skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That is, it’s entirely possible that Waymo, or someone else, gets autonomy to work in 202x with a $1000 or $2000 LIDAR and vision sensor suite and Tesla still doesn’t have it working with vision alone."

In this scenario there still may be an upside for Tesla. For Waymo to cover the world in LIDAR-equipped cars will take decades. Tesla already sells cars all over the world. The Tesla car sharing network may scale extremely quickly as a result. Even if Waymo takes some markets first, once Tesla has autonomy working, they can be in most markets at the flip of a switch.

Since the cars participating in the sharing network would be from Tesla purchasers, people may purchase the cars as an investment, meaning there would be no capital cost to Tesla in scaling their network. They just need to be able to produce enough Model 3s and get autonomy working. Then they can take profits from both the sale of the car and the clip of the car sharing network.
If that's a human I'd really like to know why they would pick that spot, because the only reason I can think of is for hiding...
Sell your ICE's now!
I hadn't realized until recently how India is so much like China regarding surveillance and social control. I guess that it reflects how biased against China I've been.

When I've read about the Chinese government's concerns over social unrest, I've empathized with the dissidents. I mean, Tibet and Xinjiang are occupied nations! But I get that China is an extremely diverse country, overall, with lots of ethnic tension.

And conversely, when I've read about the Indian government's concerns over social unrest, I've empathized with the victims of the dissidents. Muslims persecuted by Hindus. Women persecuted by misogynists.

So damn, it's a hard problem. And worse, with increased migration driven by social chaos and war (and eventually, by global climate change), it's becoming an issue in many places. Including the US, where I happen to live.
Most of these "retire early" stories you'll hear in the media the person actually has a signifiant income stream. Blogging, landlording, Etsy shop, book sales, speaking fees, spousal support, part time job, whatever.

It's kinda weird.

Just like the "self made" stories that always include significant outside support, such as large gifts, huge interest free loans from family, or large inheritances.

It's just how the media works.

>Did he already have 800K in the bank before learning about early retirement?

They probably already had significant assets considering his income and the fact they were dual income.
Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory
My big issue is that in the places that electric cars make the most sense (cities) it’s hardest to own them. What am I going to do, run a really long extension cord from my condo to the random parking spot I found around the block?
Earlier this year they put out a blog post that announced that their cross-platform versions share a common codebase for "core functionality".

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/Share...
I didn’t mean that you should only hire candidates who are existing users of your product.

Haven’t you ever had moments, while using something, where you encountered some stupid behavior that made you go, “Do the people who make this thing ever use it themselves??”

This is related to the concept of qualia [0], and sentiments like “Be the change you want to see in the world.” or “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

Yes: someone without a heart condition will not be able to fully appreciate all the nuances of a pacemaker.

Of course that’s not to say they can’t contribute to the development and production of pacemakers. That’d be absurd.

But unless the thing you make is actually used by you, you will only [need to] perform within the specifications of your job, get paid and get out.

You won’t be able to identify any deficiencies that aren’t immediately obvious, and unless user feedback impacts your profits, you may see no reason to improve something. It’ll be /r/NotMyJob.

But if you’re an active user of your own product, you’ll have a much higher chance of noticing annoyances and shortcommings and fix them before waiting for user feedback to bubble up through the corporate chain to influence a change in the product.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
I once talked to a radiologist who said something similar but not about the elderly. He claimed there is a lot of money being fruitlessly spent on the last six months of a patient's life. He explained that a problem is that we don't know before hand when someone will die but in hindsight it is obvious that a lot of the money to keep someone alive is waste.

Then I started hearing about the death panels. I sincerely thought death panels are a great idea. If it costs to much to keep someone alive with little or no chance of a recovery, it might be better to put someone down. Thankfully, most people are more sensible than I am. Turns out there was no death panel.

I still think about this issue though. I read somewhere that we spend about 18% of our GDP on healthcare. Maybe we just need slightly different priorities and try to go for most bang for the buck. Thoughts?
Yeah, I guess I should have written about Perl or PHP rather than Java.

Spaghetti code is no fun, but you can still write that same style today in .erb files.
> 'On Fiverr, I found someone in Pakistan offering to do architectural designs for just $5.'

I think westerners have a warped sense of money due to news report about '$X billion people live on 2 dollars a day' meme.

5 dollars in karachi wont get you very far, good pakistani professional charge as much US professionals, and instead of working for website that nickle and dimes, they normally have better options such as moving to Saudi Arabia of Qatar to get regular 5000 dollar / month salary that professionals make.

I hate how journalists always tend to think the world is somehow zero sum, somebody in Pakistan getting a job means somebody in rural Ohio is losing out ?

Does the journalist know that the US taxpayer has for over 20 years being providing significant aid to Pakistan, just to prevent the place from going full terrorist Mecca ?

In 2018 its possible that Pakistan would again need an IMF bailout ( funded by US taxpayers of course ).

I singled out Pakistan because the author did, but in general the more economic activity moves online the better it is for global productivity.

More saving in third world countries results in more development there, resulting in further capacity to save, then maybe someday they would have the disposable income to finally afford the 5 dollar coffee from Starbucks, or better yet not need american aid.
Since discovering Clojure in 2013 my biggest regret is that the Clojure community is not interested in building a Rails equivalent. I don't mean an MVC clone but a full-featured web framework supported by the wider community rather than someone's personal curated list of libraries like Luminus. I think Rails set the bar for whether a new language can transition to mainstream adoption.
I think you’ve forgotten that patches exist.
I thought 1080p videos used 160kbps audio?
That is because those that actually retire early have no need for publicity. I know lots of people who have really retired in their 40s and surprising none of them have a need to be in the news.
SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx RealityEngine² [video]
I keep hearing people say things like "the Go team are changing their position" but I think what a lot of people missed is that the Go team were never against implementing generics in version 2. Quite the opposite in fact as they actually often said it was a consideration for Go v2.

What they repeatedly opposed was rushing generics into a v1.x build as that could break things.

The real issue is that many of the "haters" (and I hate using that term but it really was largely just individuals who decided that didn't like Go from the outset anyway so weren't exactly day to day Go developers) didn't think the slow and methodical approach was good enough.

Sometimes it feels like those who are the loudest critics of Go aren't even Go developers and instead just like to shout about how amazing their preferences are because it does xyz differently. And frankly I get a little fed up with all the psuedo-religious zealotry some have towards programming languages. It's nuts. Yet that's exactly how many of the language-specific topics end up on HN and why many on here could be forgiven for not realising that the Go team have always been open minded about changing Go; they've just been stubborn about the timelines of such changes.
I use qownnotes and Nextcloud on a NAS and back it up on external storage, as well as every desktop/laptop also has a local copy. It uses Mark Down. So far it seems to be working fine. Nextcloud is very flaky but better than owncloud.

I keep a lab paper notebook for everything I do and I write the date, time, and whatever I need. Then I type it in.
Not anymore. From what I’ve been told from an insider, the latest versions are derived from a common code base now, with platform specific bits separate for each platform.

The latest office for Mac looks quite a bit like the windows version now (for once) so it’s not too surprising.
I wrote my own Evernote style system and used it for a while. Then I changed to my current system: Emacs and org-mode for notes, todos, tasks, etc. I also use Notes in Fastmail (and they show up in Apple Notes automatically). For PDFs of purchased books, Communication of the ACM, good articles converted to PDFs, etc. I use Google Drive because it is searchable.
Never is not the right word.

I owned a natural gas combustion engine Honda Civic for a decade and refueled at home.
> Libertarianism is ultimately an American flavour of (Classical) Liberalism, which is quite an old political tradition.

"Ultimately" being a weasel word for redefining it again to meet a particular ideology.

This is not correct, nor is historical cherry picking a compelling argument for the viewpoint.

He goes off on yet another tangent after trying to justify the interpretation, through parallel interpretation. They will continue to be one of the many people who are convinced they are right, deriding others with more rational and moderate position, trying to get into arguments to try to justify their beliefs.
Time Series Prediction Using LSTM Deep Neural Networks
Would it be fair to say that the second law of thermodynamics is only "a law" given our human perspective of the direction of time? If time has no "arrow", but a memory is only possible in non-decreasing entropy which is our perspective, there can be another perspective in which the big bang is the future and our future is the past, only we cannot comprehend it because a memory is not possible in decreasing entropy?
Was talking to staff at the rental counter in Phoenix. They said that they stopped buying hybrids when gas dropped back down and the fact that they were costly to maintain... (More moving parts).

Fleet sales were a big driver when gas prices were higher

Plus, hybrids are a gutless jack of all trades and master of none
My first assembly language was Z80, not really hard but not a lot of fun. Then along came the Motorola 68000 and that instruction set was bliss.
I meant in the sense of providing the power for the motor.
No. I bought the $3,500 version on the advice of my partner and feel cruelly ripped off. The keyboard, which I dislike, has already been replaced. The Apple Store guy tried to accuse me of getting water on the keyboard, but that is incorrect. My partner’s identical machine also needed the keyboard and motherboard replaced. He got a loaner (I didn’t) and they tried to accuse him of the same thing.

I would much rather have purchased 2 MacBook Airs for the price. (I do web development and the MacBook Airs are surprisingly fast for my purposes.)

But more likely I’ll go with something like a Lenovo next time. With Apple much less willing to honor its warranties I don’t feel anchored to its computers, which I used to love, anymore.
Could you provide some specific examples?
If you prefer macOS, then yes it's your best option. If you're content with windows or linux, I'd suggest a dell xps or thinkpad x1.
With regards to the people who install such extensions and end up with spyware, I’m reminded of the saying, “It’s hard to cheat an honest person.”
Top 16 Docker Books
Nothing, as long as it's not abused to make sure that nothing ever gets built.
Your job is also to do work in the future. You should be prepared for the future.
How does one do this and put kids through college? Do you just set aside a certain amount of money and hope it covers the cost of college, which is notable for accelerating faster than the rate of inflation?

How do you explain to your kids that they have to go to a public university if the savings aren't enough? I'm sure some kids would be self-aware enough to appreciate all the extra time they had with you, but others might just wish you'd worked like a "regular person" and tha they could afford to go to a private university.
"Tesla owns the land and building, and leases part of the building to Panasonic, which owns some of the cell production equipment" In what world this translates to "as much"?
Of course you're not going to achieve FIRE if you spend all the money you earn, the whole point is to save the most you can, if you can earn more of course, go for it, but for a lot of people it's out of reach, so it would be pointless to recommend that.
Ah, that bug has now been fixed.
Well, OK, but what makes a touchscreen an improvement? Why is it good to take knobs away? The number of 10 year old devices with knobs that still function is way higher than the number of 10 year old devices with touchscreens that still function, for many reasons.

Also, the volume and radio controls are high on the list of "things I like to control without taking my eyes off the road"
I'm currently attempting to install an EV charger in my condo carport. The first step was to exchange parking spaces with another owner, in order to get physically close enough to run conduit from my panel.

However, I found the property laws surrounding the modification of assigned parking spaces to be pretty murky. It'd be nice if there were a state/nation-wide effort to clarify this sort of transaction, because lots of maps and HOA documents were written decades ago, with zero thought given to electrical access.

There will always be some homes where EV charging is infeasible, but map reordering could fix a lot of the marginal cases.
Doesn't seem all that hard to solve. My city, Los Angeles, reserves some street parking spots for electric vehicles and has installed outlets on the curb for those spaces.

Also, if you live in a city, unless you "reverse commute" to the suburbs, you probably won't drive enough miles regularly that you'd need to charge every night anyway. Give it a fast charge every few days in a commercial garage while you run errands.
Interestingly, I went to a Nissan dealer in Japan (where I live) to ask the exact same question. They have a deal where you can spend the equivalent of about $30 per month and you can go to the dealer to charge your car (unlimited charging). It takes about half an hour and they have a waiting room with free coffee and a TV.

Although I'm worried that they don't have anywhere near the capacity to handle the volume if it gets popular (imagine waiting for 2 or 3 people ahead of you...), for the moment it seems doable. As my wife can't live without her car (I don't drive), we're seriously thinking about it.
Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system
I am not really skilled in physics and have never understood why time would be a tangible dimension like, say, width or height, instead of a mathematical construction to argue about change.

I get it that it is convenient to talk of change in something, like movement from state a to state b, under the guise of wrapping it in "time", but is there some physical argument in support of time in general? Honest question.

Living beings getting older is their cells becoming more and more inefficient in division and cell repair. One could likely achieve the same effects with chemicals, but doing so would not mean time has run faster.

The concept of time for humans seems to be all about observable change, which needs an observer with a memory to compare the current state with previous state to be able to say: time has passed.

A rock changes via erosion and such, but it has no memory, and cannot observe anything. Does a rock feel time? Of course not. Does it exist "in time"? Does it, without an observer that somehow measures the flow of time (via changes in Cesium atoms or something)? Or is the rock just existing and under the whims of all forces of nature that might impact it and change it into smaller pieces and eventually to sand, and so on.

I guess my question is: what exactly is time, physically, and why should it have to exist as some sort of a physical process in the first place.
This situation is when employers providing chargers in company parking will become a notable work benefit.
By searchable you mean Google Drive can search _inside_ of documents like PDFs and images?
UFO shot down over Kippen – Scotland
Thanks for the first person stories! I'd love to read more. I've been all over South Korea, but have yet to make it to Ulsan for some reason (I've been in much of the area nearby touring historic sites, but never Ulsan). I think it's examples like this that really make one understand why Cyberpunk authors, in describing the future Corporatocracy, often centered their stories in Asia.

Most of them missed South Korea for some reason, but there are times when I've been there that I've literally felt like I was in a Cyberpunk future, more than anywhere else in the world I've been.
I would think so, since I assume that Lenovo is selling it all over the world.

I have been reading about APL and it would be cool to have the keyboard display all the special keys also...
You set the temperature you like once. It can use that as the default. That will cover most climate control cases, and then there's an override value for when you have passengers. Since there would be someone in the passenger seat then, they can do it whilst the driver drives. The override gets reset every 6 hours.

Theoretical way it could work; unsure how much of that applies to Tesla.
The article shows an excellent understanding of gambling and financial markets, but it's let down by the author's surprise about the terms of the "ETH over 500" bet.

This is a variation of a quanto future, which is well known and well understood in derivative pricing circles (see Wikipedia link). If you can price ETH/USD options, you can price this. Possibly it should be called a binary quanto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanto
This. I've owned an electric car for 6+ months, and have literally never charged it at home.
I wholeheartedly believe, in order for electric vehicles to survive in the US, we will need government intervention not just simply in car subsidy. We will need some sort of infrastructure subsidy to make this happen. Either give incentive to gas station or even corporate buildings. Companies that provide more charging stations for employees to charge their cars during work gets bigger tax cuts. Also, the US will need to get rid of the gas tax and implement some sort of per mileage tax. Without these, I find it hard for electric cars to survive without destroying our current infrastructure.
If you're a lifelong buyer of used cars, the perception matches pretty closely. I've never bought a car for more than $4000 (and FWIW the used buys I've made have had a minimum reliable life of 5 years, and max repair costs before abandonment of another $4k).

I don't know what the used EV market is like right now. I don't remember seeing any. Then again, EVs are relatively new and rarer than ICEVs so I wouldn't expect them to have a big profile in used vehicle listings.

(If I were guessing, I'd speculate the economy choice for EVs right now might be some kind of conversion of a failed/old ICEV, but that's uninformed speculation...)
Wasn't there something about UBS-C too?
Rust has parametric polymorphism, not generics, and doesn't have subclasses. This makes it not quite the same thing.
Buzzfeed Media Bias Article Leaves Misimpressions
Socrates was right in some ways, but there are differences. Writing has caused damage to memory abilities (I work in a related field), but it has large benefits for cultural knowledge. Offloading our thinking about email responses or decisions about what we do with our time into AI doesn't have any real benefits for society. Having computers do your routine thinking for you is like refined sugar for the brain -- it can be attractive and addictive, but I think it's a bad idea in most cases.
>>> I'm on my third EV (Leaf, S, M3). Never going back.

In how many years? Tossing cars on the junk pile every few years is an environmental nightmare. Who is taking these cars off your hands? I buy cars to keep. I demand that any car last at least 10 years, preferable 15+ without major work. My current Honda is nine years old. My last car ('92 BMW 325is) lasted twenty years. So I am very skeptical about advice regarding cars that have yet to prove their longevity. They are all great when brand new. How are they after the first hundred thousand miles/kilometers?
They neglected a huge part of the coming electric vehicle picture: lightweight, slow-speed electric vehicles.

Almost 60% of US car trips are 5 miles or shorter. (2017 ref: https://nhts.ornl.gov/tables09/ae/work/Job63697.html, 2009 ref: https://nhts.ornl.gov/tables09/fatcat/2009/vt_TRPMILES.html)

Scooters, e-bikes, and electric cargo bikes (not to mention the human-powered versions!) will soak up an enormous portion of the current automobile demand, and leave us with massively positive outcomes in terms of congestion, pollution, road safety and community cohesion.
We agree on both the fact that society is aiming toward that (for various reasons), and that less fulfilling jobs don't .. fulfill the employees (cashier jobs).

For the habit of social interactions, I have an anecdote:

I rarely go out, I was invited to a friend 30th birthday, went there quite nervous, wasn't happy most of the time, bored etc etc. The next day I felt in a much improved mood. I believe that even when slightly negative, being surrounded with people, the random thoughts of everybody, etc has a very profound effect on your brain that reset or refill something that you can't when you're alone, even if you're doing 80% of things you like and enjoy uninterrupted.

For time freed, at least you're using it for friend time :)
I found myself looking at the video wondering if it would be feasible to sell bandanas with high contrast QR code on it, basically a digital SOS that image recognition software could easily identify in a fly by
Maybe. The battery chemistry for a car vs stationary storage differs greatly. Stationary storage they optimised for ability to hold charge for long periods of time, and not loose capacity over time. Car batteries optimised for weight and charging speed. If you cycled your car battery every night with the grid it wouldn't last all that long. Maybe it won't make a difference in the long run with how many EVs we have though.
You'd put some money in a college fund. That fund would be invested so it would be collecting interest and capital gains as well as whatever you're putting in weekly or monthly.

>others might just wish you'd worked like a "regular person" and tha they could afford to go to a private university.

Then you've raised bratty kids. Parents don't have any sort of obligation to put their kids through college - mine sure didn't put me through college, lmao. I took out loans and went to a private university; then I paid my loans off myself. If my parents helped me out that would certainly have been appreciated, but I certainly wouldn't expect it.