skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, short-range EVs are actually bad for the EV market as a whole.

You'd think "Not everyone needs a car that can do long trips, so an EV that trades range for affordability is just satisfying a market segment!", and you'd be right...if consumers were rational.

Range anxiety is one of the top hurdles for EV adoption. Manufacturers that produce cars with only ~100 mile range, that only support charging at <20 kW only perpetuate the mentality that EVs don't have the range to be viable for anything other than commuting.

People who aren't EV enthusiasts and don't follow car or tech news specifically are likely to miss the memo that not only do long-range EVs exist, but they can be charged FAST. Obviously, they still don't charge as fast as a gas tank can be filled, but fast enough that day trips are quite viable, and road trips only require a little extra planning.
Most code requirements in the US require a bedroom to have an egress window.
It's possible China already owns the rights via their Belt and Road loans.
Can you integrate with anything that is already frequently used (ala Salesforce or Zendesk)? Do you have a unique application for a specific industry that you can document? I saw someone said run Google or Facebook ads - hard to argue with that. But to get your first 10 paying customers you probably need to go the organic route. I would leverage an SEO strategy where you barnacle on highly adopted platforms - think Quora, Medium, or even Facebook Groups or LinkedIn Groups.
The widespread abuse of power in government agencies makes this argument a little naive imo. The vast majority of what they do has very little effect on anyone's safety. I'd rather be able to communicate privately and let people keep selling drugs if they want to.
So, MAGMA?
> betting against a company with such a huge war chest is like trying to catch a falling knife.

Maybe. But if money could buy product adoption we'd all be using Microsoft phones right now.
I got partway through The Swerve; really should pick that back up.
I'd certainly rather rethread than rebuild.
Even if the push notifications themselves are encrypted, isn't there still the question of whether Apple store the (App x Notification x User/phone number) graph?
Why is Sapir-Whorf so appealing? No one has been able to show more than a trivial effect on cognition from the language influences that that paper was promoting. Human thought is not rigidly channeled by vocabulary in the way that they described.
Just got my MBP 16" today. I find it a bit too thick. It reminds me of the MacBook Pro 17" (2010). I liked the previous form factor better, don't need HDMI/SD, but I'm probably the exception.

(it is verrry fast) :)
One of the reason I choose a Tesla was because of the superchargers that are everywhere in California, and because of their long range: I only need a 30min intermediate recharge to get from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe.

When I google for superchargers for other brands, I get very ambiguous results. There has been chatter about Tesla opening up its supercharges in the future (the selfish part of me would rather not see that happen, its I-80 charging lots before climbing to Tahoe are already pretty busy), but I've never seen another brand, so I guess it's not a thing yet.

So what's the situation then? If you're a non-Tesla EV owner in the Bay Area, how do you make it to Lake Tahoe in a reasonable amount of time?
No one is suggesting it should be impossible to uncover crimes.

But I’d say that we should work to make it impossible for mass surveillance to exist, full stop.

Police should have to do real actual detective work to implicate people in a crime.
The colloquial meaning of “literally” isn’t quite “not literally”; it’s more of a generic intensifier.
Regulatory capture blurs the line between government and industry. There’s no fantasy about it. The power is suborned, not eliminated. However I was pointing out the phenomenon as a precursor to enabling petty corporate bureaucracy empowered with government authority.

With respect to your comment, are we supposing regulatory capture is never a responsible corporate behavior? I’m not sure how we must conclude that responsible corporate behavior necessarily follows from and is solely dependent upon the exercise of regulatory power.
You think pre-historic humans skipped generations?
They’re commonly used at API boundaries to pass cancellation signals and deadlines.

The Go blog has always good insights and details around things like this: https://go.dev/blog/context
I don’t think the OP said that SQL Server doesn’t support columnar, only that by analogy SQL Server is primarily a row store (which for most of its history was true).

Columnar technology in SQL Server only became usable in SQL 2016 (it existed in 2012 but was too restrictive — I know because I tried to use it).

In 2016 and above, you can either create a columnar index (non clustered column store) or convert an entire table into a columnar table (clustered column store). The technology is actually pretty impressive and I’ve used it in production where I have row stores coexisting with column stores within the same database.
What I usually do is start typing something like "aupdate" or "pdate" (which are wrong) and only come back at the beginning (it's just a ctrl+a) to fix the command when I'm sure the sentence is OK.

Of course if the update is not only important but critical, manually starting a transaction before is the first step ;)
They can pull this information from either the sender or any of the recipients phones. If the government knows the sender, they can arrest them and confiscate the phone.

That's reasonable.
A residential voltage electric shock has a low probability of killing you, but each one has that probability, and some day you may be unlucky.

Knowing how to move around the wire will further reduce the probability, so you can indeed learn to improve your odds. But still, each shock carries that probability (and it's much higher than the things we consider common, like driving a car in a high-speed road). How many times are you ok with putting your life at risk?

One should better avoid working on live wires. If you can't avoid, there are gear and safety procedures that may save your life, uncomfortable as they are. There is no reason for getting shocked all the time.
> it seems faster for its intended use...

But then you have to store the entire before & after locally? That's the entire point of using a hash for change detection.
Um... From TFA:

When the Romans started to get interested in grammar, genus came to mean “kind” of noun or “gender”, but because genus could also refer to biological sex, male and female, these concepts were occasionally conflated.
https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-abstract/23/2/133/101892...

You need an MIT account, though. Would anyone with one care to summarize?
The moment anyone in the world starts selling tusks, poachers start shooting elephants and smuggling the tusks into these "legal" markets/auctions.
It's a joke about a public figure. And a funny one at that. It's not inciting hatred. i think the pearl clutching is unnecessary.

> Telling nasty jokes toward someone locked in their body for no fault of theirs and no mean to escape is a perversion of the free speech idea

That is literally everyone.

So no more jokes. gostsamo on the internet will be offended /s.

from https://web.archive.org/web/20160324004049/http://www.maclea...

> Ward essentially gave a similar treatment to Jérémy Gabriel, a singer who rose to fame at the age of eight when he sang the national anthem at a Montreal Canadiens game. “Everyone said he sucked, but I defended him,” Ward says. “They said he was terrible, but I was like, ‘He’s dying but he’s living a dream, leave him alone.’ ” The niceties end when Ward figures out Gabriel isn’t actually dying. “He’s unkillable! I saw him at the water park, and I tried to drown him, but I couldn’t. Then I went on the Internet to figure out what was wrong with him, and you know what it was? He’s ugly, goddammit!”
Probably the same way you'd get Steve Jobs to work for you for $1 per year. Have that be part of a much larger package and this is thrown in just to meet the legal requirements of compensation.
DataGrip will not execute it without a LIMIT.
Unless things change before the launch date, the brand is Toyota, and "bZ" is simply a naming convention for the model.

The BMW 3-series is a model, not a sub-brand, even if variations all get a "3xx" name.
The snark of providing the timestamps as unredacted values was fabulous.
Nuclear Plants have an adversarial interest in access control though. Sometimes, yes, even fire safety loses out.
I'd like to point out that helium is used in science for many applications. For example, the superconducting magnets in MRI machines are cooled by helium. Since it is not renewable and escapes from the atmosphere easily, we should conserve it, and probably not use it for party balloons.
i would sue them if i was forced. if there is a choice, i'll of course take that instead.

but i am expecting that noone should want to live in a room without windows, so some people are going to get the short straw.

of course i may be wrong and there are enough students who actually don't care, or even prefer it over the alternatives.
however i fear that most of those are not aware of the downsides of a windowless room.

This type of housing really works for folks who like working with others, getting along with others, making friends.

that is not the point.
i like working with others too.
but waking up in complete darkness every day is not healthy.
even if most students won't be harmed by it, some will.

sure, i understand the tradeoff you are making. and i expect many will if that's the only way to get some privacy. that is understandable.

but as a parent i would be worried sick if my kids would make that choice.

there is no reason a building has to be designed that way. it should be entirely possible to give everyone a small room with a window. how much personal space do you need to sleep? 4m² should be enough.
But they are referring to a radius of a surface area on the Earth being destroyed, which goes as radius^2 (or ~volume^2/3 if you detonate in optimally).

>This seems quite vitriolic and uncalled for.

I apologize if this sounded too harsh, but "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" should not make basic errors like this. It was a very interesting historical article, but when you miss stuff like this, which is simple to catch, I wonder about the journalistic fact checking, which is considerably harder.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Workplace
> Every morning at the YMCA, Tom worked through the Olympic strength-training regimen to build muscle mass. Within a month, he was squatting 500 pounds.

I know he was already a category 1 cyclist and thus in great shape (particularly his cardiac health), but going from not squatting to squatting 500 lbs is not something that happens in a month no matter who you are or what you're on. Something was very likely lost/garbled between the source and writer on this point.
Try Google Cloud instead. I've used both Azure and GCP and Azure VMs always feel sluggish, a problem I don't have with GCP.
Not sure if the Golf is the best example as it too has been pulled from the US market (with only more expensive performance variants remaining): https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35281010/vw-ends-producti...
Is that enough for food and rent?
It's not a dead end with Signal. But it requires field work, as they used to do 50 years ago.

Now, cops and politicians want to solve all the problems from their desk.

No, sorry, my freedom is not to be sold for their convenience.

You want to catch a bad guy, you get a trained investigation team that follows people, that wires their house, that interrogates neighborhood, etc.

Is it more work ? Yes. Is it more dangerous ? Hell, yes.

But don't say you can't catch criminals because of Signal. What you can't do, is click on a button to spy on people. It's a good thing.

This mantra is just an excuse to chew off chunks of democracy.
I would go further and say that us being excited, and it being newsworthy, when a CEO's vision of the future is shared is deeply troubling. Their incentives are only aligned with society at the absolute loosest level.
> In other words, it's supposed to make platforms fail and people lose money, because each hack exposes a bad contract and takes it out of the environment.

I can already hear my grandma say "I'm glad I lost all my savings, now the platform gets safer."

Apart from that, it's naive to think that this makes the ecosystem safer. We still have SQL injections and XSS in the wild even though everybody should know how to avoid them after literal decades of exploits.
We're not evil ! Less cynically: who pays the bills... I see there's a fund, but anyone knows who owns the fund ?
I try to start any UPDATE or DELETE by writing out a transaction first:

BEGIN TRAN;

-- TODO: update statement

ROLLBACK;

Usually I'll run it with the ROLLBACK first, to confirm that it impacts the number of rows I'd expect, and only then change my ROLLBACK to a COMMIT.
Sway-FZFify – stupid simple scripts to use FZF with Sway
Created a set of very simple scripts which incorporate FZF into your Sway desktop.

Right now it depends on alacritty, which I think is a fan favorite lately. If the need comes up to use other terminals I'd be into the idea.
"This is an announcement from Genetic Control

It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot

Restriction on humanoid height

I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the

Properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold

It's said now that people will be shorter in height

They can fit twice as many in the same building site

(They say it's alright)"

(From "Get'em off my property", Genesis, Foxtrot, 1972)
I am not sure how precious helium is. The fact we put it in party balloons would hint at helium being relatively cheap (though those party balloons are typically 10$ each in France).

On the other hand, I understand that it is a significant cost driver for industry.
Interesting. I was aware of the shift... In university I would cringe every time a prof said "man" to refer to human or humanity, which seemed to me to indicate a very recent change. It's a surprising thing to hear it started as far back as Tolkien's time - I remembered that line as a Peter Jackson addition.

It would be interesting to hear how women who speak other European languages that didn't make those changes feel about it - they seem so inherently linked to my ear.
Tainted Treats Led to a Halloween Tragedy in 1858
They can be used to store data scoped to a particular request or unit of work, but most of the time that's not why you would use them. Mostly they are used to control tasks and stop things when needed. Imagine you have a server receiving requests. And for each requests there are multiple things you may have to do: logging metadata, checking the cache, pulling data from your database, etc. Some of that may be done in serial, and other parts might be done in parallel (maybe you've got an SQL database and also a KV store with some ancillary data and you want to grab data from both places at once). But you want to make sure this request doesn't block forever, you want to return a response to the user within a given maximum time frame (even if that is just a 504 Gateway Timeout response), and if you reach the time limit, or one of those things you are doing in parallel fails, you want to quickly shut everything else down. That's what contexts are for, in essence. You make a context object and have each of your independent processes use it. The context object provides a couple ways for you to check and see if the context has been cancelled. The Done() method gives you a channel you can poll on. The Err() method returns non-nil if the context was cancelled.

So yeah if you have a bunch of different tasks you want to do and you want to be able to stop all of them at once, you want to use a context.
That is the origin of the word gender. It only relatively recently came to be applied to sexual roles and identity.
Probably not the kind of thing they'd brag about in a blog post unfortunately
The end doesn't justify the means. Police in democratic societies have less power on what they are allowed to do in order to stop crimes, uncover crimes or prosecute criminals. Like requiring a search warrant or how long the police can hold you, interrogate you and so forth. But speech in general has always been a private matter, encryption only reinforces the status quo of society.

What argument do you have that less encryption is the preferred solution?
No. They’re suggesting that law enforcement should have a valid reason to request someone’s private data such as this process.

You have added that last line yourself, and it appears to suggest that you would prefer all of humanity be constantly surveilled in case it may catch more criminals.
Chabab Mohammedia vs. Hassania Agadir – Morocco Botola Pro Goals and Highlights
It can be useful, if for no other reasons than to understand their actions better.

Google believes in a customized, personal assistant in every pocket: a you-shaped facet of a gem that is all the data on the Internet. Getting there involves understanding what "you-shaped" looks like, hence all the data harvesting.
Are only Tesla's allowed to charge at Tesla charging stations?

I had always assumed these were like gas stations where you can bring any car to fill up.

If each manufacturer is going to have their own network, this doesn't seem like a good path forward.
I always felt like Gattaca was unrealistically pessimistic. I'm unconvinced that the "best possible person" (if you grant such a thing even exists) is that much different from an average person.

It seems more likely that we would just eliminate some genetic diseases and cancers, and vain/rich parents would select for taller children. Most other differences seem to be too weakly correlated with genes we've identified to result in such a stark change to society. It's less like taking a bunch of dials tuned to 5 and turning then all up to 11, and more like increasing some dials from 5 to 6, and arbitrarily spinning some others because they weren't labeled to begin with.
How many crimes have been prevented in the last 20 years thanks to the surveillance powers of the USA PATRIOT Act? Last I’d heard the answer was zero.

The privacy/security trade-off is vastly overstated.
I doubt it, I’ve used intercept before it was expensive. Almost 20 bucks
When I first learned English in school (almost 40 years ago) I was told that very young babies were grammatically neuter. Now I never hear anyone using “it” for a baby.
Has English changed in the last decades, or was my teacher wrong?
Barring the fact that I still cannot figure out what evil thing the facbook did other than vague descriptions of definitely evil stuff, trust us:

Allegedly facebook lied because it did not make its research about its algorithms public. But I could make the same argument about any proprietary system. YouTube's recommendation algorithm is not public. Google's pagerank is not public. What effects do those have?

And what findings would a public care about? Well, any given investor could find just about anything unethical. Sure, I think most people agree that if I see racist content on Facebook and as a result of that someone decides to join the KKK, it probably harmed society. But this can be extended indefinitely. Perhaps facebook's recipe recommendations encourage people to eat more meat, so vegans would find it unethical. Perhaps facebook's recommendations encourage people to drive more, so climate activists are upset. You sort of open up Pandora's box if you start considering these things. Would facebook even want to do research if it had the potential to reveal something negative?

This is another case of 'everything is securities fraud'. Why should the SEC get involved? That seems like a terrible expansion of SEC's powers to start judging IPOs based on the ethics of the organization. You start with a simple premise (the investors have a right to know) but end up making a very broad and IMO over-bearing conclusion.

And regarding the IPO and it's share classes--if you're purchasing facebook, know that you are not purchasing control. If you do not like it, do not invest.
My only experience of Iridium was watching heavens-above.com-predicted Iridium flares. Watching carefully in the hours after dusk, you'd see a faint moving dot get brighter and brighter, all the way up to magnitude 8 at times, and then fading away. Lasted about 20 seconds, and very cool.
Amazing! I didn't know this history at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_...
Canadian dollars, so ~$160 USD. But that's still extremely high for a quad-core CPU from 2013, 8 GB RAM, no solid-state storage, and capped bandwidth.
I am developing a realistic space colony building game
I think that your litmus scenario should be doable with all EU banks, for PSD2 compliance.

The Bunq API allows you to do a lot more than that though. https://www.bunq.com/api
People may not like that feature (I sure don't), but I would bet a decent sum that feature didn't drive increases in negative metrics like churn, and increased positive metrics like hours watched, perhaps by causing people to scroll through more of the library faster, or perhaps drawing people in with the previews. Or maybe they just saw in improvement in a non-core metric like "distance scrolled" with no other negative effects and said, "meh, ship it". Both seem likely.

Of course this is the danger of any sort of behavioral metric driven optimization strategy - you may trade negative customer sentiment for positive business outcomes. That's where the real decision making comes about, i.e. are you willing to make that trade? It seems that in this case, Netflix was.
Apple has a rule forbidding this exact thing.

If you get lucky and get a lenient app reviewer, you might be able to sneak a PWA onto the App Store this way, but even if you do get approved, you're just as likely to get rejected when submitting a bug fix or compatibility update. (This has happened to me a number of times before.)

> 4.2 Minimum Functionality

> Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website. If your app is not particularly useful, unique, or “app-like,” it doesn’t belong on the App Store. If your App doesn’t provide some sort of lasting entertainment value or adequate utility, it may not be accepted. Apps that are simply a song or movie should be submitted to the iTunes Store. Apps that are simply a book or game guide should be submitted to the Apple Books Store.

> 4.2.2 Other than catalogs, apps shouldn’t primarily be marketing materials, advertisements, web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links.

A "web clipping" is Apple's way of referring to a web site zipped up in a WebView, and that's what rule 4.2.2 explicitly forbids.

Apple has rejected a bunch of PWAs wrapped up in WebViews like this over the years, and when they do, they're normally rejected under 4.2.2. Apple doesn't always notice, but they notice just often enough to make this an unacceptable risk for any app you actually care about.

IMO the big mistake PWA Builder is making here is that (per OP blog post) they do not offer any "iOS-specific integrations."

> Our template doesn’t include support for iOS-specific functionality like Apple Pay, Sign In with Apple, HealthKit, etc.

Those iOS-specific integrations are the only thing that would make these PWAs allowable under rule 4.2. I have gotten PWA games approved by pointing out that they support Game Center, for example.

Overall, I think PWA Builder is off to a good start, but they need a lot more work to be viable.