skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about this some more, and I realised, Tesla and other EV manufacturers better be praying that this is not a financially viable replacement for gas turbine peakers in general.

Otherwise there will be a big jump in demand for batteries, as power companies will be looking for hundreds of GWh of battery capacity. If they make a yearly profit for the power company that's significant enough to warrant the CAPEX of replacement, increasing the battery price by 10% only means one or two more years before break-even. So power companies could easily afford that if we assume the investment at current price levels is profitable for them.

That is going to significantly (negatively) affect the price developments of batteries and constrain supply even more than today, so EV manufacturers will be faced with either losing (more) money on each car or increasing prices and selling less cars.

Unless we assume Tesla is looking to pivot out of EVs in general, but I think that's a rather absurd assumption given their current actions.
This thread reads like something Dr Seus would write.
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Somewhat related, but in my experience advising hundreds of small businesses over the past few years the worst (performing) are the ones that blame excessive regulation and government tyranny as a reason for their lack of progress.

It's rarely/never that from the independent perspective of the advisor to the company...

Not to turn this into a political discussion, but these same small business owners share a similar political leaning and are mostly parroting the canned narrative they hear on their respective talk channels...
I came across it back in 2014 and have been meaning to check it out since. Do y'all have a how-to-build-a-package walkthrough?
> She experienced real prejudice from issues at these orgs

Is there some back story we don't know about? Because all I can see is an accusation that someone was fired for being trans.
What standards? For sure there can't be any standard that would lend itself to all of the various ways your data is used and stored.
I love working remotely because it has allowed me to run my business while travelling around India. But I still feel my work would be more efficient if I was sitting next to my co-workers. There's some intangible quality involving instant feedback, body language and social interaction that would make our communication more direct and engaging.

Despite all the advances in technology for working remotely, face-to-face remains the best even for digital businesses. Facebook and Google are evidence of this: working remotely for these companies is the exception rather than the rule.
The point is that while lots of people face very real discrimination a minority creates drama.
Half of all US K-12 schools use Clever (YC S12). Come grow that platform
That's interesting. I've only used redux for one project and you may be right. It is tedious to all those things for every little action.
UI customization process for a Windows app
I'd be fine with getting my data out. Importing would be a plus, but that can't obviously be required from a business.
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> Tesla cars are an expensive luxury brand and have no real revolutionary potential at the moment. The revolution is to make affordable electric cars and the infrastructure to build them

So...their plan being to bootstrap the large-scale manufacturing of affordable vehicles with a smaller number of more expensive sales, you're saying that Tesla simultaneously is and isn't revolutionary at the same time?
I'm currently living in an RV, so my space is very limited. I'd have to get rid of something in order to make room for it! If I buy some land and put a tiny house and studio on it, I'll definitely pick one up. There's a bunch of old hardware I'd love to have, but it's definitely a hobby for someone with some extra space (and also extra time, which I also don't have a lot of lately).
Honestly it sounds like everyone who doesn't like San Diego would really like the bay area.

I tend to agree that salaries in SD don't match the cost of living - at least in tech. The southern California lifestyle isn't for everyone, but if you like the beach it's tough to beat in the continental US.

Bay area cost of living is tough too, even with the higher salary ranges. I had never even heard of a "micro-loft" until I came to SF.

In the end, I'm a big fan of both SD and the bay area. Both areas have huge benefits to offset their respective problems.
Considering that "only" 30% work in the public sector, the will even have more family members or close friends which do NOT work in the public sector.

But I don't get your logic anyway. Because a friend of yours work for BMW you wouldn't buy a Tesla?
A presumption of innocence decreases the value in telling damaging lies which in turn disincentives lying. It would be valuable in the face of most people being guilty.
I doubt the "it'd give all those Post Office workers a job" part.

It would if one would require a Post Office employee to be present whenever an identity has to be verified, but in practice, people would have a passport or identity card with a photo/fingerprint/DNA scan.

The only effect might be that the Post Office will have to handle more ID cards, but even that is doubtable, as almost everyone already has a driver's license, passport, or similar.
Pumped and normal hydroelectric are split on this.

<3 Dinorwig. The tour there is pretty cool if you get the opportunity.
Top grossing Healthcare Mobile apps which are on high demand
You can always try https://github.com/ui-router/react
Ui router has been the de facto router in the angular ecosystem for years. With version 1.0 the core lib became agnostic to angular.
The Central Limit Theorem needs the prerequisite that your distribution has a finite variance. It's not at all clear that this holds for the return of startup investments. In more practical terms, when the variance is very high or there are outsized impacts from small portions of your population, it can take arbitrarily many samples before your average starts to converge. So it's entirely possible that sampling 100 companies isn't enough.
How is young people moving to Germany contributing to Spain?

Earning? They spend most of their money where they live.

In the past engineers used to create wealth in Spain, creating 30 to 40% of the Gross product in Industry in Spain. Now it is 10%.

I am engineer and I have a company in central Europe, I know.

Educated people moving to Germany to create wealth there is a disaster for Spain. You are payed in salary 10 because you contribute at least 20 or 30 to the country you work in.

Training an engineer cost Spain 40 to 50.000 euros in public education. Them moving to USA or Germany is an enormous transfer of wealth.
I'm also curious, for the same reason ontoillogical is.
At least explain why this is not a good first-order comparison.
I can understand it being annoying, especially if you have a DSP background, but the name is well established. Language changes over time and "pixel" has gained another meaning. I don't think you're going to convince anybody to switch to "neo-pointilist".
disagree,

coupling is a logical connection, and has nothing to do with calling-semantics.

Whether a local function call or an RPC, its still the same level of coupling, this is just a difference in the (equivalent of) a link-layer in a network stack.

Adding a network connection is a much more complicated calling-semantic than a function call, many more and different failure modes.
Including the jack to lightning adapter appears to me like a contradiction: it's like saying "we remove the audio jack but we know that you need it".
I recall reading quite a while ago that Tesla said that they see themselves primarily as an energy company. Looking for a citation...
You can add to your list all the sysadmin, devops complexity to the power of two, new single-point-of-failure issues, SLAs, backups, retention of backups....
Basically, you are multiplying the complexity of the ops people.
While the info is kinda useful, the writing style reminds me of Stan, the salesman of Monkey Island.
Not in every case. It was often an excuse for my last manager to not do anything like write down requirements.
"I thought we talked about that."
"Yes you changed your mind three times and I can't remember what the final outcome was."

Personally I like having things done in writing as you have something solid to refer to afterwards.
There are just so many directions in which to pivot!
www.arubacloud.com is cheaper as well. I'm using a 1GB RAM Ubuntu for 1 USD/month
How do I get in touch with you? Can't find an email in your profile.
Do you trust the software industry to keep others' from turning off your refrigerator for the lulz?
Yes, he made a few thousand dollars net profit over 7 to 9 months.

He also had a poker bot running for a while (on sites that didn't mention bots in their ToS) and kept complete logs of cards seen and player actions. There were plenty of players who could beat his bot, but his bot would refuse to sit down at tables with players with too good records against it. With three credit cards running three accounts, that poker bot was paying his rent for the first year or two after he moved out of the fraternity house.

He told me a couple of times that he'd give me FTP access to his logs, but never got around to it. When I heard that RC4 had a bias in its key schedule, I thought a bit about how to make an unbiased shuffle, and figured that a lot of people would use a naive biased shuffle. I was curious if my friends poker hands would show such a bias. I also wanted to check against the Perl, GNU C, MS C, and Visual Basic built-in rand() implementations, checking for srand(time()) and srand(time()^getpid()). (Perl still ruled the web in those days.) Later, an academic paper came out explaining that the most common poker site software was written in Pascal, and had both flaws I wanted to look for (plus another flaw due to an off-by-one error in the author's understanding of the Pascal Random() API.) I didn't think to look at popular Pascal implementations' pseudorandom number generator implementations, so I doubt I would have found the predictable prng seeding flaw via my friend's logs, but there's a chance I would have. I'm not sure how much an edge in poker the shuffle bias flaw gives, but I imagine it's tiny.
Bash 4.4 released
At night you will use your Ambien toothpaste.
Show HN: DudelDu a simple SHOUTcast server in Go
So that's what they meant when they said they'll stop illegal migrants drowning, they'll drain the sea.
Indeed. Microsoft broke with standards, and introduced the non-standard IXMLHTTPRequest API for their browsers. It later became a standard, but it certainly wasn't when it first happened.

Major innovation doesn't come from standards bodies, it comes from operational implementation and later opening up the implementations for standardisation. Unfortunately, Apple has not demonstrated a lot of interest in the latter part in technologies where it would be really really nice for end users (FaceTime, iMessage), but has in other areas that may benefit developers (Swift).

Who knows what'll happen in future.
Just give preferential treatment and zero rate to ALL content. Then we're actually neutral, and everyone is happy.
No. CPU's in a phone are probably idling 99% of the time. The power usage for the full-performance and half-performance cpu when idling will be close to equal.

The full-performance phone might even have better battery life because it can finish cpu intensive tasks twice as fast, returning to idle power draw faster than the half-performance phone.
Sudoku, crossword puzzles, anything without 3D or real-time rendering.
I work in San Diego. I work for SPAWAR on missile defense technology for the navy, a massive presence in San Diego along with the marines. Uncle Sam has a pretty big budget for defense and lot of cool technology to play with. I get to work on things from device drivers to websites the whole gambit. Silicon Valley ain't the only place to learn, that's kinda the whole point of this whole internet thing.
Ask HN: Might Apple be botching their UI design lately, or is it just me?
I'm just a bit frustrated with the elimination of slide to unlock iOS after years of developing the behavior. Also on the desktop, no more does the swipe to multiple screen gesture reveal the contents of the other desktops... now it requires the additional mouseover. I switched to Apple a few years ago, and up until very recently had been very satisfied because they didn't seem to do this kind of thing. Maybe I am just missing some settings? Please advise...
Humanity moves on its way naturally because it is made up of individuals. If none of those individuals did anything useful or never "moved mountains", humanity would never move forward or progress.
iFixit teardown reveals exactly what replaced the iPhone 7’s headphone jack
The batteries used for cars are different to the batteries used for power banks.

Tesla is selling internally to themselves, and already has production set up for batteries for stationary power.

The best outcome is for demand to ramp up, keeping prices high long enough to fund the rest of the construction of the gigafactory.

No praying required.
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Now this is an insult to number of jobs which are chosen by skilled enough to get better paid jobs but they won't. Examples - doctors & nurses, most people in disaster orgs like Red Cross, Doctors without Frontiers etc. and I am sure many other types of jobs out there (corporate vs creative job, anybody?)
Ask HN: Tutorial / reference for building db backed web apps with express/node?
On here it's common to see node/express recommended for creating database backed web apps. I know this is possible and I've done it a little myself.

I was wondering if you have any recommended guides which assume connection to a relational db (I use Oracle/SQL Server and Postgres a little). I suppose I was thinking of something similar to the rails tutorial? I'm aware of the MEAN stack books but guess they're focused on Mongo which I'm not really interested in. My background is in databases, Java Spring/C# web api and some front end stuff.

Thanks.
Fascinating, thanks for this link. This is a pretty obscure but heavy decision.
Tesla is producing battery storage, which is either a peaker plant or backup for failed transmission lines, take your pick.
Why is that suboptimal? It certainly is suboptimal for consumers in the short run, since it helps Intel increase producer surplus. How that producer surplus is used to create better technology has a pretty important role in determining whether it's optimal in the longer run.
Your complaint is that they're including a free adaptor?

I know its "cool" to be anti-Apple, but you're clutching at straws.
Is that good idea to start Help Desk software product?
I can see there are several helpdesk product available today with massive feature. I'm planning to develop a helpdesk product with intuitive UI for small business. Is that good idea? Which feature will stand out from crowded market for this software?
They're nearly always a major violation of KISS, in other words.
He is ranting whilst judiciously admitting that he doesn't understand the reasoning behind most of it (eg namespacing and port mapping.)
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Ask HN: Which language for interacting with AWS?
There are AWS SDKs for several different languages: C++, Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby [1]. It appears that some of these SDKs are more complete than others (for example, CloudFront only seems to support Java, .NET, PHP, Python and Ruby [2]).

Which SDKs are the most complete and/or the highest quality? Which language(s) would you recommend (or not recommend) using to interact with AWS?

Are some of these SDKs more "official" than others?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/tools/#sdk

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/APIReference/AWSLibraries.html
Some of the big early 90s PC hits were games like Cmdr Keen and other Apogee platformers. They were hugely popular at the time.
I have really made this transition in the last few years:

> Either you completely dumb down your data layer (and struggle with delivering functionality), or acknowledge the database as part of your solution (e.g. postgres geo/json features) and throw away configurability guilt. Your stack is as much part of your solution as your code.

Once I have embraced the database as pet of the solution, I can actually start to use its features as part of the solution as well.
Commenting to not lose track of this reply, apologies for spamming!
Did you not read most of my comment?

The technology is there, it wasn't ten years ago.

Now, it comes down to management setting strict guidelines and enforcing them.

What good is it to pay for Jira accounts when nobody uses them? Or what good is it to have Github and everybody ends up hosting their own private repos?

That is definitely a management mandate, and logistically, it's a lot easier to manage a group if they are all in the same place.
> There is a more forgiving interpretation. Even if the FSF has not actively discriminated, it chose not to help support one of its members from the effects of discrimination

Where did you get that from?
This is great. The Digital Nomad future is upon us. I've been doing it for 3 years and it's wonderful. Live where you want. Get out of the Silicon Valley rat race.
You're right, it's not real pixel art. It just imitates that old look but the glows and the background is definitely smooth. Still, the simple graphics make the game imo.
She. (Unless you're referring to Stan.)
Well, I'd set up one web shop for content providers where they can buy different cookie plans and pay fees to get ranked differently on my cookie descriptor page.

On the cookie descriptor page I'd use a dark pattern to avoid having users scroll to long down the list. We want to use that list and the order of the entries to pressure more cash out of content providers.

Then, of course, you set up the cookie descriptor page as a type of web shop where users can buy say 1h of netflix fast lane for $1.
I have been wondering - whats the business model for Docker itself?
this +100

I (single dev at my startup at that time) adopted Docker 0.4 alpha and i have grown with the docker ecosystem. Today we pay for codeship,etc.

there is zero chance i would have a Docker buy-in if I could not get started then. This is the case with Docker Swarm and k8s today.

I'm struggling with k8s... while the evolution of Docker -> Docker Compose -> Docker Swarm is fairly easy and incremental.

In 2 years time when I have a large devops team... i will spend money on Swarm. Docker Swarm is conquering from the bottom. K8s still has a chance... but it is choosing to compete with OpenStack rather than Docker Compose, which is a big mistake IMHO.
Apple Maps isn't based on OSM any more than it's based on TomTom, etc
Afaik none of the released libraries support the TTS experiment described in the paper. Deepmind used pre-computed linguistic features to guide the system in generating natural sounding speech, so your output will probably depend on the quality of those features.
For the sake of not spreading misinformation; the 4 minutes was measured using a small model with a sampling rate of 4khz, this would not generate something sounding like the samples from Deepmind.
Someone's trying really hard to push this, huh?

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12502336 (most active)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12504479

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12512480
Fish catapults?
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No, that's not what I was saying at all.

Words do hurt, jokes can be offensive. But there is a line what you will do to retaliate.

You can brush it off and move on with your life and make the mental note, that the guy is an _ss.

Or you can go and punish him through a series of humiliating procedures which will definitely have an impact on his life, his career and possibly destroy him. You do more damage to him, then he did to you.

Is it worth to punish someone for a joke? Because if it is, then you might bring back the death penalty for stealing a can of beans from the grocery store. Or agreeing that people should commit acts of terrorism because someone made a joke about their faith?

The biggest punishment should have been that their line-manager has a private talk with the guy, or sitting down the three of us and find a common ground. Not running to the head of the company and filing for harassment.

And frankly I wouldn't want to work with a person like that. Not because I want to tell rape jokes and not because she is not a man. It's because I don't want to work with someone where I always have to be careful what I say, how I say it and watch my behavior for 24/7 to not become a target for harassment lawsuit.

Being oversensitive can make one into a toxic person as well, not just bad behavior. And because of this issue, people will avoid her, because they will be too afraid to have any kind of connection with her. And who's fault will that be? The men? Why not, it's always the men apparently.

I'm a father of two girls, I want a future with gender equality, but not the one where you force people into behavioral patterns to accommodate the system. Clearly then the system is bad. It's a relationship between the genders, we have to work together. We have to give to be able to take. Sometimes it's ignoring minor things like an inappropriate joke and sometimes is being thoughtful and not say stupid inappropriate jokes.

I hope this clarifies my stand on this matter.
In a nutshell: Rape jokes are bad. Harsh punishment for a joke is also bad.
I was in YCW16, so I recognize Ian from one of the companies. I don't know why, but I feel weird saying it now for the same reason both of you are and it's pretty clear he's not trying to broadcast it.

He hasn't hidden it in his HN history or Twitter profile, so it's pretty obvious if you take a look at either of those.
I know it is a bit tongue in cheek but if you're working somewhere where Data Segregation can be solved by "a simple cascading delete" you aren't operating anywhere close to where any service architecture is relevant.
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I still think Apple Maps is a failure because it still utterly blows here in Japan (either their POI data or the search engine is complete crap since it STILL sends me across the country for basic searches). Google Maps has its problems as well (I prefer using local apps if I'm doing car navigation) but Apple Maps is just a complete joke here.
What's wrong with artificial sweeteners in toothpaste? Do they absorb quickly enough through the oral mucosa to spike insulin levels? Are the oral bacteria able to metabolize them?
What are D3 and Canvas and why are they being injected into this conversation?
I understand this move but don't accept it. We should make justice prevail, rather then trade it, undermining the "rule of law" principle.

It would be a message to the world, especially for non-democratic part of it.
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This makes me think the only thing we disagree on is the meaning of the words "red team" and "blue team" :)

When I say it feels like we spend a lot of time red teaming, that means I think we spend somewhere between 30 and 60% of research time trying to break things and see how they fail.
This is fully compatible with not immediately implementing things - it's much less expensive to break something /before/ you build it.
I don't think this is ranting. It reads to me more like a formatted dump of someone's evaluation notes. Some stream-of-consciousness is to be expected.