skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice rendering there of a lap pool that they propose to place directly in front of the building in which I grew up, and in which my parents still live. They're missing a few things:

- delivery and moving trucks, which double-park on the street constantly

- Ubers, which are "local traffic", waiting for pickups

- food delivery messengers on electric bikes "sharing" the pedestrian areas at speeds over 20 mph

- piles of garbage bags waiting for pickup on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday – and "large items" too on Friday

- garbage trucks, stopping at every building to pick up that trash

- fire hydrants and access for fire trucks on both sides of the street

- tree pits, or any other way for the roots of the trees not adjacent to hedges to get water

- the 4' wide basement wells in front of many buildings on that block

- homeless people, each with multiple shopping carts full of their possessions

- bike racks

- street lights!
The only valid question of scale/stability is whether or not it scales/remains stable. I've personally achieved a couple million ARR with unminified, uncompiled javascript on the client.

Edit:I will grant you that our business is processing-heavy, so the ratio of client JS to backend language is very low.
Oh, Heroku doesn’t lock you in. It’s just running your code on containers. There’s even an open source library called Dokku that uses their open source build packs to give run the same thing in Docker containers.

The minute you price out the time and training investment to factor into your deployment solution, Heroku starts winning in a landslide.

Existing scale certainly changes things, but the fact that it forces you to go ahead and build for 12 factor makes moving elsewhere pretty simple.
Ha no I think v3 bash is default. You would think zsh tho bc it kind of falls in line with the mac user experience goals.
Ask HN: Good non-fiction books without filler?
As probably many of you, I notice my attention span being diminished by the usage of internet and social media.

I set a goal for myself to focus on reading more books and long-form articles, but I'm finding it harder to find those which don't spend a lot of words on filler. (as discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17803873)

What are some books/authors which are straight to the point and the reader doesn't have to wade through pages of personal stories to illustrate a simple point?
The Bible is very pro-nature.

BTW:
https://biblehub.com/revelation/11-18.htm

"The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small-- and for destroying those who destroy the earth."
With BYOD that is less and less likely to be true..
While this is pretty sketchy, I DO like the design principle of ephemeral subsystems. It just makes sense to assume a service can go down at any time for any reason, from its conception, and bake that into how it's built. You could argue periodically restarting things is just a natural extension of that.
K8S has many different abstractions and it's hard to get a feel for all of them from just reading the docs. I found the PluralSight videos (subscription required) [1] helpful for getting a comprehensive introduction to K8S, along with coverage of the gotchas.

The videos also helped me discern the kinds of problems K8S solves and the kinds it doesn't. If you need to deal with scale issues, the complexity of bespoke K8S may be unavoidable complexity. Otherwise, it is overkill. (exception: managed K8S services like GKE, AKS provide middle grounds)

[1] https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/getting-started-...
I can vouch for the Renault Zoe. It's a superb car: fast, modern, roomy, perfect for the city and 150-200km trips, etc. Without a doubt, I'd buy the Reneault Zoe over a Tesla Model 3.
These attacks should be taken seriously only when the carmakers actually start promoting them:

https://electrek.co/2018/09/03/automakers-not-advertising-el...
> They won't be replaced by a disruptor, they will just no longer be able to crank out mediocre educational product to people who now realize that a Bachelor of Something Or Other from Podunk U isn't actually a ticket to the middle class.

A lot of people say this, but a College Education has an excellent ROI when you look at median earnings of college graduates vs median earnings of high school graduates.

Some majors such as accounting and engineering offer even better ROIs. Some entire industries, such as Education, are almost entirely blocked to someone without a college degree. Lifelong earning numbers are correlation and not causation. We've all meet great engineers that did not complete college. Still, as long as college graduates are out earning high school graduates by significant amounts colleges will not have to worry about attracting new students.
Awstats from server logs.
In the long run, they're screwed anyway. Electric cars are less dramatic, so tolerances are going to be tighter. Maintenance is going to be automated and automated means centralized. Baring intervention on the owner's part, cars are just going to self-drive an half an hour away to get serviced when their owner is asleep or at work.

Also, just realized who I was replying to.

Thanks for all the things you've written over the years Ben. When I was first getting back into tech your presentation on split testing was invaluable and your articles and HN comments are always great.
>not being able to get a new headlight for his Model S, at a price well over $2000, for over a year.

Most of the main stream media seems completely oblivious to the struggles with parts and service Tesla is having. Twitter and the forums are filled with people who have had their cars waiting for parts for weeks and sometimes months. And this supply chain will be strained moreso after all these Model 3s have been in service for a while.

Meanwhile, some people talk about how superior this system is. Can anyone explain the difference between a "dealer" and a "Tesla service centre/store"?
That last paragraph was what I was expecting this article to be about. Anecdotal, but I've seen fewer and fewer really intelligent kids going to college right after highschool. The ones that are able to pick up coding early just don't bother. They get hired through their family's network and leverage those jobs to learn what they actually need to know in less time. With the largest corporations ditching degree requirements, I only see that trend continuing. I'd love to see data on Google employee's education levels over time.
This sounds like a reasonable point to me, and I'm not sure why this and your other post in this thread are being down-voted.

Elon Musk might well be OK with Tesla cratering, provided he gets to make an electric-car-shaped dent in the universe in the process. But Tesla, the still-publicly-traded company, can't plan to fail.
I think the only high barrier of entry is actually getting a cluster going outside of Minikube. The abstractions for pods, services, replica-sets etc are pretty easy to understand and the alternative for scaling a service/making it discoverable/highly available has a higher barrier of entry IMO. We just don't see it that way because we have lived it. If I told someone that had no experience with dev-ops how to do this in K8s vs setting up load balancers/DNS/health checking it would be much more difficult.

The barrier to entry that is currently high (setting up a cluster) is getting much easier with projects and services on many cloud platforms doing that for you.
95% of American's went into walmart.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/nearly-every-american-spent-...

At some point you will start to asymptote out. 1.7 Trillion is more than walmart+Target+3 of 4 big box retailers.
I think AWS alone justifies the price.

They are uniquely positioned to capture a huge chunk of internet traffic for enterprises. They are constantly releasing new features on AWS that greatly simplify the building huge projects. As time goes on, I think Amazon will have a huge number of major companies totally locked into AWS.

A quick google search show Apple had a profit of $11.5B last quarter while AWS alone brought in a net income of $1.4B, which is an increase of like 80% YoY. If they can maintain that level of growth for four years, then AWS alone will be be as profitable as all of Apple is now.
And Android P is already gearing up to DNS over HTTPS as well with Android itself going with DNS over TLS.

Don't know what the iOS stance on this is.
Ah right, that whole localization thing. I forgot that GM sold Opel as well, so they don't have the same vehicles any more.
There was Psion Chess for the expanded ZX81 (16 KB RAM.) I still have the cassette. The instructions on the cover explain how to castle and state that it recognize en passant. No mention about promotions but they should be supported.

Load time "3.5 mins approx." I remember that I lost every signore game against it but it wasn't very fun because it used fast mode and I couldn't see the screen when it was thinking.
I've not seen many orgs manage FF settings. Typically AD policies apply to MSIE/Edge. Has this changed?
Toyota kept the Prius and the RAV4 virtually unchanged for more than a decade. They were in no hurry to "kickstart the EV market." None of the carmakers were, and they still aren't:

https://electrek.co/2018/09/03/automakers-not-advertising-el...
I ride a motorcycle and it's the same thing. Them seeing you is top priority.
Planes like the 787 are probably very rarely completely powered down. At the gate, they're on ground power and there are probably some power buses left energized even if the plane is going to sit unused until the next day. These generator control units (since the article says they take an hour to boot up...running through a ton of tests, I guess?) are probably energized even when most other aircraft systems are turned off. If the aircraft is being towed to a hangar or away from a gate for parking, they probably want its lights on while in motion on the field so will stay powered from battery or fire up the APU (auxiliary power unit) before disconnecting from ground power to tow it around. When it makes it to the hangar, perhaps it gets plugged back in to ground power. So it's conceivable that this particular component could remain powered up continuously for a looong time.

That said: as others have stated, some forms of maintenance would power down the plane completely, and these likely happen more often than this overflow bug occurs. If I remember from the articles when this bug was first discovered, it was discovered through simulation or specific testing and not because an operator encountered it, which would imply that yes, operators do "reboot" the whole airplane often enough where this doesn't naturally happen.
>5. Luxury student dorms.

Having slept in many of those dorms, I would not call them luxurious.
I'm currently a senior in college. The number of lecturers I would consider "good" (or better) at lecturing is small. I've had probably ~30 lecturers at this point. Of those, <=5 are >=good.
1. Born a Crime (audiobook) by Trevor Noah is an entertaining yet thought-provoking listen

2. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (just gives a different perception to success all together, at least did for me)

3. Mastery (Robert Greene) - can be dismissed as Anecdotes but really powerful ones

4. Deep Work (Cal Newport) - a guy who doesn't like to be on social media and I found reading about him and stumbled upon this and it's absolutely an insightful read

5. The subtle art of not giving a fk - This is a short, beautiful and an amazing read even if you aren't looking for self improvement
I've worked with software engineers working on the CAN bus, and I had the same questions as you. According to them it has to do with the amount of cabling needed as well as electrical interference. A car has a lot of cabling going all over (a couple of hundred meters in total was the number I got), and if you can put as much of it as possible on the same bus(es), you save yourself a lot of problems.

So I suppose weight could be a factor, but space seems to be the big one.
That seems very leaky to me. It would be a shame if we had to block CF's DNS IP's.
Meh. MB are planning to start production sometime in 2H2019, and no real details about the capabilities of the car. Meanwhile Porsche's Taycan will cost more than the Model S while having Model 3-like specs. The new Audi e-tron will also have 250 mile range and a 6 sec 0-60, both worse than the Tesla Model X.

Meanwhile Tesla has another 16 months or so to keep selling the Model 3 in large quantities. Color me unimpressed by the german companies' efforts thus far.

It is telling though that most of the companies are focusing on SUVs and not sedans. Tesla needs to up its game with the X and Y to address this.
"inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text [sic]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
I drive a Honda Element. The A-pillars are huge and cover a ridiculous percent of the field of view. "Constant bearing, decreasing range" ought to be printed on the side mirrors, or perhaps it should have been named the "Honda CBDR". (Note: I love the car, this is just one of it's few less-than-perfect attributes.)

On certain left-curving roads it's possible to drive 10 - 15 seconds being unable to see anything directly in front of you.

I compensate by bobbing and weaving to look around the A-pillar at every intersection or when passing. Maybe it even makes me a safer driver because there's no illusion - I know there's a lot I can't see so drive accordingly.
> However quite a few Go developers now use interfaces with an unexported method specifically to stop users from misusing their types in a context they didn't intend. I guess it's come full circle.

What a horrible hack. Why bother with that? Either export your interface, your don't.
Sorry! Today I learned too. Mental note made, turbidity not turgidity.
I know it's a joke but the mental picture of an airplane with its wings removed showing up at a bus stop, dropping in for a broken bus, is very amusing. Would probably be national news and good PR if they actually pull this off, might be doable with a short enough plane. One can dream...
I personally found vendoring the external libraries into “/vendor” was quite useful to be able to explore/read the code that was being used. I find it odd that isn’t default behavior.
An update is that on Reddit a Firefox employee has responded on my crosspost to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9cx8hk/on_firefox_...

Clarifying that this is just an A/B test and there are no plans to continue using CloudFlare for all users.
I find those details hard to believe

If they cost $2k and are backordered a year then why hasn't some dude in china with a set of dial calipers and a Rolodex of people who own factories that make plastic car parts isn't making good enough knockoffs for $500 and selling them on eBay and Alibaba for $1000?
Can you please not do flamewars on HN? Such tedious tit-for-tat exchanges aren't of general interest, or even of individual interest once the heat dies down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>The big thing about Tesla is they have their supercharger network

What is so unique about Supercharger technology that can't be replicated by 1) the other auto manufacturers or 2) the oil companies who will need to replace their fuel station income?

It's a plug, not exactly rocket science. Superchargers aren't even state-of-the-art anymore.
> Absolutely untrue. That requires you to assume the audience is both intellectually capable of understanding a complex proposition

I downvoted this, but now I'm gonna reply to explain why. This is a veiled insult against your audience, and as such it's both a fallacy and a bad-faith argument. The rest of the sentence, too. Let's not do "I'm smarter than you all and you're all biased" here, please. It just makes the forum a shade uglier.
Twitter Is Dumb Software
As someone who just went to gophercon I'm still confused why they're tackling error handling first, and then generics. I would imagine tackling errors in Go 2.1 with the help of generics would make for a much much cleaner solution... if we even need one (i'm not fully convinced verbose error checking is as bad as people say it is)
Can you please not do flamewars on HN? Incivility like this will get you banned here regardless of how provocative some other comment was.

Edit: I'm sorry to see that you've done this repeatedly before. If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here in the future, we'd appreciate it.
Well JD Power listed Fords MyTouch as the biggest customer complaint of 2011[0].

I think customers might know how messed up their car is.

[0]https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/aggravating-myfo...
> It means the company cannot be sold, and all profits have to be reinvested

Right, so the incoming money is spent on the company itself - so should represent the long term running costs, surely.

> And PLOS, like for-profit publishers, has in the past had very large profit margins (and has been criticised for this, e.g. [1]).

I'm not sure I'd say those are extreme, $5M on $50M in revenue. Even if you removed that you would still have APCs of ~$1450-2700 which I don't think would change the original point.
You misunderstand again. Bob isn't Alice's spouse, he's Alice's employer. Bob legitimately gave Alice access to confidential information in order to do her job. But, unknown to him (unless he intrusively investigated her personal life), Alice could be blackmailed into abusing that access because she cheated on her spouse.

Bob isn't "complicit" or "culpable" he's a victim.

I think you're overconfident in simple security measures and have a poor understanding of human security threats.
Follow-up (under construction): “Deriving the Y Combinator and Sage Bird from the Mockingbird”

http://raganwald.com/2018/09/03/mockingbirds-sage-birds-and-...
Stockholm, Sweden. Good tech scene, bad housing, but very family friendly (heavily subsidized kindergarten, free schools, paid parental leave, etc.).
The valuation doesn't have to do with handling as much cash as WalMart.

The valuation has to do with this idea that Amazon will inevitably kill everything else including WalMart and end up the only way anybody can buy things or do business. It sure as hell hasn't built this valuation on the back of dividends to shareholders. You are taking a ride on a collective fantasy that there can exist a company that kills all other companies and somehow inherits their business without obliterating society as we know it.

Or, possibly, that there can be a cancer so big that it becomes the person and takes over doing everything that they do?

It's definitely a fantasy. Not Amazon's intentions: they're absolutely out to do this wherever possible, and it colors the attitude of Amazonians and dovetails with the political reality of the USA as it currently stands. The fantasy part is that it doesn't end in tears. Eventually Amazon must stop growing, if for no other reason than society will collapse and there will be no more customers for them to service, as there won't be jobs at Amazon to support 'em and government welfare will not be able to give the jobless people enough money to continue to buy things from Amazon.

That's already beginning to happen, but until then—there's a trillion dollar valuation, and the world of capital cries 'play on!'.

Or you could try and convince Amazonians NOT to kill everything else? But I don't think that'll get far: it's their culture and, as I said, that's the only reason for the valuation. People assume Amazon will continue to win.
What is "U2F"?
If you think this all the maintenance Mercedes or BMW will need ...
Welsh hospice remembering children in birdsong
> you ignored half my comment

I originally ignored the portion that mistakenly assumed I had a position against your point that aggressively insinuated I believed mass murder was acceptable. I revised my comment right after posting it to append a clarification on that.

> to engage in dishonest bickering

Please do not accuse me of being dishonest without being sure backing up your words with some sort of reasoning. I'm not being dishonest. I think you are not engaging usefully, and attempted to rectify that by asking for more information, and then to explain my reasoning when it was called into question, exactly as I suggested you do originally.

> filled with more assumptions as to my motivations

I'm not sure I assumed a single thing about you. I couched all my statements generically on purpose.

I think you are stuck in a context where you are interpreting me as attacking you. if you truly think I'm being dishonest or attacking you, don't reply. If you think I'm wrong, explain how I'm wrong. If you have problems explaining why I'm wrong, perhaps reexamine the assertion that I am. I'm fully willing to entertain that I'm wrong, and admit it. It wouldn't be the first time I've done so.
After 18 Yrs of Telling You Not to Fix It Yourself, Sony to Stop Fixing the PS2
If I recall correctly, at least some guidelines for avionics software (JSF, maybe?) forbid dynamic memory allocations, period.
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has implications that I find impact very disparate areas. It's hard work in places though.

The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann is a wonderfully readable and accessible intro to complexity, which again is a topic that seems to crop up all over the place.

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine cites a shedload of research to dispel gender-related myths. It should be taught in schools, in my opinion.
For me, it was probably the most important book I have read in the last 10 years, if only to expand my thinking to stop making assumptions about everything. To me, rather than a textbook claiming authority over an entire field, it was a demonstration of the exercise of searching for reason for the way things are beyond "that's the way it is", for things I took for granted in an extremely religious upbringing.
> None of the competition are aiming at the model 3 or Leaf either, which is where the real market is. Nissan have announced a ~60kwh Leaf for 2019. They seem to be the only ones who are really close behind tesla.

The Chevy Bolt EV is an excellent offering in this space, I have a 2017 model. ~230 mile range, ~$37k price tag before tax rebate.
I was at Gophercon and saw Russ's video where he spent 30 seconds explaining what generics were to the audience and showed a half-baked example of the syntax they are considering. I've been using Go for almost 5 years now and have no desire to see generics introduced. It would ruin what is currently a very simple and easy-to-use language. Am I the only one who is hoping this whole thing fizzles out?
The subject matter is about a woman managing a high intensity career and taking care of a large family, so perhaps not. It's worth thinking about though.
I feel hypothyroidism is more prevalent today than at any other point in human history. Everyone needs to check their body temperature regularly, it's a great metric.
UPDuino: a $9.99 FPGA
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