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I look at it this way -- if someone's devoting their life to driving stupid ad clicks because that's what pays best, I don't feel obligated to listen to "100% pure"[1], absolutist moral positions from them.

One could even say it's a form of moral compensation for a morally meaningless career.

It's not about the money, it's about the hypocrisy. You don't see them protesting Youtube's political polarization machine of a recommendation engine.

[1]: An expectation of 100% moral purity rather than "which has the least bad practical effects" is the root cause of a lot of harm in the world.
There's been inflation. A modern destroyer is, in terms of tonnage, more like a cruiser.
Great last tip. Cycling for decades in major cities. Sometimes running a light is safer. The infra is not good enough, you have to think for yourself.
That was a conscious choice on your part though, an AMG is a pretty expensive car and buying those out of warranty means you know you are taking a substantial risk of high costs if something breaks.

Engine or ABC work on those cars can cost a fortune, for one because you'll need a shop that really knows what they are doing, for another because the parts are expensive.

Maintenance as you've correctly identified is key, as is a good inspection prior to purchase and a good warranty by the company you buy it from.

On the plus side, you can buy these for a very small fraction of the new value even with very low mileage. If you want to pity someone it would have to be the first owner, it's fairly regular to see write-offs in excess of $4/mile driven.
> the industry will quite easily wipe the floor with tesla when market is ripe.

It won't be easy.

1. the industry has a chain of dealers that will have to sell EVs alongside gas cars - how can they say that the gasoline cars are the cars of the past (Tesla's stance) when they have to sell gas cars, too? Thus the dealers will not sell EVs that strongly by principle. "Yeah, the other 90% of the cars on this lot are dead as history. You'll do well not to buy one of those." Traditional dealers will never say that to their customers. But Elon has been giving that message to Tesla customers for a decade and EV shoppers are listening.

2. Where are they getting their batteries from? Tesla already has the battery factory. Every other company is going to have to have some kind of battery deal with LG or Panasonic or whoever, and thus no vertical integration, like Tesla already has.

3. How is "the industry" going to sell cross-country travel? Buying a Tesla, you have access to a world-wide charging network that is super-quick to charge the cars, and incredibly expansive. "the industry" cannot just whip a charging network up, out of thin air.

4. Tesla has re-invented _the car_, not just electric vehicles. Look at the Model 3 dashboard. It stands out! "the industry" is still building EVs in their existing factories, with existing interiors and exteriors, that look and feel like gas cars but with an EV powertrain. There are literally tens of brands that look and feel similar to each other, and only one car brand - Tesla - that is actually unique. You think folks are not going to notice that? Tesla is not on the same planet, design and feel wise, as the other carmakers, which all exist in the same small, close-minded space. Customers are noticing that.
Please don't post flamewar-style comments to HN.

Cyclists vs. drivers is consistently one of the most vicious flamewar topics we see, so this is not a theoretical question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What makes you think these weapons will be discriminate? Who will be deploying them and against what will they deploy them? Drones are dual use technologies, the user matters. AI is also a dual use technology, the trainer matters. AI (poorly defined term almost always, but whatever) can be just as evil as a human, if not more so. It's hard enough to figure out what's a moral right vs. wrong as a human, I've yet to see a computer do that, and if it did, I'd argue it's just as easy to tell it to always choose wrong vs to always choose right.
I think it's more than a publicity stunt, it's successful FUD.

First off, Tesla's charging network is better and faster than anyone else's. That said, I think the difference might be overstated, but with a Tesla I know all charging will be easy to locate, functional, and fast.

With another EV I might worry about DC Fast charging standards, who owns it, how much it will cost, whether I am a member of their network, etc. I think it's probably less bad than I assume, but the mere fact that I have doubts helps Tesla.

That is to say, the marketing benefits are likely greater even than the actual functionality benefits, even though the functionality is by far the best.
Oil changes every 10k miles is strictly a North American thing, the same cars run just fine with oil changes a multiple of that apart.
I think there is room for both, and traditional combustion engines cars, will mostly be canabalised. But I am actively considering, replacing my Model S, with a Taycan (dependant on final price, charging options etc). The Tesla supercharging network, is a huge draw, but Porsche is pursuing something similar, with even faster charging.
In the commercial sector, people seek wealth. Academics instead seek fame. These PR articles help make them famous.
I am a big fan of PFSense. Not a huge fan of Netgate as a company and the direction they are taking the product.

In any case, you can load it onto some fairly low cost hardware for your typical home user. It's fantastic.

I am not a huge fan of the Ubiquiti routers. They required loading a config onto them just to get DHCP enabled and NAT setup for a typical 1 WAN and 1 LAN environment. Why on earth they would ship without that config on them when 99.9999% of environments are like that is bewildering to me.

Don't know if it's changed since then but I haven't gone back to mess with them since.
Sure, the magical internet gnomes can know what every book in the world contains and detect copy paste like that.

I would expect to read such an uninformed comment on Fox News comment section.
With "declarative pipeline" introduced a few years back, this is the direction we are pushing people toward.

Programming capabilities are useful for ecosystem developers to create higher level primitives from existing ones, as it creates a new way of extending Jenkins without plugins.
I think he's under the impression that a paycheck makes you into a slave. Weird. He might have a political agenda of his own there.

I've got as much power to quit as they do to fire me and creative talent isn't cookie cutter like finding someone to fill your shift on an assembly line. Regardless, in ANY job, no one is required to do something that they find unethical. Unfortunately, the power you have is to quit/get fired. Fortunately in tech, losing one (or more) people on a bleeding edge weapons contract can sink the whole thing as there aren't that many folks qualified to do that sort of work.

A paycheck doesn't remove my brain or make my boss a god.
Here are some details about this process. Basically, your submission can get a second chance if a moderator thinks it was a good one that everybody missed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926
They easily can replicate it with time and money.

However, Mercedes is still talking about the car they'll start building Real Soon Like Now.

Yet, oddly silent about their fast charging network.
The reference architecture is built off of GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo [0] which has a few more languages

[0] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo
Not an expert of the current situation. But the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998 was caused by something similar.

In that case, people were borrowing in USD due to much lower interest rates in USD and stable/fixed exchange rates. These loans were used to finance property and infrastructure for exports. However, these loans were also financing lots of purchases for imports, so the current account deficit in these countries got worse and worse, until inflation happened and debt payments shot up, causing firms to default and creating an economic collapse.

As a result, Indonesia, Thailand, and South Korea had to get help from the IMF. http://www.wright.edu/~tdung/asiancrisis-hill.htm
Having a network that can provide proper support might be more important than being able to make a sale when the product is shiny and new.

A lesson I learned the hard way.

I'll never buy another Fiat, not because I don't love the car. But because in my region, repair and maintenance options are limited compared with other brands.

Next time I'll go with a Ford/Chevy/Toyota/Whatever simply so I don't have to drive 200 miles away for service because the local dealerships are understaffed and only open banker's hours.
You should be presenting in a future Jenkins World event!
These days it's easy to type into google "typescript starter" thanks to the excellent work of other people, which will inevitably include automatic reloading. You get better code pretty much for free.
If you replace brake pads and you are going to keep your rotors have them turned down a tiny bit to ensure roughly double the wear life on your brake pads. If they are too thin to be turned down safely then you'll have to replace them anyway.
I'm rather unfamiliar with electric vehicles, but I was curious if all of these future EVs will have a standardized charging port. I get the feeling in order for there to be electric "gas stations" they will all need to have the same plug.
Can't really find anything solid.
I was really surprised too. It must be the intersection of azure devs, working in South Central, and who are on hacker news is pretty small.
Experience wise I feel the same. Managing and building a team is very non-obvious, and doing group projects in college will never get you that kind of experience. Technical skills are of somewhat less importance in my mind (and easier to learn very young)

However, the older you get the more other commitments you tend to have. I fully believe you can found a company while having a life outside of work, but it is not the classic image of the hard-working, hard-drinking 20-something.
My recollection is that it's not enabled by default because there were (are?) some features that don't work once you enable it. I assume it's the Deep Packet Inspection and advanced routing type stuff.

(Sadly my home internet connection is too slow to make hardware offloading on the edge router matter...)
Only one post per company, please. This is in the instructions at the top.

(This comment originally said something about flamewars but that was a copy/paste mistake!)
I wonder what happened that caused those changes. Like, lots of people lose that much weight (myself included) and experience no changes. I see lots of pseudoscience on this I'd be interested in seeing what changes, what the contributing factors were, and how long it changes (is it permanent? Just a slow bounce back from the weight loss?). That's a drastic shift, and I imagine being cold is probably the tip of the iceberg in how a person changes if their metabolism drops that much.
> Is it unrealistic for someone without a CS degree to get an entry-level C++ developer job without prior professional experience?

If you have no degree, and can not otherwise demonstrate competency in C++ in particular (github projects, etc? C experience could do too), then I think yes. C++ requires stronger programming skills than most other languages.
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Why is it a shame to use R?

R is not inferior to Python. Perhaps for general programming, but for stats and visualization, R is the gold standard.
> Wikipedia should verify the copyright

LOL
if practicality is a concern at all, then you can get stm32's for about that which will have significantly more power than you'll be able to cram into a $5 FPGA, and the development environment will actually be pleasant.

(or just buy them, there's at least one on crowd supply, another was on kickstarter in the last couple years, etc)
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Who says that mSpy isn't?
When you reach that stage of technology, why own a car at all ? By Ubering/Renting/Leasing into a fleet of autonomous cars, you get all of that with the addition of:

* Be able to chose the car for your immediate present needs (car/truck/sport)

* Have a car anywhere in the world

* Save money as you no longer need private parking space in your property.

Also most likely the cost of private car ownership is likely going to increase to the domain of luxury.

First because car manufacturer will want a piece of the fleet pie (see Volvo) and that will be a disputed market between Manufacturer/Uber-like/Rental Companies.

Then government are going to like fleets. Working with a few large partners is going to make stuff like dynamic traffic management doable, cities will be able to enforce very strict policies, and minimise the space allocated to car. For example in the EU they are destroying public parking space in the cities, do not allow building of private parking space either for offices or houses.

So car manufacturer won't want to sell you car and government won't want you to own one - good luck :-)
I'm also doing Startup School and I like the approach so far. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the scale of the current number of companies. Lectures are easy to post online, and homework/exercises are easy to distribute, but personal feedback requires individual attention, and that's not easy to recreate. The 'office hours' with groups and the vote-based-forums are a good idea to recreate some of that missing personal interaction so it'll be interesting to see how Startup School evolves.
I don't drive a GM or a Tesla or any electric car and I have no skin in the game, but it seems to me that GM's differentiating feature is that you can walk into a dealership and buy one right now, today, and drive it away the same day. I see far more Volts/Bolts than I do Teslas. The difference between the Bolt and the Model 3 is that you can buy the Bolt right now.

If anything it seems to be Ford and Chrysler doing the bare minimum. They offer EV versions of their cars, but they're not common and not pushed very heavily. At least GM has an all-electric model that stands on its own and isn't just an EV variant of another model (it's not "the Chevy Bolt EV", it's just "the Chevy Bolt" because there is no "Chevy Bolt ICE".) GM's electric offering was built from the ground up to be an electric car, and has won tons of awards for actually being a good car.
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It's not the software engineers that are the problem it's the automotive design managers who decide that there will be one computer and one buss.

The DOT should have standards for this stuff. Infotainment system shouldn't have control authority or share critical buses with the engine and braking/traction control system.
I think AI drones make us more willing to kill indiscriminately. When our people are also at risk, we pay more attention to whether there is sufficient information to safely operate with minimal casualties on either side. Drones invite "spray-and-pray" warfare that breeds further aggression.

They definitely have value, drones would have been great at D-Day, but realistically considering human behavior... I suspect these "discriminate" weapons will result in a net increase of collateral damage.
> At 12 years old and 150,000 miles, I've definitely exceeded the expected lifetime of the car.

It should have at least another 5 years and 50-100K miles in it.
I think it's pie in the sky thinking to assume the kind of infrastructure change needed to convert enough ICE vehicles to electric vehicles to kill Toyota/Honda/VW/Ford/etc within 10 years worldwide.

Need charging stations built, parking lots ripped up and wires ran, local grids probably need upgrades, not to mention all the kinks to still work out that make owning a corolla/camry type vehicle far cheaper for 90% of people. EV is great for people who can afford to experiment and have a spare car, but people on a budget who need something that works, which is the majority, can't go for that yet.
> In 2017, economist Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "his contributions to behavioral economics and his pioneering work in establishing that people are predictably irrational in ways that defy economic theory."

Proving that all the other economists are modeling things wrong is more impressive than you make it sound.
I too beg to differ.

Ive had 325 & X3. After the 5 year mark (and free maintenance ends) BMWs have sky high maintenance. I am not even talking about dealership maint. I go for 3rd party and still lots of stuff breaks or needs repairs (waterpump etc) - everytime the bill comes to a cool 1-2-3K. My X3 is the the worst offender, every 2 years I have to cough up 3K range repairs... ouch
The assumption, as seen in the first set of bullet points, has been: agriculture -> sedentary lifestyle -> large monuments. The discovery of Gobekli Tepe suggests that (in at least some cases), large monuments came first. This is unexpected because there was assumed to be (1) no reason for such monuments before sedentary life (anthropological, i.e. the formation of organised religions was supposed to coincide with the organisation of hierarchies in sedentary life), and (2) not enough manpower to construct such architecture (i.e. nomads wouldn't come together for months to build permanent structures).
Running the topmost image through Compressor.io gives a ~82% file size reduction with no noticeable image quality loss, and converting the next one from a PNG to a JPEG reduces the size by ~77%. I think there is clearly room for improvement here.
I wonder if there's a cultural difference here? In the UK there's a strong second hand market and it's incredibly common to see cars driving around old enough to have no warranty. I have one, it's 12 years old. When it goes wrong (which is rarely) I just take it to the local (non-affiliated) garage to fix. Mostly the yearly service is all it needs.
Dear Google,

Why do you hate squares so much?

Rounded corners looks like kid's toys.

Sincerely,

A concerned power user
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I expect the electric car dealers to charge more for the repair and maintenance work that remains.

Also I've seen gasoline engines get pretty reliable these days. The standard maintenance that my Toyota Camry needs for the first 120K miles is an oil/filter change, cabin filter change, tire rotation on a yearly basis. Maybe a brake pad change once in the 120K. But electric cars also need the cabin filter, tire rotation, maybe brake pads. So really it is just the oil/filter change that remain.
> Toys "R" Us went bankrupt because they thought they were a toy-selling company, instead of a child entertainment company.

Well said.

There's a reason why the Lego store always is full of kids PLAYING, and Toys R Us felt like a Walmart that happened to stock toys instead of groceries.
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In addition to the technical concerns is the overall experience that is being designed that requires this type of implementation. This type of ad, popup, subscribe, video, etc... is ubiquitous across news/blogs.
"Pricing has not been announced"
> Do people really think that fewer people would die if we could somehow roll weapons technology back to 1914?

Nope, that's a red herring.
The equivalent tooling for FPGA programming is starting with a high level hardware description (typically Verilog or VHDL) then

- synthesis -- this converts the text description from HDL into gates (fun fact you can write valid HDL which cannot be synthesized into hardware)

- place & route -- this takes what is essentially a schematic from the first step and assigns it to resources within the FPGA. This is also where you specify which pins on the FPGA you want to be connected to the schematic outputs.

- timing closure and simulation -- This is the process where the FPGA place and route core is trying to either make your design fit in as few gates as possible or run as fast as possible (these choices often conflict so you have to prioritize one over the other)

- bitstream generation -- This is where an often encrypted stream of bits are generated such that if they are fed into the FPGA they will set all the internal switches etc to realize the design you've put together.

- programming/flashing -- most systems use JTAG to do this.

When I started doing FPGA designs the hardest part for me was to break the notion of "software" when I was writing VHDL. You have to keep your head in the 'one clock' every variable gets to change exactly once in this block.
Why superhero films aren't like Westerns
We tested this at $dayjob and JSON+gzip wins hands down because you already have an optimized native-code parser in the browser.

Large-ish arrays of similar JSON objects compress very well with gzip, and ultimately parse more quickly than JS-based protobuf or msgpack, at least in our testing.
Um, use your imagination a little. This has the potential to make murder-for-hire and assassinations much easier. The body count may be lower but everyone is at risk. It won't just be US government drones and Russian poisonings anymore.

This is likely to require more stringent security. But heck, who really needs to go outside anyway?
That only works for people with private garages wired for high capacity circuits. So it's a minority of the population, mainly affluent suburbanites. Other solutions will have to be find to get broader EV adoption.
Something along the lines of

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
Here's what's not new: lack of anti-tracking protections
Figure 3A is really interesting - post 40 founders are more successful.
It should not be that expensive, but replacing brake fluid periodically is good practice, it is very hygroscopic and will cause corrosion and eventually seals will fail. But i3 brake fluid change should cost no more or less than any other car with that many disc brakes.
Ironically it's more robust than most of sites I see on the internet.