skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're talking about the Model 3 and the Bolt, both all-electric vehicles, it's important to differentiate between only electric and the various hybrids. That 2.1% figure in China includes all variations of plug-in electric hybrids.

There were 26,373 plug-in electrics of all types sold in the US in March, a 42% increase over the prior year, and about 1.6% of all vehicles sold.
A guy started selling a widget I did to learn angularjs, he just inserted the widget in an iframe and charged for it. He was in touch with people willing to pay, and that is valuable.
> Each website that is tracking you now could use it's own cookie to record user behavior and then send it to FB/Google on the backend to link them later.

I dunno if this is realistically practical. Right now the reason people do this is basically because of a combination of a perception that doing so adds value to the page and the fact that it's incredibly trivial because the web frontend platform is relatively uniform.

Having to add and maintain a backend shunt for the data though? That's not something that's going to creep on to every single website in existence like facebook like buttons have. Hell, it requires you to even have a backend, which many sites that have these buttons barely even have.
If the Apple of today would just include a couple more buttons on their mice, John Carmack would probably be happier.
Until the landlord exploits some obscure rent control loophole where they can evict the entire building and start over at market value. I think they have to do major construction or demolish some % of the place. Can anyone confirm?
That's the overarching style of business that I associate with the Microsoft brand
> Obviously, third-party browsers will have to decide whether to support night mode

This is a big flaw, imo. A universal color scheme like 'dark mode' should take priority over individual app's preferences. A consistent, quality design was one of the things that first attracted me to the Mac, but what with every app doing its own thing, that ideal is a thing of the past.

BTW, the Spotify app called. It's had dark mode for ages ... (/s)
1. Sapir-Whorf is racist pseudoscience that was never substantiated and was universally rejected from day 1 by everybody but science-illiterate journalists

2. Even if there was substance to it, it's not relevant to this. People have no difficulty understanding what "Free" means when you explain what you mean. Just as in the above sentence you experienced no confusion at all over whether I used "that" in the indicative or grammatical sense.
Dark mode... so much wow!
That's interesting. Seems like a low tech solution would be to give blood every day. I wonder if somebody has already invented the blood donation diet.
It would be an enormously complex device, most of the sugar we consume gets converted into fat as we quickly cap out our "energy blocks".
I think they're expecting developers to use existing engines such as Unity and Unreal. Most game developers probably already use those engines are will not be effected.

On the other hand, they definitely made it harder for developers to create a new game engine.
No more IRC logs due to Privacy Concerns
You seem to want to play "gotcha" games with my wording. I admitted far less than you seem to want to make my words say. And if you're going to try to manipulate what I said to make it fit the axe you're trying to grind, then I'm done talking to you.
Nah, I think google would be pretty pissed if apple started directly attacking their business model.
Gmail has much better spam filters if you have noticed. That is less time spent on opening e-mails.
What a great invention! I've always rented apartments and have always ignored the advice to get double-glazed windows since that's not something a renter can usually do, but this would be perfect. Thanks for posting it!
Is it unwise to buy the first version of car? Seems like you wouldn't want to buy something until they get the kinks out, maybe a few years after production.
MoltenVK is an implementation of Vulkan that runs on top of Metal, and so far yields exciting performance results: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dota-2-I...
But don't laws that apply to all individuals inevitably apply only to some subset? Most people have no desire to murder others and so are basically unaffected by a law forbidding it.
What are the key features of a Tesla Model 3 that make people wait several years for their car instead of just going to a car dealership and buying what is available right now?
Sounds like that would be a pain having that kind of work done in two places.
They took advantage of the lithium-ion battery newly improved performances in their first Roadster as early as 2008. Before that, they spent their first years researching how to arrange clusters of batteries in a viable way, which is probably what lead to their remaining advantage in autonomy. At SpaceX, key inventions include soldering sheets of metal together instead of using rivets, and other stuff that made their building process much cheaper than competitors. This is surely what parent meant.

They used to buy lithium-ion cells directly from Panasonic, and now they operate together at the Gigafactory.

Overall I don't think these could qualify as fundamental breakthroughs, but it is surely an important work, and what are fundamental breakthroughs anyway? I'd venture so far as to say that here the breakthrough is in the result: electric cars are coming, whether it's theirs or their competitors.
> Wow, they are DEPRECATING OpenGL from both macOS and iOS

How does this effect Qt iOS applications?
Microsoft Office, Panic, Bare Bones Software, etc. are moving (or moving back) to the Mac App Store.

I'm very curious why. Are there changes to Sandboxing? For all developers, or only select partners? Or changes to the revenue split?
No, I think the parent has the right of it. I'm not equipped to analyse Tesla as well as I am for SpaceX, but I can say that the latter was not a bet on uncertain future technologies. While they have certainly deployed some pretty nifty technologies along the way, those have been in service of comparatively marginal improvements (improving payload margins). The more fundamental innovations in cost-reduction and reusability have not been particularly technology-driven, and could have been accomplished in the 1980s if not earlier.[1]

For example: putting most of your operations under the same roof, with engineering right next to manufacturing, and employing common fuel, engines, and tank manufacturing techniques for all stages. Nothing about that was at all technologically risky -- but SpaceX was able to get maybe the first 50% of its cost-savings simply by doing that.

What prevented this from happening in the past wasn't technology, but a Nash equilibrium, as the parent rightly says. Existing rocket makers couldn't put all their operations in one place because that would mean eliminating jobs in scores of congressional districts while only creating jobs in one or two. Would make too many enemies in congress that way, and because the government is the primary customer, you'd never get another launch contract again. And there isn't enough private demand demand to make up the difference, because the cost of spaceflight is so high. The cost of spaceflight is too high, because rocket R&D and manufacturing is split up over hundreds of facilities in dozens of states, creating insane inefficiencies. (Back in the 90s, one fellow I met who worked on the Atlas program told me that they had 7 managers for every engineer). And you can't reduce those inefficiencies because that would mean eliminating jobs in scores of congressional districts, etc...

See, the logic of the industry was self-supporting and entirely circular. Elon Musk's genius was in simply breaking this logic, and aiming for a new equilibrium where rockets are cheap, there's a strong market for private launch services, and contracts aren't awarded on the basis of how many jobs they'll create. Cool technology wasn't the key to this.

Like I say, I'm less well-equipped to analyze Tesla, but I can already detect a similar pattern of equilibrium-disrupting innovation with how he's approaching The Boring Company.

1: The Delta Clipper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X) demonstrated all the critical tech that you need for a reusable Falcon 9, in the early 1990s. It was preceded by some classified programs that accomplished broadly similar feats as much as a decade earlier.
I'm not demanding altrusim from a company, just scruples and actual independence, not stated. I'd far prefer Github have the scruples more than caring about what MS does at this point.

MS doesn't tick that box for me historically and the smile on the new CEOs face doesn't trick me either. When the good cop leaves and the lawyers swoop in everybody's eyes get clawed out.

Seems to me also GH is underestimating their FOSS following and how important that it was indep.?
What's there to respect at that point?

You were thinking. I respect that. Hell, if you were sincerely trying to think, then had a total brain-fart, I'd still respect the attempt.
I think that's exciting because raising an A is really stressful and time consuming, and often as a startup you need to pivot and do short-term non-optimal things to be able to raise it. If that same "non-bullshit" that YC is using for seed-stage is used for the A, I'm sure it'll improve startups in the long-term.
Before smartphones: If society really faced a killer need for camera apps, everyone would already have a camera in their pocket.
What is gonna happen to games and apps which were using OpenGL since today then? They will stop working in the new macOS version?

edit, ups just read it: Apps built using OpenGL and OpenCL will continue to run in macOS 10.14, but these legacy technologies are deprecated in macOS 10.14. Games and graphics-intensive apps that use OpenGL should now adopt Metal. Similarly, apps that use OpenCL for computational tasks should now adopt Metal and Metal Performance Shaders. [0]

[0]https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/
The open source and free software movements came from a time where if you bought a big piece of software - a UNIX system or what-have-you - you would get the source code, and be permitted to modify it and maybe even share your patches with other people who’d also bought the software. That wasn’t the point of either movement at all.
The deprecation of OpenCL is especially crappy given how heavily Apple were pushing OpenCL back in 2014 or so with the Mac Pros.
See how far we've come in 15 years I guess?
You can’t compare them directly, they’re very different categories of graphics APIs. Metal belongs to the category of “modern low-level graphics API” (which also includes Vulkan and Direct3D 12), while OpenGL is an older higher-level graphics API (which also includes Direct3D 11 and previous).

The low-level graphics APIs like Metal and Vulkan allow for much better performance, but they are much harder to use and require more work from the developer (hence, they’re usually used only by game engine makers). Higher-level graphics APIs like OpenGL are less efficient and have lower peak performance, but are easier to use for individual projects and have the benefit of having existing functional code (no need to rewrite a working project).

Also, OpenGL (and its mobile and web variants OpenGL ES and WebGL) are very portable (macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, both and native and in browsers), while Metal is macOS/iOS-only.
"Soft default" is a completely meaningless term used only by "hard" money enthusiasts–which apparently means gold and now distributed computer games ledgers.

The reality is there is no such thing as a "soft default," there is just an elastic money supply. At what level of elasticity does it stop being normal balance sheet expansion and start being "soft default?"

I find it helpful when discussing literally quantifiable subjects like sovereign accounting, to stick to terms that can be meaningfully defined. Those who do not are being ignorant or dishonest.
To my understanding, the consensus is that it's, y'know, fine, but nothing particular to recommend it over Vulkan. The main problem people seem to have with it is that it feels unnecessary, like Apple being incompatible for the sake of being incompatible.
I don't really agree with the premise here. Gitlab is getting lots of new users because of the Github/MS deal but if those users cared about how open-source their git host was, they would not have been using Github. And the value that Github and Gitlab.com provide have nothing to do with their source code availability. They both provide a relatively trustworthy community resource on which to share your code without having to run your own public server.

Yes, Gitlab has generated goodwill by having an open-source version of their product, and lots of people have tried it out for self-hosted needs. And so they are the natural first place people will flock to. But the main reason people are moving to Gitlab.com is because it provides an easy and open place to host source code that remains (for now) independent from the tech oligopolists.
It seems like a lot of Facebook employees are commenting on this thread. I wonder if they have tools to influence the public argument similar to the Russians.
It occurs to me that in addition to the usual list of permissions for apps, perhaps we should also be presented with a whitelist of domains the app is allowed to communicate with.
Ah, they added Favicons back on Safari. Maybe 10.15 will give us again the full address bar, because I still don't understand how this could have been changed in the first place:

https://i.imgur.com/OzNj1T7.png
I'm not sure it's meaningless. It seems to me that there is a distinction between [device manufacturer X is building their own copy of Facebook's graph by acquiring friend data] vs [device manufacturer X allows a user to login to Facebook and access friend data on their device without having to use the web browser].
How exactly did it not work well? Windows is THE gaming platform for PC.
As wan23 already noted, the purpose of the geoip block is to help establish that you are not offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union, in order to not fall under GDPR territorial jurisdiction (see Article 3).

Yes, that will also catch some of your existing US customers when they travel to Europe. However, you may actually want that, because the GDPR does not talk about EU citizens. It talks about data subjects "in the Union".

I haven't seen anything about what makes someone who is physically present in the EU count as being "in the Union" for GDPR purposes. One who wants to be cautious might want to count anyone physically in the EU as being "in the Union" for GDPR purposes until there is definitive guidance otherwise.
Yes. Financial stability and conflict of interest are two orthogonal issues.

The worst case scenario with Github closing the door, assuming no heads up, is that you'd lose your issues and PR. You have your git history on a bunch of machines (your devs + you should really have a dedicated backup).

The worst case scenario with Microsoft having visibility of your "closed" source code is that they take a peek at it and implement a better faster more integrated version of them in their own product competing with you, or heck even copy/paste your code. What can you do about it? How could you prove it? Remember, they can afford orders of magnitude more number of lawyer hours than you.
Here are a few:
1. Dealerships (experience) suck
2. Gas (petrol) sucks
3. Limited range sucks
4. Good performance is a plus
This is pretty damn clever. Thanks. :)
This is fake news. Jump off a 10 story building balcony into a cement and see if "There Are No Laws of Physics" or the title can be changed.
Safari Extensions JS
Yes, you can. They showed an image of it onscreen in the carplay keynote. Google maps, waze, etc
> I almost prefer old-Microsoft's honesty about wanting to kill FOSS, rather than this blatant acknowledgement of FOSS as a tool to be ripped off to improve one's ecosystem dominance and then promptly thrown aside.

Well, to be honest, Apple has always been quite consistent here. They created their own ecosystem and made interoperability with other systems as difficult as possible, at software and hardware level. So this announcement is quite in line with that.
Apple and Google can’t do much about smartphone addiction
They don't need to literally kill, they can just make many useful features internal to Microsoft developers, or make some features that are free now subscription-only.
> Remember git is supposed to be decentralized? In reality it's actually centralized on github

This is a willful misunderstanding of the word decentralised.
(in the very small digital segment of the much larger advertising market). Astoundingly, the vast majority of ad spend is still done with the traditional level (close to none) of quantitative rigor.
I must say the bloomberg tracker can be highly inaccurate and vary its values depending on your location. Likely not the best place to judge current tesla production capabilities.
> The world needs a modern homesteading act. Give people small parcels of land with limited restrictions

Or (more controversially) increased squatter’s rights.
It’s all about developer tie-in. It’s far too easy to move your stuff between azure and aws. Microsoft needs to create differentiation and barriers to migration and since github is heavily used by developers who use both azure and aws, it is the obvious attackpoint. “Well I use azure because the github admin interface makes it easy to deploy, you can’t do that to aws from github...” etc.

Now depending on how evil(tm) Microsoft intends to be, they will either just only focus future development on integrations towards their own stuff, or they will actively degrade github when you aren’t going Microsoft across the board.
Right you are :). Actually at some point in the 90s I did drool over Minolta Maxxum, mostly because of crazy 1/12000 shutter speed, and flash sync speed of 1/300. Completely forgot about them. I guess I also forgot about Yashica which had a dubious advantage of AF and being able to mount manual Contax lenses.
Why is the name of the iPhone X "Jason's iPad"? This is a surprising lack of quality control from Apple.
Off-topic question that seems to trivial to take to Stack Exchange but I am struggling to find an answer to, maybe a physicist comes by and can provide an answer or relevant reference.

Let's take a spin 1/2 in the superposition state |0> + |1> ignoring normalization and then add the rest of the universe including a measuring device, an observer, and all the other bits and pieces of the environment. This state then undergoes unitary time evolution past the point where we measured the spin and the observer had a look at the measuring device.

It now seems to me that if the final state is a definite |0> or a definite |1>, then this measurement outcome must already have been present in the initial state, not necessarily as hidden variables of the spin but somewhere, for example in the micro states of the measuring device. If the final state could indeed be either |0> or |1> independent of the initial state, time evolution would not be unitary, it would not even be a function of the initial state.

The only other option seems to be that the final state is still a superposition and we have to reach for something like the multiverse interpretation to reconcile the fact that we indeed observe a definite final state. So what is the correct or at least common way to think about this? Time evolution is only approximately or sometimes unitary? The measurement outcome is, similar to decoherence, determined by the environment? The final state is still a superposition? Non of those seems to be a particularly attractive choice. Or did I somewhere make a stupid mistake?
OpenGL has just been deprecated. It hasn’t been removed.
Ask HN: Where Can I Find Laser-Cut “Assemble a PC” Kits?
I'm running a week-long camp at the end of this month, where the goal is to teach some introductory programming and also impart some general ideas about how computers work.

For the latter, I'd like to include a hands-on activity, like putting together some computer parts (just rectangles labeled "Processor", "Storage", "Input", and "Output") into a "Motherboard".

I could spend a bunch of time creating vectors for this and getting it laser-cut at a Makerspace, but I'd much rather buy a few of these in kit form, if possible.

Does anybody here know where I could source these? I've already searched on Amazon, and all I can find are laser-cut jigsaw puzzles.

Thanks in advance!
1. Convenience of all electric (start every day w/ "full tank", no oil changes or other regular maintenance)

2a. Social mission of the company/product

2b. Carbon footprint per mile driven gets better with age of car, rather than worse like with an ICE.

3. Autopilot

4. FSD hardware ready (even if you don't believe this, it's an advertised feature and may motivate some buyers)

5. No dealing with car salespeople
The irony of the FUD spreading in comments like this is hilarious.
but particularly msft it would seem. Many of the larger oss projects are maintained by companies who either make money off the products or are funded by the other things they work on
Actually, I do(almost always). But, that leads to it's own set of issues. My banking session timed out before I finished reading it. Another service I've been using for over 10 years just added new legal that I don't agree to... now what? That service has a network effect... so, I have to leave? drat! Truth is, most online services ask for more than I am willing to concede. That is an issue.
For all practical reasons I'd say yes, I'm using https://auphonic.com/ which does use machine learning to mute the parts where no human speaks, then they send this audio to third party (like yours) https://auphonic.com/blog/2016/12/02/make-podcasts-searchabl... then they get the files back so auphonic can bundle it for download with the rest.
Sure if I am the moral equivalent of an authoritative gov't seeking nuclear arms.
I'm not saying that. I just don't see any meaningful innovation.
It's type system and automatic casting/comparing is a nightmare.

Although there are namespaces now, the idea of everything being in the global scope was insane (and still even with namespaces, much is still in the global scope).

mysql_real_escape_string

There are no type-safe comparisons for greater or less then (You have ===, but no <== or >==).

This article: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

This subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/lolphp

The number of bugs that are closed as not-a-bug/wontfix.

I'm not sure how much of this has been fixed, but I've moved on to different languages and career choices and don't really want to look back that way.
The way modern money actually works is completely alien to what most people believe (and those beliefs are reasonable based on their limited exposure to sovereign finances). Nobody likes learning that they are completely wildly wrong and ignorant about something they thought they understood perfectly and so responses are seldom positive or, sadly, constructive.
Dumb question: do you have to be a YC-backed company to participate?
>If you care about keeping your shit secure, it shouldn't be on the internet at all.

If only we lived in a world where this was practical.

I don't think it's unreasonable to be concerned about privacy this way, or to take issue with the possibility that this acquisition could make it easier for one to be spied on or surveilled. However, we should also cautious that our tin foil hats do not grow too heavy.
This already exists for calls on iOS. It is under Do not Disturb in settings. Allow calls from Everyone, Favourites or contacts.