skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes down to where their money comes from. Think tanks are funded by people who are looking to manufacture intellectual backing for their political agenda. Given recent developments, I can see a positive aspect to this, because at least it implicitly supports the assumption that research and intellectual arguments matter in politics. However, it shows that you can't conclude anything from the existence of a well-researched and well-argued intellectual support for a position. The think tank system guarantees that anybody with sufficient resources can buy well-researched and well-argued intellectual support.

Which is important. I know I've had a few epiphanies in my time where I realized, "Wait, this thing I thought was stupid, there are some really smart people who are into it... they've invested a lot of effort and research and have some coherent arguments to support it... I should really take another look." It's a meaningful signal in some contexts. In some contexts it even creates a presumption in my mind that I am probably wrong in not recognizing any value in something. In politics, though, it doesn't mean anything, because that kind of intellectual engagement is manufactured through the think tank system as a matter of course.
There's plenty of work life balance available for people who want it, and not on shitty teams. The people who believe and have the passion to work for 18 hours a day either are just plain passionate or are being played. At every job I've had I could come in (or not) for 5 hours a day as long as I attend catchup meetings and get my work done.

There's another class of people that truly believe they are the next Jobs or Bezos or Serge or Larry. There will always be those people in the valley, but the good part is at least for now nobody has to work either for or with them if they don't want to. They can say everyone who isn't as "passionate" as them are losers but nobody has to listen to them.
They do admit they have a problem on that front and are addressing it, so there's no reason to think it's a permanent issue that will still be around in 3-5 years. Mobile deployment trucks, e.g., are handling the easiest issues that do not require a visit to a service center.

Tesla's service centers are all corporate-owned, so unlike traditional dealership model, all the startup and operating costs are born by the company, so I'd expect the initial rollout to be slower, subject to cash on hand and general priorities (invest in battery production? or ramping up model 3 production? wider supercharger availability? or service center coverage?)

There's a silver lining though - it's pretty clear the service centers are not Tesla's money-makers and the company is not in the business of devising devious ways to screw you out of more money via expensive maintenance service and various scheduled repairs.
It's a bit like the dancing dog.

It's not that he dances well, it's that he does it at all.

So it is with manned space flight.
bindgen actually has the option to generate wrappers for C++ methods and other stuff for Rust to call. We don't use this, but we do use its ability to generate templates and stuff.

The other way around -- getting Rust to use the C++ abi -- needs compiler changes and also has questionable benefits.
This brings to mind one of my favorite little idioms: "If you think hiring experts is expensive, try hiring amateurs."
Yeah - Exam performance from a decade or two ago is quite irrelevant for evaluating senior design engineers.

I wouldn't trust an engineering graduate who scored 100% on all their exams to design a bridge at all. Where as someone with 10+yrs relevant experience but who got 60-70% in their exams would be preferable to me.

Mastery of the math isn't that relevant due to all the design standards you have to understand and comply with anyway, while all the little pragmatic solutions to real world constraints (incl how the builders work and what they need to be effective) learnt from experience and mentoring from your senior peers are far more important.
Everything is political, even your choice of browser and web search. It's a common misconception in America that politics occur in those white marble palaces and that politics is something one does with their mouth and a phone. No.

That is the representation, the socialization, of power. "Politics" as we call it is the regularization of power, but power dynamics occur more forcefully everywhere but there.
NCR18650B is a specific series of parts from Panasonic(/Sanyo). If you want literally the exact battery that Tesla uses in the S, call Panasonic and tell them you want a shipment of ten million NCR18650BF (the new one with the silicon anode. The identity of these parts has been confirmed multiple times by people tearing down the battery packs (where they get this kind of disposable income, we don't know) and comparing the size/weight/discharge characteristics of single cells.

The "advanced chemistry" that Tesla moved to after a year of S production was a SiO-doped anode, exactly the difference between the B and BF part numbers from Panasonic-Sanyo. The cells weigh a gram less. This makes the charge density appear higher when the denominator is in terms of mass.

Tesla has done a wonderful job of selling their brand and convincing people that their batteries are other than off-the-shelf technology. In reality the same chemistry is available to anyone who calls up Panasonic and orders a hundred million batteries.
Local municipalities pass their own ordinances, laws, regulations, etc all the time. They just cannot contradict the laws of the state / federal. That is absolutely communities managing their own affairs, writing their own local policy.
"We wouldnt be able to reuse our html with react." What did he mean by this?
Remember they are selling..
I've had a model s for 3 years now and spent a total of 2 hours at a service center for 1 maintenance appointment. Compare that to previous bmw or range rover for which I owned for around the same time and would have been at a service center for at least 2 or 3 times yearly - sometimes needing a temporary car for longer service visits... I'm sure this is not everyone's experience... but I'll never even consider any other car than a tesla ever.
There are cases with an integrated lightning -> SD adapter.
I believe this is due to the fact that by default Tesla recommends that you don't fully charge or discharge the battery if you don't need the range. For phones people charge them all the way everyday (or more) and often discharge them all the way.
A bit of both over the years.
They present the illusion of rigor with the style of presentation and sophistication of their rhetoric.

However what makes censorship so powerful is that you can't see it!
Laptops charge fully, discharge fully, get hot, and spend most of their time fully charged. This is the worst possible combination for Lithium-Cobalt/polymer batteries. Tesla batteries are never fully charged or discharged, are often charged at a lower C rate, and are thermally managed. A laptop with a cooled battery that only charged from 15-90% and took 3 hours to charge would hold up quite well, but it would weigh a ton and you'd hate to use it.
Eh, er, em, I kinda want to concede the point, but no.

I'm trying to draw attention to the algebra of programs. The subtitle of Backus' paper is "A Functional Style and its Algebra of Programs". I just skimmed the wikipedia article on Functional programming and it's not really mentioned at all that I saw.

Everyone seems to leave it out, but it's arguably the most important part of FP.

You can do wonderful things in Joy (Manfred von Thun's language) which is very close to Backus' FP system. This algebraic stuff is possible in most languages that are considered Functional, but it's much easier in a language designed for it.
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I'd imagine it is down to the number of recharge cycles. A phone tends to go through an entire recharge cycle every day to two, whereas I'd imagine a Tesla wouldn't go through it's entire range as often.
Just look at the corporate double speak and their response:

https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/new-am...

They even linked to e-mails in an effort to be more transparent but all I can see is more confirmation about what the author said as truth:

https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/intere...
Self-leveling and washing are required by law for lights beyond a certain brightness. Older tech halogen headlights aren't as bright and don't require the fancy actuators and wipers. Brighter lights, of any source, require both.
This question doesn't have a yes/no answer...
Flexport is brutally disrupting global trade and international shipping
Also, some states legally require sushi fish to be frozen and thawed.
That's nonsense, at least for Google.

In my organization, it was rare to work more than 8 hours. I worked ~8 hours at the office, and did little more than check email occasionally on evenings / weekends, and still managed to be promoted to staff SWE after 2 years. I knew several people that would arrive at 9:30 and leave by 4pm. It was like a vacation after the small IHV that I worked for previously.
Yes you are. Regulating at the state level does not necessarily internalize pollution on the balance sheet of polluting firms. It merely motivates firms to move to states with weaker regulations. The very process you champion as "competition" specifically undermines the internalization mechanism.

This is true for positive externalities as well, such as education and public health. Firms can simply move to the states that invest the least in public services and have healthy, educated adult workers provided by other states move there. Tax competition undermines the mechanism of internalizing the taxpayer-funded cost of their education and health.
No, it doesn't. They're taking Tesla's corporate loss and dividing it by sales to say that Tesla loses money on each vehicle sold. This is incredibly poor reasoning. It's like saying Amazon lost money on every product it sold until 2016. Tesla has a net loss because they invest very heavily in R&D for new vehicles, battery factories, etc. Their per-vehicle profit margins are actually very high, often quoted as around 25% [1][2].

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/3972238-tesla-manages-make-...

[2] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/03/27/how-tesla-...
I'm not so sure I would call 100° C "unsurvivable". People go in saunas with 100° C all the time for enjoyment. If the air is dry enough, it's not that hot.

Maybe it's unsustainable, you can't survive that indefinitely. But you can't survive 0° F indefinitely either, unless we bring protective clothing into the game.
But as time goes one video etc gets larger, e.g. 1080p to 4K, to 6K to 8K etc. Usually, the extra space we get is used up soon.
Why do expect Google to give you 30 days warning?
Rust doesn't have coercions like C, so both of those fail to compile because using x: f64 with foo32 is an error for the first one and similarly x: f32 with foo64 for the second.
It becomes even more powerful when every single mainstream media outlet and every 'think tank' approach the context with the same 'frame.'
Yea but cameras won't show them what you bought last week, your credit, your social network, your criminal records.

Man the possibilities for fascism only get more and more exciting for future dictators.
That makes sense. I still think there is good reason to create a standard around this indicating UGC content within a subdomain though. For example:

- Browsers might want to treat it differently for malware scanning purposes.

- Content owners might want to treat it differently when filing automated DMCA complaints.

- Search engines might want to treat it differently for ranking purposes.
I don't know about that. If your employer were to pay you more and you were to use your salary to buy health insurance, you'd be bumped into a higher tax bracket and you'd be using post tax money to buy the insurance.

It's not a long term benefit because the government should be able to lower taxes given the increased revenue, but you'd never look past the short term (and the government would never lower taxes).
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In order of importance:

1: Tesla cells are hard limited to a lower voltage, reportedly 4.1 V rather than the 4.2-4.4 V maximum. Phone batteries run much closer to their maximum voltage

2: Tesla cells stay at much lower temperatures and have active cooling. Phone batteries are used to sink heat from the processors and wifi.

3: Teslas have a much lower normal depth of discharge. In addition to the derated voltage, the average American's daily driving distance is ~30 miles or 10-15% of the battery capacity. Phones are often almost totally discharged every day. Tesla's are also typically only charged to 80%, although you can turn that off.

4: Teslas have a low average power use: 300-600 horsepower on tap but cruising on the highway uses very little. In technical terms their current rate is ~.2-.3 C, while phones can have much higher C rates.

5: Phones use an LCO chemistry, Teslas use NCA which is more stable over the long term. Tesla also has custom additive and cathode/anode materials that improve lifespan a great deal.

Phone and laptop batteries almost all come from china, Tesla batteries are korean. They're pretty premium as far as 18650s go so they're used in power tools and really good laptops. However Tesla has their own proprietary chemistry so nobody else gets to use their blend.
Not having small apps be stuck in a queue behind large ones for starters. Not be effectively throttled by a single over-saturated server for another, assuming the parallel downloads hit different servers.

Even allowing only 6 concurrent downloads like most HTTP client/servers would be a big improvement.
reasonable given one should be averse to them even with all the IDE aids (at least in the sense to be judicious when using them). the scala plugin simply cannot handle many parts of the language anyway
> Ah, the classic question asked of every overbearing economically-intervening government.

STORY TIME!

So I come from Slovenia, the land of wine that you've never heard of. One of our things is that everyone with even a little bit of land grows vines and sometimes makes wine. There's at least a few vines growing in people's backyards even if they just eat the grapes.

People with slightly more land have vineyards and sidehustle making wine and selling it. This has two effects, 1) there's a lot of very very crappy wine out there, 2) crappy wine still gets you drunk so people keep buying it. As a result a liter of wine cost about 30 euro cents at one point.

So the government stepped in and put a stop to it. Gotta avoid crashing one of the bigger industries in the country right?

How do you do it? You pay people to cut down their vineyards. Cut it down and we'll give you X0,000 euro.

Now people have a choice, if they're making less than that much by selling their wine, they can take the government subsidy, cut down their vines, and go do something else with their life. This is a lucrative opportunity for all small-time wineries. Many people took it.

As a result, people who were making more than the amount of the subsidy, didn't cut down their vineyards AND they can now sell their wine for more than they could before. Very lucrative situation for them as well.

We now have a stronger wine industry, less crappy wine, and fewer pesticides and stuff making it into nature. Hobby vineyards tend to overspray because they really really really care about every little vine.

We still drink most of the wine ourselves though, so you are not likely to ever hear about Slovenian wine outside our country. My French girlfriend says it's the best she's ever had.
I've been afraid of the same, but have yet to lose one. Maybe I've just been lucky.
Leave your phone in the car.

Also your smart watch, i guess.
> I don't think that's apples-to-apples -- you have to go out of your way to always use a supercharger

For average person - yes, Tesloop, however, is Culver City - based, also known as home to the Culver City Supercharger, so there's a bit of a hometown advantage for them.

In fact, Tesla's recent penalty fee for hogging a supercharger spot long after the vehicle has finished charging is related to Tesla owners' complaints (on TMC, Twitter and Facebook groups) about Tesloop vehicles parked overnight in Culver City supercharger spots.
https://www.inverse.com/article/32239-why-gm-loses-money-che... claims a loss of $9k/vehicle, but the manufacturer does it to keep their average emissions/vehicle under legal limits.
I cannot believe people are defending Google and attacking the researcher.

The argument goes, 1) he's a researcher for a think tank, so he's pushing an agenda and not trustworthy. 2) Google made a good business decision by cutting funding for research that goes against their agenda.

So, for-profit enterprises can push agendas, but not-for-profit enterprises and the individuals who staff them cannot, because agenda-pushing would undermine the purity of their research.

That's obviously a double standard, and one that favors the powerful over the weak.

Silicon Valley has become morally repugnant, and Google is evil. I'm on the side of the little guy.
> We view it as the next economic revolution for coal towns," said Harry Collins, the chairman of the Letcher County Broadband Board, which formed late last year. "The majority of our railroad tracks are ripped up now—that revolution has played out. We feel that this [digital] revolution is just as game changing and life changing as those railroad tracks were in the 20s and 30s."

It's sad, but this is wishful thinking. If anything, tech-related jobs are more concentrated in urban areas than other service industries. These places have no economic viability outside the specific circumstances (coal mining, farming) that caused people to move there in the first place.
What is the argument against automation? We have had people putting cans on shelves for thousands of years. Where is the shelf-stocking robot?
If you check the interpolated cycle life at the source, the oldest Teslas have gone through <800 full discharge cycles, so only ~3 years of a phones life. However the discharge decreases nonlinearly over time so the Teslas have lost <10% of capacity while a phone loses >30%.
I thought we were by and large for net neutrality, which by definition means "the same internet for everyone, even the richest company on Earth." Is this no longer true? Did I miss an update at the last meeting?
Lovely. I've had the chance to do a great deal of traveling. Often times, it has been with no real goal or destination. I don't actually do much in the way of touristy things.

What is impressive is both that he survived and that he was blind. I am sighted, so I can not really relate. The closest I can come to is that I've danced on six continents. I am not actually good at dancing.

So, I think I'll have to try to get copies of the me toned books. To have done that, in that era, is just an amazing feat.
As opposed to the microSD card with the most capacity, what is the microSD with the best reliability for use with, e.g., a Raspberry Pi?
It's never been done at this scale, because no one until now, took neither global trade and international shipping as seriously as flexport did in the silicone valley, partially because it's a complex business and partially because anyone who knows the complexitites doesn't live in Silcon valley. Some how Ryan Peterson fits the bill. He is insanely intelligent and knows what he is doing.
heat = (discharge + charge)

use = (discharge + charge)

hence: heat = use ;)
If you work 9 to 5, you're paid accordingly. Of course, some people foolishly work even more hours for little additional pay.

If you want to earn more, you either need to work more, or you need to prove that your work generates revenue. If you are a revenue engine, a company will always pay you. Otherwise, you're just a bee in the hive.
Humans are easy to find, fully assembled, break less, and are more easily replaced. We are amazing machines.
Not terribly impressive to me. I have about $15k in my 2003 Honda Pilot.
Because that's how you do inter thread communication in haskell.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.10.0.0/docs/Contr...

>An MVar t is mutable location that is either empty or contains a value of type t.

>They can be used in multiple different ways:

>1. As synchronized mutable variables,
Sadly, in our current world, it doesn't appear wise to create a long record of commentary under a single username here, no matter how innocuous the comments might seem at the time. Or, to put it another way, everything is sensitive now.

In any case, I will simply stop posting to HN altogether.
There's not much point in Tesla offering a lot. A search for "Tesla" in Google gets you to the right place to buy one with a couple of clicks.
True - its definitely got a manual component to it. It's interesting to see the sushi rice machine in use in the first half of the video.

What's interesting about restaurant automation is that it could go either way in terms of making existing franchises more of a monopoly or enabling the little guy compete against them.

I tend to actually lean toward the later because the biggest issue with restaurants is managing/coordinating a team of people (interviewing, payroll, scheduling, healthcare, HR, diversity). But if automation can enable the independent restaurant owner to work with a skeleton crew and focus on delivering value and a differentiated product the consumer will win in the long run.

I feel that we as entrepreneurial engineers need to make robots that will help make the independent proprietor capable of competing with the larger franchisors like McDonald. Something like an artisanal grass fed beef hamburger restaurant robot to help the food truck compete against McDonalds.
My automotive longevity anecdata:

'99 Toyota 4Runner, 232K miles (currently own);
'85 Honda Civic, 197K miles;
'59 VW bus, ~490K miles (with a rebuild of the 40hp engine at ~240K miles and a transaxle from a junker at ~300K miles).
How far out are we from Object Detection that can identify at different scales? - i.e. angled, facing towards, rotated, skewed, etc...

We seem to have good OD that can create horizontal bounding boxes, but these bounding boxes seem to be generic estimates.

Even rectangle detection with these models can't identify the angle or skew of a rectangle in a frame (we get the same generic bounding box)

OpenCV seemed to have models awhile ago that could do this just fine.
They don't. Federal regulation is vastly superior to state and local regulation of utilities. Remember, it's local governments that created telco and electric monopolies in the first place, a mess which Congress has spent decades trying to clean up.
On the concept of dimension
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15144544
A lot of these could be mitigated if phone makers were willing to put in a slightly larger capacity battery and apply more conservative max-min limits in their battery management system. But I guess companies are happy to keep sales up via planned obsolescence.
Sure, there are researchers who are making narrow claims, but what think tank isn't making broad claims?

If you're going to make broad claims and claim to be objective, you need a more robust metaphysical approach than the mission statement of these places usually allows... And even then, you'll probably fail. Your tactics leak into your metaphysics and your ideology leaks into your tactics. Broad claims and objectivity just don't mix.
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In Class, Fussell cited think-tanks' kind-of-ridiculous adoption of academic titles and trappings ("Fellow" and such) to make themselves seem respectable and trustworthy as evidence of the social and class standing of academics.

They're lobbying organizations with a carefully and consciously applied veneer of learned, academic legitimacy.