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Hmmm... that seems to be a valid interpretation of the thread.

Not the way I read it initially though. But yeah, seems to checkout.
We're talking about batteries. Where are Mercedes going to get them from to build EVs in bulk?
>Mercedes-Benz delivers just under 30,000 vehicles per month.

ICE cars, yes. However EV's are completely constrained by battery production, which Mercedes has literally not even begun to develop. It's a completely different comparison.
Would you recommend <company name> to your friends?
> However, my experience is that if you question the effectiveness of static typing, or ask for evidence in support of the claimed benefits you'll get a very hostile reaction.

That's an interesting thing to say, seeing how representative figures of (specifically) the Clojure community get really defensive really quickly once somebody questions the effectiveness of dynamic typing - which I specifically didn't do.

> He outright dismisses that any valid alternatives are possible

I was merely dismissing your incorrect claim about logging in Haskell. And yes, not taking advantage of the type system when you are already programming in a language with a type system amounts to #yoloing it, in my opinion. Doing the same in other languages is fine, since you don't have another option really.
This is a rather elitist and blanket statement comment and is not at all fair. You do not know the mindset of "the people who want generics" but you're acting like you do to make a rhetorical point about how you feel about them. There are many more polite ways of making your case.
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Why not use the routines from the Linux kernel, which are battle tested?

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/x86/incl...

Or even NetBSD: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/net/...

EDIT:

freebsd: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/netinet/i...

openbsd: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/netinet/in4_c...
Is there a term for using an ö like this?
Agreed. The Model S was released 6 years ago and everyone else is still announcing things that are 18 months away.
Labor costs are just insane. I've gotten quoted $500-$1000 per axle (yeah, $1000-$2000 all-in) for brakes on my BMW. And it takes me maybe 2 hours in my driveway (at beer-pace) to slap on the couple hundred dollars in parts.

Brake pads easily last 60k miles and cost maybe $50 per corner, and the rotors are about the same but last twice as long (though it's recommended you replace at the same time, not always necessary).

Of course, once you get into drilled factory rotors on an STi or M3 or something, you're gonna hit the $200-$300+ per corner for rotors pretty quickly.

I dunno, I've just always find the margins on brake work seem insane compared to anything else.

OTOH, I also find the German marques' brakes last far longer between changes than the Japanese.
Ask HN: Who is hiring and willing to relocate developers?
All most all the companies in Ask HN are from North America and very few of them are willing to relocate developers. This makes Ask HN useless for a major chunk of Hacker News who don't have a work permit in North America. This thread is exclusively for companies who are willing to sponsor new Visa and relocate developers from other countries.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
Do you not see the extremely recurrent pattern? One that has been occurring since before humanity even existed? This is really what makes things so incredibly challenging, and also why articles like this are presenting data in a less than honest fashion. We are undoubtedly going through a cyclical upswing as part of a regular cycle of climatic activity, but at the same time we're also adding a significant amount of additional CO2 to the cycle. The point is that it would be negligent for people to not consider human activity as a contributing factor, but it is no less negligent for people to not understand that we're also going through an ongoing warming phase that would have happened even if we were a 0 carbon output species. What would change is not the warming, but the magnitude.

Instead, like on so many topics in the social media era, people 'pick sides' and radicalize on these issues. And media like this is published to help further the radicalization. All the while in this process people on both 'sides' ends up voluntarily retarding their own logic and reasoning by working backwards from a predetermined conclusion instead of working from the breadth of data towards whichever conclusion (or lack thereof) that they find the most logical position.
In Turkey many businesses were taking out loans denominated in USD or Euros instead of local Turkish Lira.

"The lira sell-off has also meant Turkey's banks are seeing more loans go bad as borrowers struggle to pay off euro- and dollar-denominated debt. For years, Turkish companies borrowed in hard currency, drawn by lower interest rates, but the lira crisis has made it more expensive to repay that."[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/reuters-america-turkeys-bank...
I think you're vastly overestimating the size of those groups.
The cheaper i3s were the pure-electric; it was an extra cost to get the range extender motor (i.e., the series hybrid).
If I'm not mistaken, Tesla still uses battery cells from Panasonic in their cars.
K8S won't support them either. K8S doesn't support Windows at all at the moment. And even when it does, it likely won't support WinXP.

To add to that, the container story for Windows is pretty dismal right now, even on Azure. I was at Microsoft Build this year, and most of the PMs gave me the impression that Windows containers were an afterthought on Azure due to lack of use -- Linux support were priority. I also did some PoCs on Windows containers both on-prem and on Azure and they were unwieldy and buggy. The microsoft/windowsservercore Docker image is also a very heavy image at 10+ GB. The microsoft/nanoserver image is smaller, but has certain limitations.

tldr; if you want to use containers, go with Linux.

If you really need XP support, VMs are your only option. Tools like Hashicorp Packer [1] may be able to help with managing machine images.

[1] https://www.packer.io/intro/index.html
Dealerships don't do crash repairs, typically.
So you've got a car that costs $70-100K, and then you can't get a headlight for it for a year? And I understand it's illegal to drive with a non-functional headlight, so you can't use the car for the whole time, or at least part of the time? And the headlight costs $2K - I could buy a working used car for that price (I did). I just checked and my car's headlight assembly costs around $100 and I could order it from Amazon. I guess it must be a heavenly pleasure to drive a Tesla to put up with stuff like that.
The Bolt was also always LHD-only, and I don't think there was ever serious consideration made to selling it in the UK market, even prior to the sale of Opel/Vauxhall.

Is the Bolt on sale anywhere outside of North America yet?
Incumbents are hampered by:

1) lack of vertical integration in battery supply like Tesla's gigafactory
2) inability to properly design and market EVs
3) a dealer network that is at best ignorant and probably hostile to EVs
4) no supercharger network. They could use dealerships buuuut, see #3
Heroku locks you in in the sense that Heroku has this huge ecosystem of "add-ons" that often can't be replicated 1:1 outside of the Heroku environment, or if they can, require 100x the configuration management that Heroku does.

Much of the task of moving a project from Heroku to e.g. AWS is taking all those "add-ons" and going through the whole process of converting the Heroku-bound account (where everything is managed through your Heroku dashboard) to a separate, full-fledged account with the same service provider. If that add-on is a data storage provider, that also often entails a data migration.
Presumably she had some control over her fecundity? She could also, partner with someone willing to cook meals?

The whole "demanding to spend your life in work, like men have traditionally had to do" and then complaining that now you've got work and family to manage is bizarre. There's only a certain amount of time -- spend it working or raising a family, you really have to choose.
Tesla essentially achieved their mission (accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy) when they announced the Model 3 and got 400,000 reservations. That started something that we are seeing being played out now, and it will continue to happen whatever happens to Tesla.
I'm glad people are building AI for drone warfare. I would much rather not put uniformed people at risk where the risk could be avoided. I would much rather have discriminate weapons as opposed to ones with more collateral damage.
Google will be broken up, warns 'Cable Cowboy' John Malone
Likewise. I've been considering converting my 1998 diesel Mitsubishi Delica to electric, but something fully intended to be electric from the ground up would be much nicer. Also feels weird putting a new electric drivetrain into such an old vehicle, although overall it's still in great shape.

I can't imagine buying a sedan or SUV though. The Delica is incredible for so many things - the utility and comfort is unmatched. Plus it has a cool glass roof! I hope to keep that thing running for a long time, and new fancy cars look great but they're functionally lacking in a big way to me.
The bit about teeth is actually based on work by Weston A Price. He managed to catch photos of many tribes right as they transitioned into the then modern diet in the early 20th century. He was also a dentist, which is why he focused on teeth. Focusing on teeth is important because

1. Cavities kill.

2. Teeth are a good proxy for general health.

The bit about morbidity is bog standard anthropological information from any university. Quick googling for “hunter gatherer mortality” brings up plenty of sources.

I personally focus on pre-history, since early “civilization” was awful. We’ve only recently climbed out of the low life expectancies that started with the advent of farming.
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The Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark is an international research center developing next generation cell factories and bioprocesses for sustainable production of high-value chemical compounds as well as protein-based products. The center uses advanced metabolic engineering techniques and computational biology ensuring efficient and cost-effective design and construction processes.

Engineering a living cell is an incredibly hard task. Mathematical and computational models are being developed in order to make computer-aided design of biology possible. The project we are hiring you for is about building a web platform to provide easy access to metabolic models so the development of new strains becomes faster and cheaper. The platform already has the capabilities of modifying cells right in your browser window and constraining the models with real experimental data in order to gain insights about cellular metabolism. You can get more information about the project at http://dd-decaf.eu/ and take a look at the platform itself at https://app.dd-decaf.eu.

The Job:

We are looking for a full-stack developer with a strong focus on the front-end. You will be dealing with biological concepts every day, discovering the best ways to operate with genes and biochemical reactions. Deep understanding of biology is not a requirement though, most of the developers in the institute were able to gain the necessary knowledge after joining our team. Our technology stack at the moment is

* Angular, Angular Material, Typescript
* Python3.6 for the backend services (Flask) and core scientific libraries
* Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j
* Docker

More information available here:
http://www.dtu.dk/english/about/job-and-career/vacant-positi...
Is this powerful enough to run a NES? As in, can it run a 2mhz 6502 chip with some extra space for the sound chip, etc?
Bill Atkinson looking to offload PhotoCard on the right person
PhotoCard is an application that lets people turn their digital photos into a postcards they can send via postal mail from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Bill Atkinson created it and has run it for 10 years. It has custom stickers. One way to use custom stickers is to take someone's signature, place it on the photo as a sticker, and now you can send office 400 Xmas cards without having each person sign 400 cards each.

Each week, 400 PhotoCards are sent. Atkinson says he is tired of running the service. However, so many people depend on it, he does not want to shut it down.

More details of why he wants to keep the service running despite no profit:
1:02:00 of https://youtu.be/xN-bLcJWch8?t=3722
It's a diaeresis, used when a second consecutive vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable. The New Yorker likes to use them.
Amen.

The root cause here is that people are pissed that Trump is President. They (rightfully) feel disempowered and disrespected by it, and they are (wrongfully) coping psychologically by asserting any power they can against their workplace.

Is offering censored search in China a net negative or net positive for the world compared to no search? How about effective image recognition on drone surveillance? I could argue either way on both, they're not clear-cut to me.. but nobody's even arguing about the merits. They just want to put a scalp on the wall.

You know what I don't see any of these kids doing? Going to work for Teach for America or the Peace Corps. Or even heading inland a few dozen miles and canvassing for a weekend this election season.

They're happy to suck off the teat of monopoly, making 5x the median wage at a cushy job, and then expect the source of their largesse to make them feel like they're saving the world in the process.
I tried the different angle a couple of years ago because it seemed like the smart thing to do—increase the number of things I see.

I found that my blind spots were reduced but not eliminated. It’s scary to think that somebody on the road might stop looking over after adjusting their mirrors.

One solution that I have more faith in is the little convex “blind-spot mirrors.” Those actually seem to cover everything in the blind spot and then some more (at least on the driver side).
What keeps big US companies from having branches in The Caribbean?
I am living in the Dominican Republic and I'm wondering why there are no Google, Apple, IBM or Facebook branches here.

Third world countries have cheaper developers and good government benefits for foreign companies that create jobs.

Any ideas are welcome! Thanks.
I'm gonna need a citation on superchargers "disappearing". It doesn't really pass the sniff test; most of them are fairly busy and getting busier at a high rate due to the launch of the 3.

The facilities can't be cheap to build and likely they must have some multi-year term on the space they're using.

I'd be surprised to hear of one going away, let alone the statement that they're "disappearing" as if it's some kind of trend.
That last bit breaks the HN guidelines. Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?
There's a longer range, water cooled Leaf coming next year. They're talking 250 miles. Not sure of the price, or whether it will be available in large numbers. I'm very interested.
> They've been losing market share for years, to Azure and Google.

Most analysts would disagree with you, as would I. They haven't been losing market share to anyone -- the market is just growing around them. There is very little overlap between Azure and AWS customers. MS has been knocking it out of the park growing Azure, but it's mostly been customers who would have been doing Windows in the datacenter if not for Azure. They aren't capturing much of the non-Windows market, other than as ancillary services that go along with Windows services that get moved to Azure.

Google is competing directly with AWS, and what they offer is technically superior, but they're still terrible at selling to the Enterprise, which is where all the money is. Sure, Google is getting a lot of small shops with a few developers, but all the real money is going to AWS, who is getting really good at selling to the enterprise, a hell of a lot faster than Google is.
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I just bought a 2015 Leaf, and it was because it was so absurdly cheap. Yes, the range isn't great (only about 90 miles), but everything else is fantastic. I paid $11k for something that feels worth $20k.
> I still believe electric is going nowhere and if an alternative fuel surpasses petrol in my lifetime it will be hydrogen. we won't know for at least a decade so watch this space ...

I don't know anyone who regretted buying an electric vehicle (hybrids, mostly). The general consensus in my social circle is that once you go electric you don't want to go back. It is, in terms of user experience, a much much better solution than internal combustion engines.

I hold the complete opposite view: The transportation future is electric.
https://shop.ford.com/showroom?linktype=build#/ shows me that Mustangs start at $26k. Admittedly lower than I thought.
It matters because you (generic you, not you specifically) don't pay my mobile bill.
Looks like it. Long time ago.

https://www.factcheck.org/2010/05/general-motors-debt/
> I didn’t have to bother about portability

This is where it became evident that the class of bug was going to be "assumed the language's machine model gets out of the way if you know the target platform". It's funny how easily we all forget about the nasal demons, but UB != implementation defined.
Perhaps but then the added weight may kill the range. I imagine it'd be better if Tesla designed the vehicle specifically for that purpose.
My guess is that a lot of successful founders are people with experience in a given domain who founded a company to fill an unfilled need within that domain, and that most of these founders are on the older end. For example, I recently interacted with the founder of a $200 million company that sells infrastructure materials (e.g. fiber optic wire) to large telecommunications companies. To found a company like this, you need to know that the need exists in the first place and you are are at a huge advantage if you already have contacts in the industry.

There are tons and tons of companies like this that you have never heard of because $200 million companies don't make the news. But they do make their owners very wealthy even if they aren't billionaires.

Lacking domain experience and/or industry connections, many young people will often found consumer facing companies. These companies are often winner-takes-all and a tiny fraction of them will make their founders super wealthy. Plus, consumer companies by nature tend to be more well known because they advertise their brand and cater to consumers so they appear on the news more often. For example, AbbVie and Medtronic both have larger market caps than McDonalds, but they (intentionally) don't seek publicity, so you don't hear about them (and therefore their founders) much.
I'm interested in seeing if that trend holds while Tesla appears to be taking greater and greater risks in their pursuit of production milestones.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Go already has generics for its built-in collection types, yet you can see nothing but downsides for user-defined generic types?

Incredible mental gymnastics you've got there.
No, I'm saying pumping more neglected children into the world to satisfy your ego is childish and the exact mentality that put us in this position to begin with, and if we continue to ignore that the mechanism that self corrects for our overpopulation or over consumption is going to cause far more suffering than any human policy could. But keep choking down the cognitive dissonance however it's palatable to you, it's clear you're not responding to what I'm saying but what you're hearing.
In my country, the pediatricians almost uniformly recommend lowering sick child's fever with cold towels or lukewarm showers. I never understood what is the point of lowering the fever below 103F. What is the evidence for this? What is the evidence for lowering fever below 104F or 105F?

Can someone knowledgeable comment?
You really don't need to bring in politics to justify a programmer's union, but if that's the trigger that causes workers to organize, so be it.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of a number of entirely non-political ways a union could benefit tech workers:

1) Personalized ergonomic workspaces

2) Legal counsel on basic tech-related issues (patent law, non-compete clauses, sexual harassment, discrimination, etc.)

3) Training and career development

4) Representation to recruiters

5) Group health insurance, tax advice, equipment rentals for freelancers
So does Volvo. https://www.volvocars.com/us/shopping-tools/purchase/care-by...
How is TheTruthSpy illegal but mSpy isn't?
This includes labor or just parts?
Labor has power whether capital likes it or not. Deal with it.
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Title: Android Developer
Location: San Diego
Duration: Long term

Responsibilities

Design, develop and deploy features for Housecall Pro’s core Android applications
Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
Develop and maintain code quality standards and enforce them across the team
Continually introduce architectural improvements and refactorings to the code baseline
Write automated test at the appropriate architectural level

Core Qualifications

Ability to work at a fast pace with a drive to quickly deliver value to our customers
BS, MS or Ph.D in a computer science program
2 years industry experience developing commercial Android applications
Advanced knowledge of Java
Experience with Android frameworks and libraries
Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
Applied experience with Google’s design principles and interface guidelines
Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
Familiarity with Firebase APIs and push notifications
Proficient understanding of Git
Familiarity with continuous integration
Commercial experience with Kotlin a plus
Commercial experience with Ruby/Ruby on Rails a plus
Commercial experience with React/Redux a plus
What do you mean by getting 20 years of experience in 10 years? Do you mean in terms of putting in 2x the time or work, or looking for opportunities/experiences that are more cross-applicable? Or simply looking for the best growth?
YouTube, Netflix Videos Found to Be Slowed by Wireless Carriers
This is a problem of economics more than design failure. The current legal/technical system that has developed between ISPs doesn't charge parties fractionally very well.
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Weak economies often have some inflation and thus high interest rates. During the time of almost zero interest rates in the US, people borrowed Dollars and not their local currency to get money cheaper.

The problem arises now that the value of the Dollar is rising. People have to exchange their local currency back into Dollars to pay back their credit loans. They have to pay more than they expected which can be a problem.