skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming the internal storage volume of the Tesla (which I assume is actually the boots/trunks of the car) is 88.1 cubic feet [https://www.tesla.com/support/model-x-specifications] or 2.49 m^3.

A microSD card is 165 mm^3 = 1.65e-7 m^3.

Dividing one by the other: 15090909 microSD cards could be put in the car [This is simultaneously probably unrealistically high due to the assumed ideal packing and also low due to the large amount of space left in the car].

256GB is the largest microSD card I can actually buy: This is gives us 3.8 exabytes of data hurtling down the highway.

How to efficiently load/unload this data is beyond me. (Short of magic wireless microSD).

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To my way of thinking, this makes a ton of sense.

I don't think Darwin got it right. It's not "survival of the fittest". It's "survival of that which can find its place in an ecosystem".
Better yet, the Albanian gentleman should be deputized to seize and hold the property of the officers who flagrantly violated their oaths and his rights, garnish their paychecks, and let them wait anxiously for him to get around to telling them 'why'.
Nexus 7 2013 is still a great tablet.
The “survival of the fittest” phrase is a huge disservice to generations of students.

Traits that are maladaptive are culled. Ones that have no effect are preserved, increased or diluted depending entirely on what other genes they appear with. Not the gene themselves.

If pale eyes were not beneficial in northern latitudes, we would still have blue eyes because the norsemen had them, and they were very successful. That gene will stick around until something forces it out of the pool because there is otherwise nothing to stop it.
> ... few people see any reason to upgrade a device that was originally sold for its simplicity and ease of use, not its specs. I, for one, have been using the third-gen (1st Retina) iPad since its release approximately 500 years ago and have never felt any compulsion whatsoever to get a new one.

This seems a little weird to me. Don't tablets age in a similar way that smartphones age? As in, the battery gets weaker over time (sure, often you can replace); OS updates, being designed for current hardware, cause slowdowns; apps written for the latest-and-greatest assume more resources and higher specs, etc.? I guess if all you use your tablet for is watching videos on YouTube, and don't care about OS updates (which you should, if you care about security at all), then maybe it's ok.

I think a more plausible reason for sales numbers falling is that people just don't need or want tablets as much as they thought they did, especially with smartphone screens getting larger with every generation.
OMG.

They killed Skype. Now they're gonna kill Github?
> You believe terrorist attacks are deserved as a result of what your government has done in the past?

Nobody deserves to get hit by a car, but if you're running across a highway then what do you expect.

> Which is it? Your government is taking measures to assure your protection, or is actively provoking foreigners to kill you on your own soil?

Why are those mutually exclusive?

I would also tack on that it's mostly the USA's foreign policy that got us here (which our government decided to jump in bed with to be fair, but yours nonetheless). It's just you have a nice Atlantic ocean to buffer you from many of the concequences.
I’m bailing if Github gets Windowized.
From what I understand, the Nintendo Switch is pretty much a (newer) Shield reference system implementation with a different OS. There's also a working exploit to run Ubuntu on the Switch right now: https://gbatemp.net/threads/quick-tuto-how-to-boot-linux-on-...
I wish the screens would default to off. I always see people just leave them on and pay no atttention to them. Most people probably don’t know how to turn them off either. Oh well.
The mid level tablet market died in a race to the bottom.

Looking on aliexpress or taobao, you'll find dozens upon dozens of cheap tablets with CPU's from allwinner or rockchip, a few gigs of ram/flash and a not that great 8-10" screen for <$100. At higher price points you can get a chromebook with a keyboard and arguable more functionality.

Completing against these are a few Samsung models that have their highly customized variant of Android, and Apple holding the premium ground with iOS/HW quality/price/performance, and MS selling the Surface with Windows for similar prices.

The best we can hope for is for low end tablets to improve over the next few years.
You can probably create a filter to delete it.
Comparison of Skype to (Say) Discord is like a different universe (Sometimes [Electron!])
Good riddance! It’s not like they have actively been developing Android to support tablets. In fact, it is the other way around. The older versions had better support for tablets. Even Nexus 9 was a half hearted attempt at best — and the rest is history. Google’s lack of interest in nowhere more evident than their own apps — many of them were just scaled versions of phone apps. And if Google is not bothering to optimise their apps for tablets, what motivation do third party developers have?

Strictly speaking, Android tablets never even competed in the same arena as the iPad. Samsung is an exception, but they don’t control the ecosystem — which makes things much harder for them — even if we ignore their atrocious software.
https://www.lottiefiles.com/ has tons of live renders.
YouTube is the plantation, farming up views, Google the slave master and the algo is their whip.
Disagreed.

Skype used to be mainstream. It was essentially a cross platform iMessage & FaceTime, almost ahead of its time. It was also efficient in terms of network usage, being peer-to-peer for the most part.

Had it continued to be usable, it would still be mainstream and might have the place of WhatsApp today. Instead, we now have this garbage Snapchat-like UI, a server-based model that doesn't even work (it was supposed to "fix" the P2P model, but for me it's been way worse than P2P which always worked), and a shitty Electron client that melts your battery and looks awful (they killed a gorgeous - especially on Mac - native client to replace it with this shit).
go over to https://download.lineageos.org/ and find a supported tablet.

pros: no crapware (nearly stock android), weekly updates

cons: needs unlocked bootloader, not the newest and greatest (manufacturers take their sweet time to release kernel sources), weekly rolling release
My physics teacher used to say:

"Whenever physicists don't understand something - they invent a new particle"
Usually I like to see balance come about in due time like a pendulum slowly swinging from one side to the other, but it's stories like these that would have me understand action and revolt against the body perpetrating such morally wrong, yet supposedly legal actions. Time to call for a Robin Hood. He did not steal from the rich and give to the poor as most people think, but rather took back property and money seized by the corrupt brother of the good king who was absent and at war a distance away. Here the government allows for seizure without accountability, but the laws or whatever it is that allows this is legal?
GameStop is sorely in need of some micro managIng. I was in there with my daughter the other day looking to buy a Nintendo Switch and some Pokémon cards. The place was a cramped disorganized mess. And the neck beard working the counter grunted half hearted responses to our questions for about 5 minutes before we left with nothing. About 20 minutes later I spent $350+ at Amazon using my smartphone while we ate lunch in the food court.
They actually have to compete now, is why.

I assume
God forbid they manage to get their hands on other apps to capture that market... oh wait. People have been predicting the death of facebook for the past decade. It does tend to get old after a while.
Serial killers are dysfunctional people, acting more instinctually.

Systematic violence is ultimately very rational. Your worst enemy is always your neighbor or a trespasser. Agriculture requires ownership of land, so hunters are always the enemy of the farmer.
> EVs actually do better in stop and go traffic than driving flat out at 75 mph

Is that necessarily true? The 75D has a curb weight of 5,140 pounds, which would require a fair amount of energy to get moving from a standing stop. While aerodynamic drag would certainly tax the powertrain to maintain 75 MPH (op didn’t specify anyway), one would expect the overall range at such speeds to be greater than in stop-and-go traffic. Or are regenerative brakes really that efficient at recapturing energy?
Many countries (including Germany, where MMP was first used) have a minimum bar of votes for a party to make it to parliament, e.g. 5% in Germany. Where exactly you put the cutoff is a bit arbitrary, but this solves the problem efficiently. There are parties in parliament in Germany that I'd rather not have there, but none is fringe.
I am not sure how "unreliable" the peer to peer model was. From what I remember it's always been perfect for me.

Media uploads could have been solved by a server-based "media" service, while keeping the reliable & battle-tested P2P architecture.

As of currently, the server-based architecture is an absolute disaster, way worse than P2P.
I wouldn’t exactly call them the gold standard of software. JIRA is a holy mess and well... many of us are still stuck with HipChat
I am a proponent of battery swaps. But I use the term MPU - Modular Power Unit. They have a standard interface and standard sizes. They follow the principle of encapsulation - I don't know what is the tech inside, but I now that it exposes a given voltage and amperage. Neither battery companies nor car companies would on their own pursue such a strategy even though all would benefit. Portable electronics ony took off because batteries were standardized and became cheap. The same must eventually happen with large batteries. And just like small 3V and 10V batteries, there will be perhaps a half dozen different standard sizes. Some will be small enough to lift by hand (if you have strong hands) while others will be on racks (but built up from smaller MPUs). You don't have to swap your battery - they could be recharged in place. Standards will foster competition and innovation.
Future of Product Management Roles
Does anyone know what caused the big spike in users at the end of last year?
The agenda is so transparent that it can't be mistaken for incompetence.
Anecdotal: my iPads have never aged the way my iPhones do. As to the reasons, I suspect the primary is just where and how it's used: I beat the piss out of my iphones, dropping them, using them out of good areas, on the go, in the car, while eating, etc. where my iPads have a comparatively nice existence largely in my home. The most strenuous environment I use my tablets in is my porch.

But yeah, I just recently upgraded from an Air to the iPad Pro, mostly for the bigger screen and pencil. I had no reason to replace the current one other than having no reason to have two; 5 years on, it was kicking just as hard as ever.
It would be much better for the EU to just block these sites that they think are violating EU citizen privacy rights.

But they’d never do that, because their citizens still want to use the sites, so it’d be unpopular. And ineffective since people would just work around it. Apparently these pesky humans don’t care about their privacy like they should!

Plus then the EU can’t levy billions in fines.
Modern quantum physics starts after Schroedinger, at the Dirac equation, so you are a bit behind with the program :p
>the speakers are facing you and they're on the top and bottom

This drives me crazy on my iPad. My phone came out in 2016 and has stereo speakers. My iPad came out in 2017 and despite being massive in comparison with tons of available space (and weirdly, a headphone jack) it only has one speaker.

Yet I never watch movies on my phone and I do it all the time on my iPad, where it makes way more sense to have stereo speakers. Get your shit together Apple.
If you read about some of the more spectacular company collapses involving debt in LBO deals you will find that is not even close to being universally true.
Most likely a botnet.
> Or just writing yourself a cheque?

Good luck cashing in a cheque underwritten by a US Bank in Albania.
Apple's newest full form-factor iPad is only $300, and often is available on sale for ~$270. I think that's made a big difference.
Yea but I don't think it's continued focus that will help here. Apple has continued it's modus operandi and quality has decreased like you mentioned. Granted, acquiring GitHub is most likely not the right fix, but I think something about Apple's particular way of operating is holding it back.
Simple JavaScript program which solves the ticket change problem
I would love to be able to stream games from my PC onto my Switch like you could with the Shield. It's just such a convenient system to play.
None. They're talking out of their ass. The best argument anyone can come up with is that teens don't use it as much, and yet they're very happily using Instagram...
The ability to launch from the surface is proof of it's finiteness.

As a corralary it should be finite as long as you're not inside a blackhole.

It should be asymptotic up to that point. Mathematically infinite at the horizon and then completely unbounded inside it (in the sense that it converges to infinity versus not converging at all ( see a "flat" universe versus hyperbolic)).
Your answer is good. To add to it, the large "transmission" grid usually covers extremely high voltage lines: 115 kV, 138kV, 230kV, 345kV, 500kV, 765kV and up. It is managed by both utilities and RTO/ISO organizations that manage large sections like air-traffic controllers. Distribution is typically below ~100kV and is really more in the 11kV range and managed by the utilities almost exclusively. Building new transmission lines can be ~$1 billion projects.
Organisms increase biodiversity of commensual flora and fauna this way. It's probably why the human body dropped furry skin but shortly thereafter got domesticated sheep and cattle, and all their myriad benefits
GitHub: the ale requires you to keep us open.

Microsoft:..
Funny, I'm partial to the (patently ahistorical) idea that the song "I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday"[1] was about the Unix group. Could always have roots (heh) in the opposite direction I guess.

I'm gonna be a wheel one day
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you

Everything gonna go my way
And I won't need nobody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you

One wonders what it was they wanted to `cat`.

1: lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fatsdomino/imgonnabeawheelso...
You had a caste system in these civilizations. Warrior/hunters, farmers, priests, etc.

Neolithic civilization wasn’t just a band of 50 and a few yurts. There were complex societies, but they had scale limits due to technology and knowledge constraints.
GitHub: the sale requires you to keep us open.

Microsoft:..
The particle, added forces, and things like “color”, spin, etc all always seemed ad hoc at best - and downright unscientific potentially, to me as well. It feels like it’s the most statistically verified model precisely because it’s been moulded to data so closely.
My iPad Air has slown down to be almost unusable. It is ancient, and I’m guessing it’s the battery + software throttle going on, but it is still very reminiscent of an aging iPhone.
Samsung Chromebook Plus satisfies my needs for a tablet: mainly media consumption (web browsing, YouTube, reading long articles, and watching movies).

1. Incredibly nice screen

2. Gets security updates (ChromeOS devices are great for this compared to the dumpster fire that is Android security)

3. Haven't had any issues with Android support (I use mainly apps like RBDigital, Instapaper, Wikipedia)

4. Works well for movies (I watch in laptop mode using stock media player)

5. No bloatware

6. Really good battery life.

It also has a stylus which works well, but I've returned to paper exercise books for note taking.

I can't recommend the device enough.

My biggest gripe is I need to carry a USBC->USBA adapter to be able to charge my phone, or connect USB drives. They're cheap, but it's a bit annoying.
>Don't tablets age in a similar way that smartphones age

Funny enough, although iPhones have a new "battery health" screen to show you if you're being throttled due to a weak battery, the iPad doesn't have this. The reason I've heard is because the iPad battery is so massive (it's basically last year's iPhone with a 10" battery strapped to it), the battery always has enough juice to not have to throttle during a spike in CPU load.

That may explain why iPads still feel relatively snappy compared to phones over the years.
Has civil asset forfiture been to the Supreme Court? It's blatantly unconstitutional, and given the current panel I'd say it has a great chance of being killed.

I do have to say, it's a well known fact trying to make it across any border with a sum of cash is a risky business. I would hope America would be an exception to that fact due to "Due Process", but even I wouldn't place a bet on that. It says very clearly on the us travel website carrying more than $10k of cash is going to get you in trouble though.

Transferring money internationally is a huge pita. I just came back from China. Good luck every trying to fund a wechat or alipay account as a Westerner.
> A good corporation is a bunch of gelled teams who are at home with one-another and enjoy working together. Destroying the corporation usually results in the dissolution of the component teams, one way or another.

A gelled team that works well together making obsolete copiers or film cameras is a waste of resources.
So the assumption is the poor are not conservative... And that the poor don't become seniors...

Just pause and think about the mass conservative voting block of poor conservative seniors concentrated in Midwestern and Southern states.

The article references a study which barely supports the premise as stated in the title.

This is ludicrous clickbait.
So let me get this straight. You reject the relevance of higher CO2 Levels in the past because it's too long ago. Then you point out that evolution is an ongoing process, but apparently it's too slow to accommodate a rapid rise in CO2 Levels. Is that correct? If so, it's not wrong, but it seems a little like mental gymnastics to fit a particular idea.
Even more American? make it a tax deduction.
It's easy to see selection for slaughter in man's body, why not his mind?
Whereas I cannot stand Spotlight, Launchpad, or Mission Control.

Any time I use a different machine, those are the first things that I completely and totally disable.

For me, the dock and the menu bar are much better solutions than any of the above, and they are in the category of "if it ain't broke, don't bloody flippin' fix it!!!"
That quote doesn't say currently hundreds of millions of daily tor users. That quote says that in the future, when firefox includes tor by default, there might become hundreds of millions of daily tor users.
Cookies will only use this domain if it's used in hostnames, but I think google only uses 1e100.net for reverse lookups (PTR results).
If a moderate candidate is the one who is acceptable to the largest proportion of the voting public, why shouldn't they win?

Approval voting allows voters to vote for 3rd party candidates without "throwing their vote away". That would be a huge improvement over first-past-the-post, as 3rd party candidates would have a decent chance of winning if they can make a compelling case to voters.
Just applied, this is an amazing endeavor. Thank you all for what you do.
Disagreed.

Skype worked perfectly for me on smartphone, and the few quirks could've been patched without screwing it up completely.

I feel like Skype was ahead of its time, it was essentially a cross-platform iMessage & FaceTime that was mainstream.

Had Microsoft not fucked it up we'd still be happily using it.
"My dad's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory." -- Milhouse Van Houten
That's your anecdata though, mine's very very different indeed. Many of the places I've worked have either actively fought attempts to get some consistency in place, or have lapsed into total anarchy, even in some cases with edit wars showing up in the Git history. It's horrible, and I'm glad you've been able to avoid it. Go's way is better - those things just can't happen.

There's a network effect too. Sooner or later you'll start to notice that not only does all your organisation's code look consistent, dependencies you pull in look extremely consistent too, as if other organisations were following the same interpretation of the Golden Rule yours is following.

This has enormous benefits when you're assessing the quality of a dependency because once again, you get to walk straight past the same thousand pointless and distracting arguments you got to walk past internally (well, not you of course, but those of us who have been stuck having them!) and get right to the meat of the quality of the code you're assessing for inclusion. "Are the idioms sensible? Are the errors being propagated correctly? Is the public API neat and tidy?" That stuff, the real stuff, is all visible much more quickly when you're not rage-twitching because some other developer from some other team on the other side of the world likes to put the curly brace on a new line at the same indent level as the function body.

I had never experienced this unique benefit with any language ecosystem I worked with before Go and I'm loath to leave it behind. I'm incredibly heartened to see tools like Prettier and Black making strides in the Javascript and Python communities respectively.
Funny. I just heard exactly the same comment from a co-worker yesterday.

You two are the first people I've ever heard of complain about this issue.
What does GitHub's choice of cloud have to do with Microsoft's aptitude to take over an existing, huge, critical piece of the open source world? From a business perspective, or an operational one?
Ask HN: Is forking an existing blockchain a good idea to learn?
Im on the fence whether I should fully implement a blockchain myself, or if I should fork one to see how it works on a production level. If I go this route, what would be a simple blockchain project to fork? Any language
Transferring money from China is easy via a wire. Converting RMB tO USD, on the other hand is a PITA and you won’t succeed if you don’t have the right documentation in triplicate.

You can use wechat to pay for things as a foreigner if you have a resident permit, or so I here.

Carrying more than $10k of cash is actually ok as long as you report it.
In think 8” tablets are a good form factor for content consumption (ebooks, movies, some games) but Android tablets always fall short even then. You need a good screen, especially for text. The 2015 iPad Mini 4 is still much better than any similarly-sized Android tablet.
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/files/styles/anu_full_920_518/pu...

Hey look, Aussie SWAT.
I picked up one of those iPads at ~$270 with an academic discount, and it's a solid machine. Great battery life, good screen, enough space for a couple Netflix movies on flights. It doesn't feel cheap or compromised at all.