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This isn't good for their bottom line. The efficiency of batteries is comparable to shipping oil at best, and electricity is rather expensive while shipping oil is almost free.

Shipping oil is filthy, dirty, hard to use. To a good approximation one wants it. To a better approximation no one on land can use it because if its high S content precludes it from being used on land (illegal and you need something that can deal with high Sulphuric acid)

Its a byproduct of the refinery that only shipping can use (they can and do burn straight diesel too). It is really very cheap. [1]

Ban it, if you must. But without market shenanigans itll never be cheaper to use a massive battery.

[1] without looking at the price, I wouldn't be surprised if its currently gone up in price. In Europe right now anyone who can burn it on shore is eyeing it and the EU has suspended many environment regulation. But thats a blip; once Germany's economy collapses the EU's energy needs will be much smaller
Sorry this makes no sense:

1. Apple clearly has no problem with 'toxic' (not sure what that means) IP as long as they have access on acceptable terms - which they clearly do with Arm.

2. Apple were almost certainly one of (maybe the only) lead partner for Arm in developing the A64 ISA - they have had a lot more input into A64 than they have into RISC-V.

3. They design their own architecture - they could have built a RISC-V CPU for the Mac if they'd wanted - they don't have to wait for anyone else.
They are doing that, this scales to ~100-1000s of people per state. I suspect that on the current trajectory they will need to monitor far more and they are dealing with technology that most likely has been compromised by the US but not them.
I mean I will use the algorithmic lists to discover new music - with limited success in recent years, I might add - and the autoplaying 'radio' after an album helps to keep me in a flow, but I usually start with a specific band / album or playlist.
It is also frightening that they need half a million servers.
I heard alot of people are doing quick cash by this
Also, all the options (lump sums and trade-ins) are capped to 40% of the price of the bike. So you'd have to trade your car for a 6000+ euros electric bike to get the full 3000 euros

What possible reason do they have for that? All it does is encourage people to buy a more expensive bike.
As a not-that-techy person I just sorely miss the glorious days of multi-service IM apps which made your messaging transparent, reliable and fully integrated to whatever you were using. I find utterly ridiculous to have multiple half-baked apps in both desktop and mobile for each service because reasons.

I reckon RCS tried to circumvent that to a point (but still saying 'screw you' to desktop users) but alas it seems this horrible too-many-IM-apps won't be ever solved.
Now that E2EE is considered a desirable thing, due to marketing, everything that does encryption of any sort is called E2EE. It doesn't really mean anything anymore.
"You can no longer buy a ticket on the bus" is different to "you have to use the app" You can't buy a ticket on a Subway, S-Bahn or regional train in Berlin - it's been like that for decades. You have to use a vending machine.
>I'm living in Cyprus. Does this mean I should be much less afraid of getting sued than if I were in the US?

Many places in the world, the copyright produced goes to the producer and not employer. Hence why these need to exist.

However, this isn't the take you need to be concerned with. If they have this, you know some talented lawyers have been engaged.

You know this employer is litigious, you know they are actively talking to lawyers. Why? Do they have lots of ex-employees they are effectively stealing their project from? Or are they just shitty employers who constantly have legal problems?

Frankly when I see something like this, I would walk calmly in the other direction.
As an Australian visiting Europe, I noticed a huge difference in the way Australians paint their homes and how it's done in Northern Europe. Australia is indeed mostly pastels, and always has been. I remember thinking the occupants of the first house I saw Brittan must have been schizophrenic. The bright colours and contrasts almost hurt my eyes for a while. But it turns in the UK I was the odd one out as most people used colour in that way. Right now I'm in the Netherlands and it's the same deal - wall sized murals cascading with colour through the house.

I'm no expert in why people do things, so I have no good reason to speculate. But I did anyway. I put it down to Australian's being able to spend part of every day outdoors for the entire year. There is no need for artificial brightness inside when you looking into a world illuminated by 1kW of sunshine per m2 every day. But the UK was downright dreary for large chunks of the time. It's not unusual to hear a UK expat in Australia say they left the place because they could not stand the depressing weather.

If you accept that's what's going on, then the answer is obvious. It's caused by global warming. The world is becoming more like Australia. :D
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Ensuring consistency and long term accuracy of the docstring is more effort and more verbose than type annotations.
> Spotify's recommendation system is much better than youtube's (at least for me). I frequently "joke" that it is one of the few applications of ML that actively make my life as a consumer better.

I hear this all the time but Spotify just plays stuff I've listened to. It's not a discovery service for me, it just plays the hits.

I'm wondering if that's just what it is and everyone likes it because it's playing stuff they already like for twelve tracks and then one new song.
More annoyingly, it’s only for trade-in.

I get that it’s supposed to get cars off the road, but the assistance without trade-in is way lower and IIRC just for very low incomes (under 15000 euros or so) for the national subsidy.

That means if you need bulk transport you get little to no help on a cargo ebike (which tend to be on the expensive side especially as they’re not ultra common yet), unless you first buy a junker to trade in.
What does time have to do with entropy?

Does alternate reality where entropy tends to order imply that time is flowing backwards somehow?

Do things need to change for time to flow at all? Does time need to "flow" if there's nobody to experience it?

Time is an unbounded concept that we made up so we don't lose ourselves in the boring routine that sometimes becomes fun for a moment and I'm not sure which part in that article is scientific at all, considering that people who have nothing to look forward in life literally say "I have no future", at which point in time did we grow so stupid that our subconscious is more intelligent than the conscious? You can't even tell me what time is, you can't explain why time is somehow real and doesn't require you to exist, but then you go ahead and blurt out "I have no future" as if you were pretending to be stupid all along.

Time is a personal thing, and if there's no observer, there's no time, we made it up, there's no mystery.
IMHO this is not the role of a note app. For this, get a private blog or use Medium.
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Maybe these days people spend more time looking at screens, which are super colourful and bright. Neutral colours in the real world bring a little balance, calmness to it?
I wish this was a joke. I know of systems running multibillion dollar companies that are still using rhel6.
That is eye-opening but - if it actually works and I find it hard to believe - is no way ...

ah, the insert is a CTE because it produces a value ('returning' I guess). Hmm. This is very odd. Doesn't seem to work in mssql.

Well thanks for the can of worms...
> Making things "simpler" is making things more complex.

This hits the nail on the head for me with Python. The standard libraries take a very “batteries included” approach but the language constructs don’t, and that means people use the flexibility of the language to do things their own way. I find that really increases my mental workload when reading other people’s software (how have they done this) and when writing my own (which way should I do this).
I got so used to opening in the new tab that I don't even notice this anymore. Infuriatingly, some sites disregard ctrl+click and either still open links in the same tab or both in the same and in the new tab!
First, servers generally run on operating systems. No one with any serious knowledge would use the phrase run on software. Second, does this guy have any actual tech knowledge at all? He doesn't list what operating system they are running or what security updates he is expecting. It doesn't sound great but I assure you I've probably seen worse on systems used by the literal federal government to conduct official business and store sensitive information on. All government cares about is having remediation plans in place.
How is this dealt with in purely functional languages? I'm no expert, but aren't all possible exceptions catched in an Option<>-Type of sorts?
*significantly more

99.95% reduction in power usage is more than 99% reduction.
>> Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it.

Speaking for myself, I'm kinda priviledged in working in the carnival, it's a good and steady income and I'm accumulating wealth, meaning I'm in a more economically privileged position than my parents and their parents were (housing crisis / cost of living aside, of course, sigh). That can, down the line, if I feel like it, be used as a springboard to do a throw.
See how NYC would do if NY State bombs New Jersey.
There is a subsidy for regular bicycles, read the link posted by gniv.
This is why I just use Markdown and Syncthing. Works on every platform I have including my phone and for more then just notes.

I really don't like every app reimplementing secure block storage and exchange or whatever.
The "does not support basic security features such as encryption for stored data" unquoted line of reporting is almost certainly not what Mudge wrote and is likely not literally true.

That 500k servers in Twitter infra are missing patches certainly is true and what was likely in the original was a statement that stored data that should have been encrypted at rest was not, and/or that acceptable standards for data at rest encryption, a relatively rapidly moving freight train, were not maintained.
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Cargo bikes easily reach 6k. No problem. And those are the ones that often make sense if a family wants to trade in a car.
People need cars to do things. Bikes are great (I live somewhere more expensive partly so I can cycle to work) but they don't replace the incredible general utility of a car.

It's possible with a very different lifestyle, a lot of a luck or a very decent income to structure your life in a way that allows zero car usage, but for most people a better car is the best option.
Or for that matter someone who isn't an employee at all. Unless they're claiming they have figured out absolutely perfect security such that they can never be hacked or compromised. Or isn't an employee/manager right now, because the thing about companies is that they tend to grow and die, management changes over time, they get bought, etc. That's the human condition, we don't live forever.

Really it's just a LUDICROUS statement to make. This isn't the 1980s, we know how tech works. We've seen tech companies around long enough for heroes to become villains and even heroes again, to watch all stages of lots of lifecycles happen over and over again, all the good and perverse incentives that can take place. To watch, well, decades. Just raw time. Even without centuries as in some industries, some basics are pretty clear at this point and one of them is that absolutely nobody can claim that data they have access too will "never be used" in one way or another given the pace of change and uncertainties of finances and even law.

Notes tend to be things where people put in sensitive stuff, if only for scratch purposes. It's just inevitable, humans are humans. Or put in stuff they don't think is sensitive but who they're wrong, even security agencies can screw stuff like that up. A notes are a tiny amount of data by today's standards, handling everything client-side is not a big ask. So yeah, kind of a wow.

Edit: another top conversation on HN literally right this instant is "“10% error rate is okay“ – Leaked EU Commission document regarding Chat Control"[0]. What happens when the law is changed such that all notes must be constantly scanned by AI for signs of criminal activity?

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562294
It's run by the miners and users and disconnected from the people who published the code (who may also be miners and users, but needn't be)
Here's the thing - both of those issues you've identified are broader societal issues that concern everyone, not just you.

(2) in particular is suggesting, effectively, that you should be allowed to circumvent a law you disagree with. In other words, you should be allowed to communicate unlawfully if you don't agree the communication should be unlawful.

That's just not how it works. As a society, your view is one of many. I'm sure many people involved in illicit activity disagree in their activity being characterised as criminal.

(1) undermines the fabric of institutions and assumes that law enforcement targeting criminals may do so for collateral purposes, so they shouldn't be allowed to target criminals just in case.

I don't agree with either.
> ...it costs more money to dye the plastic...

I'd posit that the real cost is the cost of carrying more inventory. It's cheaper to carry 200 in beige than 100 in each of 10 colours. It means you're less likely to be out of the colour the customer wants and you don't have to track/manage the different options.

Compare with clip on covers for mobile phones. Heaps of colours/design available, but it's not a cost to the manufacturer as they leave all that up to third parties, who are effectively charging extra for the option of colour.
I think other way around?
I don't think people forget the war in Yogoslavia, I have two friends who fled with their parents to Germany.
And just like that, the price of all ebikes increases by €4k...
As the old saying goes... Works on my machine.
Of course you can't compare apples with bananas - I'm not daft. I was simply looking for percentage similarity in controlling something (i.e. ~50% of world trade, ~50% of world internet search).

It amusing on how having a little fun with a comment on dystopian cyberpunk can ruffle so many feathers :-p
The sort of regular bike you would want to depend on to reliably get you to work is not going to be very cheap.
The JVM is a hungry beast.
This is a fair point, but why not offer a subsidy for non-electric cargo bikes (or long tails)?
Just to clarify:

Shipping fuel is a filthy byproduct no one really wants. Some of it can be cracked to other products but, in the end, if it ain't burned on ships it will be just burned onshore, probably a third world country, in whatever burner can deal with its acidity or in a big blowtorch to heaven
I'm reading a book, fictional but using a lot of real-world concepts, where they send messages to aliens at first in a self-encoding scheme or something (it's been a while since they needed it, I might misremember the name). I figured this can be real by starting like

1 |

2 ||

3 |||

1+2=3

1+1=2

And building up the language further from there. Draw triangles and label the sides for Pythagoras theorem, repeat a couple times to generalize the concept for the word theorem, etc.

Nobody did that in ancient times as far as I know, so you're right, but couldn't we make this work without needing context of our culture to survive?
What is to stop criminals from using any specific form of encryption (ie. math)? Meanwhile the average person who follows the law will be at a much greater risk of identity theft, ransom-ware, etc…
I do miss when I was a kid and cars were bright colors. One trend I've been watching with eager anticipation is the recent rise in two-tone car body colors. They're so much more fun to look at than a single shade.
Government subsidies push the price of those goods up.

You can bet all ebike shops in france are rewriting signs right now to tack an extra few thousand euros onto the price of everything they sell...
Wasn't it them that had a bug that exposed users' passwords in plain text a few years back?
Cargo bikes such as Livelo/Bullitt/Bakfiets etc. usually start at ~€4000 or so.
> creating classes/structures that represent the tables

AFAICS he's talking about creating AST objects.

If the tables don't exist, you can't query the infoschema because the tables don't exist. Someone has to parse the table-definition source code to work out what the tables must eventually look like when turned into structures in the database.
Colour might be missing in the real world. But it lives on in Media. Think Printing, TVs and Computer. We might have a less colourful in house decoration, but our TVs, Games, Movies has brought out much more colour than ever before.

I believe because modern media are too colourful, we subconsciously want a much less colourful real world.
This is due to the way they were trained: predict the most likely next word. In a difficult context the most likely next word is a filler word.
And the human moderators.
Jeez, and I complain when my IDE gets close to 1GB.
Eh, you could take out Twitter and insert many other company names and it'll still hold true. And those companies hold so much more sensitive data about you than Twitter.

I know of insurance companies that have help desk employees with domain admin access. And all crippling ransomware attacks take advantage lax permissions.

This is rampant. How is this a story?
I’m not sure I follow. If we’re talking about turning a few sentences into a blog post then sure, but there are many use cases for these models.

E.g., distilling large amounts of text into short summaries while retaining substance is effectively the opposite of this, and is a use case GPT3 has been applied to successfully/commercially.
>>On the Intel front, Apple saw how underperforming, short lasting battery and hot the 12” MacBook was.

Then they saw how performant, long battery lasting and cool their iPad (ARM chip) was.

This became an easy decision for Apple to ditch Intel when they saw how much better their own iPad Pro was relative to the 12” Intel MacBook.

For those who have being using Mac since the PowerPC days all have used this argument against X86 chips. As you all know, Apple actually had to switched from RISC chips to Intel X86 chips, before they switched back to ISAs chips now. Just saying performance is not the main reason to switch chip sets.
If you are interested in the old (and new) quantum theory, with all reasoning and formulas derived in detail, I cannot recommend highly enough M. Longair's two books: "Theorerical concepts in physics" and "Quantum concepts in physics".
They are historically based derivations of the main physics theories from Galileo to the Solvay conference of 1927.

If you don't know the history of electrodynamics and thermodynamics already I wouldn't skip the first book (which also contains the work of Plank on black body radiation)
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It might be that you looked in the wrong place. I didn't check the RCS-situation in a while, but last time I checked (~1.5y ago) the Europe operators who haven't deployed RCS already (3-4 operators) dropped investment plans and decided to support RCS via Google's RCS cloud-service instead, mandating the use of Google Messaging as device-client.

(Google acquired jibe, a major company developing RCS clients/servers, and started rolling their own RCS-server and moving almost all vendors to the same client)

My expectation would be that by 2022 the majority of Europe carriers support RCS, not as an in-house service but by using either Google's cloud-based RCS or Samsung's RCS and their respective device-clients (with Samsung on steady decline).

The situation is a bit opaque, but if you look deeper on the device-side, RCS is no longer a carrier-controlled service. Google and Samsung combined control >90% of the client/server development and operations.
They surely both align via the GSMA, but I doubt that the GSMA has actual control over the roadmap of RCS any more today than it had control over it ~2 years ago (which was close to zero)
Not only that, but stopping migrants is also a business model in itself; Europe is paying billions to stop migrants, see e.g. https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-eu-spent-billions-to-halt-migr...
The reason it is capped at a percentage of the bike's purchase price is to limit abuse. If people have to spend a good chunk of their own money they may think twice, if it's a free ebike everyone will take the offer and immediately resell the bike (yay free money).

I'm any case 4k is huge as most ebikes are cheaper than that... I suspect this is just to generate headline with a big number...
At least you get it. I've seen worse on actual government systems.
Do they? Faced with the prevalent right-wing rhetoric where a not uncommon position is that African migrants either deserve to drown or at least should be kept in camps somewhere far away, their Western defenders tend to adopt a defensive posture that focuses on basic human rights but also easily patronizes the migrants.

The "Risk Everything" story glorifies a young Cuban boat refugee's leadership qualities. I certainly can't remember ever reading an article like that about an African refugee written by an European. It's somehow easier for us to see the best of humanity in someone from Cuba than in someone from Niger, even when they both suffered under dictatorship and took extraordinary steps to escape.
The blue bubble/green bubble thing is Google's iPhone is just "round corner" argument. They're very good at pushing the "our competitor is evil" style messages rather than being honest about the genuine reasons why others aren't embracing their various platforms. Google have repeatedly failed at making legitimate competitors to popular chat services such as Whatsapp, so Google is trying to sneak around the competition in their attempt to force Apple to bundle their technology with every device.

The real hesitation by Apple is obvious, RCS is half baked: it's not a true E2EE solution and in some scenarios encryption is simply not available at all. It is demonstrably worse than other chat technologies, doesn't solve the problems it sets out to fix and the only benefit to its existence is that it gives Google a way to control a competitor's platform.

Apple have already made the right kinds of concessions for chat apps on their platforms. All apps are able to hook into the native video/voice call, Contacts and instant-notification reply interfaces. Not only does this make each 3rd party app have the same feeling and level footing as Messages. It has the run on benefit of extending support for these services into devices where there isn't even an app available. E.g. one can reply to chat messages from their car or apple watch, even if there is no app on those platforms - this really goes a long way to helping 3rd parties establish themselves without having to build an app for every single one of Apple's hardware endeavours. Google could go this route with an RCS app, but it's clear that there is no end-user benefit here, especially when Whatsapp and others did the hard work in carving out the critical mass needed to exist as a standalone chat app.
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