skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Melbourne here with ADSL2, seems to match Google...

~ ping 9.9.9.9

PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=35.810 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=35.669 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=36.421 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=35.021 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=37.837 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=36.547 ms
^C
--- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 35.021/36.217/37.837/0.882 ms
~ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=36.042 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=67.986 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=36.123 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=35.603 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=43.381 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=37.085 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 35.603/42.703/67.986/11.614 ms
I'll go with: d) All of the above.
You'd think that the ability for the wheels to deliver power to the ground has to be the limiting factor at some point.
This video shows how a battery can be recycled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpSrHZnCi-A
A perfect place to stick a load of solar panels? The roof of a warehouse.
Founder series limited to 1000 requires full deposit, that's $250 mil

Base model requires $45k deposit.

Not sure what semi requirements are.

Even if they are biting off more than they can chew, they can gauge reaction and devote more/less to this. I'm thinking that these ventures give their engineers a space to get really creative and push the envelope. And, these advancements make their way into the mainstream models.
NFC seems to be rather popular.
Pragmatism is on a slipperly slope almost by definition.
In the year to 2017-Aug, total US solar generation was 72.1 TWh, amounting to 1.80% of total US electricity (predicted to reach 5% by 2022; in 2016 US solar capacity almost doubled from the year before).

Tesla semi consumption: < 2 kWh/mi

One charge: 500 miles => < 1 MWh

There are about 2 million semi trucks in the US (tractor trailers). Assume that each semi fully charges once a day, 300 days a year.

The conversion of all of the country's semis to Tesla vehicles powered with solar generation requires under 600 TWh a year, eight times current US solar level; still only 15% of current total US electricity generation. Likely within 10 years, or sooner.
"Sago said bitcoin’s rally could end after its price hits the $10,000 mark or right before the CME Group launches bitcoin futures some time by the end of this year."

Given the fact this happened yesterday:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-15/bitcoin-e...

It will be interesting to see how things pan out once the future contracts are released.
That's what it looks like. They have utterly failed to make model 3s.
Thanks, that’s the clearest explanation I’ve received of a plausible mechanism for bitcoin having any intrinsic value.

I’m not convinced that justifies it’s value, but I’ll mull this theory over when bitcoin articles come up.

Based on your theory, would it be fair to say the following:

1. Like gold, bitcoin won’t be a long run value producing asset. (Unlike stocks)

2. Like gold, bitcoin may settle on some value relative to non-bitcoin

3. People investing in bitcoin are betting it has not yet reached that value, and are thus hoping it will increase in price to a future equilibrium.

Obviously gold fluctuates based on market conditions, but it has rough parameters of value. Are people assuming btc has some similar level of value and will rise to it?
It's a bit like bashing people for not taking the time to read Kant.

I think that thebproblem is that people that haven’t taken the time to read Kant most of the time do not attempt to criticize or discuss his work.
1,000 reservations @ $250k means they can pay for 5% of their new gigafactory, and that's just the founder's run.

That only works if the Tesla don't bother to deliver the 1,000 'Founder' Roadsters, or Tesla have a way of making them for free.
Internally in Google it was really, really hard to get in the Wave team. So many people felt the opportunity to show what they can and get a career boost. So, presumably, they had best Google engineers working on that product.

What I want to say is an obvious thing -- stellar team doesn't imply success.
Can we stop the startup bullshit?
simply look at how often the German Nazi party would change what classifies as being a Jew

Can you provide any links? My google-fu is failing me.
Years ago (mid-late `90s) I used to buy "MacWorld" magazine every month, which I enjoyed. Not long after the internet became a thing they did a "Best Web Browser" feature and gushed about "Netscape Navigator" to the point where I got suspicious because on the Mac it was truly awful. Not that there was anything better, but it was still crap.

That inspired me to comment on their AOL page that I thought they gushed too much and I mentioned that after reading it I had to wonder if they owned stock in Netscape. One their representatives came on and trashed me for insinuating such a thing and then their fan club piled on me and just reamed me over my comments but the very next month they had yet another article about it and this one began with a disclaimer saying they did own stock in Netscape.

That was it for me. I never bought another issue of it or anything else they published.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15719262
With a range of over 600 miles why would you need it to be filled up in minutes?
> It's also insane to announce this car with what boils down to a bunch of CGI!

They had multiple real Roadsters at the announcements. You can see a red one in the main event video, and there are pictures of a silver one on Twitter.
I don't remember the exact difference but it was only a small change from the normal rules that had an exponential impact.
Good thing noone is abandoning it.
Heck, drive thru the midwest, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin - and you'll see a ton of manufacturing going on.
And I don't think anything sold in the US today, not to the Department of Defense, has anything that poses "an immediate and extreme health and safety hazard".
In general I am very concerned about what is considered cold. Is this just unheated?

Depending on the time of year the relative temperature of unheated has a broad range where I live. I’d be a lot more comfortable if this set a tight bound on the water temp. If it did and I missed it sorry.
Tesla is already established in the business of luxury electric cars. It's the low cost ones that seem to be the challenge.
I think there are less than 10 commercially available cars models that can do 0-60 mph within 2s.
"The system" is the group of popular centralized communication networks.

What we need is not censorship, but privacy. Malicious advertisers are given credibility by centralized public social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

We shouldn't be begging Facebook and Twitter to police communication; we should be replacing them.
I don't understand what's there to litigate. If they wouldn't have done the controlled release, the dams would have broken, and the very same homes wouldn't not only have been flooded even more, most of them would have been gone. Nada. Plus 10x more homes. Plus broken dams, without protection for the next storm.

When there is a storm in Houston, streets do flood for 30 minutes and traffic has to wait. Without the canals and the dams the city would stand still much longer, the damage would be intolerable.

Government did the right thing, but they should have warned them more timely. At 10pm, not 1am. With some acoustic alarm.
it seems really sad that these longstanding resources don't get as much attention in the maker community as they should. the teaching staff is usually super experienced and helpful, the costs are priced to allow people to get themselves into regular blue collar work. most importantly for me they are trying to train you to be a professional craftsman, not just getting you to the minimum level that you can show up once a month and mess around and probably not hurt yourself.

ccsf welding courses are vastly more useful and 1/4 the cost of a crucible course
That is what you get when you want real privacy protection, no one but you should be able to access that data. That being said, iCloud is not really a backup, just a File Storage with syncing features, you should get another service (internal or external) to backup your data like Backblaze or a NAS.
I don't want to throw anybody under the bus here, but basically one friend taught the other friends, and I was one of the students. Nobody complained or blamed him, though. We played for about a solid year and it was an amazing experience.
Volvo have already announced their lineup will all be electric by 2022.
Yeah, it's just so odd that their website has the ultra fake video to demonstrate the 1.9 second 0-60 time!
That will soon be the sound of second place, and their feelings will change.
Does npm even allow you to use projects that don't allow you to make changes to their code?
You can't create value by just rubbing my ego, that's ridiculous.
If you live in a San Francisco apartment, “big enough space” is going to cost a lot more than TechShop membership.

The SF TechShop did have a waterjet, capable of cutting through basically anything.
Check in your node_modules. You are badly correcting the wrong problem. npm repo should not be hit for every checkout, deploy, and CI test. Just commit your dependencies - and if you need to hack them, you can float a patch with git.
Musk talked about people leasing these trucks, not buying them, so maybe that is the current plan.
Sony's MiniDisc music format!
10 degrees C was used as "cold" in this study, as per the article.
Can you elaborate this? Did the cold water hurt your neck? Or did you hurt neck due to a related/unrelated accident in the shower?
I really appreciate his sharing his notes that translate fairly complex math into something like an intuition. It fits in a helpful (but sparsely populated!) niche between academic papers and tensorflow-for-software-engineers tutorials.
It's too utilitarian and not aspirational enough.
We are so fucked.
Vast majority have far fewer than 10 trucks.
> Twenty serious adverse events were reported, that were all considered unrelated to the intervention.

Including one death.
Have you ever played gameboy as a kid?
“Slowlaris” days were 15 years ago with Solaris 8. Meanwhile, Solaris and illumos (and therefore SmartOS) are the only operating systems I know of which provide CPU bursting. If you go put Linux and SmartOS on the same intel CPU based hardware, SmartOS is likely to beat it in performance. What might have been 15 years ago has long since (2005 with Solaris 10) not been the case.
Yep, my car has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron, and yours probably does too.

A Chevy Tahoe has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron. One of those super-boxy 80s Volvos has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient
This isn’t CGI :-)
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidHodge/status/931391188065705...
Bugatti is fat and slow
There are some junk hills, filled with toxic waste. You wouldn't even try to snowboard these, lest build a home there.

The good thing about Houston is that everyone is there in together, the rich and the super rich.
>think things through pretty comprehensively from all angles and plan effectively for what's needed.

Is that why model 3 production is going so well?
> Those same employees were also told that they're unlikely to get their final paycheck.

This as a Finn sounds crazy. Here the employees are protected to a degree if the company goes bankrupt then the government will pay the final paycheck and the government will be the first one to get their money back from the bankruptcy (before any banks/other creditors when any existing assets are sold)
Apple (at least) has shown us for some time that the device you buy is not really 100% your property. All kinds of proscriptions are in the EULA that prevent you from doing whatever you want with a Mac, and it's far more extensive with iOS devices. So yes, the company is remote bricking their property. What the consumer paid was a one time rental payment, not a purchase.
Quantum computers. I thought so until i spent some time looking at superposition&entanglement and got convinced that there is no superposition&entanglement. Looking at the published Bell inequality experiments i see exactly opposite of what whose experiments supposedly confirm :/
Balthild Seal Matrix
I think that's on purpose. So friends have to show you the app first... It kinda creates a "lock-in" effect, like "I already bothered to learn this with my friends, why change now?"
Tesla can barely ship the Model 3, and now they're adding yet another consumer vehicle to the lineup?

Tesla's vision is completely scattered. I have little faith in them at this time since they can't deliver the "economy" Model 3, but now suddenly have the bandwidth to develop, engineer, ship, and maintain yet another car?

Tesla, ship the Model 3 at scale and then we'll talk.
I switched to firefox yesterday. it is lag free and fast. great
Yep... the way I see it is that the blockchain is like Linux. Lots of utility and value which will continue to grow as more people explore the applications of a technology which is free for anybody to use. However, Bitcoin as a currency is like VA Linux (ticker: LNUX) whose meteoric rise was due to the hype around Linux (the OS) but it eventually tanked as it had no monopoly on the underlying technology.

LNUX popped at almost 700% growth on the first day. It then rapidly tanked: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*UsaIAmwMhcngaCDNP...
Gamification can provide value. Stack overflow is all about addiction and value. The blog title was manipulative in its hyperbole, btw.
You should probably watch the actual reveal, it's already on YouTube. The glass was already addressed and he gave it a specific focus. Even claiming it can withstand an atomic blast.
I wonder what happens when one of these cars crashes head-on into something. The front of a car is supposed to act as a crumple zone. Batteries aren't very good at crumpling.
Scientists Have Edited the Genetic Code Directly Inside an Adult Human's Body
I’m specifically referring to running HPC on SmartOS, which runs only on intel and AMD, with full support for intel only. My question is why isn’t it used for HPC now since it provides CPU bursting, not why it wasn’t used in the past. Fair disclosure: I grew up on SGI and HPC, I know what was before.
> If SV could somehow change its foundational thinking from reason + corrosive business practices to reason + kindness we'd all be better off.

+1 ;)
> 0-60 MPH in 1.9 seconds

For comparison, a top fuel dragster does 0-60 in 0.5 seconds.
>turns out nobody wants to struggle using a selfie app

Tons of people use the app. The interface is central to its virality. Snap's growth wasn't a problem until Facebook did everything they could to clone it. Snaps failing because everyone is starting to realize that if you aren't GOOG or FB, you aren't worth spending $$$ on. Just the other day I saw an "OfferUp" ad on Snap that looked like a 90s banner ad. I can't tell if Snap went full self serve or if they are struggling to find people to buy on their platform. And who would after advertisers have been spoiled by FB's demographic data and GOOG's intent data?

Edit: I feel like I spend a lot of time defending snapchat when I hardly use the app.
there already is, tech shop or no. machining and fabrication shops are falling like flies. expect to pay about 5x scrap value (used to be 2x, but scrap just fell a lot) for used machine tools from the 60s. new chinese knockoffs can be ok if you are discerning and don't have to pay shipping. an acceptable 9" swing lathe for $1k. bridgeport variable speed 36" mill for $2k. chinese tig for $1.2k. nice 20" throat doall style bandsaw for $1.5k. sweet new horizontal bandsaws are only $1k. 1/4" plasma cutter is $600

though I suspect if you want to open to the public insurance is going to be astronomical
I think that may be the core point of why they are doing this. They are in a cash crunch, if they get enough deposits it can certainly help their bottom line... without dilution.
Mobile/Micro payments. There is still no friction free solution, where I would be sure, my mother could use it.
That is the reason they chose that comparison. a.) everyone thinks a Veyron must have a good coefficient b.) they know it's not that good. Basics of modern marketing (also "low fat high sugar", "low carb high fat", "organic sugar", ...)
Iridium held so much promise and was such a disappointment.
I've seen dozens of them around LA. Give it a few months and if it doesn't ramp then there might be a problem.
The Model S can seemingly do it quite often, Tesla Racing Channel does it quite a bit. You will thermal limit at some point but having twice the battery capacity is probably helping there.
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Well didn't it? Considering Youtube and Netflix...

Or is that some specific technology that I don't know about?
Wave's rollout was botched, its performance requirements were too ahead-of-their-time for 2009 hardware, and its UX (which didn't seem to "get" that sometimes you need to isolate your current work context from the global feed of activity in order to focus) was perplexing. But its legacy of helping to popularize Operational Transforms (and by extension, CRDTs) beyond academic circles did indeed live on - for instance, OT was adopted in Google Docs [0], and CRDTs were used in yesterday's release of Atom's real-time collaborative editing [1]. So in many ways, it accomplished exactly what to set out to do.

[0] https://drive.googleblog.com/2010/09/whats-different-about-n...

[1] http://blog.atom.io/2017/11/15/code-together-in-real-time-wi...
My recollection is no one could figure out what it was or how it worked... and yes, no one to figure it out with.
There are zero. Roadster is the first and only.
> had a concussion for 3 weeks afterwards

Should this be "a concussion with symptoms which lasted 3 weeks afterwards"? I thought a concussion was the traumatic injury itself.

Either way I hope you are ok!
As in it checks the license in the source repo and prevents installation of dependencies with licenses that prohibit source modification?
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Yeah, this seems to support the story that they just expanded too fast and couldn't keep a handle on things. If they can get folks to pay $1k per year and actually come despite the crowding they can probably get almost as many folks to pay some amount more than $1k per year but not have crowding.
Nobody wants to use OpenBSD HPC. Everybody wants to use Dragonfly BSD HPC, if not many drivers were missing. Dragonfly MPI outperforms Linux, Linux just has more HW support and a bit better TCP/IP stack.
A duplicate, sorry.
Sure, and how you're supposed to charge them fast enough to charge incoming trucks

> a charging station for 8 semis will need a dedicated 20 MVA

20MVA is approx. 20MW, Solar Power is 100W/m2 hence that gives 0.2km2 (or 200,000m2 of needed area for 20MW)

Solar won't help you in this case
That was my initial reaction, but it leads to a question: do you stop doing R&D (and shed talent as a result) because production in another part of the company is blocked by some (hopefully transient) supply chain issue?
Considering Tesla is depending on it's image to get more money to fill the gap of it's ever deepening losses, spending days preparing a presentation is the best use of his time.

Tesla has a price-to-sale ration of nearly 6, while Nissan and GM are <0.5. So Tesla is mostly image and vision, not reality. Therefore it depends on Musks presentations with visions of a glorious future.
Maybe he's just repeating the same Roadster business model? Small quantity (can hand-assemble if necessary), high margin, prestige product to help keep money coming in for the rest of the business.
These seem like orthogonal competencies though. Technologies to sell at volume don't match technologies for small-scale design and engineering.
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15719262
>> You actually feel it in your body and shock it which silences your regular thoughts.

I wonder if his methods would help people with depression.
To each his own I guess, but socializing and constant noise around when others are socializing is the main thing I hate about hacker spaces. I would gladly pay extra to have a "sterile" workplace for my projects.
The primary reason customers get angry is that they feel disrespected. Companies, mostly unknowingly, institute customer service practices that are disrespectful to customers in one way or the other.

This article explores why customers get angry and how you can turn them into loyal advocates.
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I did a trial membership of the Menlo Park, California facility in 2009. It didn't have the vibe you mention, either, but it seemed like more fun than the quiet shared office spaces I was considering at the time.

What stopped me from signing up after the trial was the no-kids policy. I think the age minimum was 16. While I understand why this was the case -- insurance requirements, danger, and you don't want other people's brats treating the place like a playground -- it completely ruled out joining. If I couldn't stop by there on the weekend for even half an hour while my kids sat quietly in the corner reading books, then all my hacker exploits would be hidden from them, and I want them to be exposed to that stuff.
That’s exactly why they need this. They are running out of money. $250k reservations provide cash now and the promise of a semi might convince more investors to invest.
Preface: I don't have any stake in Tesla's success or products.

If I was a consumer sitting on a Model 3 reservation I would be pissed that they are taking yet more money for yet another car they can't seem to ship at scale.

This makes Tesla look like they care little, because after all they already have your Model 3 money.
You can have an npm module with any arbitrary licensing.

https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#license
Yeah, and the first thing Jonny Ivy would do is make car more thinner and beautiful while completely screwing up battery life and usability. No thanks. If it was in my hand I will take iPhone out of Apple (or wherever Ivy is employed) and give to Musk instead.
Let's talk companies.

For the uninformed, a part of building a successful vertically integrated battery, car, and truck company that spans the globe that also uses a brand new powertrain and form factor for their products is getting lots of investment so that you can fund your long-term technology play. To get a lot of investment, you have to sustain the public's interest in your product. If you're in the limelight, you are going to get investment. so why not use your new powertrain and form factor in new products that build upon previous products, thus advancing your technology and locking in future investment thanks to the hype?

Do this for a decade and wow, you actually have a clear path to taking over the world's energy and transportation markets thanks to your incredible technological advantage.
"Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage"
Sauna combined with alcohol sounds like recipe for disaster.