skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am riding motobike in mountains in Thailand. Right now like every year in winter. When I stop to check the road I am blinded by the sun, I take off my raybans, my iPhone screen brightness is at full and in Google Maps the country road are thin white on bright yellow. Impossible to see anything.

Why don’t they offer alternative color pallete?

I also hate that you cannot lock the screen orientation and it turns accidentally like living snake. And when I am looking at something on the other side of the world and suddenly the map jumps right back to my current location. Again no option to switch off these annoying features.

I wonder if they ever field test Maps or are they making those dumb user interface decisions in nice, dark, AC meeting rooms in an office in California?
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That's a little paranoid to think that a network service provider is going to outright block media sources they don't like.
Looking forward to see this thread here next week:

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
I wonder about accidents. Will the driver be trapped, because the glass cannot be broken?
Is Jack Dorsey eyeing blockchain?
Probably not. Normal practical cars need space to put stuff that you want to bring with you. This car doesn't appear to have much of that kind of space, probably in lieu of batteries.
Everyone would need to smuggle data out, 50%+ of the chain within the country is all that's needed to win.

You're not going to get everyone to use satellites to get data in and out. If you've ever been in an African country you'd know SMSs aren't on the cheap side either. You'd also know they have tools that can track and catch your VSAT dishes and fine you heavily.
Same here! I love their tech and I can't wait to see Model 3 after Model 3.

... but damn it Tesla ship it!
Rust does have the information to, but it has so much information that LLVM doesn't yet know what to do with it all. :P
That was the main motivation why i never bought one. I had never good enough ideas to buy it for that price.
but if I wear a jacket I'm boiling.

Funny.
Pen testing: choosing the right (Linux) tools to fix your broken IT security
I'm disappointed none of the various constructed "universal" languages (like Esperanto) ever took off. Having a single common language spoken by everyone would be enormously useful. As it is, the closest we have is English, but it's a natural language and therefore complicated and difficult to learn.
I believe the problem is the sort of plastic used. You need structural strength in most things and filament pieces melted together is just not cutting it.
Watch out! The "pure and perfect git history is more important than any other consideration" crowd are going to take you apart for this heretical notion!
no one claims ageism at the first sign of it... you typically spend the years between 35 and 45 thinking... "no way! that's so stupid!" until it finally hits you, and you still can't believe it's really a thing. It's a lot like racism or sexism, except it's a bit more comforting to know that it will come to its perpetrator with a swiftness that will blow their mind.
That has been an issue with sports car since they came into existence.

I imagine AWD and TCS will make this much more controllable than most.
It's occasionally getting to -20-25 C during winters where I live, but people go around in their daily routines (only exception is children that do not have to go to school if it's below -20 C). I'm pretty sure if not the clothes, there would be a hell lots of frozen bodies around every winter.
I bought my NFC Phone 3,9 Years ago, never used it. Apple is now doing something with it and it might come but it should have taken of way earlier.

Right now i have already a contact less credit card and that works like a charm.
Splitting your attention is going to introduce more problems, but so is not having money or having to beg for money every year or two.

Maybe the Roadster reboot should have been scrapped, but this has clearly been in the works before Model 3's production scaling issues. With a large company you have a diverse group of talent; you aren't going to have your designers sit around while you are tuning capacity. Hopefully, this helps compliment their growth.
i mean... there was another product that Google rolled out that was on an invitation basis. Last I checked Gmail is doing pretty well...

facetious comparison aside, i think the (Yegge)? rant about how Google does things applied here.
Hey folks. I was the one that took that video. let me know if you have any questions.
You don't use AI for that, you use a bunch of sensors and adaptive power or braking vectoring. Calling some heuristics "AI" is a massive stretch.
Also I think the sports car helps solve problems. You can spend a little more on a solution, then figure out how to do it cheaper on the next generation family sedans. Even decide if that’s just the wrong approach due to maintenance headaches.
My reason: Don't like to add another thing on the power cord every night.
How to future-proof the West's economies
What Are We Doing with Google’s Flutter?
Well, Linux on the desktop kind of happened this year, it's just running on the Windows desktop, this time.

Here's how I set up Windows 10 coming from Linux. https://github.com/chx/chx.github.io/wiki/How-I-set-up-my-Wi...
The Veyron had little downforce when put into suicide mode, right?
If you walk down the street of my city (population close to 2 million, outside US) you will probably see zero people using Bitcoin. If you are extremely lucky to find one that uses it, it is someone that speculates in it, and never ever thought of using it for "real" transactions.
This would be my #1, as it would have drastically changed (for better or worse) the internet. Although, it's a psycological problem instead of a technical one. You can put a PayPal button or Stripe popup on your page using technology today, which will usually take 10 seconds (given that the user is logged into those services, since we're assuming that this micro-payments practice is common), but it's a wild expectation that people would actually get used to willingly give up a nonzero amount of time to pay for something so small as an article.

Another problem may have been this. If everyone on the internet agreed that say, watching a video should cost $0.02/minute, then people would get accustomed to paying this amount because that's such a small cost. But it's only a $0.02 decision for a content creator to restrict or allow it to be watched for free, and if say, 5% of artists just decided to "eat" the potenential earnings, then you'd have 5% of free videos and 95% premium videos. The 5% free videos would prevent the 95% of videos from being watched, because why would anyone pay to watch a video if you can watch another one for free. Basically I'm saying that this idealization of micropayment content is destroyed by free content, whether that is a good thing or not. I do this myself with respect to Android apps, since I don't take my time seriously enough to pay the occassional $1 per app.
Still to see if it can do it over and over again like the sports cars it's billed to compete against.
Because you can use the deposits to keep the lights on until you start getting model 3s out the door.
This explains their battery supplier "problems". Those ebay sellers want you to buy a flashlight with each one of those batteries. It all makes sense now. /s
Circuit performance is meaningless. I'd like to see the gt3 accelerate to 100km/h under 2" for example :)
It's grammatically correct, but conceptually incorrect (sorry, it's always fun to correct a correction :)
Drag racing is meaningless? I totally get that you might not personally like it, but meaningless?
I don't think Elon Musk's plan is to build up Tesla as a huge pyramid scheme, cash out at the peak, and move to Mars before he gets arrested. He is running a couple of very technical companies and is down in the trenches working 80-100 hours weeks to keep them moving forward as fast as possible. Getting the Model 3 up to a production rate of 5,000 a week is what will start to prove out Tesla's current stock price, not a slick demo.
My apartment offers EV charging parking spaces, though they cost a bit more than the others. I don't think this is a terribly new or radical concept.
thanks for the anecdote! the politics must have been savage. also means the team probably cared more about being on a cool project than the actual problem area itself.
But when you buy a bitcoin, you don't own any of that.
English is a surprisingly versatile language. You can get your point across with pidgin english just fine, and it's the most spoken language in the world.

On the other hand you have people who master the language on a whole new level, like Douglas Adams.
It wasn't really from scratch though was it, he hired out people who had already worked with space projects. None of the tech is really new (yet). We used to have the same types of rockets in the past.

Amongst Model 3 fiasco Solarcity too currently has issues.
Lisp machines.
Expert systems.
Functional languages: Scheme, Ocaml, etc.
Itanium.
OpenStack.
If those TCO numbers pan out they won’t have much choice. They’ll be undercut by the competition.
Intel Itanium. Hell, everyone was convinced! https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339629,00.asp
Most sports cars are at that point at low speeds and either need a skillful foot or an electronic system to prevent burning out. A 1.9 second 0-60 is pretty much the limit on street tires (and requires AWD). Someone will take it even further by putting drag slicks on there.
Tesla Roadster e-car to provide 1,000km range, 'Semi' e-truck unveiled
You're also correcting the wrong problem. You can have your deps outside of your repo and still not go off to the net each time. You should cache or mirror the repo and build from that.

At some point the convenience of public repos made people forget this.
It's cost at that point. For a 25mpg car you can buy 200k miles for 8000 gallons, which is much cheaper than whatever the battery cost will be.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t Apple Pay and Android Pay already use NFC?
I still think it will take of. The question is how.

There is a very cool company who is doing VR in real world. Like if you touch the 3d wall, there is a plywood wall there.

Or training on machines, driving school, some games, 3d modelling, 3D Kitchen, 3D House Building, Journeys.
One thing I like about Interligua is that... I can read it with just a bit of difficulty, despite not having learned it. I'm a native english speaker with high school french. I imagine native speakers of romance languages could read it fluently. That's a huge percentage of the worlds population right there.

It seems like a much better idea than esperanto.
I'd be pretty nervous running something RWD with massive torque and power on ice. I'm sure it's better to have a more predicateble delivery, but with ice 7 months per year I'm staying clear of high power RWD cars...
But they're still amazing for status displays, e-readers and stuff that don't need low latencies.

What's keeping them from being more popular is the price, anything over a 1" e-ink display costs a literal arm and a leg.
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It's pretty hard to socialise on a network where you're the only one there....
I wonder if GM (or Tesla) will sell crate batteries the way they sell crate engines? Everyone will be drooling over the next big battery they release the way motor heads drool over crate engines. They'll need a reasonably standard size/configuration to be successful, and they could sell the motor, power management and PCM to go with it.
There are still zero for now, one in planned production.
If you look at Teslas, they have a grill in the front that sends air to a radiator that's shared by the battery cooling system and the cabin air conditioning.

For S and X and 3, it's not beefy enough to handle an extended period of time. Also, the engine has to radiate heat.

So, you're boldly predicting that Tesla, which understands basic physics well enough that their existing cars accelerate well and don't burst into flames because of heat issues, is going to be unable to do any better cooling the battery and motors of a future car?
Chimps in wild modify warnings based on what others in their group already know
Fair enough. Maybe I should say that I didn't demonstrate any special talents here. What I do could have been done by anyone in the FreeBSD project, but I ended up managing the FreeBSD/EC2 platform by accident and now I'm the obvious person to keep on managing the platform.
> Contrary to this, we use Java which runs in its own JVM which then runs on top of the OS.

Not quite true, only when using the free (gratis) OpenJDK.

Majority of commercial JDKs, like ExcelsiorJET, Aicas, PTG, IBM, ... do support AOT compilation to native code.

Oracle also added support for AOT Linux x64 on OpenJDK 9, with support to other OSes being worked on for later releases.
Nope; Early intel SSD from 2009 when they were released.
even within English we have a ton of local and regional variances in everything from accent to connotation to words to the point that some variants aren't even intelligible. Check out the Ocracoke Brogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfyrRqc5TU and that's right in the heart of North America!

i'm no linguist but my familiarity with german/chinese and a smattering of other languages has led me to conclude that humans have an inbuilt tendency to just mess things up just because. If there's a grammar rule that can be broken or inverted, some language out there will do it. the tower of babel is encoded in our DNA. The Diryabal language even has a gender for vegetables and fruits. (http://www.superlinguo.com/post/5746695497/lady-nouns-and-ve... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyirbal_language)
But you can short it, there's lots of exchanges where you can do it.
There’s certainly chances for failure, but I’m inspired by the fact they try anyway.

I see at least one Model S everyday. Tesla have objectively made an impact, and in my books that’s a good thing.
Tires, wheels, suspension, bearings, steering, brakes and drive axles (one from each electric motor to its wheel) will be the same as a regular truck, maintenance-wise.

The maintenance reduction basically only related to the motor itself. And, supposedly the "nuclear blast proof" windshield. A collision with a deer probably be much, much more expensive compared to a truck with a safari grill or plow mounted for safety.
It was not feasible to stop the entire organization from writing new code to do a migration, which is why most migrations like this happen slowly over time. However, we got a lot of benefits by doing a "big bang translation" like not having to link two different module systems (Google closure and TS)

The hackathon was an ideal time to attempt something like this and we knew the scale of the project was huge. Once the project was complete we each got a couple of extra personal days.

It was really cool tackling a project that many thought was impossible and succeeding. We all had the vision that we were doing something that had the potential to significantly improve our satisfaction and productivity on the daily basis for the long term.

This kind of thing is completely voluntary and everyone who participated really wanted to do it. I think we have a really good work-life balance at lucid.

It's awesome having leadership that supports us in moving forward with a project like this.
Weird that you would focus on Bezos and not Rupert Murdoch, who is already what you fear Jeff Bezos could become. In fact, it'd take decades for Bezos to acquire the amount of media influence Rupert Murdoch has on several continents.
i think it will come. ironically its a hardware problem rather than a software problem
Watch the actual reveal before commenting. The glass was addressed.
And yet easy enough for basically everyone in the world to learn.

Just think, it could’ve been French. It was dominant for many many years.

Russian was a huge candidate as well. Wanna learn that? I’m a native Slavic speaker and I wouldn’t wish a Slavic language on anyone who needs to become fluent enough to do business.

Spanish was (is?) a big candidate too, that one is about as hard as English i guess.

Portuguese? I can’t tell how hard it is, but it sounds more difficult to me than Spanish.

Arabic was a strong contender once upon a time as well. That to me seems very difficult to learn.

Of course we could go for Chinese. I hear that’s easy to learn conceptually, but hard to learn how to speak properly.

Ultimately we landed on English in part because of the cultural and historical dominance, and in part because it’s just easy enough for anyone to become fluent enough. The nice thing about it is that it steals language constructs and words so liberally from other languages that anyone can find something familiar to grab onto.
> a Goroutine takes about 4 Kilobytes of space in RAM. On the contrary, a thread takes up about 1024 kilobytes in RAM. Hence, Goroutines take up 250 times less space than threads in other languages, which makes it possible to run an increasing number of Goroutines concurrently.

In this true in the practice?
It uses 3 motors (2 in the back) and has a 200 kWh battery pack. The reason for such a large battery is so that they can draw more total current without overheating, theoretically twice as much as the Model S P100DL which only has two motors (1 in the back). Having more motors means you are spreading out the current/heat. The 600+ mile range is mostly a side effect of this engineering approach to performance.
I could never justify joining the Pittsburgh one when it was open. I did visit a few times and always felt like they had too many employees and too much space for what they were. They also chose one of the most expensive places to rent in a city filled with affordable real estate.
Japan has been running trains since the 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_J...

> Stage 1, from 1872, the first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama
Doing Lego. Just bought a set of Lego City, and will try to build it. My plan is to move on to 1000 piece puzzles or some Lego stuff.

I was never good at "building" and maybe this can improve my creativity a little more.
You can give a robot precise coordinates and let them go for it.
Wheel torque isn’t really that important since you don’t know what speed it’s being delivered at. The only thing that really matters is horsepower since you can gear for torque and you can assume the engineers did a decent job with the transmission.

That being said, peak torque is a good indicator of low rpm horsepower on internal combustion engines. Low rpm horsepower is good for sustainable work (like towing) or street power.
Some of my work is related to traditional BI tools and not one day goes with me hearing someone, specially the management, talk about applying machine learning in some way.

Now while I can see some aspects which can be improved by usage of ML many don't tend to understand the implication of such systems. A good example came last year. On the BI system there existed 200+ reports with an average user having access to maybe 20 reports based on their department - finance, sales etc. There was a big push from the management to "improve" user experience with ML. Build a recommendation system they said. There was no cost benefit analysis done for using a complex ML based recommendation system on 20 reports - It sounded cool and in line with the hype.

Then there is the question of user involvement. While I believe there is surely a case to made for stuff which involves software engineers, like the ones mentioned in the post - search ranking, data center energy usage etc. But things which require non-software engineers is a bit doubtful. This is because as the post puts it - "This doesn’t require the same technical skills as traditional programming, but it does need a deep knowledge of the problem domain. " And engineers cannot be expected to have deep knowledge of every function. If they get too drunk on the ML kool aid, and some of them do, the end result will be mess.
True. And it doesn't make sense given "at will" contracts everywhere.
ok honestly i dont understand this fear. isn't the open web the antithesis of the locked appstore?
They should do it on stage.
CRISPR.

My naivete surrounded me. I didn't realize that even though there was a high output of genetic marker tests that very few if of them would result in viable CRISPR targets.

There's 60K genetic marker tests on the market.

8 to 10 new ones come out each day.

Humanity has little hope of figuring out the sort of "druggable targets."

Genome Wide Association Studies aren't like websites or apps waiting to be optimized with more data.

The more data you feed in the more obfuscated the truth becomes.

Drug discovery is hard and CRISPR modifications are technology way ahead of clear problem framing.

https://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2017/03/targets-drugability-...

For 12 years, I've had a chronic autoimmune disorder that I had hoped would be solved by the likes of a massive genetic dataset of Ulcerative Colitis twins that had been separated at birth where one twin had the disease and the other didn't.

I had hoped that CRISPR would be the solution given enough problem context from a solid GWAS, but this was foolish.

Our best bets in biotech are not in the latest technologies, they are in ensuring that basic science, phase 0, and phase 1 trials get large unfettered funding.

I had hoped Liz Parrish's outfit would make leaps and bounds in genetic modification for patients like me, but that ended up being baloney. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560943

CRISPR technologies are like bullets to attack problems, but the operator is always increasingly blind. Bonferroni Corrections abound and family wise error rate are unforgiving in all things related to GWAS studies.
Wouldn't a Javascript X3D-to-WebGL wrapper solve this? That would allow time for adoption to happen during the standardization process, until browsers begin to implement it natively. If nobody is using this now with a JS wrapper, then why should browsers standardize it?
What is that sound that you can hear right when the car starts accelerating? Is it the tires slipping?
No, this isn’t a Jordan Peterson video. Christians really believe that there really is a God.
I commute Nottingham>London about 3 times a week. Coding/working on the train is the only way to stay sane!

I have a Macbook Pro 2017 13". It's the first Macbook I've ever owned. It barely weighs a thing (1.37KG). Feels durable. And feels quite ergonomic to use. I can run 2 VMs in virtual box at full pelt for 1.5 hours and use 50% of the battery. I think that's pretty good. Best notebook I've ever owned.

Otherwise, Boss Quiet Comfort 25s.

4G is very hit and miss. I swear the newer East Midlands Trains carriages are surrounded by a faraday cage. That being said, they offer 15 minutes free wifi... cough MAC address... cough which performs very well.
I don't know, an electric car seems like it would contain a few items you don't want to be poking at if you don't know what you're doing. Security screws could a pretty good job of keeping the casual DIYer from electrocuting himself, essentially a "can't open this? Maybe you shouldn't."
Top of the line Winnebagos are $500k. You might be on to something: https://winnebagoind.com/products/class-a-diesel/2017/grand-...

Someone pair up with a tiny house company or a prefab design/build architecture company and start making some housing trailers for Tesla Semis.
as a web developer i am bemused at every other comment on here that seems to agree with your sentiment that the world is walling up. yes, app stores will be a control mechanism for ever and consumers may not understand what they are opting into. but equally the open web will never go away and that's what general purpose computation has shifted to, thats basically all we've done this century. am i misunderstanding what you mean by general purpose computer?
> downvoters didn't care to elaborate

Obviously not true. You just replied to the counterexample, where I did elaborate on my downvote.