skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about the 4th Crusade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1204)
Because we all want Tesla to succeed. It's competition in an industry that needs what Tesla is trying to bring to market. It will also greatly benefit the American economy to be the first to mass produce inexpensive electric cars.

So personally, I read comments like yours and wonder who you are and why you feel it is necessary to be critical of that motive.
Okay, do you guys have something that allows me to charge ACH / Credit Card on an ongoing basis (daily) for different amounts? Something like a reusable token like Synapse?

I'm looking for something like this but Stripe just isn't cutting it :(
> God in some form is indeed a simpler and more straightforward concept than evolution, especially when you consider the whole of evolutionary theory beyond Darwin. It's a very deep and complex subject.

Not really, because you don't actually have to describe evolution. It is a natural outcome of the most fundamental laws of physics.

You only need the fundamental laws of physics, everything else is a derivation from it.

Putting god into it means you need the same laws of physics, plus god, who also breaks the laws of physics. It doesn't simplify anything.
Is this something CRISPR could "fix"?
Startup software mindset:

"We found this massive list of a problems with this build of the car."

'So? That's from, like, a year ago, we've changed a ton of stuff since then.'
Google tests “AltOS” dual boot option on Pixelbook
So according to you gold should be valued at zero?
They're not. C++ isn't a low level language by any stretch of the imagination.

Javascript isn't either.

Both of them have a glut of good cross-platform gui options.

With mono, C# and winforms work pretty well cross-platform too.
Suggest HN: Can we please start tagging links with autoplay media?
I have yet to meet a person who enjoys auto playing videos and other types of media on sites, and yet every day this situation is getting worse, I have stopped clicking on known websites with auto-play media like Bloomberg or CNN just because of this.

If we can start tagging sites with a tag like [Auto-play], I feel it would save a lot of us from being taken in by surprise when we visit these sites.
Escrow is a about trusted third party to hold assets until both sides approve the transaction.

It doesn't need to be bureaucratic entity. It could be anyone trusted by both sides according to agreement.
This really sounds more like a University club to keep people loyal to the government back-home, rather than an espionage operation.
The question isn't Mumbai vs Delhi. It is how costly is tunneling.

And I'm just pointing out that in India we are tunneling at around 10-15 million dollars per mile, far cheaper than what Elon musk thinks it costs (1 billion per mile), and what he plans to achieve (100 million dollars per mile). Essentially, the breakdown is complex and different for different geology, labor prices, tunnel sizes etc. Musk's salesmanship of selling byte sized numbers without context is stupid.
You mean... like Getaround and Zipcar already do?

The streets are filled with companies using public spaces: Fedex deliveries blocking the road, sidewalk signs for bars, Getaround rentals, food carts, mailboxes, ATMs, parking meters, Scoot scooters, taxi lines, Lyft/Ubers, Redbox DVD rentals, annoying Greenpeace petition people, construction, billboards, etc.

I don't think it's a cost-saving measure for scooter/bike companies, but rather convenience for users. I wouldn't use scooters if I had to walk 4 blocks to a "designated pickup zone".

Yes, these scooters/bikes are making money. But they also really improve cities, by cutting down on traffic congestion and car emissions. As long as they're regulated via permits (meaning the government makes a bit of money to pay for maintenance), they should be allowed... and if people dislike them, they'll go out of business, and it'll solve itself.
Imperial system.
If I saw any charges, I'd still would want to protect my kid, no matter its age or sex.

I would keep the kid away from anyone who is not the same age as it, give or take 3 years.
We can likely do this for you with credit card depending on the details. We'll be rolling out ACH in upcoming months (but ACH is not immediately usable).

Email me directly and I'll send over details? rb [at] bolt.com.
The cost is virtually the same.

A db.t2.small instance should compare to a db-pg-g1-small instance. Pricing is around 90$ on AWS vs 93$ on GCP.

I’m an AWS consultant so I could have messed up on the GCP instance type.
top of frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16869888
Is science hitting a wall?
People keep posting about "dockless cars" when these situations come up, some how ignoreing that vehicles are parked in designated areas as you said, and that it's people's personal vehicles and not companies private fleets that they are charging use for.

I think that modern cities have way too much space allocated to car parking but it is in no way equivalent to a company pushing off one of their major costs onto society
that's a pretty silly comment to make..

1. there are exceptions to many rules.

2. how did Whittaker mismanage his winnings? A series of misfortunes does not tell us anything about his ability to manage his wealth.
This guy and other slimeballs helped changed the telephone landscape.

The population of those who do not answer unknown numbers possibly has risen to 60% of the US population. I bet all of us here don't answer unknown numbers.

Text or email me and if it's important or you are important to me then I'll respond. Don't bother to leave a voicemail either unless you are going to give me money, a new job or there's a situation that desperately needs my attention.
If you are interested in this, people tried the long/short strategy in currencies (forex) and called it a grid trade.

The system would be both long and short the same contract and take profit at a given interval on both sides. When they took a profit, they would reopen a trade on the same side.

Ultimately it was just a mean reversion strategy where one would not close out their losses. So the profit was linear while the losses often became geometric until the time the market came back to where they started the grid.

If you just want to buy both sides and never close either trade, there is no profit just a loss of spread/commission on both legs.

Most of the people who did it looked at their account balance rather than NAV, so they were mostly just abusing leverage until a margin call.

Edit: To be fair, some grids were smarter in their allocation and weighted to be positive to the carry, so at least they would collect interest everyday when the contracts swapped.
That is fundamentally unenforceable...as much as ordering someone to turn over cash.
This is pretty much all materials science. Vast amounts of work goes into developing new alloys, testing them, analyzing their properties. The consumer just knows his laptop casing is "aluminum."
>Apparently a lot of people have trouble telling if a news source or comments from fellow citizens are real.

Wouldn't that even apply to this news story?

>Because you're probably viewing western-based news sources?

Years ago I started the habit of reading both CNN and Foxnews, and I try to do the same with global news as well. Which is why the Syria fighting, the immigration issues, Russia and elections all seem to be treated one sided no matter which source you look at.

But despite this, CNN and Fox will make some odd changes lock-step, but not international news in the same way. But you'd only notice this if you have a habit of looking at all sides.
what does "over automated" mean?
There is some physical trade between systems in the book (it's cheaper once you know you won't have to build a civilization on the other end), but there's no real enumeration of the possibilities in the book.

Given the characters seen in the book, I think founders mainly try to set themselves up as president for life of some planet or moon in the new system. Another example shown in the book is emigration; once you're sufficiently wealthy you emigrate back to some place nice where you can enjoy it. Of course that requires building a starship, which pretty much requires setting up a successful civilization that can support a starship industry.
Yeah that's the angle I was taking. Doing failure analysis seems like it involves observation and thinking, hard to see how you get injured doing that unless it is a freak accident.
Building high-rises (well, 8+ stories) in the middle of low-density residential areas is something that happens in Japan, and I find it charming. Why are we enforcing the aesthetic wishes of some people but not others?
The airport board look (unsurprisingly, since they have been based in there) like the ones in Frankfurt.
Churchill saw that the defeat of Britain was inevitable without allied help so through the Tizard Mission they transferred their military technology knowledge to the US in exchange for help. That included the cavity magnetron radar technology, one of the first mobile radars as well as other important innovations.

The US engaged the Germans on land but that went very poorly, so they kept doing strategic airstrikes, notably taking down the German synthetic fuel production capabilities. This forced Germans to advance east. Meanwhile America supplied the Soviets with trucks and boots, helping the Soviets fight the Germans, a successful plan that resulted in heavy Soviet casualties.

The Pacific front was a different story.
Just for the record, while I've heard enough terrible things about Tesla and SpaceX to never consider working there, I know someone at Blue Origin and, at least as of a year or two ago, he reported that the hours and stress were way better than the aviation/rocket industry average. He was very happy. Employee turnover at Blue Origin is low.
Its mostly these minute details that gets overlooked during code reviews which leads to bigger problems. Bigger design mistakes rarely happen.
Umm what?

There is still regular air pressure in a HSR. My question is why run something in vacuum when you can just run it in the regular low pressure
In the recent past, Microsoft had pretty awful work/life balance. It has improved measurably over the past couple years, but some teams are still pretty bad, and the people I know who are higher up (esp. if they aren't software devs) consistently work over 60hrs a week.
If you remove the OCaml requirement, everything described can be done with Lazarus [1] which even comes with a very powerful code editing control/widget. In fact i made a simple IDE [2] for my LIL scripting language [3] using Lazarus in a couple of days (which also supported remote execution for LIL code so i can run and update code while my game engine is running, inspired by an article about how Naughty Dog used Lisp for Jax and Daxter - except i use LIL, which is closer to Tcl, instead of Lisp).

Lazarus doesn't have a simple small framework, if anything it is much bigger than Gtk, but it is very simple to start with and you can ignore most of it. If you want to see how it is to use it, recently i recorded a video making a simple game with it under Linux [4] (there are a few comments in a text editor in the first 6-7 minutes but after that i do not have any sort of comments). If you want something with more GUI controls (the game really uses just a painting control), i also have an older video making a tilemap editor [5].

Now to make a disclaimer: IMO both Lazarus and Free Pascal (the language used by Lazarus) are a bit messy and i'm not presenting them as examples of the perfect development environment. However Lazarus is both very powerful and very simple to use, to the point that i consider it by far the best and easiest way to create GUI desktop applications (the only closest alternative is old versions of Delphi before it became a bloated mess - but even if the new versions weren't bloated, i'd still not recommend them because of their ridiculous price, the fact that VCL only supports Windows and above all the DRM they have - i remember reading complaints from users that they had to use cracks so that they can use their highly expensive software in their own laptop, which is absurd IMO). It has warts but they are well worth it.

My biggest issue with Lazarus is that it seems that the Gtk3 backend is going to become the default one on Linux in the future and as a user i dislike everything about Gtk3 (and Qt5 but to a lesser extent).

[1] http://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[2] https://i.imgur.com/tCd64Wh.png

[3] http://runtimeterror.com/rep/lil

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JgeIUo1X0
I was really hoping this was about weather forecasting.
My coworkers dad died from falling off a bike in his driveway at zero speed. He had no helmet and hit his head on the pavement and instantly died.
> they're low margin and labor intensive

... and thus very vulnerable to strikes or arbitrary price hikes. Yes, a seat is a seat, but once you're locked in into a vendor, you are locked in.

Tesla wants to avoid lock-ins as far as possible and especially something where a switch to a different manufacturer is as difficult as a seat. You can switch a vendor for a simple plastic part in a matter of days if the need arises (and the 3D data for the forming process is your IP), or do multi-vendor sourcing from the start - but try switching your seat vendor, that ain't gonna be cheap nor in a reasonably fast time frame.
Shults, who landed Southwest plane, was one of first female pilots in U.S. Navy
Thanks! I watched that when it was show on PBS (Nova?) back in 2003 and I've been meaning to see if it was online.
It is not drone, it is one time use missile.
Likely also expensive.
nope, try again.

FB doesn't get to use the data unless it's consented by the end user.

It is distinctly not GDPR compliant for FB to claim that their TOS requires consent so it's not their problem. Feel free to read the discussion about co-controllers (called as joint controllers) and particularly the A29WG guidance.
Others have pointed out that this has happened, with cities like DC and Brasilia, but I have yet to see an example of a new city that wasn't built in a car-oriented way. If you want a fundamentally walkable city, you have to make some decisions that hurt car drivers, and I don't think anyone has been willing to do so with these projects.
Basecamp’s How We Work #1: “Expect to Be Done” [video]
Don't know about Tesla, but have heard horror stories about SpaceX here in LA. 60+ hour weeks, butts in seats, whole depts fired/walkouts, sweatshop conditions, etc.

Some folks are still not aware that these practices lower productivity. shrug
In Firefox I only get purrs in the left channel. :(
do you support paypal?
Anti-sycophantic comments are just as annoying, don't you think?
I just saw another post about [stripe](https://stripe.com/blog/radar-2018) fraud detection. What differentiates you guys from stripe?
They call more people than they have available to answer the phone at the other side. Normally, many phones won't answer. When more phones answer, they just hang on the ones they can't handle.

And, obviously, they can save a bit by always having more phones answer than they can handle. This way their employees don't waste any time waiting for a call, instead it's your time that is wasted, what costs them nothing.
While meetings can be unproductive in the form of code, your mind shouldn't be unproductive. Often boring meetings are a good time to reflect and daydream and improve designs.

Productivity is the greatest source of waste. Coding the wrong thing is worse than being in a long meeting which might have led you to code the right thing. And by write/wrong I mean for the user.

Coding is the easy part of software creation. You can teach anyone any technical skill in a fairly short amount of time. Teaching someone systems thinking, and UI design, and just plain good taste is much harder.
There weren't any of those there, either.
if a CC issues a chargeback to one of your merchants, do you alert other merchants who have processed payments with that same CC?
Great to see all three major cloud providers offering this now. Should be good for pricing!
>when the powerful algorithm known as “deep learning”

Quanta is normally better than this (and the rest of the article is decent). But still :(
It can be!
There's a previous blog post[1] about HA replication. It uses block-level replication managed by PD infrastructure.

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Cloud-SQL-for-P...
Hertz and Avis have spots near downtown hotels in my city.

It’s an easy problem for cities to regulate.
> For decades, red Lego bricks contained cadmium, a carcinogen.

Ack.

From another article [1]

> One toy to watch out for? “Lego bricks from the ‘70s and ‘80s are the big fail,” Andrew Turner, the study’s lead researcher, told the BBC.

> Roar Rude Trangbæk, a spokesperson for Lego, told The Sun that in regards to hazardous elements, the company “phased that material out back in 1979 to 1981.”

Apparently its both yellow & red bricks. From a forum post [2] about the phase-out:

> Not much information has ever been given out by TLG in regards to the switch from LEGO "with" Cadmium to LEGO without it, except that TLG switched over to Cadmium free LEGO in 1973. However, that doesn't really say a lot. Just look at the switch from old gray to new gray that started in 2003. It took many years for the switch to be complete (old gray elements were still found in LEGO sets for many years). So a 1973 switchover likely only means that the Bayer Corporation stopped sending TLG red and yellow plastic pellets. As for what was still in the TLG inventory.... my guess would be that it continued to find its' way into LEGO sets for several years until the supply of old red/yellow pellets was finally depleted.

Makes me a bit wary to pass those down to my kids.

[1] https://offspring.lifehacker.com/your-old-legos-might-be-tox...

[2] https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/773...
We do not natively support PayPal, although nearly all of our clients still use PayPal as it's own separate integration from Bolt.
I guess doing only coding would work great, with only nuance - if you are the only who is coding at company .
She also told people to contact her, and gave out the schools counseling hotline number instead of her real one. She deliberately messed with the school and dragged them into her personal conflict. Why shouldn't they fire her, if they can, in that case?
so what you're saying is that selective information > all information. an ends justify the means, of sorts - a very myopic, startup-like mentality, IMO; Boz would be proud [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17178086/facebook-growth-...
American Express Q1 earnings surge 38%, beat expectations
There are quite a few parts in the Model S that come from suppliers. The steering wheel, window / mirror controls all appear to come from the same folks that supply Mercedes. I don't know where the parts for the Model 3 come from - the steering wheel and window / mirror controls are definitely different.
For that yes he does deserve praise.

For lies about self driving, for horrible working conditions, for the endless stupid statements about v automation/ai in general, and for causing an obnoxious fan base, there is criticism.

Just because Tesla made cars cool doesn't mean they get to create the narrative that no one else wants to make electric cars
I want the electric car transition to succeed, but if Tesla's becoming a bad actor in their quest to be the biggest winner, than I don't think that's helpful for the overall effort anymore.
How to Post Open Jobs
I just joined. I am a tech recruiter. Am I allowed to post open roles to this group?
Greg Inguagiato
It must be hard to manage a company in the age of online outrage and excessive media attention. I imagine people will censor themselves in meetings/emails for fear of it getting 'leaked'. A bit similar to the kind of self-censoring people will do in authoritarian governments.
Good question. The short answer is: yes, we do this.

I've we have already approved the order, it is indemnified for fraud and we'll take the loss if it's a stolen good.

All future orders from that CC will be detected and flagged as having previously had a chargeback as well!
In the areas of the earth where the satellites are not approved for use, are they forced to turn off the transmitters on the satellite?

Also I’m not clear how spacex network connects back to the ground. I would assume they would want to simply bounce between the sattelite and a ground station. Meaning they would need to build a ground station every 100 miles or so such that any satellite can simply bounce down to a ground base station that has roughly 10X the bandwidth of the satellite.. I’ve heard people mention the idea of using the satellite network itself to back haul to a few more centralized hubs but that would wreck the bandwidth..
I know a few worker comp attorneys in NY and CA. They say that in general worker comp claims that are being fought take 3-5 years to win.

There's an entire sub-industry of attorneys specializing in fighting insurers/companies on worker comp cases.
Like aiven or aiven? :) I’m not aware of too much competition in this space. We’re happy with aiven so far, but they’re quite unknown / under the radar it seems...
A leaked email outlined other ways staff could help streamline operations.

These include walking out of meetings, sidestepping the chain of command and ignoring company rules on occasion.

Thought experiment: Imagine you were reading this about Uber, not Tesla. Why would you feel differently? How about back when Kalanick was CEO?
People were upset the docks were taking up parking and/or drop off space.
Underscore.js 1.9.0 released
Considering that it is based on blazingly fast lz4, using twice as much time as non-VDO in this simple test seems ..bad? I suppose the dedup stage is really expensive here. On a setup like this with simple compression, I would have expected the results to be inverted.
He didn't say walk out of meetings if you like to code instead; he said walk out of unproductive meetings, if they're wasting people's time. There's a fine line there...
Because there are ugly cities and there are beautiful cities. And they are so for a reason.

This video is really informative in this regard and has changed my opinion on a few things:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c
I think that in a more symmetric engagement it would harder to keep things as clean. But that is just a thought. I appreciate your opinion.
Again, under your (incorrect) interpretation of the GDPR, what exactly do you envision? That each page you load have 40 different consent dialogs show up - one for each tracker and external image that is on the page? Some have hundreds.
I would be willing :p
Yes, I agree, packages should never be so "useful".
Memo to self: include a clause in future start-up ventures allowing the co-founders to be kicked out of the company -- and possibly losing their ownership share -- if they engage in conduct detrimental to the company. Isn't that already standard practice though? Seems to me the co-founder having sex with an employee is a much larger liability that the other party. Remove the offending co-founder and the other party will likely go away (or change their behavior).

A secondary point: how much liability would the company face for a sexual harassment claim if the offending co-founder were removed upon the discovery of proof?

In the end, people are flawed creatures and co-founders should probably be vetted more thoroughly than a prospective mate.
I think part of the problem is the lack of space to "park" a bike. You might be lucky to find one or maybe two bike racks per block compared to how many parking spaces? If I ride my bike to the bar to meet a couple friends I might have to lock my bike up a block or two away because that is the only rack around.