skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those "features" seem minor compared to the fact that you won't even need to change the oil, and as well as many other components in an EV.
i hope i don't lose Skitch. that's a decade or more worth of screenshots and convenient annotations...
I've been lurking here for 10 years. For most of that time I was employed as an electrical engineer.

Why should people who are interested in high quality technical discussion surprise you with their presence?

"Hacker" used to mean a lot more than "software developer".
Is education a fundamental right?
64-bit-o-phobic... GreenHills INT178, until recently.
Hate to say it but GM has piss poor body engineering. I've owned quite a few GM vehicles including vans and trucks for a business. What I've learned about GM over the years: drivetrain is pretty stout mechanically. Rarely had big problems with engines or transmissions and they will last 10+ years and 100k+ hard city miles. Everything else is crap. You spend a lot of time fixing little things. Broken plastic bits in the cabin are the first items (dash and door pieces) followed by silly things like door handles, hoses, small plastic bits on/around the engine, and other minor yet highly aggravating issues.

And don't get me started on their sad excuse for door handles. They've been producing cheap trash designs since the 90's. Even my old 95 Tahoe suffered a few broken door handles. They can't help but make a flimsy plastic carrier and a thin flimsy cast zinc handle that fails after a few years. The usual culprit is a small thin bit of plastic which holds the whole thing together breaks or the handle snaps from mechanical fatigue. It's laughably pathetic and partly why I won't ever touch another GM ever again.

GM in a nutshell: A decent drivetrain surrounded by plastic trash.
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It's been three years since I started writing Go professionally and I think adding generics to Go is one of the worst ideas I've ever encountered. I love Haskell, and I much prefer hindley-milner type systems, type classes, and real sum types. I see the value of generics where appropriate. Golang, however, made the tradeoff to sacrifice anything near that level of abstraction, and it's success might largely be attributed to the approach-ability of the language as a result of that tradeoff. Retrofitting generics onto the language will be at it's best a death sentence for the principles and ergonomics of the language. One thing that has become clear to me as I have spent time with Erlang, Haskell, and Go is that it's much better to use the right tool for the job rather than trying to manipulate a tool to fit every use case, which is precisely what adding generics is all about.
Right. The world is more complicated than "weapons bad love good". Do people really think that fewer people would die if we could somehow roll weapons technology back to 1914? God help us if we did that unilaterally.

We live in an age of unprecedented peace and prosperity, and it's not artificial limitations on technological development that got us here.

I see the adoption of simplistic and absolute moral stances by people smart enough to know better as a form of entitled selfishness. It's as if people feel entitled to performative first-order moral posturing while foisting on other people the job of avoiding the foreseeable negative consequences of adopting simplistic feel-good policies in a complex world.
Does anyone else find this ironic that this article is published in Nature, a subscription journal?
I think that "the stupidity of putting all your eggs in one basket" applies well to "moving toward unmanned missile trucks for air-to-air and strike". In a serious war, there will be no radio communication and there will be no satellites. Each piece of equipment is on its own, and we aren't about to trust AI with that.

You can "defeat something going mach 6 that pulls 25 g’s in the end game", not that this exists. The easy answer is directed energy, such as lasers. Also, simply forcing it to maneuver at 25 g will quickly put an end to flying at mach 6. Each turn costs energy, and bypassing the laws of physics is not an option.
You're comparing a full size sedan to a city car.

I know the Tesla 3 isn't on sale everywhere, but it's damn near the price of the i3. Ultimately, though, that's missing the point -- the i3 is a city car, the small size is part of the selling point (while also being a drawback).

In the price range, the 3 is a more useful car in most places, but the i3 has its niche as well.

Hell, there are so many tax credits and rebates here in CA that you can get a new i3 from around $24k. I still opted for the Tesla because the i3 would have very limited range and usefulness as an everyday car, but if you don't mind buying a car that's solely a commuter, it's a great option.
Good question. Consider the short range Model 3 vs the longer range Nissan Leaf thats supposed to be coming next year. They will both have similar prices and ranges. Then its the choice between the cool looking, more futuristic car which might have issues vs the more regular, likely more dependable one. I think Tesla are counting on autopilot to differentiate them, but that wont be compelling to everyone.
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0-60mph in 8.2s is anything but fast.

Performance Model 3 can do it in 3.5s
A great podcast on the subject:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-1-story-98...

TL;DL: The guy who came up with 98.6 was using inaccurate equipment.
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So this "perk" does not even meet legal minimum for large companies. Just hire remotely if you want to attract top talent.
There is a large list here (including this one): https://www.joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards
The ICE40 chips are the ones supported by the open source icestorm toolchain.
JWT and should you really use it?
I'd love to have a Bolt if Chevvy could be bothered to sell it in my country (UK). They dont seem to have any interest in selling it.
Excellent. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
Depends on what you want to do with these machines, but for multi-OS setup you need VMs. I guess you could check out Vagrant, maybe with some AutoIT to help you avtomate tasks inside Windows. It won't be pretty, but it will work.
I've not seen a supercharger next to an existing gas station.

On Tesla's website (and on the in-car display) they specifically identify which services are available at that location. Seems to be a lot of restaurant/starbucks type places. I don't have a ton of experience with them so I can't speak to all of them, but they at least try to locate near services for this very reason -- 40 minutes is a long time to sit twiddling your thumbs.

Last time I used a supercharger, though, the car charged so fast in was in a HURRY to get my coffee and locate a restroom!
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I plan to start slowly getting out of tech stocks.

Since 2012, I've held stocks in Apple, Amazon, Google, and Tesla (also, Microsoft and Intel, but sold those). I was skeptical about Facebook, so didn't purchase.

I attribute my buying decisions to my knowledge gained from Hacker News. Thank you everybody:)

Back then, the everyday person didn't have a clue what these companies were doing. (My dad's friend was still betting on HP, and no one knew about AWS.)

Oil companies fail because they think they're in the oil business. When in fact, they're in the energy business.

Toys "R" Us went bankrupt because they thought they were a toy-selling company, instead of a child entertainment company. These companies fail to innovate.

The great thing about tech companies... innovation is in their blood. The problem is when that blood gets diluted and their purpose gets lost in "making toys" instead of "entertaining children".

As I said above, I'm looking to get out of tech stocks. Looking for multi-family property real estate options. Years ago I purchased and lived in a duplex, then sold.

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> Toyota could be making a lot of Model S's per week (...)

Then, why don't they? It's a lucrative segment that creates lots of goodwill and free publicity.

They don't because they can't. Everyone assumes automakers will easily catch up to the lead that Tesla holds. I don't think it's all that easy.

Tesla has at least a six year lead on everyone else. The Model S came out in 2012, established brands are coming out with S competitors in 2018-2020. It will take time for them to scale production so that mid-range segments are profitable. Don't expect to see model 3 competitors in the next five years (no prototypes, so design hasn't even started).

The single exception is Renault-Nissan. They have the know-how and are already in the market in relevant numbers.
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They mostly offer those long warranties because they severely damaged their brands with the quality of the products they rolled out initially. So now they have to give huge warranties to offset the meme that Hyundai and Kia will not survive even a few years out of warranty without major work.
Then don't read their website.

I'm entirely serious. If there's enough people like you, there's a good chance that it'll be noticed.

I tend to think that websites are under-optimizing for responsiveness, though I confess that I don't have evidence for that claim. However, I also think that the kind of puritanism on display in this article requires an amount of work that would be a waste (again, no evidence).
I agree. Even if someone wants to swim against the current and use Python instead of R in these context, it is very hard to do and get publication quality results unless you have plenty of time and really know what you are doing. Since scientists are busy people, it makes sense to just follow the crowd and use R, which is a shame.
Your analogy is silly. Fire is free to make (discounting the extremely little time/effort to make it). Hosting an online encyclopedia with low latency, moderation, etc is not.
> "You will have some sort of docking station in your garage and when you park short-term the car flips the batteries for you with a loaded one"

Are you serious? Tesla did this and presented a tech demo in 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY

> "auto-plug itself and charges overnight. No cables, no mess."

Another Tesla tech demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMM0lRfX6YI

Also, what do you mean "superchargers disappearing?".

It seems that Tesla is way a head on a lot of things and it will take quite an effort/investment for the incumbents to catch up.

Though in reality, wide EV adoption is a WIN for everybody and is actually the core mission of Tesla, which is to "Accelerate Sustainable Transport"
Apollo movie flag thing?
I feel like there isn't enough focus on this point - mandating extra elements (filters) inside an otherwise direct line of communication is always a bad idea. The best case scenario you get is the telephone game...
I was just reading that the U.S. has a ban on recycling nuclear waste (proliferation concerns) while France and the U.K. and a few other nations commercialized recycling (Russia and others recycle for the military).

So apparently the politics behind Nevada is a bit more scewed.

Note that recycling appears to be a rather intensive process returning material that could be used for power production but is also not of superior quality.
People who think like this should really chill the fuck out. Ownership of thoughts and ideas is pathetic at best, if you don't want it shared, keep it to yourself.

But nooo, "I want everyone to hear me and I want them to know it was me who said it. Me me me. I'm important, I want to feel like it". Get the fuck over it.

And if you want to make money off of it, there are plenty of much better ways besides braindead ads. GDPR seems to pander a bit too much to carebears.
Probably, although I don't understand why 37.

In Europe (at least in post-soviet countries I can speak of), _everyone knows_ (c) that the body temperature should be 36.6, which is 97.9 F. 37-to-37.5 is kinda beginning of a fever already.
> Tesla worked hard to avoid having dealers.

So, can't Mercedes do the same?
I still contend that silver-bullet-chasing is at the heart of a lot of web bloat. You have a "startup founder" (or fortune 500 middle-manager) who believes that he has a world-changing (or next-quarter revenue generating) idea, he just needs a couple of grubby programmers to type it into the computer for him. Now, he knows that these grubby computer geeks are far, far, beneath him, and that anything they know how to do must be trivially simple to do, he just didn't take the right classes in college to know which buttons to press to make the world-changing computer thing happen. So the programmers tell him it's going to take a few months. "A few months!" He explodes. "I need this by Thursday! I thought you worthless lot called yourself computer dwee- er, programmers!" So he casts them out of his sight and starts googling "how to program really fast". He comes across Angular. He doesn't know what "Angular" means, but google says it programs really fast, and google is smarters than those dorks who can't even make a website in two days. So he says, "here, use Angular, it makes things go really fast. This is the silver bullet we're searching for". Of course, Angular depends on a few MB of libraries - mostly because when somebody was creating a table controller or whatever the hell for Angular, he or somebody who had some sway over him told _him_ that these other dependencies would let him program real fast. And so on, down the line, until finally something bottoms out into some actual javascript that actually does something. But because making web pages load quickly and be pleasant to use and not choke the internet infrastructure is a "nice to have" but getting this world-changing thing "to market" is a matter of life and death, that nerdy sounding load-testing shit is pushed off until the very end until there's no time to do it and who cares because you can't stand the sight of those slovenly programmers any more anyway and if they knew what they were doing, they'd have gotten it right in the first place.
Many times, these $200 million companies make their owners far wealthier than even unicorn founders. Because not only are they sometimes fully owned by the founders, but they are making cash flow from day one (gasp!) and paying out healthy distributions from the beginning.
It works quite well - though I disagree with his reluctance to hold it up to the mouth like a mic (speaking only) rather than up to your cheek like a phone (speaking and listening). It's usually More comfortable to me. Maybe we are just doing it in different contexts.

Either way, making it immediately obvious you're talking into a device gives the implicit signal "I'm talking, but not to you" so you don't have to do any further signaling, which is usually less clear anyway (head shake, etc.)
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So you're saying: don't use an unfinished programming language to write unfinished programs ;)
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Can someone explain why someone would choose an FPGA over a standard microprocessor? What advantages could this UPDuino have over an Arduino? Also, how do ASIC's figure into this comparison?

My understanding is that microprocessors excel at executing logic using an onboard general-purpose ALU sequentially and quickly.

On the other hand, an FPGA excels at doing a specified task as the hardware (gates) are programmed/hooked up in a certain way to execute that one task.

ASIC's are processors that are designed from the factory to execute a specific task (kind of like pre-programmed, non-reprogrammable FPGA's).

Can someone please fill in the gaps please? I have a general idea, but I'm not sure I understand all the differences correctly.
3.7kW is more than pretty bad, it's downright terrible. That's something like 15 miles of range for every hour charging. I don't think I could deal with that at home, let alone while attempting to travel somewhere.
I was born on the west side of Chicago, grew up in Englewood. I got my first job at 14 at the grocery store my mother worked at as a clerk. I worked there for two years before I convinced the owner to let me look at their inventory system. I didn't even get paid extra for that job, he led me to another job where I got to do some web design and got paid right around the minimum wage. And if I hadn't taken that job? No funds for college, no idea that I was actually smart enough to go, etc.

You don't need a "strong professional network" to have your family help you find work, and I take offense to the implication that only affluent people have the means to support each other. There's no one stopping "bright young students" from getting their shoes dirty and finding someone who needs real work done. God knows there are enough kids already pushed away from programming by the elitist attitude you're displaying here. Most people can't afford to worry about what's "boring", they're focused on making sure they can survive. A degree is an expense that can be delayed until it's necessary.
So tell me, what is the exact dollar amount one can make before they're no longer allowed to talk about these things?
So where are all the competing charging stations? The other manufacturers have dealer networks but nothing has appeared.

This is where the squabbling politics of main manufacturers will start to appear, both in wrangling the dealer network and getting the company to invest dollars to build that out rather than stay with the tried and true ICE business.

If anything, this will result in a constant several-year lag of competitiveness with manufacturers with true EV commitment.
Having been in that situation, I may be able to offer some insight.

In my early thirties I was, let's say "very friendly with the ladies." I simply could not imagine being monogamous, and couldn't understand why anyone would want to be.

Then I met the woman who became my wife and I almost immediately didn't want any other woman. I don't mean that I came to accept that I wouldn't have any others, or anything like that. I mean that I simply didn't want anyone else. Other women became like abstract beings: attractive, but I was content to view them from afar. There was only one particular woman I actually wanted to make physical contact with.

I know that may sound kind of weird and new-agey, but it was literally like a switch flipping to another position, and almost 18 years later, it's never flipped back. My wife can be a royal pain in the ass sometimes, but my life would be lacking something critical without her, specifically, in it.
Please don't bring generational and political flamebait into HN threads.

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Funny how the "big bad American companies" will be the only ones capable of following the draconian laws on filtering and blocking content.

If anything they will make more money, not less.

Not to mention the absurdity of the link tax, I'm thinking that could be the last nail on the coffin of traditional media.
Maybe it's that it's more expensive to do a startup as an older person (your time is more valuable since you've built up more skills, for example), so as a result startups that are founded by older people are the ones with unusually strong premises or reasons for being. It could be a selection effect.
I've implemented this a while ago as part of RediSearch and integrated into a Trie. This is a super powerful algorithm. https://github.com/RedisLabsModules/RediSearch/tree/master/s...
> Oh, wait, Person B is on vacation and asked Person C to cover for them

You just hit a particular peeve with a sideways glance.

There is a fundamental problem with "person B is on vacation and asked person C to cover". In the OpsGenie world, shift overrides are manual. Only manual. (I consider poking API with pre-calculated data as manual, too.)

What I really want is for OpsGenie to add support for concept of vacation. When someone is going on a vacation, it should be possible to tell the alerting system that during timeframe T, person P is unavailable - now recalculate and reschedule the rest of the roster. But no. They don't do that.

Our guys have asked for this feature during contract negotiations. I have asked it personally from their engineering staff. It's just not a feature they want to support.
> And this drives insurance costs through the roof [1].

This is literally fake news. I too assumed it will exorbitant from my 2018 Tesla M3 Long Range, then I got a quote from my agent (Safeco), it is same price as my 10yr old BMW. In fact, it is cheap for a new car.

$650 for 6 months (Tesla & X3) is not astronomical.
The long term outcome of this is not what you want. The less risk there is to going to war, the less incentive there is to avoid war in the first place. More automation will inevitably lead to more frequent, bloodier (especially in terms of collateral damage) wars.