skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a technological perspective, they're simply applying green solutions via battery innovation into the automotive industry. Simple as that. Anyone else can also do it, such as Chevrolet with the Bolt.

What makes them different is how they have captured the public's imagination via creating incredible supercar-like performance purely using electricity.

What they've essentially done is solidified the public perception of Tesla being at the forefront of a revolution.

It's the same thing that makes something like Apple special. On a cost-performance ratio, if you build your PC from scratch, you will likely get better specs and performance for a much cheaper price. But it won't be an Apple device or enact within the apple ecosystem.

Someone will probably build a better 100% electric car (eventually) but nobody will have the same level of cultural cache. There will always be nitpickers who can say that the eventual BMW/Audi/Ferarri electric car is hotter than the Tesla, but it will never be as revolutionary as Tesla.

Tesla, Apple, Google, Facebook. These, and likely a few more companies, have transcended their mediums to make them truly special not only within their respective industries but societally as well.
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Didn't one need to direct their browser to intentionally visit the subs in question?
Patents were created to protect an inventor.
Facebook does not need to protect any inventions, because they are so big and powerful. Patents can only hurt them.

If you have such a monopoly, only legal protection would protect you.
I feel like what they mean, is the first "factory" built car that has some self driving capability.
I'm not surprised to see a study that confirms censorship works as intended, just more concerned about the future societal structure we're building.

I grew up with free speech as the ideal. Free information, free speech, and freedom in general. Reddit itself was about that at the beginning. That zeitgeist is gone now - I just hope praising free speech doesn't become "hate speech" before I pass.
What's wrong with pygments? I've been using it to get highlighted code as latex, html, whatever, since forever. I'm all for reinventing deficient wheels, but is there anything wrong with this?

pygmentize -f png -l python -o test.png test.py

Spinning up a browser for it seems like an odd choice. At least the author acknowledges that.
I wonder to what extent the right question is how you stop people from jumping on Zello and trying to help.
Call me when it's for sale, when I can put down money and drive away (or rather, be driven away by) a self diving car.

Seriously though. Please call me when that happens. I really, really want to not have to drive anymore. I don't care what the price tag is.
For my last 3 jobs I've entered 0 (or $1 if 0 isn't allowed) as my past salary in online forms and blacked out my SSN, pay, taxes, etc on W2s and pay stubs. I usually just leave my name, date, and the company logo. I've had zero issues. Nobody has ever asked why I blacked it out or what was under there.
You're strawmanning. No one serious claims that there is no genetically identifiable basis for grouping people of similar geographical backgrounds. Clearly there is. Go spit in a tube and send it to 23andme, they'll tell you their guess for a mix of your ancestry.

When people say things like "race is a social construct", they mean the fact that e.g. Americans will consistently and reliably identify people with (for an example) 60% european ancestry as "black" based on things like hair nap, skin tone, clothing, language use, and behavior. Yes, these studies have been done. So if you are concerned about, say, the treatment of "black" americans by, say, the police, the field of genetics has absolutely nothing to offer to help you. Many of those people are genetically "white", as it were.
Does battery type matter for the charge controller? Just learning about the differences between deep discharge lead acid versus lithium in another thread - can the charge controller optimize for battery life of either type?
This bot's sample is a dating website. I'm going to bet my socks on the fact that all it does is detect fashion styles and trends and associate them to groups. The "male homosexual" group is most likely filled with individuals dressed in a more fashinable style who are also well groomed (eyebrows, etc.)

I am certain that you could introduce a lot of errors by adding a bunch of metrosexual but straight individuals into the mix.
Show HN: Just built anonymous cryptocurrency p2p exchange for our Chinese peers
smoking in my dorm. one of the other students tried to convince him not to tell on me because it's not that big a deal, I was one of the top students there, and other people were smoking weed too. he did it anyways, ironically he got kicked out a month later and didn't get a refund or a job on his own. karma. he even texted me to ask for forgiveness.
Why not just do a screenshot of the code from Atom?
There are absolutely people doing this professionally for organizations like the National Guard, US Navy and other responders https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/08/28...

There were even wings from New York and other states who went to Texas just to assist: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/31/harvey-helicopter-res...

According to the first article, "We haven’t deployed this many people since World War I. So, this is literally the most we have deployed in 100 years."

It's impossible (or, at least, not anywhere near feasible) to plan for disasters on this scale, and there will probably always be a level of response from people who aren't professionals.
Your last sentence, "How would you respond to these?", is fairly passive-aggressive. Pointing out the issue (use of LGPL code with a license that does not permit it) is sufficient.
Same here. I have never hit rock bottom, but I have touched a muddy bottom quite a few times, as I keep getting shoved back into it by laughing dry people, up on the shore, wielding their 10' poles.

The solution was to trudge downstream a bit and climb out in the shallows.

I still harbor a lot of bitterness, mistrust, cynicism, and hostility, but I'm doing my best to just walk away from it. The current political climate in the US is definitely not helping.
This is explicitly mentioned in section 6.6 "Implications for Other Online Communities"
India has mega churches
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/32961-megachurches-mult...
All started around 19 years old. My grandfather and grandmother passed away and they were basically like parents to me, especially my grandfather as I don't know my real dad and my moms husband was a psychopath. I've never been closer to a person and it really shook me (to be honest I still haven't really confronted the fact he's done, and it's been 12 years). A few months after their deaths (they died very close together after battles with cancer), I got a girl pregnant on spring break. Fell in love, tried to make long distance work (me in Indiana, her in Georgia). Eventually she left me without explanation. I did everything I could to be a part of her life and make sure I was there for the baby. She had the baby, it turned out to not be mine.

What followed was depression, alcoholism, contemplating suicide daily, etc... failed out of college 3 times, lost my full ride scholarship, got kicked out of Air Force ROTC, took on $180,000 in debt to the govt, got evicted from my house and sued for rent... Moved in with mom, who also got evicted shortly thereafter (her life is/was a mess at the time too). Was unemployed, got my car repossessed, had nowhere to live. Had negative $1000 in my checking account, $10,000 of credit card debt, and no visible way out.

Basically charmed my way into a web developer position as a last resort to try to get some cash. Made $15/hour with no benefits, slowly taught myself to code (I had a little background in it and had studied computer engineering until failing out). Eventually used the web developer position to move up a bit to making $40k/yr with benefits (this is in the midwest). Decided to move to SF to hopefully make it big and somehow landed a 6 figure position without much effort. Worked at that small startup for a year, went under, moved to a much bigger company that had just gotten acquired. Started a company with a friend. Raised nearly $50m. Company is still going strong, I've moved on to senior engineering positions at other top bay area startups and have recruiters up my ass daily. Probably will start another company in the future. 31 years old now. Can't believe how far I've come in the last 10 years. To be honest I'm not really sure how I got here as it seems surreal, but I guess the message is don't give up. You can get through anything as long as you don't call it quits.
>usually the tool that societies reach for to kill ideas is to kill the people that hold them. 99 times out of 100

This sounds like a conclusion reached through confirmation bias.
I've always naively assumed that apps were given preference because they are better at gathering info about the user (can get location more easily for instance, can phone home whenever...) and better at displaying ads (no Adblock there), and therefore I'm surprised nobody evokes this. Don't you think it's at least partly true?
When it reaches 100 million electric cars, Peaks are going to be really big on the power grids.
The electrical grid needs improvement, a few battery hubs won't do.
The energy to move 1 billion cars around needs to come from somewhere and it needs transportation for that energy from source to user. This requires big changes in power infrastructure. Wonder what the future holds.
All cars use wiring harnesses, self-driving or no. You want to be able to remove and replace parts (wires included), so harnesses are necessary.
Regarding Tesla's network, they've added a location (not yet active as of last night's grocery run) at a Meijer near me with probably 10+ charging stations along with some fairly hefty looking power cabinets.
Google defaults to Apache.

The whole process is documented here (https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/approval/) but here's the tl;dr:

1. Googler tells their director that they want to open source some code; the director approves it.

2. Googler tells the Open Source + Patents Office that they're releasing code. The OSPO says to use Apache as the license unless you have a good reason not to, and does a sanity check to ensure that the license information is in all the right places in the repo.

3. Googler posts the repo to GitHub.

Googlers don't usually even think about licenses. The OSPO says to use Apache, so that's what we use.
Not sure why downvoted--OP is pointing out clear, obvious lies from organizations with a vested interest in the topic.

Is the assertion here that lies from gay people should be ignored?
Is the alternative no batteries at all for no power at night/overcast days or is lead-acid OK over lithium or not?
There's also highlight which is available in most Linux distributions and via homebrew for OSX and can output in RTF and a host of other formats. piping it's output to pbcopy will even put that rtf on the OSX clipboard.
I mean, say what you want. There is obviously a gradient between starving to death and over-eating.

If you eat zero calories, you will starve. If you eat N calories, you will be obese. Solution: eat less than N calories.

No one is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to eat too much.
The narrative part of the novel is fine. It's about 80-100 pages of a good thriller at sea and morality tale of revenge. The problem is that the book is 500+ pages, not 100. The other 400 are a tome and treatise on whales, whaling, and whaling culture/philosophy, which are truly tedious. You don't have to skip pages judiciously, you have to skip whole chapters liberally.

The criticism of Ahab having no method to his madness is on point as well.
Neither of those companies make cars.. The article is about actually putting a "self-driving" (however they define it) car through a proper manufacturing engineering environment to develop something that can scale to hundreds of thousands of cars per year.

Redesigning the software of a production car and actually integrating the tech at the factory-level gets you much closer to a mass-volume car than making some fancy software with a sensor package that you bolt to the top of a minivan.
Anyone knows a tool which can help us draw simple diagrams like the one that was mentioned in the README?? https://github.com/mplewis/src2png/blob/master/docs/foreach_...
<personal bias, no time to research this for sure> The extremists weren't going to be swayed anyway by people arguing with them, or even ridiculing them on the internet. If anything, the focused subreddit with its own moderation team can create extra legitimacy by voting down arguments and dissent, or deleting them entirely. Spend some time on thedonald, and see how much actual useful debate there is on the posts attacking Hillary's body.

It's the large, non-participatory cohort of people who may have never read the comments that are being helped by banning these groups, because these behaviors seem less 'normal' and 'legitimate' if you don't see them, especially if you're not exposed to them as jokes and pithy quotes.

Some of the coontown people will slink off to the KKK blogosphere and private message boards, but my point is that many of those with only mild biases won't, and so will lose the chance to be radicalized.
How do you know those were pro-Trump ads? I am just curious about the sources.
Comodo is required by Mozilla to publish a public incident report: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Responding_To_A_Misissuance
I wasn't even talking about hypercomputation specifically. I was talking more in generalities about computer science and things we hold to be "reality/absolutes".
Apparently so! I don't generate images myself, so i didn't know.

$ pygmentize -o out.png src.py

Neat.
There was an interesting comment by hn user aub3bhat a while back about the political pitfalls of facial recognition tech:

"But face recognition is a sensitive/politically-charged topic, I know several grad students (including me) who inspite of having ready-to-deploy scalable software and datasets (~10M instagram images) stay away from doing this type of a demo because reputational risks are enormous. Consider the controversy around geofeedia etc. The last thing you want as a PhD student is press interpreting your research incorrectly and blaming you for causing widespread harm. It happened to a student/professor in my department and even then the infamous study in question was in collaboration with the social network."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580985
People drain swamps and other areas where stagnant water collects to deprive mosquitos of places to breed and grow and affect the population at large, not because they want to visit those places.

Please take some time to reflect and interpret other's comments charitably and arguing their strongest interpretation, not their weakest. It'll help you understand others better and make your own arguments stronger and contribute more productively.
> Sprawl will never be environmentally sustainable.

Assuming clean, renewable energy powers all electric mobility, why not? I do not want to live in a city/urban area, and I will pay more not to.

EDIT: @InitialLastName

Sorry, HN throttling kicked in, can't reply to your reply so I'm putting this here.

If I have a well for water, septic for sewage, solar on my roof, and a gravel road to town, what's the problem? I understand its super expensive for cities to deliver utilities and services across sprawl, but if I'm not asking for those services and utilities to be provided, it should be a non-issue.

If anything, sprawl will make service and utility delivery more efficient, as we'll have no other choice for those who choose that lifestyle.
While I agree, to a certain point (depends on the width), not everyone likes this.
friends are economically similar and how much money you make relative to the rest of the society depends almost entirely on how much money your parents made relative to the society.
Wealth passes alongs genetic lines so does friendship.
Could you expand on this? I've not come across this before, and I'd be very interested in using it, if it's easy...
> Is it expected from all CAs that they obey CAA records, or is it something just made up by the community to crush the big CAs?

CAA was made up by... drumroll.... Comodo.

Yes, check the authors on the RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844
Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates
Which considering the relative sizes of each community is a very effective way to marginalize them.
High voltage, instant start systems have been talked about since I was 14, I am over 40. This is bullshit.
>the power to 'purge' actors exhibiting what in practice can be arbitrarily and fluidly defined (eg, cultural appropriation) is not a power i want anybody to have.

It's a power everyone has. You should read Habermas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere). The entire purpose of civil society is to draw the boundaries around what's acceptable and create the norms that allow people to work out their differences.

Allowing your public sphere to be filled up with people hostile to the concept of being able to work out their differences leads to a breakdown in social order and the rise of totalitarianism.
If you choose friends who share values with you, "tribes" will naturally self segregate based on those values. Is that really so bad?
Apples, oranges. Also, red herring. Also, WhatAboutism.
They might not disappear, but it may be harder for them to continue growing. Hate speech subreddits had the chance to bubble up into the larger community when a funny or popular post gained traction, and maybe help to normalize their behavior for a new audience. Voat on the other hand has transformed into a hard pill to swallow for new users. The front page is daily filled with hate speech targeting black/jewish/fat people along with women and immigrants.
Yeah that seems to be the common theme, "Ask friends and coworkers" I guess I need to do a bit more networking at meetups at such. Its been word of mouth from previous clients for all these years so I never bother to reach out to build a network.
Ridicule is not a healthy way to correct 'bad' behaviors. Even aside from the fact that I fundamentally disagree that people should feel bad for being obese - Aside from the typical externalities of excessive eating and sedentary lifestyle - your comment is baffling to me.

The social cost of the negative outcomes of ridicule directed at obese people - lifelong stunted self-confidence, eating disorders, depression, suicide, etc. - FAR outweigh the few cases where people like yourself might find this productive/helpful.

Do you really believe that ridicule is a reasonable way for society to deal with this (or any) issue?
A well argued, thought provoking perspective. A practical issue with factoring in the contribution of microenvironment in causing/ sustaining cancer has been its diffuse nature- not amenable to define, measure or count...there is no straightforward metric of "inflammation" even- and environment likely encompasses more than that. Hopefully following next generation sequencing boom, when all the mutations have been counted and accounted for, the microenvironment will begin to get its due..
> The gulf of abstraction between the physics and any programming language is vastly larger than differences between programming languages, so it's weird that all of the hardware and operating system and C+GC is the right abstraction, but "tiny" extensions, say, like hardware and operating system and C+GC+generics^ is not right.

Yes! This is why I argue that the problem isn't "too much" or "excessive" abstraction. We're already so far down the rabbit hole of abstraction that another layer or two are peanuts to the amount of abstraction we implicitly accept as being totally normal, reasonable, and okay.

The issue is bad abstractions. And we as an engineering discipline have lots of them, at all layers of the stack! I'll even happily entertain the notion that generics^ (to borrow your use) are a bad abstraction. I don't agree, but at that point I think we're at least debating something worthwhile — as long as the alternative isn't "no more abstractions", but is some other layer of abstraction that better approximates some high-level concept we want to model.

Fighting against more abstractions is a losing proposition. We need to be focused on how to develop good abstractions, so we can progress the field on solid, stable ground instead of on the quicksand it feels like we've been progressing on for the past decade. In my opinion, Rust is a phenomenal leap forward here.
It will be interesting to see the impact on oil producing nations, if the price of oil plummets most of them are going to be in real trouble as few of them have diverse economies.
At least it didn't have to be from survivorship bias.

HEY!
How do they compare on temperature ranges?
A lot of times, people using the app were freinds of those being rescued, and were in touch with them over SMS or phone.

However, many were using the app, and it's a great showing on the part of the Houston cell network.
Some of the cellphone network can operate with no wired power or network. Towers can have p2p microwave links and battery backups. That doesn't really answer your question about how/if/how-long it worked this week.

http://ups-battery-backup.com/cell-phone-ups.php

https://enterprise.spectrum.com/solutions/carrier-services/c...
Not nearly as turnkey, but for a little extra fun you can also build your own battery bank from reclaimed laptop batteries. Search youtube for 18650 battery bank.
It might not be quite the same sprawl, though, because parking is different. With taxis and automatic parking, individual driveways, garages, and even on-street parking become less necessary.

In cities and dense inner suburbs, parking is a limiting factor to higher density; typically every parking spot is taken, and then some.

Also, automatic driving could greatly improve the cost and convenience of public (or private fleet) transit.
The positive impact was happening without Uber. There had been a variety of ride sharing programs for several year before Uber started, and the rise of smart phones would soon allow for easy charging people for the service.

Uber than devoured the market by using rich guy connections to raise money, and ignoring regulations. And that's what people hate.
Interesting idea! I'm not sure about the implementation though. I mean couldn't you just skip the whole Poi/live-reloading steps and just output a html file with some <script> and <style> tags? Why bother with the live-reloading/poi complexity?
My experience with online communities is that while you don't have to have fun at other people's expense, it's a large subset of what people like to do. For better or for worse a lot of people like to say or do things that push boundaries. Sometimes it's actual hate and sometimes it's not. This kind of behavior goes way back with humanity in general. Trickster heroes have existed in mythos across all cultures and while they do things that are at the expense of others, rarely is it out of malice.

More recent example:

https://livestreamfails.com/post/6039

For those who can't watch: A female streamer is playing PUBG when she is "downed" by other players. Said players then play the ISIS theme that has been played on ISIS execution videos over voice chat before shooting her character in the head. Are these players tolerating and celebrating ISIS or are they deliberately being offensive for humor? Or some other motivation?

For good reason people find this behavior objectionable, but at the same time I don't see how you're going to force people to stop doing things like this.
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