skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use OSH regularly for prototyping. Their boards are really good quality and I've been happy with them. Sometimes the production times aren't as fast as I'd like, but ordering quantities of 3 usually is very economical.
The part about the eyes not focusing near the pillars makes so much sense.

I've often griped about how hard it is to see out of modern cars with thick airbag-equipped pillars, but still wondered how I managed to "miss" something that clearly cannot completely hide in an A-pillar. (eg, because the pillar is diagonal, the pedestrian's head or feet or both will still be visible even if their midsection is obscured.

I used to commute through an area with an endless sea of stop signs, which almost NEVER had cross traffic. My car had a rearview mirror that came down too far and tended to block part of my view forward and to the right, and sometimes pedestrians or cross traffic would 'hide' in the pillars. It's one of those things where, if there had been no stop signs, I would have been much more likely to notice cross traffic, but having to look at the sign and stop line takes your focus for that last 2-3 seconds as you slow to a stop, so even if you're "sure" you scanned for peds/cross traffic, maybe once every 6 months I would begin to proceed and then suddenly see the movement of a vehicle or person in my peripheral vision.

Those pillars and the rearview mirror didn't block what i was looking for, but they must have cued my eyes to not look 'too close' to them. Interesting.
It costs them more to import goods, because the goods are priced in USD. They may not actually be priced in USD, but as of now, the USD is still the world currency reserve, so most international trade is at least indirectly based on it's perceived value.
But that's based on time not mileage.
> car-makers hoping to cash in on a 'custom ringtones for cars', modeled after the mobile phone market of the 90's

This is singularly the worst idea I have ever heard in my life
Can't this also segfault by overreading across a page boundary?

It's assuming "size" is >= 20 and is a multiple of 4. That might be true for all valid headers, but at least in this snippet, there's no comment or anything stating the precondition that callers ensure the headers are valid. That's a(nother) bug.

If it's not true, it will read too much data. This means producing the wrong result. It also could make the read happen to cross a page boundary into space that isn't mapped into the process's virtual address space.
This old soviet cartoon about exploitation of woman still stays relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkdhJWyzFR8
With Turkey there were sanctions put on banks and the Turkish currency devalued immediately after.
The real movement towards transparent group goals is happening in crypto. Many tech companies have become honeypots and they, like other honeypots, have been raided by dishonest individual actors.
> Last time I recall the candidate that would likely have done well for us was cheated in the primary

They tried, but he was victorious in the end, in a triumph of democracy.

Wait, who are you talking about?
Reading the article, I get the impression all they are thinking of is tweaking the way URLs are displayed (“We want to challenge how URLs should be displayed and question it as we’re figuring out the right way to convey identity.")

I think a simple improvement would be to bolden the domain name in a URL.

Browsers could also add some styling to hyperlinks indicating whether they are to the same domain, to another domain that user trusts (for example because a login cookie has been set on its domain), but I expected diminishing returns on that. Even if it can be done reliably from a technical point of view, users won’t learn to discriminate multiple kinds of links.
According to the tweet linked from the post: "DoH might become enabled by default at some point, which is what has been said. But no-one has specified exactly how or with which operators (yes, plural). Because we don't know. That's not planned yet. And "might" is still "might [not]" as well." (the [not] was not there, but I think this is what Daniel meant). https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1036364374728953858
Related:

Why women in Stem may be better off working in India and Latin America:
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2...

What India Can Teach Silicon Valley About Its Gender Problem: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/silicon-valley-sexism/

India and Italy have the highest percentage of female developers: https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-countries-have-the-most-sk...
New research highlights role of stress gene in chronic pain
Have a look at Rich Rebuilds on youtube. There is a long list of things Tesla can do if you go outside of their blessed supply chain. Including, for example, revoking super charger rights. They might not do it over a broken headlight, but it's a bet you have to take.
This is a fantastic list. Thank you.
Not just sexist, but also demeaning - as in cooking curry is some kind of pityful/shameful thing or something.
That's a silly way to value Wikipedia IMO.

Fire is useful, so everyone who uses fire should pay a company some money? No, that's clearly mad. No matter how useful it is if it's poorly optimised or over costly then we should do better, not settle because it's already a great RoI.
Opportunity rover still MIA as dust settles on Mars
Kind of. They overwhelmingly prioritise AMP, though, because it gives them huge benefits in platform control.
> Tesla needs to up its game with the X and Y to address this.

Yup. Currently if you want a real SUV shape (not just a tall sedan lift-back) with normal doors, your options are the new German entries. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of people who value those qualities over 20-40 miles of highway range.

The good news for Tesla is that the Audi is the only one scheduled to release before the Y, so they have time.
I think that Mercedes is aware of this, and implemented a long term strategy of acquiring dealerships from their owners a few years ago.

"Through the grapevine": they have mandated costly architectural redesigns, and they have had a right of first refusal for at least some dealership owners who wanted to exit the market and sell their dealership to people other than Mercedes Benz itself. They may also have mandated in increase in maintenance service-related revenues to further tighten the screws on dealership owners.
> The SW and electronics are always proprietary with little chance you'll ever (legally) have access to them.

There's really not that much critical software in a passable electric car. I would argue that electric drive reduces the complexity of many things which require software in modern cars: ESC, TCS, (some forms of) ABS, preferred differential behaviors.

In an internal combustion car, everything requires a considerable amount of knowledge specific to internal combustion engines and the complex drivetrains they make necessary.

In an electric car (specifically with independent motors), TCS, light ABS, and ESC all become a matter of applying standard control theory, and tuning handful of parameters to model human expectations.

Now, when it comes to something as complex as a Tesla (nonstandard door latches, window seals, etc. which make software necessary to operate the basic mechanisms of doors [which could otherwise be straightforward]), you're going to see a lot more software involved.

Ultimately, the software required to make a basic independent electric drive vehicle operate is pretty small, and could be produced to a reasonable standard of quality by an intermediate programmer in a matter of months. The knowledge required to make one which manages traction and stability effectively could be learned and applied in some additional months by that same caliber of developer. The power circuitry may be more interesting, but ultimately is well within the competence of a practicing electronic engineer (and ultimately, a significant number of Joes Public who are interested enough to read a manual).
Isn't GM still recovering from bankruptcy?

Where do they get money from
Perhaps Bluefish?

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/features.html
Funny you mention that because I've been drooling over the Transit Connect for a few years now. Looks like such a simple, utilitarian vehicle at a practically cheap price.
> Tesla quietly crept around and made electric cars cool and economically viable while the industry had it's backs turned.

a: not quietly, not at all
b: the industry was wisely and patiently waiting. no need to spend capital in a serious way on the problem if someone else (tesla) is willing to take the chance. the industry will quite easily wipe the floor with tesla when market is ripe.

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 ...
eastdakota has stated that no one gets paid: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1031359620961329152
Hybrids are by no means full EVs (experience owning both).

Hybrids are what all petroleum-based cars should evolve into... if carmakers had the pressure to do that. Consumers just get a nicer experience, but no/little change to habits.

EVs have a lot of other things going - never having to visit a gas station, SMOG test, or an oil change is paradigm-shifting.

If EVs go mainstream, we can really think about autonomous driving becoming a possibility.
I'd wager that most of the "remote work" employees at US companies are US citizens living inside the US. In my experience (I'm an IT consultant who works remotely and visits many other companies) companies who hire remote employees outside of the US tend to do so as contractors, not as employees.
At $10 shipped I'd just get a new one. I don't think there's any reasonable expectation of support here.
I've been hearing about the USD causing issues with economies such as Turkey recently from several sources.

As far as I can tell it's because a lot of loans in Turkey were backed by USD. Now that the USD is a lot stronger it's causing loan defaults in Turkey.

Can someone chime in who has a better understanding of the current situation? It sounds really interesting and complex.
You don't know if any current auto manufacturer will be in business in 10 years given the shift that is coming.

Tesla is probably crunched on repairs since they have so much unfulfilled demand.

And Mercedes (and VW) has dumped poor reliability cars on the US market for two decades now. The only experience they have is marketing to stupid US buyers.
I can't count how many times I've thought of the usefulness of a system as described by the grandparent comment. The best I can come up with so far is some kind of dedicated screen, with always-on audio capabilities similar to dash instrumentation, made mandatory in all vehicles and accessible via an open wireless protocol (possibly a hybrid of different signaling mechanisms like wifi and infrared signals). These signals could be prioritized for emergency vehicles using a special FCC-controlled frequency/protocol and rate-limited to prevent abuses. A big potentially insurmountable issue is exploitation of the emergency services protocol, so that part might be wishful thinking. Unfortunately without it the system seems like it would end up as more of a nuisance in many peoples' minds, and would never be legislated as mandatory.
What are the biggest myths about JavaScript?
Less than that, I believe.

However, the issues that Tesla has with production aren't because their cars are electric. It's because they are bad at building cars compared to GM, Ford, Toyota, VW, etc.

Toyota could be making a lot of Model S's per week and Tesla would struggle to produce 10k Prius's a week.
It's just hidden behind the photograph. Inspect element or view source and you'll see it.
Religious competition was to blame for Europe’s witch hunts
Well, these economies (I live in one, travel to another one) have already shaky economies and weak currencies. Let's say you mainly export in EUR but you import most of your living expenses in USD. USD gets stronger and EUR goes down.

Now you might think it is just a few "percentages" but remember these economies are already on shaky grounds so this might trigger the crisis. Certainly, the USD here is not to blame (I don't really believe in all the jewish money central bank crap). But if the USD goes stronger along with the US economy it might destabilize several other countries that have yet to reach the trigger point.
Surely you mean a sub ten second quarter mile? Ignoring acceleration, sub two second would be an average speed of 450mph.
CF is an american company. They are subject to NSLs. Why should anything they say be trusted?
Are you planning to post your benchmarks? Also, any helpful info on getting OpenBSD running on one of these is welcome!
How I handle distractions that keep me from getting work done
Where did they have to repair it when the plug came loose and began leaking again?
In Clang, you can get the adc instruction using __builtin_addcl (and similar), but the compiler isn't that great of making optimal use of it. A few minutes of playing around got me [1], which isn't very good code.

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/hTzECo
I have an APU2 and it's really the perfect router for any small office or house. Intel NICs, plenty of ram and an mSATA port make it quite capable. I have pfSense on it at the moment, which works very well.

At one point I had an 802.11n card in my older ALIX2D router, but there were stability and performance issues so now I always use a separate access point, most recently a Unifi AC-PRO which has some quirks but works well in general.

I've been happy enough with the x86 routing strategy that when it came time to replace my older Cisco 100mbps switch, I decided to do that with x86 hardware as well. All of the smaller/cheaper gigabit switches either didn't support VLANs, made way too much heat, or had reliability issues, and the ones that were suitable were quite expensive and had reliability issues of their own.

So, I found a Supermicro Atom C2000 board (A1SRM-LN7F[1]) on sale for $90, which has 7 Intel NIC gigabit ports built-in and supports ECC ram. I put it in a Supermicro 1U[2] enclosure along with an Intel PCIe 4x gigabit NIC, for a total of 11 gigabit ports on the switch. I installed Debian on it and set up open-vswitch, which worked but was soon replaced by "vlan-aware" Linux bridging.

It's easily capable of switching gigabit traffic between multiple machines at the same time, ping shows an average latency of 0.310ms, has very low power usage and makes very little heat.

Note that those C2000 Atoms do have a "sudden death" hardware flaw, but Supermicro should have fixed it on more recent inventory, and they will send a "patched" board to replace any that are affected before they fail. The Atom C3000 doesn't have that issue, but I don't think Supermicro (or anyone, really) make any C3000 boards with that many built-in gigabit ports.

[1] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SR...

[2] http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/510/SC510T-203...
Last winter, I was scraping the snow off my SUV in a lodge parking lot in Sequioa National Park. A model S pulled in next to me without any tire chains and I stopped to chat with the elderly driver as he was unloading luggage. He told me the all wheel drive and all season tires worked great coming up the mountain, just like on my SUV.

This is a park with no gas stations in winter (there is one open seasonally within a nearby national forest). So, I have to think about my tank capacity and when I might need to take a trip back down out of the mountains to refuel if I am on a long stay. I asked him about range anxiety and he said he used the superchargers in the Central Valley during his approximately 500 mile trip to the base of the mountain. He spent one night in the last little town before the park entrance gate, and used their 110V outlet in the parking lot to top off his car over night.

Up at about 8k foot elevation, he had a good charge remaining, and would have plenty for local driving during his stay and the descent back to town would actually restore much of his charge due to regenerative braking.
Well... "cheap" is relative, but the Ice40 boards from Lattice are reasonably priced IMO. And more to the point, there is a complete Open Source toolchain available for programming them. That's a big plus in my book.

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/lattice-semiconduc...

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
Chrome 69 arrives with revamped design, more powerful omnibox
I did watch all the Graham Hancock stuff on JRE podcast, going back years. Really fun stuff. I did get super turned off by the last one with Hancock and the skeptic guy where Hancock can't control his temper. Randal Carson is fun to listen to also.

Whether there's any scientific basis to Hancock's work, I'm not enough of an expert to tell.
are you incorporating the lower safety of a motorcycle into possible costs? A motorcycle accident can put you out of work for a lot longer than a car.
What do you mean by management issues?
I've written Go for three years, and I've successfully avoided using interface{}. It's a matter of architecting your application to fit the language and choosing a different language if your requirements grow beyond what Go can provide. Golang has made a tradeoff between simplicity and abstraction, which is a perfectly fine choice. Turning Go into Java is just going to ruin yet another language with complexity thanks to mob mentality.
No. There can still be commercial services, commercial for-profit publishing, etc. What they're saying is that simply they don't want to publish findings in subscription journals.

> what does the public gain from that?

The public and researchers gain permanent access to the research output regardless of which publisher, what deals are in place, where they are or whether their library has a current subscription. It allows researchers to do work analysing the content itself too as they'll then have a licence to do so (useful if you want to analyse, say, 10M papers). Research output reported in the news will be available for any interested party

The downside is that instead of publishing for free and then the readers paying, the payment model will be flipped to upfront payment for services and then free access.
I decided a few years ago when I left the CTO role at a startup I founded over what I considered a massively unethical feature, that I would never build anything that violates my code of ethics. No one has to build racist face tracking bots, or auto killbots, or automated sentancing platforms, or things that are just useless cash grab garbage.

Sure people can argue that they'll just get someone else to build it. Fine, go for it, but the power I do have is to not build it. I'm not a clerk, I'm a creative partner and a damned good one. Money doesn't buy my soul.

Fun fact, that feature never got built in that platform that I left. In fact they pivoted completely out of the field I had built the platform for. Possibly because of the loss of the person that got them there. Today, they make money, but not off something that would have haunted me for the rest of my life. Also, I'm much better at qualifying my partners/employers now before things like that come up and am much happier with the things I'm working on now.

Maybe that's political. This feature could have been seen as de-platforming my political opposition if you wanted to. It's not much different from the stories in the article. We have a choice as the creators of the tools, like it or not. Not building a weapon for mass surveillance is a power I have and I'm willing to use it and it works. The world would be a better place if more people drew that line in the sand.
I don't think the guys on Washington really understand the severity. Tech is still new and machine learning is doing wonders but not merging universes (as of yet).
I've been reading this site since 2009 and can barely write anything more complex than Hello World. The guidelines on submissions say nothing about software engineering, and the definition of hackers as written by Paul Graham does not limit it to software engineers.
Just imagine the peer-pressure strategies that must already be forming in community minds to deploy against Go 1.x loyalists :)
> And if anyone at Google is reading, you should try recommending these strategies for speeding up pages instead of pushing self-serving faux standards like AMP.

That's hardly fair, Google has been advocating the same web optimization techniques that were listed as part of their Google Lighthouse initiative. I know it's fun and trendy to hate FANG, but you could have got the same recommendations if you opened up Chrome dev console and went to the Audits tab.
The article makes the point that Amazon should try to prevent the accidental misuse of facial recognition (and more broadly other AI). I wonder to what extent this is possible as long as models exist as black boxes --- isn't it always possible for some unexpected behavior to emerge? How do we handle these?

Furthermore there is the question of bias in the training data. How do we as consumers of Amazon's AI police this?
Maybe, but why don't they have any big plan for EV now? Did the i3 lead them to conclude they can't ramp up with their current tech / production?

Meanwhile, every review about the Model 3 (LR and Performance) shows that the 3 series and the M3 don't appeal much. And the Model Y will be shown in a few months to compete head to head with the BMW X3 and X5 in a few months.
I interpreted that as "I hope my car will soon know when nearby cars are about to encroach on my space because they're all talking to each other".
So, McDonald's should be mandated to serve Thai food in Thailand?

This is inverse censorship. Not sure where you fall on government intervention but if this is so highly demanded, why doesn't a company sell local content streaming services to EU?
I've read about battery swap schemes before, but in practice, you are swapping out the most expensive, major component of the EV for an unknown replacement. This might work for semis, but consumer cars with different heights, dimensions, styles, etc?
They've got a plug in hybrid version called the Prius Prime. It's only got 50 miles or so of all electric range if I'm remembering correctly.
Medical professions have known for a while that body temperature varies greatly. It's the layman that are stuck on the 98.6° thing.

The same person can be 97° at 8am, then 100° at 8pm and feel totally fine. But the next day they are 100° at 8am and feel awful. There are a lot of factors that go into determining a good body temperature.
Start with digital logic fundamentals(not, or, and, xor, xnor gates, flip-flops(d, jk, etc). It helps to know some analog theory so you understand propagation delay and such. Then you'll probably want to learn a language like Verilog or VHDL. From my experience, most people like Verilog and VHDL is mostly used in the defense industry.

You could probably skip right to Verilog/VHDL, but I really suggest having a background in digital logic.

FWIW, I'm just an embedded software guy. I came from an EE background but it's been a long time since I've played with programmable logic.
As long as web designers and developers continue to target imaginary users or themselves, they'll also leave real users wanting more.

Great, you've shaved off 150-350ms of refresh load time. So why does your website take 10-15 seconds to load on my phone when I'm walking about the supermarket?

Get out of the lab. Start testing with real users in real contexts. You'll quickly learn that many of your assumptions about what users want disappear.
> Even services is a derivative of iphone sales,

Which is sort of a Catch 22 for them. If they invested in actually making the services good and cross-platform, people would probably pay to use them on non-Apple hardware. On the other hand they use services specifically to drive sales of Apple gear. But I don't actually no anyone who says, "I got an iPhone because iCloud is amazing!". Their internet services are basically table stakes.