skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true only if your product is designed to tinker. Or you generally have to replace plug and play parts.

When desktops came along many people wondered if they could be serviced as easily as TVs. The answer turns out to be simple, they don't have to be. If the repair + component costs turn out to be in the same ball park as replacing the plug and play part, you don't have to service individual PCBs. To give you a example, recently I had a broken Dell Monitor. Got it fixed in 20 mins at a local service store. Apparently the technician simply removed the whole PCB and put a new one in its place. And there were only 3-4 such PCBs.

You only need to be as intelligent as the abstract interface allows you to be.
But why does Tesla need a halo car? They already have the consumers’ attention. Lots of people would buy Teslas today but can’t because Tesla is unable to mass produce the Model 3.
I'd like to see motor trend test it on the track and against competitors
Shutting it completely down is impossible, but making possession illegal is not.
you should also quote "easier" ;)

it's certainly easier once you sacrifice a goat to the compiler to stop insulting you and your mother.

disclaimer: i love rust
Thanks for providing your perspective! I've always wondered what it was like on your side.

1. I totally understand this. I've actually often wondered what a waste of funds it is when I see school districts purchase several hundred licenses of our product, but only a handful of teachers and students end up using it. I understand though that it's hard to just purchase the right amount of licenses, since you never know if another teacher/student down the line might want to start using it.

4. Yes, I've been to a few local schools for support and there's quite a few teachers who are handling the simpler IT side of things. From the IT staff that I've met in schools, I think I would like the environment too.
I was hoping that Google Glass will be the next de-facto device/platform which everyone will be using. Feeling so sad a great idea didn't work well. Maybe it was way ahead of time and can be relaunched again.
I have a fantasy that someone like Google or Facebook, or even a wealthy angel, might be willing to buy all three. If you got them out from under their debt obligations and removed the need to support a corporate HQ, I think it would be do-able.

@dang - YC should buy them!!!
There was already a working program that had their funding axed: Here's a video from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o. There were others too.
Show HN: Super easy way to manage important documents
1600Nm is the engine torque for the Chiron. The 10000Nm value Tesla gave is the wheel torque. You need to multiply the 1600Nm by the gear ratio to get the wheel torque.
Packet Clearing House, partner with IBM for said service.

https://www.pch.net/
Apple’s first diversity chief is leaving after less than a year
Yeah if sterile means people don't leave shit around everywhere and dump their unwanted junk in case someone wants it then sign me up.

On the other hand it sounds like the safety paranoia (have you been inducted to use this hacksaw?) is even worse than at hackspaces.
The explicit description at one of the Facebook developer conferences I went to was to do things which caused users to stay for longer. I think the word they used was some pleasant-to-neutral term like “compelling content”, but the goal was to switch from “more users” to “longer stays” - and to use psychology to achieve that.

Then there is the games sector. I was only in that sector from 2007 to 2010, but when I left many of them were asking how to make their content “addictive”.

I’d say it’s immoral that Facebook et al have wasted subjective lifetimes of their users’ consciousness by addicting them to whichever drug the brain synthesises to reward the minor and unfulfilling social interactions that it provides (and the reverse, the pain from the fear of missing out).
IMO the biggest issue with them is that the average consumer doesn't know what to do with them. Neither iPhone or Android (that I'm aware of at least) expose an easy way to read a QR code which would be intuitive to even a large minority of users.
The best thing about a cold shower is that when you get out, you feel to only get warmer, and it's very pleasing the sensation of thawing through. Whereas hot shower to coldish environment just makes me shiver.
Are you sure? I saw a YouTube drop test video and the iPhone X survived multiple drops from head height (~66") onto concrete without breaking, but the iPhone 8 shattered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHCBwJVeO4

I've dropped my case-less iPhone X 5 feet onto bathroom tile and not even a noticeable scratch afterwards.
Oxford Univ scientists gave babies trial TB vaccine that did not work on monkeys
For those that are unaware, all rockets then rapidly increase their G. For example the Saturn V had 1.20 g at takeoff but climed up to 4-ish: http://www.braeunig.us/apollo/saturnV.htm

Someone on the Saturn V started experiencing more G than the Roadster about a minute into the launch.

When you move a building-sized fuel tank under its own thrust it's going to start off slow, but accelerate as more fuel is burned.
You could have a team from Tesla sitting there for service alone. That solves the problem.

A lot of things are this way today.
it could sove the pain point of online advertisement for those users who are ready to pay 3 cents for a page view.
you over-promised and under-delivered, in that sense you failed.

does it matter though?
I don't even think your anecdote is competing. I think it is a common wisdom that you should allow your body to adjust to cold gradually.
After reading this, is machine learning just the coded version of what you do in Calculus II? Analyzing a scatter plot and trying different equations to get the correlation coefficient value close to "1" and predict the next value? Because that would seem to me to have limited usefulness.
Carla – An open-source simulator for autonomous driving research
It's been a little while, my recollection is that they were narrowly cash-flow profitable, but I don't recall at this point whether that included debt service, and this is before they took on a ton of debt to relocate the San Jose facility.

I'm pretty sure if they can get rid of all of their debt, they would make a little bit of cash. But not enough to justify their billing as a start-up.

The other looming issue is that a lot of the equipment at the Bay Area sites is, er, well-loved, and will need to be replaced over the next few years, which is a major capital expense. At the Redwood City shop, the laser cutters are all getting pretty run-down.
You get voted down by people who just want to believe stuff, physics be damned. Doesn't matter that the same exact thing happens to the existing S models which manage a more than decent 0-to-60 performance on paper (they're in the same league with the Lambos and the Ferraris), but because of those damned physics I don't think that any of them actually completed a Nurburgring lap (that's ~7 km driving the S model like a sports car).
For those of us in the US, and vaguely familiar with traditional hot rods, the Chevy big block engine generally came with ~500-700 lb-ft of torque, which in a lead sled, relatively speaking, such as a 60-70s era Camaro or Chevelle would throw your head back and shake your chest like a roller coaster as the car started to slightly drift sideways.

10,000nm in comparison is 7,375lb-ft, which sounds like Harry Potter land in comparison, if all of my conversions and memories serve me.

I'm kinda speechless, TBH.
Teslas don't need gears since they use electric motors. So there is literally no time spent shifting gears.

See https://www.quora.com/Why-don%E2%80%99t-Tesla-cars-need-a-ge...
It depends on what you're cooking. All that a cookbook really implies is a template recipe to apply when you are faced with a certain situation.

But yeah...It's definitely not a beginner ML cookbook.
Are you saying that the numbers aren't true, or that it has other weaknesses that would cause it to lose a race?
Smart homes as with computer controlled switches and automation.
If a truck tire blows, it sometimes hits nearby cars and causes accidents, or just hits a motorcycle driver, cyclist or pedestrian and causes an instant death.

These covers could be useful, if they were made for containment. Requires something like kevlar that can stretch and absorb the impact.
I'd love an e-ink dashboard in my car so it's not so glary, e-ink tablet that does a bit more than a Kindle but isn't a full media player (super thin super light with basic browser for wiki, news, rss, and email), ~20" e-ink screen on the inside of my apartment door with calendar and notifications and todolist, there's so many cool things we could do with the tech if we could produce it cheaper and bigger. Not everything needs to be able to play video.
I didn't want to imply that, it's more about staying afloat.

"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."

Yes, currently it looks like this is out of reach of Tesla.
My point is that's not "equal precedence". Smalltalk has equal precedence, "2 + 3 * 4" parses as "(2 + 3) * 4". If you reject the expression entirely you don't have equal precedences, you have unmixable operators or precedences (the latter being if "2 + 3 - 4" is still allowed).
To answer your deleted question, there would be no point in listing their achievements for you because you're obviously determined to ignore them, and having them listed for you won't change that.
The biggest problem with UDP is NAT, since UDP is connectionless. Still, it is extensively used in all sorts of applications.

The reason it's not used to much in file transfer is because you basically need to re-implement everything you get for free with TCP for reliable transfer. Secondly, one of the big things that made TCP slow for large file transfer was that the way most TCP congestion control algorithms worked meant that transfer rates would drop quickly as latency increased. Google have come up with an algorithm that drastically improves this [1], and contributed it to the Linux kernel. I expect their strategy will be adopted by most operating systems. I believe Google is already using it, and I read something on Netflix's tech blog that they are at least trialing it.

For small files, TCP slow-start is an issue but protocols like HTTP/2 can work around this by multiplexing multiple downloads through one connection.

So I don't think there will be much advantage to UDP based file transfer for things that you want reliability for.

1. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
My stack of choice as well. The graphql part definitely adds to the learning curve for new devs but I think it’s the future. Checkout github.com/apex/up. Now you won’t even need the beanstalk part. All you need are RDS instances.
It’s hardly mainstream. It’s a $1,000,000+ hypercar.
Honestly, I think your attitude towards this is incredibly dismissive. Hiring people with experience is good, but not if that experience is at the expense of some of the fundamentals. Imagine hiring a graphics programmer because they had 10 years experience in front end web development, only to find out they can’t write any shaders, don’t understand any of the theory, and you turned down someone with 5 years graphics programming experience to hire this person instead? Or perhaps more similarly, taking a backend web developer with a decades experience, and putting them in an engine developer role. Then on their first day they ask you why you only use ‘new’ sometimes.
IMO, the killer app for cryptocurrency is going to be open bazaar. What is open bazaar? Simply put - it is a peer to peer decentralized market place. Think of a something like amazon except no fees to sell, no restriction on what you can sell and powered by bitcoin. Right now the software does not work fully because the only crypto you can use it bitcoin which currently has high fees. The devs are going o switch to using bitcoin cash which has low transaction fees (pennies per transaction).

I have bought and sold items on open bazaar when it was working and it works flawlessly. The buying and selling experience is by far the best I've had. Since there are no fees (other than transaction fees charged by BTC/BCH) you can make more profit compared to selling on ebay/amazon.
A factor in that might be that people would choose to take their required cold shower in the morning, and being required to do anything in the morning(like take a friends dog for a walk) might lead to an equal reduction of sick days
Too bad almost no-one watches the E series, because they're boring af (and the whiny sounds are cringy). Porsche did the translation to Mission E because its parent company is called VW, i.e. a company that should have paid damages worth tens of billions of euros because its diesel engines have killed and worsened the health of tens of thousands of people all over Europe, but because VW is a German "national treasure" nothing of that really happened.
My step-grandmother spilled some wine on the alter once at the end of mass and was enthralled by how, in her eyes, it stained the way blood would and not wine. She took that as a sign. People see what they want to see, I guess.
In some states employees can go after company officers for their paychecks. There's also still regular unemployment benefits.
The first thing I did was to compare against the Dodge Demon SRT and sure enough, I think overall the Tesla Roadster beats it. If you go to Dodge's website, they boast the claim "Fastest Production Car from 0-100 mph", with a little note saying "Excludes non-mass production vehicles and hybrids/electric."
Tesla obviously has to and always has.

"[...] as long as 1) wealthy consumers in western
nations but also China are eager to seek indulgence
by way of green-washing and, 2) are in search of a
Steve Jobs replacement persona onto which they can
project their hopes for a gleaming future and,
3) are disillusioned with the establishment and
its leaders, the company will likely succeed to
raise cash again."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4122890-tesla-approaches-te...
In the U.S., employees are also protected to a degree. Unpaid wage claims up to $10k, including vacation, severance, or sick leave pay, are prioritized over general unsecured creditors. [1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/11/507#a_4
It had everything to do with recording. People wouldn’t mind people flaunting weird gadgetry, but the feeling of being recorded was too creepy. It didn’t help that a lot of early adopters were very creepy to start with.

It could have revolutionised journalism, and I still think we will eventually get something like it once the tech is really invisible, but the social aspect will take ages to sort out.
Golem is definitely interesting considering that big cloud computing companies are now selling computing power.
I love some of his other achievements with Tesla and with solar roofing tiles, but SpaceX has a lot of hype surrounding it.
Vim plugins and config walkthrough
I would have expected robots and automation technologies that replace human workers to come much faster to everyday life.

Of course this is happening in some areas, but not nearly as much as it could happen.

Just one example: It's easy to imagine running a shop that works with little to no workers. The closest thing that exists are these self-checkout cashiers, but even these aren't that prevalent, the norm is still a human cashier.
It could be argued that every engineer working on creating weapons is violating the ethical requirements of being an engineer.

If that were true, wouldn't the professional body expel them from membership? Or perform some other form of sanction? Which it hasn't - ever, to my knowledge.
That's the GP's point. Of course the update rate sucks because enough research hasn't been put into it.

There are already E-Ink displays with much a faster update rate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsY3T1uzjAI

Who knows how much faster this could get with enough investment? Unless there's some fundamental physical limitation to the update rate that I'm not aware of.
Yeah that is just classic "what sounds really impressive but actually isn't that bad" marketing nonsense.

It might be able to withstand an atomic glass but it's still going to crack if a big enough stone his it at 70mph.
I don’t, because I haven’t even investigated the issue myself. I get times where I can’t see the device, and have no connectivity. My solution: use windows.
New altitude record for non-powered flight of 52000+ft (15km)
Are those normally run off of the prime mover's engine? I'd never even thought about that.
What about, say, from the 20th century to now? What are the Roman Catholic Church’s current methods for monetization? I presume they teach all parishioners to give tithes and offerings (which is pretty straightforward from the scriptures), but is there any monitoring of each individual’s givings or pressure toward individuals who don’t give? I grew up in the 90s in small-town middle America in a mainstream conservative Protestant church, and as far as I know there was never any such individual monitoring or pressure, so I have presumed (based on no data or even anecdata) that the Roman Catholic Church is generally similar.
Want! Man. This is so cool!
Making snap engineering conclusions about technology that had tens of thousands hours R&D poured into them is a popular genre of fiction.

I just see how the thinking goes. "No way this issue that crossed my mind in the first 40 seconds I heard about the product was addressed by the bunch of hacks behind it".
You can still use password
These kind of facilities should be paid for by tax dollars (which they are in other countries). They provide a needed place for people to tinker and learn which is beneficial to the community overall.
Sören/Søren or Soren? They're not the same.
Really this is my main complaint with most languages/tools when it comes to runtime errors.

This is especially painful when you introduce frameworks and things that create so much misdirection that the call stack can be enormous.
I used this from the day 1 https://github.com/mattrajca/sudo-touchid but this is much simpler
Nir Eyal didn’t invent anything. He simply adapted mass media techniques to the App era.
It's not the backflips that is fascinating to me. It's how human it looks.
Mind sharing the link to the bug? I'd like to follow it as I think it would be a good enhancement.
Could it be that this semi just isn't meant for those in-city hauls, but more for the longer-range highway hauls?
Linux as a desktop OS
One thing to consider - which one has a superb documentation?
> deep Arizona winter when the temperature drops to around 50

I wonder, is this sarcasm or do you really consider 50 F as deep winter in Arizona? I get it that you are used to much higher temperatures but still...

Right now we have around 40 F in Prague and it is not even a winter yet. Cold showers are still fine right now.
That one is just becoming true I guess.
I doubt that the physical manifestation of the metaverse (you "plug in" and navigate in a virtual 3D-world, especially one that requires you to transport yourself around) will happen, it's simply not very compelling. What we do have, which is very similar to the substance, if not the aesthetic manifestation, of the metaverse, are online communities. Everybody and their mothers on Facebook, specialized trade communities like HN, "dark web" for drugs, weapons, hitmen and 0-day exploits (this, especially, sounds like that metaverse-bar in Snowcrash) and encrypted chat apps for insurgents/terrorists.

But you don't need to put on VR helmet and you don't need a fibre and you don't need to ride a VR motorcycle to get to HN, but on the other hand, you can hang out in multiple bars simultaneously from a tiny, wireless multiverse terminal that you carry in your pocket everywhere. In many ways, we're far beyond the metaverse imagined in Snowcrash.
Plus I'd expect thrust to be kept low until clearing the lower atmosphere so it's not all lost on drag.
Electric cars will fake it. For example, the electric BMW i8 has fake engine sounds and this guy loves it:
https://youtu.be/EoojNzIL2cQ?t=241
The original Veyron could change gears in 8ms, and will, IIRC hit 60 in 2nd. Changing gear isn't going to be a considerable part of the time here.
I'd say yes. But I guess you would have problems getting clients to trust you. After all if e.g. some "random guy" messes around with your eletrical cables your house could catch fire... Or water could leak into your walls...
Separate screen for touching on the back of the mobile device.

I forgot how the device was called, but there was a Blackberry or similar device that didn't have your oily fingers smearing the very screen you're trying to interact with. You didn't obscure the display with fingers. Instead, the touch-sensitive rectangle was on the back of the device, and cursor was displayed on front side, in the spot corresponding to the spot you touched.
I'm hoping they actually tested that 250mph+...I'm no expert but that car looks bit too light and short to do that speed...can't see how it will stick to the road...unlessssss...they want it to fly away :)
cell phone coverage broadcast by satellites. FCC eventually killed off the plan. A company called light squared launched a satellite to have it done.
"The quickest acceleration—from zero to 60 mph in 20 seconds, fully loaded."

sound of cargo falling over :P

But serious question: how important is acceleration for trucks?
From memory, I remember seeing something claiming that the Chrion's 0–60 and 60–0 times were identical.
Three things are killing it:

It is exponentially harder to finance a few huge super costly projects than loads of small ones.

It has a high "PITA factor." That stands for pain in the you know what. A high PITA factor means there is a very long tail of non obvious problems that compound and multiply. It looks much better on paper than in real life because on paper that stuff doesn't show up.

An exponential is now in place for solar and storage. It would not surprise me if almost all energy outside aviation and a few heavy industry applications is solar and batteries by 2050.
I might look into this but it’s not worth spending the time at right now. Unfortunately, and I mean no disrespect, but _its not my problem_. I have existing hardware that works well, it doesn’t matter if it’s the motherboard manufacturer, a kernel bug, a driver issue, it should work (which it does, on windows), and until it does, users won’t use it.

As an aside, that’s awful, and kudos to you for spending so much time looking into the issue and for a clear description of it along with a fix. It reminds me of the useragent nonsense - https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Tesla may have a better traction-control algorithm. Or the electric motors may make it easier to modulate power more rapidly/precisely (vs gas).

The 2nd picture on this page is interesting: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/271674/tesla...
IKEA Effect: We have a significantly greater liking for self-built product
I came here to say that. It was much more convenient than burning CDs.
I can't find better than 2.28 seconds documented.

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/tesla/model-s/2017/2017-tesla...
The battery probably has some good weight to it.
Looking at how micropayments literally devastated the gaming experience, I’m not sure I really want this to happen. It’s become a synonym of “nickel & dime”. Imagine going to a website, reading 50% of a long article, then being told mid-way that you have to pay 0.99 to continue. Want to see pictures? Another 0.99. Post a comment? 0.99. Reply to a comment? 0.99. Then you go to a chat site, want to chat with more than one friend per day? 0.99. In the same chat? 0.99. With emojis? 0.99. With animated gifs? 0.99. And so on and so forth, at every. Single. Step.
Cython is unsafe.