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To an extent yes but American companies have cut costs more aggressively in assembly (Toyota and Honda are more American made in parts & labor than Ford & GM these days) which has caused issues & their approach to fuel efficiency of small turbocharged GDI engines has negative implications for reliability that really can’t be overcome with any amount of engineering. In terms of reliability of powertrains, yes it’s much better than it was in the past but shit that blows up in the 200k-300k mile range frequently is still far from ideal

Look at the new Bronco Sport as an example. It’s fairly small, but a 1.5L turbo 3? That’s not something that’s built to last 20 years without any major complications.
Only when you take for granted the whole infrastructure of mining millions of years old ferns, shipping them around world in pipelines and ships and trucks to burn them in tiny explosions many times a second to get wheels to turn.

Which, taking a step back, if franky ridiculous.

Why not use a battery and the planet-wide instant power delivery system we built and are using for most of everything else?
It is incorrect to think of meritocracy as necessarily egalitarian. If all we care about is merit, then the rich are going to be selected more often than the poor, simply on the basis of ability alone.
Tbh, I love this kind of content. I've been watching live stream happenings/disasters for quite some time now through a multitude of apps, so the more the merrier.
> Are you sure your acquaintance is one of them?

Yes. He's a pretty well known Australian player, not sure how active he is anymore though. Now has a full time academic career.

Edit:

After verifying on the FIDE website, I see his ranking is around 2500 now. He is a GM though.
What shift? Electric isn't viable for most people still. If it was you wouldn't need to do anything to get Toyota to switch. The fact they have to put all these regulations in place and force people to accept electric is telling enough.

The top selling vehicle in the US in the F-150. There is no replacement EV that can come close to offering what the ICE F-150 can.
"... and in many of those shootings, no one calls 911."

It's sad that our society (can we really call it that?) has come to this - relying more on a piece of technology because you can't depend on your fellow citizens.
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How does this work for freelance journalists? Their risk is astronomical too.
Are you trying to subtly accuse chithanh of something? If so I would request that you do it explicitly instead of in a passive-agressive way.

Regardless, their post contained only factual statements relevant to the discussion. I noticed no entitlement.
Ask HN: What are your views on people analytics and privacy?
With remote work becoming ever more common, there are a lot of "digital foot prints" that companies can track.

We have Microsoft with their teams' analytics and companies like Worklytics that integrate with your email, calendar and chat.

What's your opinion on this new type of people analytics?
Standard or long range? To me, this seems pretty close to being practical. Driving for 2 hours and then stopping for 10-20 minutes is about where I'd prefer to be on long trips.
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If you read the paper, you will discover that the infection is indeed life-long in humans.
L2 has been delayed years, still years out, and optimistic rollup seems to be following the course of delays
Granted, I work on the hardware side of things, at an architect level, and my only programming work is supporting my own short term needs. On hardware projects, "we develop it, you test it" is a huge problem, because testing invariably becomes a bottleneck, and is deferred until dangerously late in the development process.

Tested subsystems are substantially more valuable than untested ones. In my own IC work, related to my specific area of domain knowledge, I do not submit untested designs. Everything I design comes with a test process, which usually involves code that I write myself. My designs rarely come back to me. For this reason, I support TDD in principle, though I haven't learned enough about it to be great at it.

"Don't interrupt the programmers" is a problem because they end up becoming isolated from the rest of the team, and have to work twice as hard to catch up when the hardware design gets thrown over the wall for them to deal with. The people who can handle interruptions become by default the ones who participate in the critical technical decisions.
I think the context here is it's an average win rate across multiple games (i.e. playing both white/black an equal number of times per player).
Who carried out the chemical attack in Ghouta on August 21, 2013?
"It amazes me how the news you have so neatly fits the space available,” Lord Vetinari went on, staring down at the page Boddony was working on. “No little gaps anywhere. And every day something happens that is important enough to be at the top of the first page, too. How strange"
Range and recharging speed of electric cars are pretty close to what hydrogen cars offer. But there is a catch: you don't have to go to fuel stations to charge your electric car. Anywhere where there is electricity, e.g. at home or at any business, it is trivially easy to add chargers, starting at a few hundred dollars. Which means, most electric cars will have to go to charging stations only on road trips. With hydrogen, you have to stop at a fuel station for every single refill.

(Not to mention that "green" hydrogen requires at least 3x as much energy as plain electric cars)
I think that really depends on the frequency of loud sounds detected. If possible gunshots are detected every 2 minutes, false negatives don't really matter in this case.
I don't think comments like these are helpful, or get us anywhere. The latency is not simply a bug to fix - it is a consequence of the compilation model, which is also what makes Julia so great.

It's like wanting to use Rust, but demanding that the Rust devs fix the annoying problem that you have to compile your code before running it. After all, Python doesn't have this problem, so why don't the Rust devs just stop being lazy and fix it like Python did?
> If this was actually true, we wouldn't have safety critical software systems that have been running for decades without fatal bugs.

Not hitting a bug is not the same as not having a bug. I'd bet money that whatever system you're talking about has bugs. Plus, the system may be far simpler than you assume.
Uber was trying to scale a personal exemption from the law. What law is it that makes doing this at scale vs doing it individually a grey area?
Did anybody try "inverted open offices" where people sit facing the center and have their back against a wall as you described? Not necessary like that, any configuration where people can't sneak behind you would work.
I suspect the point was more centered around access to charging facilities. Range is less of a problem if you have access to a charging point overnight. For those that park on-street or in public garages without charging available, range is far more of a problem unless you plan to take a few hours out of your day to hang out at a charging facility. That group of people would include a pretty substantial portion of those living in dense urban environments.
There is certain advantages certainly of being able to design and impose a new writing system as opposed to one that developed organically. Hangul is an elegantly designed writing system for sure.

But to suggest that makes them the "smart bunch" of east Asians comes off as pretty derisive. Hangul has had its own unique issues with regards to typewriter design which has also been alleviated thanks to IME.
map in Go is already generic. If you need map[string]int or map[int]float, you can already do it.

Generics do not obviate the need for interface{} or the described use case of map[string]interface{}

interface{} is like Java or C# object. It packages a type and a value in a single value that can be queried at runtime to extract the underlying value in a type safe matter.

When people use map[string]interface{] it's because they don't know the type of value at compile time.
These challenges will naturally yield better laws

Questionable.
Meh, +%80 of the wealthy are first generation people who made it themselves. In the recent past it was a lower number. I would say it's getting better in that one aspect.

Inequality has more causes than inter-generational wealth and a lack of an estate tax. Canada for example is a more economically equal society and does not have an estate tax AFAIK.
Fortunately, Apple Coal is rumoured to be just around the corner, to be launched with Apple iSteam product family.
As a person who came from a poor family and is now at least moderately successful due to participating in gifted programs, I completely disagree with you. The people I went to school with ranged from first generation immigrants to children of relative wealth, and the latter would have absolutely gone to private school had the program I attended not existed. Because of that program I was able to see that it can be totally normal to have two parent households and that it is achievable to be a doctor or lawyer. Without that I would have been stuck in my neighborhood with my heroin addicted neighbor and the prostitutes who worked the end of my block.
This. It has a lot of gotchas that you need to be able to come up with to implement the code. It can rarely be done on the fly.
A draw counts as "half beaten."

So 8 wins and 2 draws is winning 9/10.

---

A 660 point difference between Stockfish and Carlsen should be a 1 - 10^(-662/400) = 98% win rate for Stockfish.

More than likely, that's 96% win, 4% draw, 0% loss.
I've worked in Asia and I know quite a few foreigners who worked in Japan and the country is still very xenophobic. It is still common for say, landlords to flatout not rent out to foreigners. I've heard numbers like 20%-30% thrown around. There's also still "Japanese only" bars, sometimes with that literal sign on the door. You'd be very hard pressed to find that attitude even among very nativist Europeans or Americans.

Japan also still virtually has no legal protection against this kind of stuff, discrimination of that type is often not being prevented.

That said a lot of the younger Japanese don't share these attitudes. Large cities are more diverse than they were 20 years ago.
Fossil fuel production is an environmental hazard.

Motivating wealth production through destruction of the environment is irresponsible.

Green Energy production is an environmental boon

Motivating wealth production through green energy utilization is responsible.
They probably are, and this bug may already have been known. Many jailbreaks are often held back for as many versions as possible, since that can allow the jailbreak to target more iOS versions with a single exploit without Apple quickly blocking it for future versions.
I think that you’re assuming that the hybrid in mind has plug in, otherwise you’re not really making the case for using gas to inevitably charge the battery (regenerative braking still requires having had some speed generated by gas). As far as I know, the vast majority of hybrids that Toyota makes are not plug in.
There's a lot of valid criticism to be had, but the alternative of "doing your own research"* is a little bit facile.

Real people who are actually engaged in the business of participating in society--holding down jobs, going to school, being citizens--don't have the time to effectively "research" every important issue, and, as a corollary, those who do tend to be cranks.

For sure nobody should engage in "uncritical acceptance", though to me this seems like a straw man. The test of a good newspaper isn't whether you can read it uncritically, but whether reading it critically leaves you more or less well informed.

* A distinctive phraseology which, as detailed in "Pale Horse Rider" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OQS4DYQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...), goes back to at least William Cooper and the 1990s, but has recently come to be used for things like vaccine skepticism and QAnon.
I've never seen anyone say that latency is a good thing or that it's not a priority. It's a hard problem and it's being worked on and it's getting significantly better — particularly over the past three releases. It's disingenuous to suggest the latency gripes aren't being heard or respected.

Now what I see frequently is that folks *do* regularly suggest workflows that work for them. Sometimes too zealously, yes. And indeed REPL-based workflows aren't for everyone.

On documentation I whole-heartedly agree. The manual hasn't seen a major re-structuring since its inception AFAIK — and it's long overdue.
While Windows 10 Home doesn't have a UI for manipulating the local group policy settings you might have luck just setting the registry key directly.
So the issue is mainly that it’s a quick/cheap conversion of the existing Lexus UX to an EV? That doesn’t sound like a good user experience but it’s not necessarily a bad vehicle from a mechanical standpoint either. I assume it’s more of an experiment with the technology than anything else.
I just don't see how a cell is similar to an insect.
> Is there any possible rationale for how any amount of succesful "business-ing" could ever justify why a person doing that for a year should end up with an income in the tens or hundreds of millions?

Yes - imagine that job was cutting down trees and the amount of hard labor it took to cut down a tree was very high. You decided to invent chainsaws. Now each person doing this labor (which is now less hard) can cut down more trees and you need fewer people overall to cut down more trees and you can pass the savings on to your customers who now get lumber more cheaply. This gets passed onto people who build things with wood so now there are more people "business-ing" across these larger industries and fewer people doing the tough work. People have more options now. And more people can build things out of wood opening it up to a larger and larger number of people creating more happiness than before.

So this 1 invention not only created great wealth for the person who invented it but also created much wealth for society as a whole. the guy cutting down trees before the chainsaw couldn't afford much but now because his productivity is increased he too can afford lumber to build things because the price of it has diminished.

The whole game is to find inefficiencies in things, make them more efficient so you can lower the price of it and make it available to more people. This has happened in consumer goods, food, travel, and just about every other industry. So as income inequality has grown, access to life enhancing things has grown. And we've more or less eliminated poverty along the way.
Yeah their whole mentality of vigilantism is weird but we should be encouraging citizens to take out their phones and document things. Otherwise George Floyd would be another statistic and nobody would know his name.

The encouragement of cell phone footage works both ways - it can document more crime that induces anxiety from the right or it can document more police abuses. Citizen's agenda is off but their tool of choice is right.
The entire world feels that the imperial system is archaic, isn't going to change anything in the U.S.
I assume your criticism revolves around breaking changes as what you mention is simply not true; there is plenty of documentation and language definition and I never found an issue.

Development languages evolve all the time.
It's normal, the same happens to human languages.

I can't even say Rust is changing that much (especially compared to JS, my main work language).
Not sure a better place to ask this, but we're getting to the point in most OSs where basically anything you want can finally be done truly async (non-blocking).

Except that DNS apparently still blocks[0], so usually things farm DNS requests off to their own blocking thread pools (the author ends up disabling DNS just so they can "prove" everything works with just a single thread)

What's so fundamentally difficult about writing an async/non-blocking DNS resolver? Is it just a lack of a real need for it?

[0] (quote: People have been trying to build asynchronous DNS resolvers for decades without success. Can it be done? Yes. Has it been done? No. ) https://gist.github.com/djspiewak/46b543800958cf61af6efa8e07...
Yeah, when the pipeline ransomware thing happened, I figured that we'd see some big crackdowns on internet freedom as a result. And he mentions the pipeline early on in the article.

CFR folks like Bob might be equally interested in stopping cryptocurrency as a way for countries subject to US sanctions, like Iran and Venezuela, to have access to the international payment system. But that's probably not as appealing a pitch for the UN Security Council, the G7, and the G20, who I think are his real audience here. He knows a unilateral move against cryptocurrency by USG would be not only very difficult because of domestic opposition but also a bit of an own goal, cutting the US off from the developing permissionless international economy.

But if he can convince other governments' advisors that Bitcoin poses a threat to them that outweighs any potential protection it grants them from the US, then those concerns go away. PRC is already on board; Russia and India could maybe be persuaded, having flirted with total cryptocurrency bans and then backed away from them; Brazil, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the EU and Commonwealth countries are likely to be more difficult. No idea about Mexico, the Saudis, Turkey, and Indonesia—they've all been rather nervous about it, except in Mexico where it's fully legal.
The "evidence" can't be reexamined either. The good states require a blood test. At least it's more accurate and can be examined by the defense.
That's one of those things that are never going to change. Julia's very specific type system is one of the major features and so much of the language and the ecosystem is build around it.
what is the next after horse blinders? Naturally - VR. No need for the desk space for monitor, so the office density can be increased again, like 2x, while you'll be having prime corner office in VR (though probably bean counters would soon find a way/reason to "save" in VR too, and you'll get a nice collaborative VR open office :). Facebook Horizon and "metaverse" somehow come to mind in this context.
There are also potentially privacy considerations... for example, in jurisdictions where body-cam data is a matter of public record, should officers be recording while inside someone's house where that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy?

And even assuming the footage isn't automatically public, what about the evidentiary value against the house's occupants? Currently, police need a warrant to execute a search of someone's residence, but there's a "plain view" exception: if while the officer is in the house anyway (either because the occupant let them in, or because they entered due to exigent circumstances like a violent crime in progress), if they happen to see evidence of a crime in plain view while there -- a gun, drugs, whatever -- they don't need a warrant to use that as evidence. If the officer has a camera on the whole time, that potentially means the officer could use not just what they happened to see in the moment, but retroactively whatever can be seen in the footage after the fact, which likely significantly expands the extent of plain-view evidence that can be used without a warrant. Some have asserted that video-recording itself constitutes a fourth-amendment search if the officer is someplace where the person has an expectation of privacy, though I don't think this question has been adjudicated.

Also, in two-party-consent states, capturing body camera audio might also require either a warrant or consent for the capturing of at least some kinds of interactions.

I think body cams are net-good, but it's more complicated than it seems at first blush.
Yes, that's my point. Technology can save a lot of lives, even though living without it didn't kill enough humans to drive us to extinction.
> They honestly think that if they raise their prices to get the same profit (NOT increase, just to keep it the same!) they have been getting, no one will come anymore because the cost is too much.

This is why hard-enforced industry standards are a good. The situation you describe only exists when the price increase happens for 1 single restaurant and the others stay the same.

However many exist in the region, as long as there's no mandatory system, they're just gonna wait it out, see who gives up first, people stop going there and go other places instead, thus increasing traffic and income without having to raise prices.

This race to the bottom will be won by those who are already the richest and can weather the financial storm the best.

It's a system by which those at the top of the rungs actively prevent anyone from passing them through hard work.
I don't think you can conclusively say either way. iPad Air 1st gen only supports iOS 12, which was patched 40 days ago. So either they haven't released a fix yet, or it's not vulnerable.
What if we promised to pay for every hog tail that someone brought in?
I think that's very true in the context of sales jobs, or more generally anything that requires the same action of frequent, mission-critical person-to-person communication.

I'm not so sure it applies in the context of a remote SWE.
> Confiscating incomes and gains as described in this thread ...

It's not punitive confiscation. It's taxes to fund the decided needs of society, where the needs are established using the mechanisms of government (as flawed or otherwise as they might be).

> ... (punitively) would destroy working capital and investment capital which would would lead to lower incomes for everyone

This seems like the reciprocal of the now completely debunked claim "reducing taxes would increas working capital and investment capital which will lead to higher incomes for everyone".

There are so many bundled assumptions in your claim here, most notably that higher incomes require private investment. There's no particular evidence that this is true (although there is a lot of hand-waving "common sense" pronouncements from certain parts of the political landscape designed to us think that it is obvious).
It depends why you're doing it. I have no illusions that I'll ever be anything close to an Olympic level skier, but I still find skiing fun, thus I do it. Similarly, I find Chess fun enough to the point that I will occasionally play a quick recreational game in situations where a Chess board is present.

But if improving oneself involves doing lots of practice that itself isn't fun, then that's exceeded the limit of what I'm willing to do recreationally. I'm only putting that level of effort in something I don't find fun into one thing in my life: work.
"Charter school" and "private school" are not synonymous. Charter schools are independently operated public schools and part of the public school district. Private schools are not part of the public school district.

I don't know what the capitalism vs. communism debate has to do with it, but a market formed by consumer choice is telling us something about value here. Every parent I know that cannot afford a private school tries to get their kids into an available slot in a charter school. All of them are running away from publicly-administered schools as fast as they can for varied reasons (education quality, politics, bullying, to name some discrete motivations I'm familiar with).