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Nuking effectively everything except the Touareg, Tiguan, Atlas, Taos, Q7, Q8, and the entire Porsche lineup in the US has done them no favours. The Golf is dead, New Beetle is dead, Passat is dead, the A5 is being neglected, the A8 is just the previous generation with new styling in and out, the A3 still hasn't made it over here in enough numbers for dealers to actually sell them, the A4 is being neglected and hasn't gotten the Q7's upgrades, the Jetta's due to die, Arteon's due to die, and for a partner to the ID.4 the ID.2 hasn't even been launched in favour of slinging us the insultingly priced ID.buzz instead which dealers won't even take allocations for because they know a $60,000 (starting price, most trims hit $80,000) minivan that can't be used as a minivan won't sell. All of the discontinued models were slated to be sent behind the barn before the pandemic, so they can't even use that as an excuse. They tried to copy Ford's stupid move of dropping all sedans and hatchbacks save for the performance halo car and focusing on SUV and CUV sales, and they're seeing the same result of losing market share and being forced upmarket to cover the loss, squeezing margins.

Plus the financing plans where they're seemingly deciding to do almost the exact same thing Mitsubishi did in 2001 in offering 0% interest rates and no down payment to grab the Atlas and Taos because they want to eat into the market share that the Nissan Rogue and Kia Sorento have. Carlos Ghosn's stupidity in chasing volume via financing anyone who could breathe at shockingly low interest rates nearly destroyed Nissan and was the reason why he got ousted from both Renault and Nissan. Meanwhile the other manufacturers are seeing the dour consequences of abandoning the $30,000 and below segment and chasing the high end $70,000+ full size SUV customers, which is a tiny fraction of a market that's shrinking further because the upmarket push creates a feedback loop.

Volkswagen does not have the cheapness of Nissan and Kia to make up volume, and they don't have the perceived robustness of Toyota to build a base to move upmarket. They're stuck, and they're slinging Taos' and low financing out like candy hoping it will save them and bring back former Golf customers.
Indeed, it is a common refrain among C++ programmers to inspect ones binaries, I have found ..
You only need more priors than humans have in their mind.

As I said, neural nets are already good at pattern recognition. That is all that is needed to recognise you ran over someone.

Humans are still better at long reasoning sessions. Aka "thinking something through". But that is not involved in recognizing you ran over someone.
Great app, the API is really unstable unfortunately, I can’t see any planes today :(
The US has 50 states. And everything like this is can vary by federal, state, county, and muni's. So...

Jail is for naughty people. Prison is for bad people.

Jails are usually run by counties and muni's and hold people before trial and serving sentences for minor crimes. Prisons are run by the feds and states and hold prisoners convicted of serious crimes.
Unity isn't one tool, however. DOTS does a lot of amazing things, but most of its job is done on the CPU. and issues here sound like GPU laden issues. DOTS could certainly do a better job talking to HDRP but DOTS has always been talked about as "in alpha/beta" until mid 2022. those integrations and polish are the exact reasons why, and I argue that it came out of beta much too early as is.
I'd be interested to hear these horror stories about Msft (are they from the modern era? 2010s? 2020s?). On my old team there, I really liked our build system (Azure Devops/Azure Repos, basically all-in-one tool from issue tracking to Git to CI/CD deploying to Azure....
Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (Rtems)
Why would it cost less?

What is the difference in utility of a robotaxi and a meat taxi besides maybe a reduction in cost per ride (how much is labor vs. non-labor cost), and why isn't everyone using Uber to get everywhere now?

The robotaxi vehicle still needs to be manufactured, purchased, financed, maintained, fueled, insured, with room for profit for the robotaxi company. None of these things are free.
>There is no city cars in their lineup

This is a problem across most manufacturers. Ford recently canned the Fiesta, the best selling car in the UK.
Similarly - I'd be happy to get all my parcels just once a week - most of the things I order aren't urgent and I'm likely to not be around to receive the parcel anyway.
Apple's Use of AppKit, Catalyst, Swift and SwiftUI in macOS Sonoma
But the most important factor may yet be electrification. VW doesn't have an edge in electric cars and their product lines (the ID3, 4 etc.) are not really competitive.

They must be doing something right because the ID.4 sells like hotcakes in Scandinavia, Germany and other European countries. It was the #1 EV in 2022 in Sweden, and #2 in Germany behind the Tesla Model Y. (ID.3 was #3)
On average decentralization would make it less safe not more though. Most medium/small and even some large businesses would definitely mess something up if they had to do it themselves
And by 'just getting the torrent' they have a chance of getting a big fine.
In lots of countries, there are 'anti piracy' groups trying to lobby for stupid stuff like levies on storage media (because piracy) and catching spreaders of pirated media.
Ask HN: Package management for multiple modules in C++, Python, Java project?
We are working on a big project with many components that depends on one another. Current management is flat so we just bring the system to some stable state and take a snapshot. But as the project grows (>50) developers, this get's out of our hands.

Is there a package management system for multiple languages that you guys recommend?

Many thanks!
I love desktop/native apps just as anyone else around here, but them being better because "Internet is used as a propaganda tool by capitalists", what is this article.
> Microservices usually solve organisational problems

Or create organizational problems.

- "Who owns the flip-flop service?"

- "That's Bob's team, we fired them last summer!".
I've started to build an application with GTK (and rust). I think one major reason the web "won" the GUI wars is the sheer amount of documentation and example code. For me the biggest struggle in building a GTK app is to find the elements and how to configure them properly. There are barely any tutorials and the documentation is hard to use when you are just starting out with GTK.
WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter.
If implementation of ~~ is supposedly faster than Math.floor() for positives, shouldn't the JIT pick up on this with a guard/deopt block?
Smart home automation isn't for everyone. Many relatives see it as that weird hobby I have and don't see much of the value. (And I agree given the time I spend tinkering.) Even I would likely rip out most of the inherited smart home stuff in order to replace it or at least flash opensource firmware on it. Another important point I learned is that everything should work as a dumb home when the wifi, gateways, HomeAssisant or some sensors are down.
Your company should definitely have had a production-identical staging environment if an hour of downtime means millions lost :D

That development would be an obvious investment that pays for itself. I’m in banking, and terrified of making even a slightly complex deployment without validating it in production first. (Complex here referring to that it might be dependent not just on code changes, but also environment).
Side note on WP's subscription popup there, "A99c every 4 weeks for the first year" is never how you should write that. "A$0.99 [...]" is the way to go.

https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conve...
If I'm not wrong Berberine was discovered in the Genus Berberis, a cosmopolite genus of thorn shrubs with small yellow flowers. They have blue or red tiny edible fruits and everything else is toxic. Can be found in each public park from temperate areas
> Desktop GUI is the most efficient and fulfilling way of Human-Computer Interaction

…that will expose yourself at a really high risk. I think that security was one of the main factors that pushed browsers to become the definitive UI.
Interoperability also is a big deal; making a website work with Firefox and Safari is much easier than develop a cross-platform GUI program.
Samsung and Google have developed a Dolby Atmos alternative
Unity is a worldwide company and while the HQ is now in San francisco, the origins lie in Copenhagen. There's physically no way to reasonably make everyone RTO because there are multiple big bases, and Unity was adjusted to telecommuncations well before the pandemic due to that.

So I'm not too surprised it chose to size down physical locations when push came to shove, compared to other tech companies in SV doubling down on their billion dollar real estate they built.
Opera GX: This is how to turn off Eric Andre startup jumpscare
Because `Math.floor` is correct for all numbers but `~~` will be incorrect outside of int32 ranges and non-numbers (`Math.floor("asdf")` is NaN but `~~"asdf"` is 0). Basically it is a shorthand for limited cases, but it is so convenient for those cases that I think it is a worthy trick to know with caveats.

ADDED: As per performance, there is a difference, but it is hard to quantify exactly. `Math.floor` with large enough argument won't fit in any integer type, so JIT can't assume that. But it is mostly the case that floating point arithmetics are as fast as integer arithmetics in modern architectures, so unless we completely know how floor outputs are to be used, that argument can't be used to prefer either `Math.floor` or `~~`.
And then you don't even have come to the real meat, the freedom the web gives you. Freedom to deploy whenever, freedom from app stores with arbitrary rules set by big boring corporate interests.

Why publish with restrictions when you can be free?
Baldur's Gate 3 bug caused by game's endless mulling of evil deeds
Issues with Stripe Identity: Unable to Verify Passports from Asia-Pacific Region
We have a problem with validating passports of residents from Asia-Pacific who use the Stripe Identity tool.
We reached out to Stripe's support team and they said that they are working on resolving the issue for our account. Nevertheless, we are not sure if the problem is with our account or with the Stripe verification system.
This situation is similar to Schrodinger's paradox.
Massachusetts has pretty strict laws on criminal records in general but also questions about criminal backgrounds in applications and interviews.

Some cities in MA are prohibit companies they contract with from discriminating against those with criminal backgrounds. And before some smarmypants jumps on my back: there's verbiage about it only applying to those who will not be working sensitive positions. I'm not an expert but I believe it's things like unsupervised handling of money and working with vulnerable populations.
No [1]. Their difference only matters for code golfing (because `~~` binds much tighter than `|0`).

[1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-numeric-types-number-bitwiseNOT vs. https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-numberbitwiseop
I like developing applications using Electron because the development process is smooth and efficient. As for the fact that Electron includes Node.js and Chromium, I don't care about it. Users who focus on my application's functionality rather than nitpicking details also don't care about it. That's enough.
It’s all in Pi.
Bitwise operators only work on the first 32-bits, so it isn't as easy as `instead of doing the Math.floor operations, check for edge cases and just the same operation as ~~`
If that is the case, why are people writing desktop apps with Electron / other web tech?
I’m struggling to understand what insight you think you are providing.

Tesla had a very explicit plan for a long time to make high margin luxury cars and keep scaling up production to make cheaper and cheaper cars to make electric cars dominate.

Lowering prices isn’t some sign of “struggling to hold on”.
Can't the former Weta employees (both laid off and otherwise) splinter off from Unity into their own VFX spin-off? Surely they have enough industry contacts and street cred so that getting projects wouldn't be a problem.
If you have to rely on bank and external financing, your stock price is absolutely critical, no question.
Octa Security Incident – Update and Recommended Actions
I find it more interesting to web search the hacker news profits user names.
It trivial to project big profits if you assume a monopoly. The problem is that it's true for any sector, you have to justify why Tesla is the one to achieve it or else your numbers are meaningless.
This operator is not currently common for intended audience of my code. And also, it's intended meaning is so much less often useful than meaning of other operators, that I don't think it ever becomes common.
Decades ago I worked as a leader of a small team of sysadmins. We worked around the clock maintaining server room and critical applications for an average size bank.

One of our responsibilities was to execute nightly checklists to run various processes, do backups at correct times, etc. These processes would be things like running calculations on loans, verifying results, etc.

We had a huge ream of checklists to accomplish this and we were supposed to follow them religiously.

We had two very similar applications, one our core and another a core from another bank we bought with the same application but older version and slightly different config. Consequently, we had two tracks of checklists with very similar steps.

One of those steps was to change the accounting date in the system. The application was a terminal app. We would telnet to the server, log in, then we would execute commands in the menu driven app. To change the date we would have to go to a special menu for super dangerous applications. It required the user to log in again.

Our core system, required logging in, selecting that we want to advance accounting date by one day, entering admin password again, pressing enter, then waiting for about 4 hours while the process ran. Then the process would exit back to the menu where the highlighted option would be to advance the day.

Our legacy system required logging in, selecting the option to advance accounting date, entering admin password, pressing enter, then waiting for two hours after which a popup showed to ask a stupid question where we would just always press enter, then wait for another hour until it exits to the menu.

We quickly figured out, that we can just press the enter key twice on our legacy system. The second enter press would just leave there in keyboard buffer and dismiss the popup. This was very useful for us, as this was the only operation that interrupted what would be the only time during night where we could have a kebab...

One night I made a mistake, and I pressed the enter twice... on the wrong system. When I figured out that I did it I realised the process would exit to the menu and then should ask for the admin password.

But, unfortunately, the application had a bug (or a feature). Once it exited to the menu, it came back in but for some reason it remembered that the admin password has already been entered and started advancing the accounting date again without asking for the password.

Unfortunately, the date was December 24. For entire December 24, the entire bank was unable to process any operations while we were restoring from last good backup (before day close) and then redoing eod operations. Then on December 25 as a penalty, I had to sit for entire day with accounting department observing how they manually entered all of the operations that would normally happen automatically on Dec 24th.

One extra key pressed.
The inside front cover blurb for Bored of the Rings is quite entertaining and bears no resemblance to the contents in the slightest. By not reading the jacket, you'd miss this little gem.

“Do you like what you doth see . . . ?” said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within. Frito’s throat was dry, though his head reeled with desire and ale. She slipped off the flimsy garment and strode toward the fascinated boggie unashamed of her nakedness. She ran a perfect hand along his hairy toes, and he helplessly watched them curl with the fierce insistent wanting of her. “Let me make thee more comfortable,” she whispered hoarsely, fiddling with the clasps of his jerkin, loosening his sword belt with a laugh. “Touch me, oh touch me,” she crooned. Frito’s hand, as though of its own will, reached out and traced the delicate swelling of her elf-breast, while the other slowly crept around her tiny, flawless waist, crushing her to his barrel chest. “Toes, I love hairy toes,” she moaned, forcing him down on the silvered carpet. Her tiny, pink toes caressed the luxuriant fur of his instep while Frito’s nose sought out the warmth of her precious elf-navel. “But I’m so small and hairy, and . . . and you’re so beautiful,” Frito whimpered, slipping clumsily out of his crossed garters. The elf-maiden said nothing, but only sighed deep in her throat and held him more firmly to her faunlike body. “There is one thing you must do for me first,” she whispered into one tufted ear. “Anything,” sobbed Frito, growing frantic with his need. “Anything!” She closed her eyes and then opened them to the ceiling. “The Ring,” she said. “I must have your Ring.” Frito’s whole body tensed. “Oh no,” he cried, “not that! Anything but . . . that.” “I must have it,” she said both tenderly and fiercely. “I must have the Ring!” Frito’s eyes blurred with tears and confusion. “I can’t,” he said. “I mustn’t!” But he knew resolve was no longer strong in him. Slowly, the elf-maiden’s hand inched toward the chain in his vest pocket, closer and closer it came to the Ring Frito had guarded so faithfully . .”
But I only have 16GB RAM, so I can only have a dozen of those electron apps open.
I've heard the same flavour of equations from everyone I've ever heard talking about starting a company. One guy was calculating that if he sold his gadget to "just" 10% of people in Africa, he'd make so much money.

Spoiler: he did not sell a thing to 10% of people in Africa.
Both web and desktop apps have their place. Pick the right tool for the job. And avoid pointless debates.
Anthropic Fall 2023 Debate Progress Update
It's a nice story with nice message.
And it's pretty normal that mistakes happen, especially under pressure and within long shifts.
The "mistake" itself is understandable: what is shocking to me it the multimeter thing.
Learning that a mythical "NASA guy" in charge of really serious stuff cannot realize that the multimeter is measuring current, thus it's part of the circuit, and removing it will switch off something.
Capacity utilization will make using a robotaxi multiple times cheaper than owning a car. You car stands still most of the time. A robotaxi can drive most of the time.

Automation and economies of scale (maintenance, repair, cleaning, charging) will also contribute to the lower cost of a robotaxi fleet compared to privately owned cars.
At this point, most consumer devices should ship with a copy of Wikipedia out of the box that then gets updated (considering Wikipedia's compressed dataset is only 19GB!). Either that or they need a P2P CDN.

To be honest, I'd rather self-host my copy of Wikipedia in my own container on my own server, and fetch/push updates accordingly with other peers if I couldn't have it on-device for any reason.

http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html looks interesting.
Conference organizer admits auto-generating at least one woman speaker profile
I'd be surprised if that's "most workers". Some workers sure, especially those who already have some wealth like an already paid for house and can afford to be picky with their careers, but most workers who do not, are chasing wealth building and financial security first before being picky about the ethics and other aspects of their career.
I guess I should have phrased it differently. Going forward, they don't seem competitive in comparison to Tesla and the upcoming Chinese competition.

Selling a lot of cars doesn't mean it's a profitable business.

I am quite sure the German government will come up with new tariffs, subsidies and regulations to make it look as if they can continue to dominate the local market though, hurting consumers and the German industry even more along the way.
And other car makers don't have sales nor R&D? Tesla is a car maker, not a tech company regardless of how hard want to spin it otherwise.
That and the difficulty of going cross-platform.

GTK is good on Linux but taking it to Windows is usually an uphill battle and that too with a language like C. Same with Qt with C++ for that matter.

On the other hand, you can choose a high level toolkit like Java Swing or .NET WinForms but they also have their own nuances with regard to cross-platform configuration and support.
> Who’s going to fund this study?

Foam mattress manufacturers?
In the age of public salary-range listings, some jobseekers feel duped
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Amazon wrote a blog post about it and they are also part of the Swift on Server workgroup. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/continuous-delivery-...

Apple is always careful with their statements but at the last Swift Server conference they had a talk where they outlined some of their usages.
The Myth of the Secret Genius (2022)
Piece of advice - read up on that W8-BEN.
So that is about $3k in todays money you had laying around and could risk. Are you sure you are well attuned what is within the reach of the common man?
On further reflection ...

... the autodial feature may well be waiting for dialtone in order to dial. I've not looked into this and you're probably best off testing this yourself on your own equipment.
How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like
Install more RAM, why don't you upgrade to a 32GB RAM! /s
If you invested that $250k in Tesla shares rather than a Tesla Roadster deposit it would be worth more than $4,000,000 now.
Amazon has introduced Q, an AI-powered chatbot specifically designed for AWS customers, signaling a significant step in elevating artificial intelligence solutions in the business sphere. Unveiled during a keynote at Amazon's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Q represents a transformative toolset that aims to revolutionize business operations.
They are still one of the very best
Security was a side effect. By far it was ease of deployment, maintainability, and cross platform (as in mobile, not so much macos/linux).

But agree that security considerations is what is making my hand shake if I am installing any desktop app that doesn't have over 10 millions downloads.