skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't help but admire Japanese people who automate everything that can be automated since 1970s! Working with soft and loose material such as rice is a huge PITA for machines, but I'm not totally surprised they eventually found a way to make it work reasonably well.
Perhaps this in turn imposed limitations on the water/rice ratio and cooking time, which might compromise the taste.
Maybe a dumb question, but how are you using microSD with your iPhone?
This is almost certainly going to be 3 or 4 bits per cell flash, which has exponentially worse retention and endurance than 1 (SLC) or 2 (MLC) bits per cell for only a multiplicative increase in density[1], and requires even more (fragile) algorithms for error correction/avoidance/longevity. I wouldn't be surprised if this "400GB" was actually 512GB (2^39 bytes, or "512 real gigabytes"[2]) of raw capacity, with 112GB of spare area. OK for short-term "transfer" storage, like the camera applications alluded to in the article, but definitely not for long-term archival or maybe even medium-term. Perhaps there should be a separate category for devices like this: "pseudononvolatile".[3]

To parallel an old saying: "big, fast, reliable - pick two."

[1] The terms "triple-level cell(TLC)/quad-level cell(QLC)" are entirely misleading, since they imply only a multiplicative increase in the actual number of distinct voltage levels in each cell. One wonders if they are deliberately downplaying the associated reliability issues by making it seem multiplicative instead of exponential. These should really be called triple-bit/quad-bit or eight-level/sixteen-level cells.

[2] Remember when flash disks had real binary capacities? I have a 64MB USB drive that really contains 131,072 user-accessible 512-byte sectors --- and it's still working, because it's SLC flash.

[3] I've worked with NAND flash over the years and noticed something interesting: you can very easily find datasheets for SLC and MLC (2-bit) flash, which give the endurance/retention. But there is very little on TLC (3-bit) flash --- they're almost all NDA'd leaks, which a few years ago were already rare, but seem to have mostly disappeared now --- and basically nothing on QLC/4-bit. Why the secrecy? It makes one wonder if there's something inconvenient about this high-density flash, that they don't want people to know...
Tesla undermarks their sticker capacity by ~3% usually, which is just to keep you from totally destroying the battery by overdriving it. For normal wear and tear they have a charge limit, which sets a soft maximum charge. 80% is standard IIRC, but it can be set up to 100% (which is just slightly below the actual capacity).
This Is How You All-Kill the Competition – #NBA2K18
So they saved a bunch of money by putting a ton of miles on before age related problems started showing up. In other news the sky is blue.

It's component deterioration from age that really gets you on a luxury car. Seat motors fail, wiring harnesses deteriorate, etc.

It's also worth mentioning that they didn't crash one. With enough road hours eventually it will happen. The vehicles that can be serviced by a normal shop will be cheaper to repair.

The lack of downtime is very impressive but if it's really that much cheaper than running a fleet of town cars then why do they need to twist the numbers?
Would someone from Facebook be able to comment on LogDevice versus (Twitter's) Apache Bookkeeper/DistributedLog??

The two sound very similar. I've been studying Bookkeeper this week to understand how it works and was excited to see the blogpost about LogDevice.

My understanding isn't fully there yet, but BookKeeper seems to have a more involved protocol versus LogDevice: ie it has fencing to ensure that only one writer is writing to a log at a time a 2-phase-commit-like protocol, and opening/closing of ledgers.

To me LogDevice's sequencer and epoch number sounds much simpler. Does BookKeeper achieve some more consistency or other guarantees that LogDevice doesn't by having a more involved protocol? How do the two compare in terms of goals/pros/cons/tradeoffs/usecases/etc?

(From reading the blog post it seems to me that in LogDevice an old sequencer could still be writing to LogDevice when a new one with a higher epoch number is also writing. As I understand it BookKeeper uses a CAS operation on metadata version number (like the epoch number of LogDevice) AND fencing on the storage nodes to make sure that only a single writer is writing at a time).
The Sordid Double Life of Washington’s Most Powerful Ambassador
I enjoy the skill aspect of football, and I love a great, hard hitting tackle, where a player gets low, sets their hips and stops a runner dead in their tracks by wrapping them up.

Where it ends for me is the helmet to helmet contact, when defensive players leverage or launch themselves head first into another player's head, because they want to injure that player or get into a highlight reel. I don't see how anyone can enjoy seeing someone laid out on the field unconscious.
When the period is used to separate thousands, the comma is used to separate decimals. Usually...

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/ind...
> Plenty of miners felt a lot of pride in their work and wouldn't have given it up if they didn't have to, but mining is inherently more dangerous than sitting at a desk.

Could you cite some evidence that this is a widespread attitude? My knowledge of miners, which is very little, says something much different.

> Dangerous jobs tend to be well-compensated

I'm not sure that's true. In the list of high-paying jobs that money-motivated people aspire to, I usually don't see coal miner (or any miner), soldier, police officer in dangerous neighborhood, logger, deep sea fisherman or drug dealer listed.
I don't really understand what you're trying to say here. Would you mind elaborating or rephrasing it?
You ascribe malicious intent when it's just really organizational dynamics. Most suppression of dissent is self-censorship. Most folks know when they're about to bite the hand that feeds them.
Calling anything propaganda is not very helpful; is it biased or deceptive? And how much?

There is nothing inherently wrong with propaganda. It is not necessarily manipulative or deceitful.

(from wikipedia) "In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term"
Err who cares? It's irrelevant to TFA and has been discussed ad nauseam.
Every time I start getting a lot of requests for work, I up my price. Ideally you should be getting about 3 requests for work per month. 4 is pushing it, it means you should be charging more.

Charge more until you stop being flooded with work requests.
I'd still rather buy a Tesla.

Edit: look up how many people GM killed with their ignition switch recall (124). I'm not putting my wife and daughter in a legacy automaker vehicle just because those cars get fixed faster

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_swit...
A metric fuckton each, four metric fucktons per vehicle.

They're special and IIRC have a liner to reduce NVH because that's one of their selling points.
Elixir - Pattern matching for function signatures. So many conditional statements just nuked from orbit.
I was referring to past/future in the text. Deixis is about how words and phrases like “this”, “that”, “here”, &c. are contextualised. Your example is unrelated to discourse deixis because it’s not referring to a piece of the surrounding discourse. We use different forms of deixis and spatial metaphors for time, like “the end is near” or “the past is behind us”—in some languages, the past is in front of you (mnemonic: you can see it) while the future is behind (you can’t).
FWIW, Open Images Dataset has recently been extended with 2M bounding boxes over 600 categories: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/an-update-to-open-im...
Not trying to troll or be rude, but I actually can't find any problem with the original post. Could you elucidate?
Work on Upwork, Rails+Javascript+Elixir. Fullstack.
Can you blame them? You took their homes. I would resent anybody who took my home.
From a company's perspective this is essentially their business strategy and perhaps it makes sense to crowdfund crowdsourcing or something along the likes of SETI@Home.
Sharing a form factor does not mean those two things are the same. The only similarity between laptop batteries and tesla batteries is the can they come in, which is... not important.

Please don't open a Tesla battery, the bus is at 600 volts and will kill you stone dead, then start a fire
Of course, that page is completely wrong about the large number convention in Canada. Anglo Canada (including government documents) uses the U.S. convention, and at very least uses period for the radix point. The shown convention only applies to Franco Canada, and maybe not even all of Franco Canada.
As a close friend of one of the 27 Microsoft FTE employees living with DACA status and knowing their story, it's utterly maddening and counterproductive that Trump's administration would end DACA for the sake of his base. But then, he's the president who pardoned Arpaio and banned transgender people from the services, so it's almost an inevitability he'll get rid of DACA at this point. Anything to "trigger" those liberals, eh?

It's an established principle that we don't punish children for the mistakes of their parents - that's essentially the basis for DACA.

The biggest cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face part here is that these 27 employees are easily six-figure earners (I know my friend is...) - that's at least $25,000/yr in federal tax revenue (multiplied by 27 for $675,000/yr!) Trump's administration is giving up, sacrificed to the Republican myth of "come here legally!" when in many cases it's outright impossible (thank you, H-1B visa caps).

I'm surprised the Reganite part of the GOP isn't advancing a "buy your way into citizenship" policy: unauthorized immigrants who still made successes of their lives can make up for their earlier immigration impropriety by paying a "tax" in exchange for the safety of citizenship[0]. Why would anyone be opposed to that unless they were racist and/or xenophobic?

[0] I know there exist Green Card-for-investment programs and visas with a similar basis, but they require at least $500,000 at-hand immediately, which is inappropriate for someone who is an employee, not an entrepreneur.
With the higher density flash cells on the same surface area, one wonders about the heat dissipation (especially in mobile phones). This and the associated workload (read vs write) ultimately determine the lifespan of these cards.
What exact models are we comparing? HTC's current phones weigh more than the iPhone 6 and much more than the iPhone 5s. Note also that since Android follows the Windows/PC model, there exists hardware that does this correctly, and there exists hardware that does it incorrectly.
Silly article, functional programming is about purity. All else is a consequence.
Oh, and, you know, the fact you have to plug the cards into something to make them useful.
>Average life of ICE vehicles can't be 266kkm, that's absurdly low.

It appears to be the consumer reports data.

[1]: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12040753/ns/business-consumer_news...
And Clinton's top financial backer bought "The Onion".

Shrug. It's got to be owned by someone.
My Lg G4 has no issue qith a 200gb microSD card.
My 80s diesel Benz is barely broken in at 249k miles. It all depends on the car.

Ironically, more modern cars will probably not last as long! I can rebuild just about anything on this car, electronics included (most complicated part is perhaps a common opamp). On modern cars, as soon as the advanced ICs (say an ECU) are NLA you’re SOL.
So, Apple, the richest company on earth, wants to use more bandwidth without paying more, even though bandwidth is a scarce resource and other people have invested millions to providing the infrastructure to transmit data?
Yeah I know how much the tires cost. I want to know how many times they've replaced them because if they drove like me they would have spent all that money and then some, just on the tires. I'm a little skeptical of their total.
If you get a chance to go to the Google visitor office in Mountain View, they have old racks on display.
It's sort of a gray area because Apple doings are generally considered newsworthy by HN readers. The author is a columnist for the LA Times. Columnists, like newspaper editorial writers, almost never back up their arguments with data or cite sources. They don't leave their offices to dig up information in the field. I think of them more as pundits than journalists.
> Static typing requests you to explicitly declare types.

You are confusing explicit typing with static typing. "Static" means "compile-time checking". "Dynamic" means "defer checks to run-time". Some language implementations can disable run-time type checking if optional type annotations are added, such as in Typed Racket.

In other words, all the following combinations are possible:

- Implicit + dynamic + strong: Python
- Implicit + dynamic + weak: JavaScript
- Implicit + static + strong: Standard ML without type annotations
- Explicit + dynamic + strong: Elixir with type annotations
- Explicit + static + strong: Java
- Explicit + static + weak: C

I struggle to come up with examples for these...

- Implicit + static + weak
- Explicit + dynamic + weak

... but I'm sure they exist, perhaps as historical languages from when type systems were less sophisticated. After all, "strong" and "weak" are entirely relative, constantly in flux, and exist on a continuum. In a couple decades, anything lacking dependent types might perhaps be considered "weakly typed".
Something like that would be amazing in VR or AR.
Those services turn out better when managed by the city compared to when it's managed at the state or federal level. The problem is that rural towns usually don't have the resources to pull it off.
Interview with Mind Reader Alex McAleer
I'm just over here patiently awaiting some startup to unseat Tesla as the king of speedy, luxury, electric automotive. Nobody is quite taking the cake, or even trying for that matter.
> That means it can hold up to 40 hours of full HD video, in case you were wondering.

Easily 100 to 200 hours of 1080p material, if we go with a bit rate in the range of 2 to 4 gigabytes per hour.
I had a friend in high school whose family's Jeep just hit a million miles and was still chugging. Well, that's what Jeeps are for.
To clarify, Rust has its own ABI, just like C++ has its own ABI. And just like C++, you can expose a C ABI if you want by defining special functions. In C++, it's an `extern "C" { ... }` block, and in Rust, it's a `extern "C" fn foo() ...` function declaration. You can see an example here: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/tree/master/regex-capi

Adding C++ ABI support is a significant effort.
What kind of battery lifetime does Tesla expect, and how much charge capacity is actually left after 300k miles?
I see both in Quebec, so it isn't universal - even there. Meh, it's close enough to demonstrate. I prefer the US method, but that's just due to familiarity.
My God, those must be some special headlights.

They cost more than any car I've ever owned.
I don't mean to be vulgar, but the robot looks like two penises penetrating a condom.
"If the culture was to be working 70 hours per week or essentially always needing to have your phone with you and be available, then it's the sign of a toxic work culture."

Or it could be a sign that you work in ops.
NYPD is only 53% white, and has a policy of neighborhood patrols.
Are you implying that all cops or evil? That only white cops are evil?

Or would it be fair for me to assume that you also think black cops are targeting white citizens for unfair arrests?
Exclusively refuelled using proprietary infrastructure currently provided by the car's manufacturer is not an apples-to-apples comparison to anything.
Only trust your fists.
While it is true that all of us are naturally more cautious about being in a relationship with a party whose ability cause harm to us is strong and growing stronger, many of us are totally okay with that so long as we believe that party to be of impeccable character.
Of late, Google has been failing the character test spectacularly.
I still believe Larry and Sergey to be men of good character and can’t quite understand why they are allowing their company to be irreparably damaged.
The tree itself will need destructors to clean up allocations, and that's what's problematic here: if the tree is destroyed top down, the destructor of the children may access the parent which has already been invalidated, and similarly destroying bottom up risks the destructor of the parent accessing the children.
It originally ended with a line saying something like, "I realize that Tesla is popular and reason is not, so bring on the downvotes"

That's basically saying "most of you are unreasonable," which is a pretty dickish way to start a conversation.
5K~10K was MLC 8 years ago[1], and there's evidence that some cheaper/smaller-geometry flash didn't even make it that far[2]

Now, it's more like ~1K for (good) TLC and closer to 100 for QLC. There are no official numbers I can find on TLC/QLC endurance or retention (besides a lot of handwavy and weasel-worded marketing saying it's "good enough"), but the degradation is exponential with the number of bits, not multiplicative, so one can make an educated guess.

[1] http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1382714.pdf note date, and see page 3.

[2] http://pdf.dzsc.com/88888/2008422102742719.pdf also note date, and look at 3rd item in the revision history
NET Cryptography and Caching
I absolutely work too much. I always have and probably always will. I am the first to tell people to have a better work/life balance and to go watch their kids play ball, etc. I enjoy work and always have and thankfully my family understands. That being said, when I go on vacation, I really want to be on vacation. I don't answer email, participate in conference calls, etc. I work hard but when I am off, I am off.

I respect people who say they don't want to work the hours I do, but there are those who enjoy work and spend lots of hours at work. Just because it is not for everybody does not mean that there are not those who choose to spend a great real of time at work.
That was very true of cars in the US before 1990, say. Today's are much better.

I have a 2004 Corvette with about 140,000 miles. Stuff breaks, but it is a vette. My last F150 had about 160,000 miles when I, uh, wrecked it. Still looked and drove like new.
That's a good point. I was thinking on a community level, and expanding the group size as necessary in order to provide these things... but it does tend to be a bottom up type of thing (as opposed to top down).

Law creation is probably the biggest outlier though
Pretty close. In the US, it is commonly assumed that average mileage per year is 15,000mi (24,000km).

Maybe someone could write a quick script to scrape AutoTrader.com or a similar site and see what the mileage is on cars over 20 years old that are offered. ;-)
Huh, wow.

I was going off of the datasheets for flash chips I've been using, but I guess things are different for really high-density ones.
So if you were optimizing your phone for low battery degradation, when would you charge it, and to what %? If you were trying to keep it around 40%, would a good strategy be to let drop to 20%, and then only charge to 60%, or would you bias it even lower to keep it away from 100%, like a working range of 10-50%?
The headlights in my 2003 Acura CL were $1000 apiece in parts alone (in 2006).
Fair enough. What's the process for submitting it as a proposed standard? I'll write it up.
The cells inside a Tesla S are off-the-shelf Panasonic catalog parts and are identical to parts found in some laptops (and flashlights, and so forth). Tesla's contributions are entirely in the controlling electronics, integration, cooling, etc.
Yes, I can. I didn't take shit; I don't own property, and at this rate, their precious houses are in no danger from me.

So mission accomplished; congratufuckinglations.

And I'll bet you dislike Trump's anti-immigration policies, to boot. So do I, but unlike people here I put my money where my mouth is.
We need to acknowledge as a society that we're ok with young men giving themselves brain trauma for our enjoyment. That's the truth. Denying it, pretending like we care or that it disgusts us, is just furthering the problem. In aggregate (US citizens) have spoken.
On the homepage rn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15144315

Upshot, most of it.
I was seeing frameworks in ColdFusion referencing MVC back around 2001.
In age of technology, even your fists may spy on you :)
Hey, I'm sorry to hear that Seattle is that way for you. I moved to Redmond around a month ago and have had a similar experience - colleagues rather than friends.

I agree that going to art classes, language classes, etc are a good way to meet people - I do wonder if the people there are more likely to want to discuss their passions rather than their jobs (hopefully). Might even be less flaky since it's hopefully activities they find more interesting than work.

If you want someone to talk to in the area, feel free to shoot me an email (throwaway account here).
Sorry I meant: Barry Lynn <=> Larry Brin O.O
If you want reliability, don't get a Pi. Look at the selection of Odroids and use one of their emmc modules.
What Harvey victims can do right now to protect their finances
I guess since I am in the everyone else category, I was focusing more on the lose-lose than the collaboration with big publishers.
See also

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...

which apparently has been moved out of the basement of Gates Hall but is still on display elsewhere at Stanford.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/...

(Note that this is from 1996, so it's apparently 40 GB rather than 1 TB.)
Reminds me of the argument made in https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd... a few months ago:

Gas powered vehicles require many more (and more complex) parts, which inevitably need to be replaced throughout the lifespan of the car. There's a big incentive for services like lyft, uber, and future autonomous driving companies to move to electric vehicles because they have much fewer moving parts, and therefore are cheaper to maintain on a per-mile basis.
The way I see it is that running businesses as complex as building, selling, and servicing a car with many unique innovations (high-end electric-only, charging stations, skipping dealer-only system, presales, iterative features, etc) that they very likely won't get everything right the first time.

Particularly the type of things big companies who move slowly do best.

You may find that unreasonable, but I believe this is a perspective that drives many poorly thought out regulatory laws which punish experimentation and companies which fail to execute with an (unreasonable) expectation of perfection. Another perspective is that these are growing pains of an immature company that many people took a (known) risk betting on, particularly people from a high-income bracket who could afford their early models.

Tesla should certainly be held responsible for their failures so they fix them - not fixing them would be what is unreasonable in my books.

There is a popular business concept called 'crossing the chasm' [1] that applies well here. Jumping from startup -> mainstream company is a significant leap which many companies fail to do. Tesla has not yet crossed this market gap and their ability to consistently provide support services such as these, rather than simply an innovative new product that people want, will likely be their primary challenge in the future.

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Crossing_the_Chasm

Edit: I see you've made an edit on the subtext predicting downvotes from Tesla fanboys which I believe was the sentiment OP was referring to
Does your smart meter provide real time output? In the US, they're usually only hourly samples.