skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FPGA seems to be a ICE40UP5K which has 5280 logic elements each configurable to any Boolean function of up to four inputs plus a flip-flop to store the result. Wikipedia gives two numbers for the transistor count of the 6502 namely 3,510 and 4,237 but both are smaller than the number of logic elements so fitting a 6502 should be easily possible. The FPGA has an integrated 48 MHz clock so a 2 MHz designs also seems quite achievable. I can not tell whether the remaining logic elements, the memory, and the I/O blocks are sufficient to build everything else because I know essentially nothing about the NES. It seems at least not wildly implausible to me but memory might become an issue because there is only about one megabit on the FPGA.
Is this operational already?
After hearing Musk describe in more detail how the future Roadster has achieved its massive range and current capacity (two 100Kwh Model S batteries stacked), I've become a lot less confident in Tesla's technology advantage.

If it were mostly due to battery tech breakthroughs, the situation would be much different. But no, it's just a heavier, bigger pile of existing batteries.

The established manufacturers just need to decide to commit to competing with Tesla. They already have mass production solved, and there doesn't seem to be any major technological breakthrough Tesla owns preventing them from competing on performance.
I guess I meant more of a labor collective than what's normally considered a "union." I'm not interested in paying for pensions or protecting jobs of old farts who feel threatened by young people. But I am interested in collectivizing with workers to get access to the sort of "perks" that most people rely on their company for, because that's going to increase my ability to freely choose who I do and don't work for.

You mentioned you have your own health insurance and that's great. As an independent consultant, I do too, but I don't get the same kind of rates and coverage as I would as part of a company. It's just not offered to people like me. The "free market" response to that would be, "Well, then get a FTE job then, there's plenty out there." But what if I'd rather not depend on my employer for that? We can collectivize; we choose to let our employers do it for us.

I don't understand the stark anti-union sentiment. You must realize that sometimes, your interests will diverge from your employers, and that the optimal result for both sides may not always be for you to give up or risk your employment being terminated over it, but it might actually be for the company to change their policies. That outcome is much harder to imagine without some sort of collective bargaining.
The problem is with ICE campers, you can throw some extra cans on the back and double or triple your range. Doing so with an EV is impossible. The best you could do is carry solar panels which may take multiple days to get your battery to a point where you can carry on.
I agree. However, from the reviews I've been reading from all three Tesla models is that their built quality is far from their Audi, BMW and Mercedes equivalents.

I guess that what I'm trying to say is that the Model 3 value proposition is that it is an EV, but quality/finishes it is yet to match others. So then, if I want an EV, I'd go for a Zoe from a value for money perspective.
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I can't see how anyone that's spent a minute in an infosec related position could desire autopilot. I am trying closer to the "trying hard to tolerate that it's present" stage.
Well, it's totally normal for your metabolic rate to drop as you lose weight. Think about climbing a set of stairs: when you're 50lbs heavier, you're doing a lot more work than you are after you've lost the 50.
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I mostly agree with your post and its spirit. But I've dabbled enough with microcontrollers and custom consoles to say that vga is completely doable at 800x600 32k colors on a 7$ microcontroller : https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox
> Why the stagnation for so long?

Exponential growth of technology. It's only in the past couple centuries that inventions started to add up and lead to further inventions within a single lifetime. Before that, the lives of people separated by 200 years were roughly identical, with maybe a single thing improving here or there.
> That's mostly a decision to increase turnaround speed on their bridges, it is faster to swap a rotor for a new one than it is to turn one down.

I used to turn the rotors on my European cars, but about 10-15 years ago the alloys started warp after being turned just once or twice. Easier to just pay to replace than take the risk of doing the labor twice.
Sure, just offering an alternate opinion. Thanks for the links.
Miami, Tampa, Orlando. Cost of living is low in Florida. Although you wont make as much as SV, you will live very well. Plenty of family friendly picture perfect communities for young professionals.
> Older people are allowed to have kids as well

Did you read my comment at all? I am not talking about having kids.

>For your situation - were you not eligible for the FMLA?

Because I needed a salary to pay medical bills and provide for new living arrangements .
In the UK and Europe it is quite normal for students to take a gap year before starting university. Work, travel, apprentice, and save before buckling down for university studies. In the US this is not done at all. It's a pipeline of financial aid and rankings. Colleges don't like when you defer after accepting, that messes up your FAFSA and financial aid package (for reasons I don't comprehend). They'll allow you to defer up to one semester but anymore than that starts the application over.

If you don't apply right out of high school they silo you into the non-traditional student stack. Your ranking is lowered and you lose out on all sorts of financial aid scholarships. You have to take out students loans or fund it through the GI Bill (because you enlisted, right?).

Self-discovery and learning is something they'd rather you pay them for, not backpacking through the outback.
On the other hand you've now added a whole new layer of friction to using a car. Sure, in theory you'll just hit a button on an app and a car will show up in a few minutes, and it's only a minor inconvenience. But what happens if there is a bug in the software? Or if your account at the giant fleet company gets suspended out of the blue for an opaque reason?

There's also the loss of being able to buy and customize a car that's exactly what the end user wants. This doesn't matter at all to a lot of drivers, but matters a great deal to some.
This is sadly a common misconception, partly due to Khronos messaging. MoltenVK is sponsored by Valve, not Khronos.

Both gfx-rs and MoltenVK are working in Vulkan Portability TSG, and both are promoted by the slides/talks if you read carefully. MoltenVK just gets more attention because it's packed by LunarG and used in Dota2.
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Panasonic, the company that actually runs Tesla's Gigafactory, has sufficient capacity to build out and manufacture car batteries for other carmakers should the demand ever arise.

And today's article is basically the announcement that...demand has arisen. Expect to see an announcement from Panasonic or one of the other major battery suppliers in the next few days about breaking ground on a new factory.
What's with all the comments supporting censorship all of sudden? Every social media site now has hordes of "people" defending censorship. Is it just more european users on social media now? Or is it just government funded trolling? I just don't get it.

Saudi arabia just declared online satire as a cybercrime punishable up to 5 years in prison.

https://www.france24.com/en/20180904-saudi-arabia-declares-o...

We know how much china and russia loves censorship. And of course europe has a long tradition of censorship.

As americans, we had long hoped that the world would join us and embrace freedom, but it looks more and more like we are forced to join them.

I'd rather keep our freedom and separate the internet into "intranets". There is no european or saudi or chinese or russian websites or tech I need. Let the world have their backwards censorship and lets hold onto our freedom.

If we have to cater to everyone's sensitivities, than that is a race to the lowest common denominator. That means we have no freedom at all.
Honestly even with "75% travel" I'm surprised they're struggling so much to find people. Seems like a lot of people want to travel, and would love to spend part of their 20s doing so.

Would be interesting to know just how dangerous it is though, particularly for relatively low pay. The article covers some plane crashes, but doesn't really explore the question in detail.
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One would think it wouldn't be too difficult to run spell-check + commonly-misinterpreted characters fuzzer on OCR material.
Eh, there are successful niche manufacturers now, I imagine there will always be someone willing to sell you your own vehicle for the indefinite future, at a price at least as low as today and probably lower.
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My job, as an infrastructure engineer, is essentially to figure out how to fit together parts that 1. I've never seen before today, 2. which have never been fit together before, 3. well-enough that nobody will ever need to touch the weld-point again.

There's no training that can prepare you for that, except for training in how to train yourself in something, quickly.
> and mass effect features many of the same mistakes, and even mistakes solved in star control

I'd be curious to hear examples.
Maybe it's because the process of buying a car sucks.

I've been buying new cars on and off for going on 35 years. As a control, the buying process sucks neither more nor less than it did decades ago (but it does still suck). So there is another factor at work.
Also, ASIC can usually run at higher clock frequencies than FPGA's
Here's a UK survey from 2015 of 50,000 motorists with remarkably similar results. To sum up: Japanese cars were the most reliable and dependable. And the cheapest to repair.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32332210
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Car insurance doesn't cover repairs, it's actually insurance, not an all inclusive payment plan like health "insurance".
People notice when things are slow and annoying. They close the window and don't look at it.

You might be right that not enough people will change their behavior to make a difference. And if so, tough luck. You and I aren't entitled to a news outlet that meets our latency requirements. We are entitled to complain on HN, but no one will really listen.

Of course you also benefit via reading the news, having reporting on official corruption, and all that jazz. Contrary to your snark about wealth extraction, media outlets are typically losing money and cutting back on reporting. The NYTimes is in a better position than most, but in general, the problem is too little money, not too much.
Hmm, a car that phones home to tattle on the owner? I forsee a strong future market for 'classic' vehicles. And 'disconnect service', ha!
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Sure! I'm just pointing out that your earlier statement was off the mark, and it posed Metal as "something new that could be better than Vulkan".
The problem is that if you wanted to gather all the publicly available info on businesses, you had to write a very complex piece of software to do it (screen scrapers + web crawling).

But Facebook wrapped that all up into a tidy APi. You can gather information about the world for a nominal amount. The Russians did it for a couple hundred grand.

It’s not about what the Facebook API serves, but about the ease of use and scope of information. There’s a reason Google Maps delays satellite imagery by years, we need the same when it comes to other forms of global data.
Also...

>On a 1 megapixel image, our unit of work is a single pixel and we have concurrency of 1 million units.

Wouldn't that require 1 million input wires into the FPGA? Otherwise, you could use fewer input wires, but the input signals would need to be multiplexed to allow multiple bit streams to transit a single wire - significantly reducing your concurrency.
If every submission had to be checked by a copyright cop first this site wouldn't exist. Message boards in general wouldn't exist. It would take way too much manpower to run, especially if you have to worry about things like song lyrics in the post and handling multiple languages.
> What’s the resell market like for EV?

Leaf's are pretty cheap relative to new, I think some buyers remorse is leading to a flooded market but I'm not sure.

Tesla's aren't that much less than new (although I was looking at "certified" ones through Tesla.) I decided there wasn't much reason to buy used.

Maybe in 3-5 years it will be different.
> This is not new with thr current admin, even if advocates would like to make people believe this is new under Trump.

I also protested Obama's immigration policies, but sure, paint the other side as hyper partisan.

> However, these children are represented by attorneys at their side who know more than the patent(s). They are getting more rep than they would had their home country’s immigration laws applied.

Literally straight from the above link:

> In court, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is represented by a trained lawyer who argues for the child’s deportation. But no lawyer stands with the child. Every child is required to respond to the charges against him or her, and, in theory, afforded an opportunity to make legal arguments and present evidence on his or her own behalf. But in reality those rights are meaningless because children are not competent to exercise them.

> Each child has attempted to find representation, including through pro bono legal service providers, but none of them have found anyone with the resources to take on their cases. Absent this Court’s intervention, these children were or will be forced to defend themselves pro se under the immigration laws—a legal regime that, as the courts have recognized, rivals the Internal Revenue Code in its complexity.

So... no. They aren't unilaterally represented by attorneys.
> We're all in this together.

Exactly my point too. We should all come together and make it fair for older workers( esp older women) who often are tasked with caring for a parent(s). I've been a parent too and caring for parent situations are often way more arduous and tend to get worse.

Accepting parent leave without giving a break to any other situation is just 'fuck you i got mine' case.
Some people really think so. Take a step back and look at Average Joe, and I think privately owned vehicles aren't going away. Ever.
Quite a lot of this stuff is private (e.g. employment-related), other people's stuff (passports, visas, etc), or actually classified secret.
Slightly off topic, but this article confirms the reliability and engineering feat of Toyota, along with my experience as a car owner for the past 30 years. I currently own Toyota Prius (ranked #1 in lowest maintenance cost) with 200k miles and I cannot believe how reliable this car is. Had I known this, I would've had bought only Toyota in the past, but I had only learned my lesson in the most painful way. I've had Mercury, which confirms extremely high maintenance (ranked 7th in the list) and Infiniti (ranked 12th), which seems about right, as well as Mazdas, etc. I still have nightmares thinking about what I went through with those other cars. Scotty Kilmer, a popular automechanic Youtuber, also confirms that Toyota is the most reliable car that he has ever owned or worked with. Not all Japanese car manufacturers are the same. Nissan and Honda are not even in the same league as Toyota. I hope that Toyota creates all-electric Prius someday.
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>Feels like software I have zero control over, if every time I open it, a new version of itself downloads and installs without my permission.

Just like all of the websites that you browse, you can't have control over the styles or the updates that someone pushes to their servers, forcing you to download the latest page and install the latest service workers without your permission.
The other half treats education as investing in society.
The Selfish Gene - Dawkins

Freedom from the Known - Jiddu

For decades I've been plagued by 'what is one supposed to do in life' question, I've been restless for years.

These two books gave me atleast a logical framework to understand my frustrations.
Kudos for creating a work culture where it's easier to make good choices that lead to better character.
That's... very hard to believe.

I believe it for models with low production numbers like a Shelby. Quote $40K above list, maybe some sucker will buy it. With the assumption that this is very unlikely, you'll still have a halo model sitting on the floor until you decide to drop it to MSRP and get rid of it. Dealer either gets more than it's worth, or they get a nice-looking marketing write-off for a while.

I'm thinking of the Ferrari 458 sitting on the floor of the local Chevy dealer in central Florida where Mom takes her Corvette. It's been there the last couple of years I've visited. How many $250K Ferraris are sold in central Florida? Doesn't matter, the dealer's got the money to let it sit on that showroom floor, and it sure looks cool.
Maybe I misunderstood the meaning of flaking as I'm not a native speaker. I would consider it rude if the plan was already under way (e.g. someone started cooking, already traveled to somewhere, etc.) but canceling plans a bit ahead of time is acceptable to me.
Definitely! In cities such as Las Vegas, Washington DC, Austin, and many others. See optibus.com for more info
> string compare with some url decoding

Perhaps page body edit-distance would work better?
It’s a good investigation of the microcode update binary format, but doesn’t reveal anything about the microcode itself unfortunately.
iCloud, no. But iMessage? There are many people who stay with iPhones because of it.
> The real issue is that (thanks to the ban of good ol' mercury based thermometers) I doubt the reliability of both the new "mercury free" glass thermometers (that in my experience tend to get "stuck") and the new electronic ones (possibly it is just that the common ones are cheap devices).

Same here. Everyone I know hoards the old mercury thermometers. I don't particularly trust the electronic ones, because in my experience, cheap electronic sensors are mostly crap, and I have no reason to believe that whatever I buy at my local pharmacy will be more accurate than +/- 1 degree. And I trust the "contactless" ones even less.
Yes, I read the article. I'm wondering how they catch those new to the game, how that record gets started. If you're telling me that all they need to do is rotate out the cast, sounds pretty simple, but I naturally doubt that it is just that easy.
FYI, according to The Verge, the new MB Ev will have 200 mile range and 4.9 second 0-60.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17818836/mercedes-benz-eqc...
You can reduce brake wear by engine braking aggressively on an ICE; it's just not worth the effort given how cheap brakes are.
Look into a used Corvette. Most of the time they're not daily drivers, have low miles, and have been garaged. They're fantastic used cars, and the performance mod market is so large.
it's a non fish-able token, a password can be fished a security key can't. For most people I'd think the biggest risk are non physical attacks.
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I went back to university after working for just a couple of years.

It's definitely a totally different experience going back with a wife, daughter and mortgage, than living in a student room with other people at 18.
Resale is extremely weak, even for something like a Model S. Think 50% or less going to auction after three years, and some cars in particular (looking at you 500E) going for 1/6 what they were sold for brand new.

Once the technology stabilizes a bit and becomes more common, resale probably won't be any worse than everything else.
Or maybe half a century of Soviet occupation made her cry?
>The next three years of Fremont production are spoken for

Are you sure? We did not have a reservation. We ordered a Model 3 LR AWD on July 25 and will be taking delivery by the end of September, per our delivery adviser.
I expected that somebody would prove me wrong about the VGA thing.

Very nice project!
You're welcome.

I believe that that presentation on A/B tests has had more of an impact than anything else that I've written. :-)
> One can really store 4KB of arbitrary data with a url minifier system and share it for free.

Free for you, not free for the minifier service.

That's like saying "One day while I was at Chick-Fil-A I had an epiphany while putting honey on my biscuit. I thought: 'Chick-Fil-A is really nice to provide all this honey for free.' And then it struck me... One can really take all the honey they want and use it to refill their bottles at home one honey packet at a time."
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It's one of these huge gaps between the USA and Europe (the other two being free or near free university education and medical care). Seriously, how worse can it be? Oh yes, it can: holidays! From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...:

> Some employers offer no vacation at all. The average number of paid vacation days offered by private employers is 10 days after 1 year of service, 14 days after 5 years, 17 days after 10 years, and 20 days after 20 years.
Good problem to have. :)
Ultimately the whole point of having these systems connected on both cars and planes is to save weight on wiring. Their data diodes are just vlans.
This is great!

I wonder if we can generalize this to a 'life-choice/situation' based time-off policy. Not all employees want kids and it's weird that companies can choose to sponsor/accommodate the choice of having kids but not the contrary.

And it's not just for the single/DINK life; some people have elderly parents that need assistance and that can take a lot of time.
https://www.slideshare.net/BillConradDoerrfeld/api-marketing... Slide 24 to be precise.
Teenage pregnancy has been in a nose-dive because the teenagers are online instead of hanging out these days (at least that is what I've read). If young adults went to school online instead of getting together at college... no more sex?

I'm reminded of some sci-fi stories I read in my youth about futuristic societies where nobody interacted in person and babies came from the lab. At the time the notion of people not having sex and babies anymore seemed far fetched. Now... maybe not so unlikely after all.
what was written is clearly a simplification, but outlines the high level architecture differences. Say you want to do this with a 10 megapixel image, clearly you are not going to fully parallelize that, but you could load the whole thing into BRAM divide it up into 100 regions and itterate over that. This also ignores that most FPGAs are not just a pile of flip-flops you wire together, but instead have a whole pile of specialized blocks in addition to look-up-tables.
> I think a simple improvement would be to bolden the domain name in a URL.

They already did that. If you open Chrome right now, you'll see that the non-domain part is greyed out. It doesn't help much.
Can you explain how this is responsive to the question of whose interest siloing this information serves?

If I want to take on the complexity of aggregating it, that's my choice. Facebook isn't doing me some kind of favor by "helping" me not fall down that rabbit-hole...