in $BROWSER" option from the Google app in Android opens up the amp page again instead of the source page.

- can't see embedded article widgets like tweet blocks, maps, overlays, animations

- Attempting to do things like Comment on an article triggers navigation away from the AMP page to the actual site, forcing you to then scroll down once more

I've become accustomed to opening AMP pages and looking for "View article on actual site" link as a matter of course. It's just so horrible.
FWIW, you can disable this per page by adding `export const config = { unstable_runtimeJS: false}`.

Marked unstable because it was just recently added and is experimental. Per page is about the best Next can do, as it would need React itself to decide how to do this per component, which looks to be a big part of this new RFC.
Thanks!

I found the most value in some of the additional tricks shown in the article (like the “pretty print JSON stored in the clipboard) over the introduction/tutorial aspect; there are hundreds of these “look, I figured out how to do a handful of interesting things in jq so let me share with you all” tutorials floating around and most of the basics are redundant among those by now.

If jq’s documentation had some basic tutorials it would probably be a better authoritative source for this information.

Until then, as said, thanks for preparing and sharing this!
> A pedestrian's position in the street is hard to prove (and defend) when they're hit by a vehicle.

This is true today, so how do such cases get handled today in jurisdictions where jaywalking is illegal?

Note that I am not proposing changing the current presumptions of guilt if there has been an accident, only the rule about what cops are allowed to write a ticket for if there hasn't been an accident.

> You could also argue that the driver has assumed the responsibility of their actions and any mistake they might make before getting behind the wheel.

And you could argue that pedestrians have assumed the responsibility of their actions and any mistake they might make when they choose to walk on public sidewalks and cross public roads. I don't see that this helps either way.
Since vaccination has just started, I see no ethically neutral way of verifying it fast.
I became a certified Project Management Professional by PMI in 2 months
The ratio of police shootings to arrests is not higher for black people

Assuming that's true, all it says is that, once you're getting arrested, you're about even on the probability of being shot. What it doesn't address is the increased probability of Black me to be arrested to begin with.
It won’t have doors.
The news about it recently was shuffling it back under their AI executive: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/08/giannandrea-tit...

As Gruber quipped - “This car is as smart as Siri” sounds like a threat, not a selling point.
Apple has demonstrated that they can do those things with phones. Google has no meaningful consumer facing non digital operations (and even their digital consumer experiences leave a lot to be desired, particularly when things go wrong).
Easily $1M.
All of that is true, but cars are huge in terms of complexity, the types of labour/supply chains, distribution, etc. etc..

I guess they are the company to 'try it' but really it's a monster bet.

It'd be interesting if they have an 'angle' that allows them to start small, possibly with a specific kind of public transport or closed-system solution for urban transport, with entities like Dubai (i.e. cash flush) buying in big.
> Things like this need 100% commitment from the management

Then how can Elon Musk pull it off with only 50%?
My boss 10 years ago had a Ford Fusion with a Microsoft dashboard. Sometimes it would just go blank and he had to power cycle the car.
I applaud more competition in this space, but so help me god if they expect me to power this car with a giant lighting cable.
My (very!) short review of Racket in 2020
Haha, touche. At least customers won't be complaining about the lack of user-replaceable batteries in Apple electric cars.
Apple is no better than Qt in this space - and it will only make electronics - assembly will still be on Ford/GM - Tesla's revolution is a more automated assembly.
Do you have any reasons for this? Or thoughts on other car companies to buy. Apple does, after all, have enough cash to buy any car company besides Toyota (barely) and Tesla.
What is anticompetitive about AMP? Publishers publish in one format, and it is picked up by multiple link aggregators. It is the opposite of anticompetitive.
> Believe it or not, some people love personalised ads.

Then, they can opt in. Why complain about someone asking for consent?
> Having one display off to the side, without buttons, that does everything is an awful experience in a car

I have to strongly disagree with this. The touchscreen is great for the vast majority of things it replaces. The only physical controls I ever miss are for temperature (which is a very minor complaint) and windshield wipers (though I would also accept auto wipers that actually work). I do think the UI smoothness and touch latency could be slightly improved, and Apple would do better, but Tesla is already so far ahead of every other car manufacturer there that it's not even funny.
I don't know but i suspect he's more likely to be suggesting the guardian are playing down Blair's faults as part of their support of one faction over another in the power struggles of the labour party. Eg Starmer over Corbyn factions.

I don't really follow uk leftist politics to be at all sure about that.

So yeah the inference from it, dunno. The observation seems valid though. Amplifying the parts of le Carre's views that you like and support. Glossing over those that don't support your position.
>Diffraction absolutely doesn't come out as a wash. What matters is the actual diameter of the aperture, not the ratio

It's actually the f stop that matters for diffraction, not the absolute diameter. Roughly, this is because the light spreads more with a longer focal length because it has a longer distance over which to diverge. If you crunch the numbers this exactly compensates for the larger absolute diameter of the aperture. Here is a post with a reference: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/21428

It's amazing how much enthusiast discussion about cameras is based on basic misconceptions about optics.
Interesting, I too worked in tech support at that University in 2007--though I left 3 years ago. We could know each other, what a small world.
Maybe. Supply chains are his thing, though, so that works in his favour.
First, don't make your password "solarwinds123". Second, don't post your password to github.

Could SolarWinds have still been hacked without those two incredible displays of incompetence? Probably. But there's no point worrying about more sophisticated attacks if you can't stop the less sophisticated. The first step to not getting hacked is literally to not be that incompetent.
I gather it was used to regulate the temperature of the liquid coolant - but instead of just some pipes or whatever, the designers turned it into a nice "waterfall" feature. I think it even lit up.
ProtonMail [1] Plus user for the past 4 years now with my own domain. They've since added the VPN, which I find excellent and use all the time.

They have most recently added ProtonCalendar and ProtonDrive [2], which were the features I was missing the most. Thus, I moved everything over and pay for the bundle of all products which comes at just under EUR 8.00 a month (Mail, VPN, Calendar and Drive).

As mentioned by others, the webmail and UI of all 4 products is minimalist, but it is snappy and pleasing (to my taste, at least). The mobile apps on both iPhone and Android work very well, just missing threaded messages on the Android one.

Finally, of course, end-to-end encryption, hosted in Switzerland and abiding by stringent national privacy laws [3] and out of the US, 5 eyes network as well as EU realms.

[1] https://protonmail.com/
[2] I believe they're still in Beta
[3] https://protonmail.com/security-details
I hope Apple comes out with a good VR/AR platform. The only reason I am not buying the new Oculus is the mandatory FB login.
I know I am not alone in this, but I absolutely cannot stand touch screens in cars, and would like for this trend to reverse. It is hard to navigate without physically looking at the screen, which is a huge safety hazard while driving.
Marketing did a bad job if they overdone it, because they're doing a disservice to everyone, both to the clients and to the developers because of the backlash.

I'm usually quite good as keeping my expectations in check, and I avoid preordering because it's usually not a gamble that gives a good return.
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Something strange is going on in that paragraph for sure. Its not very rigorous.

Lets start with a more rigorous approach: E(heads) == .75 on a biased coin.

Maybe with 100-coin flips, with an average of 75-heads. We have a normalish-distribution centered around 75 where we can still draw a good random number from. It probably wouldn't be too hard to "subtract 25" after 75-flips and get something less biased as a result. That's the idea anyway.

Variance of a single coin flip, or variance(heads) == .75 * .25 == 0.1875. Honestly, I'm not sure where that 62.5% figure comes from at all.
In what volume?
"There are a lot of theoretical privacy attacks that sound scarily creepy but privacy advocates tend to play up the hypothetical and not look at how empirically impactful such things end up being."

Tragically, given the mass atrocities perpetrated throughout human history, it's inevitable that records of who people are, their race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and/or other data about them (which is now collected and distributed at a larger scale than at any time in human history) will be used to commit more mass atrocities.

We are living on borrowed time.
Cryochamber releases a lot of dark ambient [1], which can be a little too dark and depressing, but occasionally they release albums that transports a listener into snowstorms, space, or dystopian urban futures [2]. Many of the artists are on Youtube and there are also 24 hour streams [3].

[1] https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/

[2]
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/memory-417
---- https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/exo

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmF37mEMEDc
Yes, that is possible. One way that might help determine things would be to look at the income of first-generation immigrants from European countries to see if there is a similar dynamic (but not English-speaking countries, to keep that variable constant). It bring my example only to show that merely point to income isn't sufficient to show the existence of structural racism, that it's more complex than that. (and harder to measure)
Stops working after four years due to planned obsoletes but due to the billion dollar legal team it can never be proven in court.
If Apple had their foresight of yesteryear, they'd realize the electric car market is already beyond reach and move on directly to hydrogen powered jetliners. Replacing Jet-A with liquefied hydrogen is the next great market behind EVs.
Quite a few. Anduril, Epirus, and others. Google “counter UAS” for companies that do this with a wide range of techniques from kinetic (hit it) to microwave (emp like).
On basically anything that uses it. I'll give an example from the google feed on my phone, now. Some article on zdnet about RedHat discontinuing CentOS in favor of stream.

If I open the AMP link [0] in Firefox and measure the bandwidth used, it's around 685 kilobytes transferred in 1.32 seconds. The original article transfers almost 3.6 megabytes over 3.89 seconds, with the page taking almost 9 seconds total to load in, vs only 1.43 seconds total on the AMP page.

This is on my residential internet on an 8 core, 32 thread POWER9 workstation. My internet isn't great, but it's a heck of a lot better than the 15-40 kb/s I got overseas. There, that full page would take almost 2 whole minutes to load, versus only 20 seconds.

Obviously, there's more to this -- the non-AMP page loads its text before the other elements, so it's not like you'd have to wait the entire 2 minutes to begin reading. And beyond the technology, there are other reasons to not use AMP.

But suggesting we shouldn't use AMP because it's bad technology or broken isn't really telling the whole story. There are plenty of people who will get much better experiences with AMP than whatever fat pages would otherwise get shoved their way.

We shouldn't become dependent on google for this, but we also shouldn't pretend like there isn't a need for AMP, at least for some people.

[0] https://www-zdnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.zdnet.com/g...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-red-hat-dumped-centos-for-...
As has been widely reported, this unsourced suggestion that Apple wanted to water down the bill was denied emphatically by everyone involved.
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I’ll never understand why a search engine doesn’t just adjust its ranking algorithms to penalize websites that load slowly and perform poorly.

For example, why not rank https://lite.cnn.com/en above https://cnn.com/?
Can you elaborate on this for me, I am not familiar with him
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> I think if they had gone first they might have made that mistake too, but now that it's been tried they can find interesting ways to innovate that don't break the experience.

I’m just hoping that they don’t relegate a lot of stuff like climate control to a Siri-only interface.
Why the Navy is looking to end carrier qualifications for its pilots in training
Hacker News is about the idea not the individual.
Don't worry too much about it. In the end, everything will be nearly 0k.
I don't really see what this article nails. So, if I understand the argument correctly. Microservices were used to increase development speed. While old pieces were left behind (legacy) new systems have come up to modernize (these are still microservices)? His team, now responsible for many, legacy unloved old microservices, are being merged back into a monolith. The real question is, is remerging all the code back into 1 application the right solution for their problems they had with stability.

I think mental models are important, and having a huge blob of unrelated roles, makes sense to the current development team. But won't, just like the old situation, to the new developers.

Perhaps it's just the clickbait article, but a better title would have been. "Homogenizing our wild-west legacy microservices".

For me personally microservices was a god send, working on getting stuff done, instead of dealing with ancient code that doesn't reflect the current business anymore.

I still buy in the thought of, if you can't develop a great monolith, you sure won't be great at building microservices.
modular-monolith is the cool thing currently. Create a Monolith, without the shortcuts that create problems in the long run. Public interfaces are your most valuable pieces in the system. Worship them, code-review them, fight about them. Currently I could care less about the implementation itself. Does it solve our problems, is it fast enough, is it tested great, ship it. What language you used, architecture. database, I don't care. Just make sure it's a joy to use from the outside.

If more developers would spend longer on thinking about the problems and less with throwing large amount of code that makes them feel smart. Making a microservice doesn't fix that problem.

Think that what is missing is the stability that microservice are able to give in its most optimal form. Each service being the main source, the second it leaves the system it is stale reference data. Is stability important? use the old reference data, how fresh does your data really needs to be.
> I'm really curious what Apple's differentiators will be.

Really? Why are you not curious what the differentiator of all the car companies out there is? Why don't we just have one car company?

(Hint: There is so much demand, so many different tastes, budgets and features and regulation, that a single company will never serve all of them. Tesla is a niche product and I for one would never buy one)

The iPhone was special in the regard that there simply was NO competition. We are not talking EV vs combustion (which was Tesla's main step, and even still, everyone knew EVs would work and how they work, but nobody was ready to fully commit to them yet). We are talking horses vs. cars. Apple managed to establish themselves in a market that most companies didn't even think exist...

So no comparison here. All Tesla has done is make EVs more approachable and "cool" for the masses. However they have literally ZERO differentiator compared to established car companies. They are going to tank so hard stock wise in the next 10 years that investors will wonder what hit them.
They do have all the the ingredients, but they have a ton of financial baggage. Apple won't buy an automaker to manufacture cars, they'll contract it out for sure, the same way they do with the rest of their hardware.
From the description of the backend:

> Clean geojson to remove dark pathways.

Doesn't this eliminate routes with tradeoffs? e.g., cutting through a small park or alleyway may not be so risky (the other end is visible, both ends are well lit) while the alternative route may be very long in comparison?
Unsure if he can consult for them anymore, but if Ive designed a car I think it’d actually have more physical controls than a Tesla.
Flu changes particularly fast, coronaviruses change much more slowly. However this new covid strain does have some differences in the critical 'spike' bit that vaccines target. They are fairly confident the vaccines will still work. They are doing lab tests to verify. I read somewhere that we'll know more in 2 weeks but I can't remember where I saw that. If the vaccines arent so effective against the new strain, its relatively easy to tweak them (its not like starting from scratch, we know the vaccine approaches work, just need to tweak the payload a little).
Carbon offsets aren't working, and probably can't
(I recased the title to spare our eyes.)
This is the part that came very very quickly when I started managing people. I had people who are useless on tech but can pick up the phone and get it sorted,no matter what's the problem.On the other spectrum there were detail obsessed people that would take ages, but when I open that file I know it shows reality. Personally,I find this extremely interesting during the management meetings,where CEOs need have to listen to all of and often make decisions upon given info. I often find myself in a situation,where I can only think ' oh shit, didn't even think about it', while I'm sure other do too. To expect the same office drone functionality from everyone is insanely stupid.