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There's no way to update the Model X for LIDAR. It's structurally incapable of supporting any of the existing LIDAR systems in production or currently in development. The same could arguably be said for the Model S, due to the front monopane windshield.

Even if these vehicles could be modified to support LIDAR systems, the modifications alone would likely cost upwards of $10,000 per vehicle, not including the cost of the LIDAR system (currently $20,000 for cheapest system offering 360 coverage). Those costs would bankrupt Tesla.

At some point, Musk needs to learn to keep his mouth shut. A sales person making these types of claims can be disregarded on the grounds that a sales person may not have the authority to bind the company. But if the CEO says the same things, customers who purchase cars based on the CEO's representations can definitely sue the company for failure to deliver promised goods.
Do you find that the world has gotten more civil in the time interval since lemonade stands started getting banned?
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regarding the piles of bikes in the trash: does anyone know how much it would be to ship a container full of those to north America?
I think that seriously underestimates how industrious some of people who collect scrap metal are.

If scooters get popular then people will steal them. It only takes one person to figure out some way to monetize your scooters before all your scooters are disappearing and need to patch the exploit.

I'm betting that for awhile most scooters will be vulnerable to the typical "apply cordless drill in the right place" exploit.

The battery packs will probably be the most useful thing to scrapper. There will probably be a cottage industry of people repackaging them in more useful form factors and then selling the end result on eBay. The motors aren't going to be worth much but if you're already picking one apart you may as well pull the motor and toss it in the electric motors pile.
This is amazing, I use Ghostery, Privacy Badger and Scriptsafe in Firefox, and I was MORE private in non-private window! wth?

I suspect it's partly because these plugins don't function fully in a private window?
It seems much easier to dress up as a deer than it does to have the nets detect a human dressed as deer.
Searched for "command suite" got nothing. Searched for "ruby escort," found services in las vegas. ;)

If you mean sub-commands like version control software has, argparse can do it. A bit clunky, but doable.
Check "Prism break" website.
Man - humans have short memory.
As far as I know, the first person to write about the importance of purpose is Viktor Frankl in "Man's Search for Meaning." I personally find this to be a good solution to the paradox that pursuing happiness is a sure-fire way to not be happy.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Me...
USB Type-C is still a mess
because, as history has shown, that isn't a core competency of Tesla.
Upvoted just for mentioning OPML! I can't remember the last time I saw an OPML reference on HN. Hopefully there will be more RSS, Atom, OPML, ActivityPub, ActivityStrea.ms, FOAF, SIOC, etc. related work showing up here in the future.
The average capaciousness of a person's vocabulary has diminished in recent years, where people today pompously decry all but "marketing speak" as senesless and pretentious.
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The lemonade stand with a $300 license is inspected several times a year and awarded a health score, and the employees are required to undergo food safety training. They are also running a real business that required a real investment, so they should be more risk averse.

I don't know if the risks from kids running lemonade stands is high enough to justify regulation, but presumably all the above makes a business with a $300 license less likely to poison customers.
In an ideal implementation it should be pretty much as fast as plain HTTP/2, since the overhead is only a bit of protobuf framing between chunks. Which depending on the chunk size is negligible.

However what I think comes into play in the benchmark is the behavior of the real library, and most likely the garbage collector. There might be paths in the code where the each chunk is freshly allocated and later on dropped. This gets more costly if chunks get bigger, which might explain the degradation in the measurements.

In this example the client's chunk size is allocated once and everything else is a cheap slice, which should be good. However for the server I'm not sure, I guess it might allocate the buffer for each chunk just in order to drop it later on. Then you could investigate if you can give protobuf a prepopulated data structure with a reserved maximum size (e.g. from a pool) that it should use for deserialization, which might speed things up.

Another thing which obviously comes into play is the performance of HTTP/2 implementations, which may vary a lot. I think even for Go, the HTTP/2 implementation in the net package and the one in grpc where different (not sure if they unified them now, there was an attempt on the way). So the question would need to be investigated separately for each of those.
Agreed, I've had mentors who were decades my senior that provided me both with engineering advice as well as solid professional advice.

Unfortunately, I've worked with plenty more individuals in the previous category than the former. Maybe it's got something to do with my industry (medical) but it seems like a lot of the senior engineers in this field have just lost motivation or have moved their focus elsewhere. Knowledge and experience only get you so far, it's useless if you can't (or won't) do anything with it.
Worse, I don't look forward when only super rich political parties get their messages to the masses. :(

I mean, I get that it is bad now. Feels like it could get much much worse.
The work described in the OP is amazing, admittedly flamboyant!

But it's still wall paper!

It appears that my post was lost on some people at HN. The post had two points:

(1) First, the architecture of the links I gave is astounding beyond belief. Some of those guys in old Vienna and Würzburg went way over the top and then higher still. If look in detail, it appears that they packed in as many ways to spend money on astounding decorations as possible! For anyone with the wealth of, say, the Holy Roman Empire to spend, it really is a cut above wall paper! With some irony, one of the buildings was done in 1880, that is, about the time of the Victorian Golden Age of the wall paper!

(2) The other point was that I was making joke. The humor is from the reader seeing how unbelievably expensive those Vienna and Würzburg buildings must have been in comparison even with expensive wall paper! Or, as part of the joke, I was ignoring expenditures significant on the scale of Austria or Germany.

> A bit impractical for most, don't you think?

Right, part of the joke.

Maybe one more point: As absurdly expensive as those buildings in Vienna and Würzburg must have been, they are astounding accomplishments. I can think of the many thousands of peasants who had to go hungry to pay for that "flamboyance", but, still, the results are astounding. And the architects didn't have computers to do the visualizations. The builders didn't have lasers to do the alignments.

Maybe one more joke: How do they keep those buildings warm in a cold night in a cold winter with three feet, uh, a meter, of snow on the ground? Or, all that money spent but no good means of heating the place?
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How about with the actual analog circuits :)

Probably not I guess, if it even depended on the manufactoring process
> Cattlemen and dairy farmers are saddling up, and lawyering up, in response. The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association has petitioned the Agriculture Department to bar plant-based products from bearing labels that say “beef” or “meat,” with similar restrictions on meat grown from animal cells.

Good luck with that.
You are incorrect in stating that this is not an opinion-based question, since the dictionary definition of the word itself is not the correct answer.
The way Oracle and VMWare bill is not bound by a technical limitation.
I'm a little puzzled about why Shahid thinks this is 'funny', as it seems pretty obnoxious. The danger posed is not limited to Shahid but also the trains, their operators and passengers/freight.

But I'm also puzzled by your comment. Why should anyone put any of them on the tracks?
I am surprised that no one on HN is discussing what I consider an important point of the repeal, namely clipping the wings if the federal government (a good thing), and letting states decide for themselves how they want to regulate internet access. Heck, I'd even be in favour of this being regulated at the municipal level, to curtail state power.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284436
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What they’ve done is somewhat different, offering exemptions from the normal metered service for certain classes of activity like music streaming.

The base rate hasn’t changed and the category exemptions were open to anyone in a market rather than being negotiated behind the scenes.

I’m expecting that’s going to look really good compared to what we’re about to see.
Failing at something doesn't make a person a failure or else we would all be failures. Do you really thing extra compassion towards a person contemplating suicide is such a bad thing? Or is being 100% correct in your words more important? I know we're on a message board, but OP is a real person with real feelings in a pretty fragile state right now.
> The implication is that American silicon itself is backdoored.

There was no such implication. Compromising hardware never makes sense unless you can intercept the hardware en route (something the NSA has been known to do [1]).

> It's quite possible that the needed certificates were stolen from a manufacturer that poorly protected them.

It's also possible that unicorns exist. Considering that certificates have been "stolen" from Taiwanese firms multiple times [2] I'd say it's not irrational to consider the possibility that these firms either are directly or via the Taiwanese government cooperating with US cyberattacks.

All of this indicates that yes, relying on such foreign chipsets is huge security threat. China imports an incredible $200 billion a year in such chips so even putting aside the huge technological attack surface associated with such a dependency the dependency constitutes an immediate economic vulnerability.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/06/foxconn-hack-kaspersky-duqu-2/
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Most people who raise seed rounds aren't "printing money", and quite a few people who are "printing money" are printing the wrong kind of money to raise venture funding on.
I am in this situation where I really hope I could apply some risk framework to help me make decision.

I recently signed an offer with a company, US bank with large python community. Now I am counter offered with more pay and promotion and internal transfer to a new team. Conventional wisdom is never accept counter offer. but this one I am giving second thought as it is not for original role but transferred to new team. I will be only one in my location and I will be building MVP for business users. it will be exposed to a lot of tech stack but it won't be scale as large as new company.

However to join a new company, there is always uncertainties like team and project. I had bad experience before. It is difficult to find it out through interview only. It seems to confirm this as I find that hiring process is a bit not taken seriously. It is greenfield project but no coding tests. There is no front end expertise in the team so I was only got asked things like "you worked with angularjs right?". Hiring manager is recruiting three altogether which he thinks will be good team.

risk is about managing uncertainties. I hope decision like this can be priced so it is easier to decide.
Uh, no, we haven't.

Running a business is a thing that's been debated and found to be something that on the whole should be at least lightly regulated. Businesses that sell goods intended for human consumption are additionally regulated by health codes, for good reason. The fact that a proprietor is a kid is irrelevant to the reasons behind why those codes were enacted in the first place.

You can go create a business right now online that sells widgets or services or something without a permit, provided you pay your taxes due on it. The IRS even has a classification for self-employment for that express purpose. If you are selling something that is covered by some other regulation, you'll need to comply with those, but those regulations were also debated and enacted at some point because it was deemed necessary by the legislative body that enacted them. Whether you agree with that body is another issue, but it doesn't amount to "everything is defacto (sic) illegal unless it is explicitly authorized, permitted, and approved by government."
Additional context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
They are language-independent but may still have a higher incidence in one community than another. Anecdotally, these basic mistakes seem to happen more in Node packages or JS-based projects, but I have no concrete evidence for this speculation. The only study I know of looking at this in a serious way is this one:

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558740)

However, JavaScript ends up a being less prone to defective commits than C++ and C, as well as PHP and Python, but there are a number of issues that don't allow us to conclude all that much from these results (imo).
That's the number of miles with autopilot-equipped hardware. It's only 100 million miles with autopilot engaged (from the article you cite). Let's say its 200 million now. They're at two confirmed deaths, which is about what you'd expect.

To the extent the numbers are statistically significant, it's worse than you'd expect. The fatality rate for Telsa drivers is 1/4 the average. Since the overwhelming majority of miles on autopilot equipped hardware are driven with autopilot disabled (per your article), that means Tesla human drivers are a lot safer than the average. So you need 1 fatality per 300-400 million miles driven just to match human Tesla drivers.
"Easy" and "obvious" are very different things. Making a bun in that shape may not be difficult, but presumably no prior art exists — nobody's ever done it before, at least in public. The patentholder is not a patent troll, but an entrepreneur working on international franchising for the 'hamdog' concept. Silly yes, terrible business idea definitely, misuse of the patent system no.

[0] http://wnep.com/2016/09/22/meet-the-hamdog-a-hot-dog-and-ham...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/21/the-hotdog-and-hamburger-uni...
How generous!

Who handed these out? And what are the odds that any free USB device contains malware or spyware of some sort?
> No, not alone. But if you're not masking your IP address, it probably will.

If you're not masking your IP, resolution and anything else is largely irrelevant for tracking you.
I am a bit shocked at the comments people are making in this thread. Someone who is acutely anxious and depressed about their business challenges should never be told that they are a failure and that we don't care about their emotional distress from their business problems.

I care that this guy exists. Even in his darkest hours, I want him to continue living. This trouble he's going through will pass. He is still a healthy human being, whether or not his business fails.

There is so much stuff left for him to experience in his life. Empathetic humans like myself must remind him that even if he loses all his money, he can always rebuild.
Where does this man-child get off building these kinds of cynical products? As if border crossings are the largest threat to American security.

It's technology without any sense of history, humanity, or culture.
It seems a simplistic question, so a simplistic answer is: have a Private Banker.
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Additional context: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/heres-a-list-...
Fibonacci is an easy problem to know that you implemented the recursive form correctly (easy to check the answer), and the recursion is a very simple way to test the speed of function calls. So it's a very reproducible way to test the speed of some of the internals.
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And thus, I will repeat: this is fucking insanity.
What would the value add be of getting the money faster or with less stress vs. the value add talked about in the article? I'm thinking that perhaps security tokens may change the dynamic in the future because they allow a founder to raise seed money faster with less unfavorable conditions.
Interesting idea! Thanks
I'm taking your question to mean "how do they deal with the normal non-formal anxieties everyone has". I'm theorizing here, I'm nowhere near a billionaire, but I've known some fairly wealthy people (though wealthy with a M, not a B).

+ Diverse investments

Instead of keeping all their eggs in one basket, they tend to be invested heavily across multiple spectrums. Oil and gas, health insurance marketplaces, real estate, etc. Even if one facet of their portfolio crashed, they wouldn't be screwed.

Many of them will even make well known subpar choices to add some "insurance", like keeping a safe full of metal silver and gold bars, or even investing in a well supplied safe room. It's not that they're expecting to use those things or make a profit from holding rare metals, but to them $20k is nothing to invest in a "just in case" fashion.

+ Multiple experts

You or me might have one doctor, they might have three or four they get opinions from. Likewise for accountants or lawyers. This gives them flexibility, better chances for good outcomes, and less likelihood of a single person being able to screw them over.

+ Outsourcing to experts

Most of us probably only go to a doctor or a lawyer when things get way out of our depth. Likewise for an electrician. Someone who is wealthy can afford to apply experts to every problem they have. Instead of only going to a lawyer when they really think things have gone wrong, every single contract can be reviewed by an expert.

+ Concierge services for when things go wrong

Ever have a flight get massively delayed or end up in the wrong city? For most of us, it sucks and we scramble to deal with it. The wealthy can afford custom concierge and assistants who can fix things in a single call. Flight stopped in the wrong city on your way to your exotic adventure? No problem, one call and you'll have train tickets and a cab booked so you don't miss anything.

This applies beyond travel. Health crises in a foreign country? Call the hotline and have a doctor show up at your hotel instantly. Lost in the mountains while hiking? Pick up the sat phone and have a rescue team scramble to your location.

+ Amazing amounts of connections

When we go to a museum and there's a crazy line, we have the choice of waiting or walking away. Someone who is wealthy and a savvy donor can call and arrange a private tour instead. Likewise for getting into sold out shows, better seats at plays, or even booking tables at restaurants. For someone massively wealthy, donating a few thousand a year to local art institutes not only looks good and has tax benefits, but costs relatively nothing and comes with amazing benefits.

Likewise, they get to mingle with actors, celebrities, important leaders, etc. Suddenly the rolodex goes from a few well known friends to an impressive array of people with amazing amounts of power.
> I started warning latin americans who wanted to learn english to be careful, that it's poison. I didn't want them to lose their....total non-anglo-ness.

That's awfully paternalistic of you. The idea that learning English would be some terrible corrupting influence strikes me as eerily similar to the idea of the "Noble Savage"[0].

It's nice that you have come to appreciate a culture outside of your own, just don't fetishize it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
Kids also really did play outside unsupervised more and/or with siblings, cousins and friends to help keep them safe instead of an adult. I think some larger fabric of social life has changed and we can't figure out how to translate historical parenting patterns into modern life in a way that makes sense.

I think a lot of parents feel very stressed right now and that fosters these weird conclusions that "if only X piece were like the good old days, everything would work" and it's just not true. Then "X piece" changes from one conversation to the next, like the six blind men and the elephant. What we don't realize is we mean we are dealing with an entirely different animal, so to speak.

We need to somehow create a social fabric that is more parenting friendly while not creating a social fabric that assumes every family is a nuclear family or that actively promotes the idea that marriage and children is an ideal to strive for. In the US, we absolutely haven't yet figured out how to do that.

Some things that would likely help: a less car centered built environment and universal health coverage.
Hooliganism, vice and moral deficiency. I'm approaching this from the bad user's point of view.
Table corruption may not be 'acceptable,' but that doesn't matter. Even if your software is perfect and has no bugs, it cannot account for issues at the system and hardware level. Backups and redundant systems exist for a reason. I've have data corruption in a PG database before. I don't remember the cause--I think it was the filesystem rather than Postgres that was at fault--but it still happened and I had to deal with it.
Isn't the point of the scooter to carry you around ;)

Remembering to charge isn't a big deal. I do it for my phone and my car. I would buy a second charger and keep it at work to keep down on the hassle. A lot of offices have bike storage, why not scooters?
My point was that carriers aren't particularly concerned about Project Fi, because it isn't trying to be a mass market carrier. Apple getting into the game would probably cause more consternation because it's harder for Apple to do anything without it being repeated by every news outlet.
Amazon doesn't really care. This is simply one kindle unlimited author stealing from the others.

Until this style of scam steals a big perportion of revenue, enough that real authors stop uploading new books, Amazon has no incentive to do anything about it.
Thanks for the detailed response. I appreciate it.
US is already experiencing a significant brain drain. This is currently offset by new immigrants, but if you look at how many talented people are leaving it's shocking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_United_Sta...
Yeah, my first thought as well, I hope no journalist working with sensitive information just plugs the thing in.
Wow. I really want to see someone dig into these in a secure environment.
It's pretty amazing to me that insect brains, as big as a few grains of sand, still outperform the best we can do in autonomous driving and navigation. They can fly around without hitting each other or other objects, they can leave their nest and find their way back, etc.