skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It all depends on what you mean by 'invented'"

For practical application, the one that invented it is the one that first offered it to me for sale. Kind of like battery technology, as the industry iterates over various chemistries. Yeah, yeah, your new tech is going to blow storage wide open...just like the last folks whose names I now forget. But until I can buy one for my phone, my RV house battery, or a pack for my electric car, you might as well have invented unicorns.

Who invented the car? We had engines, we had wheels, we had drive trains. But Benz was the first to glue them all together into a mode of transportation. But wait, Copeland put a steam engine on a bicycle two years before Benz got his patent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copeland_steam_bicycle). And, frankly, all Benz did was glue an engine to an early tricycle design. So "invented" sometimes strikes me as not the best word to describe "who invented...?"
You are highly mistaken if you believe Chinese undergraduate courses are anywhere near the difficulty of American ones. Chinese classes involve having students going to have participation counted and maybe a trivial exam at the end. There is no studying done outside of some cramming at the end of the semester. Contrast that to the stream of assignments and tests from even lower-ranked schools in the US.

You're right about the difficulty of getting into undergrad, but the system is well-known for having tremendously difficult years in middle/high school to prepare for the gaokao, and the students coasting through undergrad afterward.

I would bring up some articles to show but a cursory search doesn't reveal anything.
Kent Walker has been at Google since 2006, has testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee before[0], and just knows a lot about Google.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/01/fo...
In the domain of information warfare and propaganda campaigns public awareness and attention is a large part of the counter strategy. So even if it were just to attract eyeballs to the issue that doesn't mean it was a "show trial".

If you watch these Intelligence Committee hearings I think you'll find them to be focused on strategy, partnerships, and actions rather than some form of "trial".
Jeff Han: https://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
Actual map is here: https://ig.ft.com/gb-broadband-speed-map/
That’s how I feel about JSX, but it seems pretty well accepted these days. Spurious end tags were once regarded with more horror.
When the iPhone came out, "Windows Phone" wasn't an OS yet. If your phone had Windows, it ran "Windows Mobile" based on Windows CE.
>We treated firefighters suffering from smoke inhalation

American firefighters don't use SCBA?
Mozilla says[1] about the Developer Edition that it "replaces the old Aurora channel" (so it's like a rolling-release alpha version) and has "tools that aren't yet ready for production". I don't think advanced users should be expected to run an alpha-quality, experimental, non-production version as their day-to-day browser just to get their configurability back.

Setting the defaults to values that don't confuse mainstream users is fine. Removing the corresponding settings from the settings dialog or other easily-accessible UI ... maybe. But removing them even from "about:config"? That used to be the place explicitly for advanced settings for advanced users, settings that were too scary for the UI. These settings need to be somewhere. (What if mainstream users discover the Developer Edition? Mozilla will have to make a Secret Developer Edition to make sure only the real advanced users can find it!)

Also, where in that Bugzilla thread are bookmark descriptions mentioned as being an attack vector? I can't find anything about it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Dev...
MVP vs. MDP = Viability vs. Delight. What You Really Need?
European here.

Anecdotally, I don't know anyone personally who thinks this is a good thing.

I do however know many that are in great approval of GDPR (as I am).
The problem with remote work for me is that what I do isn't seen by everybody. When I was in the cube farm there would be constant contact and sharing. We knew what everyone was working on and would constantly be pinging each other for information. Now things are more insular, if someone isn't working on my project I don't necessarily know what's going on.

Another issue is I can't gauge people's frustration levels before I poll them for help. In the office it was obvious if John/Jane was having a bad day and needed some time to work through things. Now I just pop up on their screen out of nowhere saying "Hi!!!! Help me now!" This makes me a little anxious and makes me hesitate to reach out.
Would that entail a Blackhawk helicopter and this veil of secrecy?
Trying to change a gain node to a biquad filter seems to do nothing.
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Some observatories (including this one it seems) use liquid mercury as mirrors:

https://sunspot.solar/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_mirror_telescope
Voting: https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/san-francisco-allows-non-citiz...

Look at what's happening at college campuses. Students and administrators are openly against free speech, because it "harms minorities"
As I understand it that was (is?) the plan, to build the cars and batteries under the same roof. I think Tesla and Panasonic were talking about building a similar factory in China too, although I don’t know the status of that today.
You should be able to make it compatible with VSCode, I believe the protocol powering Live Share is public and VSCode's goal is to make it cross-IDE compatible.
Not only that, but a bicycle is something that feels like part of your own body when you're using it. If you think too hard about the positions of everything you'll probably ride worse. A computer on the other hand is something that requires careful thought to get the most out of it.

The real bicycle for the mind is pencil and paper.
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"That’s if “commodity prices remain stable”, but otherwise they came out of the tour confident that they will achieve the important price target by the end of the year."

What are these things made from and where does that stuff come from? Was any of that part of the big tariffs that were recently announced?
They state that in the article:

>I would take this with a grain of salt since those tours are controlled by Tesla’s investor relations department and there are obviously made to impress, but it’s nonetheless some interesting color on Tesla’s battery operations.
"I have programmed in Servlets, JSP Model 2, ASP.NET, iOS, Android, Windows".
I suspect in those kind of applications your state management library is just your database. In lack of a database and having the need of reacting on data changes, single-page applications typically resort to some kind of state management library.

In fact, with the Meteor framework state management largely revolves around a client-side reactive mongo API on top of your data, which IMO gives me the best developer experience.
That's neat! Where did you learn this?
In this case it isn't a "circus". Watch these hearings, they aren't as sensational as you seem to think [1].

When it comes to information warfare and propaganda, you'll see them come to the same type of conclusion on multiple panels, which is that public awareness is a key component in any effective counter measure. Giving the leaders of these industries a mic to educate the public seems in all of our best interest. Not all of these committees are some kind of "circus". It's just a normal part of how these things work.

[1] Recent example: https://www.c-span.org/video/?449088-1/senate-intelligence-c...

PS: If our politicians did all of these behind closed doors and on private phones you'd be on here complaining about that too. I prefer that some of this happens in the public eye.
The views of the AFB and missile range are truly excellent.

Google Maps panoramic view: https://goo.gl/ckkCQc
Just some examples of traditional car makers: Jaguar, VW (as much as it hurts me personally to admit that), BMW, GM.

The big problem for Tesla now is to compete with the incumbents on their turf, mass producing cars. That EV drive trains makes cars actually less compley isn't helping neither. And the incumbents are really good at that. Tesla had an incredible window of opportunity to turn the automotive industry upside down. Now the window narrowed down to a race between Tesla getting production straight and the traditional car makers developing an electrical car. Ip to very recently I would still have been with Tesla. Now, not so much. Musk apparently having some issues, production being a constant headache. And Tesla even tried to built their own seats. Not everything other manufacturers did was wrong.

That this development, compounded by the digitalization of everything, posses a complete new set of challenges for traditional car makers is an other story.
Yep this is the biggest thing I'll miss. For example Inbox can automatically recognize a flight confirmation email and turn it into a rich card with supplemental information that wasn't even in the original email, stuff like the flight status and gate.

Additionally, the mobile app is amazing at deep linking back to the right place in another app. For example it can recognize a Seamless food order receipt and deep link back into the Seamless app to view the order status.
You live in a parallel universe. Short sellers peddling fake news are largely mythical. Virtually every SEC enforcement action has been against pump-and-dump scams dealing in false positive analysis. The short side is just realistic and they don’t spread rumors, because it’s better for them when the bad news is a surprise to other investors. SEC enforcement against short sellers for public statements are incredibly rare.
The iPhone SE, while not the market maker by any means, still carries a non-negligible share of that market. It seems silly for Apple to just drop that entire size offering when there is clearly market demand for it.

Remember the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle? Historically Apple has known that users care about device size, and us users do still do.

Here's an idea: take the iPhone SE, shrink it 1/4" but retain the screen size by giving it that edge-to-edge screen look like the others. Now you have a sexy iPhone Nano that you can offer to that customer segment before they look elsewhere.

Disclaimer: I am a male with normal sized hands that loves his SE.
The key word, and marketable perception, is "crisis". Most don't go off the rails and even fewer go to 'extremes'. This is what I consider real fake news, in the same vein as fake Reality TV. MSM sucks in so many varied ways.
The real loss is Senators no longer trusting Alphabet/Google after this snub.

You really don't want to turn the government against you.
This is not about conservatives, it hits everyone: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po...

Making this issue a conservative vs liberal issue is dishonest and doesn't get us anywhere
Please no. Reddits pun threads contantly derail interesting discussions with low effort shit.
>“Nobody would give us any information on what was going on,” House [the sheriff] said, before the phone call cut out and repeated attempts to reach him again were unsuccessful.

Seriously? Is this an ARG?
Speaking of which.

> We believe Tesla is creating a best-in-class self-driving technology.

What are they basing that belief on?

> According to Tesla, the company believes it can gather 1 billion miles of data per year from current drivers.

Good training data is necessary but having a lot of training data alone is not a guarantee for success.

I believe a lot in Elon Musk and Tesla but I would like to hear a good argument from Worm Capital about why they think Tesla will have the best-in-class self-driving technology.
Try again, kiddo.

This is not about conservatives, it hits everyone, ESPECIALLY LEFT WINGERS: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po...

Making this issue a conservative vs liberal issue is dishonest and doesn't get us anywhere
I might be being a bit "old hat", but I thought a programming language was one that you had to to compile (such as C) whereas a scripting language was one that was interperated (such as Python). I could be wrong but there appears to be some similar lines of thought on this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17253545/scripting-langu...
$5,000-$10,000, plus integration costs- this is on the cell level, not the pack level. Tesla's integration is somewhat more complex than others, although it has given them more performance.

But that's a huge part of the car, and the majority of the drivetrain cost. The motor costs probably a few hundred. When you consider all the things it actually replaces -fuel and exhaust, starter and alternator, a number of ancillaries- it's really starting to close in on an internal combustion engine. Not to mention that that level of drivetrain is high end in terms of power output.
Is there more to this story because ...

"A US official previously told CNN that the military sees these flights as routine and said they pose no concern."
One could pretty easily imagine tow trucks carrying around a 1kWh battery with some standard DC connector, and that would get you a couple miles.

A 1kWh battery is not big; e-bicycles carry ~500Wh.

Would be literally the electric equivalent of a gas can.
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Except there are plenty of rational reasons one might want to restrict immigration by country, as even Gwern has gone over before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13859767

> immigrant outcomes differ by orders of magnitude by country and that this has considerable implications for the immigration debate and that many of the arguments made by the left for illegal immigration & open borders range from ignorant to outright lying with statistics.

In 2014 Havard fellow Eugen Dimant did a study on immigration from corrupt countries, with the consistent finding that "Immigration from corruption-ridden countries boosts corruption in the destination country."

https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/crook-crook-he-still-crook-a...

To put forth either of these as reasons to restrict immigration from one set of countries, and encourage immigration from another, almost always gets you labeled a racist, ethno-nationalist, etc. If you don't believe you will be called that, I invite you to try and discuss them pro/con style (pretending you are fairly convinced) with some of your more liberal coworkers, and see what they say.

Just being immigration-skeptic in general now often leads to such charges, which is absurd. The most basic rational reason of all is very simple: If the fundamental mechanic of democracy is that the people vote and these votes matter, then every citizen should have a strong interest in making sure that the criteria for being a citizen is in place to attract good citizens and repel bad ones. Instead, we can barely talk about it.
Ok, my bad. Half of the resolution I had while running Windows 3.1, instead of a quarter.
I'm not aware of it being a theory, but I strongly recommend this read for anyone who entertains this "boredom" root cause idea, which seems bonkers. Also, regardless of that, it's a massively interesting read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction
The A9 seems to still be up to the task, despite being nowhere near as powerful as what's in these newer phones.

It may not always be that way, I admit. But I'm not sure that my Stockholm syndrome with respect to the ad industry has developed to the point that I'm willing to spend hundreds of extra dollars on additional hardware and data plan to solve a problem that I could solve for free with an ad blocker.
The point of the exercise was never to make the news, it's about governing.

The news just doesn't like reporting on the boring stuff.
Really? Read the news: https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/san-francisco-allows-non-citiz...
The generational index idea was exactly what I needed for a search index project I’ve been working on. Makes it much easier to safely insert and delete from a memory arena.

Also, fascinating that Rust’s borrow checker sort of encourages you over time to adopt an entity component system architecture instead of a naive OO architecture.
"A US official previously told CNN that the military sees these flights as routine and said they pose no concern."
And the other way, one can notice how a person reacts to a comment without necessary needing to remember the source of it. Both of these are going to scale linearly (obviously).

I might pick up on something like "A seems to respond to B uniformly negatively" and make a note of that, but remembering one notable thing doesn't require me to "allocate" memory for all of the other non-memorable things. I'm not literally building and labeling a graph, like some commenters are implying. Or if you insist, it's a sparse data structure.
Waymo isn't pushing tech into peoples hands that is killing people.
One challenge is that there is so much distressing input for black people (and immigrants etc.) that, if you get started, where would you stop? "Don't get me started" is a real thing. A second challenge is that, as a black person, it feels like you're only just barely succeeding at passing in the Tech world. If you highly your blackness, you risk disrupting your success at getting people to see you as a coder first.
At this point in time there are no other auto manufacturing companies mass producing & mass selling EVs other than Tesla. Their Model 3 by itself is now outselling the entire BMW sedan lineup in the US (BMW's second largest market after China).

There are certainly a lot of hybrids being sold around the world. There are still very few strictly electric cars being made or sold anywhere on earth, that aren't Teslas. It turns out it is very difficult to do what Tesla has.

The industry is running at least five years behind Tesla presently. It'll continue to catch up, without question. Tesla will be doing $40 billion in sales by the time it does and will legitimately be in the league of BMW size wise at that point.
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I was hoping for some key engineers or product managers. I had a similar peak into the iPod, a key stepping stone to the iPhone.

There was a time when digital music players like the Creative Nomad were gaining adoption, but people were still absorbing the shift to digital music.

I worked at RealNetworks/Rhapsody music and there was a mysterious meeting where a guy pitched what would eventually come to market as the iPod. The deal didn't go through and he was latter employed by Apple.

I understand that sometimes inventions will be invented nearly simultaneously by several distinct groups... and Apple may have already had a prototype device for years in their labs waiting for the BOM to hit the right size, price, and capabilities... But who were these visionaries that Apple organized, packaged their visions, and helped delivered their wares?

Apple does an amazing job of marketing their myths and we've got the well known brands of Woz, Jobs, Ive... It's hard to pierce that veil.
We live in a Democracy. These fact finding exercises must occur in view of the public.

C-SPAN covers this stuff verbatim, with zero spin. This stuff is very important to Democracy, and sitting it out is horrible optics.
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Right, but as I was under the impression that the actual 18650 Cells are made by Panasonic in Japan.
Apple (very predictably) scrubbed all mention of the SE from their site right after the keynote. If you believed Apple was going to keep it around or update it then I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
I am not suggesting the news is fake on either side. The most effective spin is accurate with the distortion being the amount of coverage it gets.
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If you accept visitors from the EU, you have to abide by their laws. If you're exclusively based outside of the EU, you could just ignore the laws. But Google has offices inside the EU, so they can't.
Unlikely factories as they don't belong to Apple (ex. Foxconn) so maybe a bit of greenwash involved here. Regardless, a step in the right direction.
They have parts made of metal. So, ya. They will feel the tariffs. Even if they aren't using steel, prices on all engineered metals (ie built to specific standards) will rise as those who can switch away from steel. But I doubt raw metals are a significant cost in something like a tesla battery. It is a heavily engineered product, not an I-beam for a bridge. The real costs should be in manufacturing and non-metal raw materials.
Didn't know he was missing till now. Maybe he is just doing some heads down work and letter another person take media duties.
That's pretty much all there is to it. You'll read this story about Russian bombers being spotted near Alaska every few months. I'm not sure we scramble fighter jets every time they do.

In other words: it's nothing to worry about. At least not in the short term.
honestly i think that was the biggest reason for its success. Blackberry was already a thing, but that big honking, clunky keyboard was just silly on a phone, and meant you had an exceptionally little amount of screen real estate. The developments in capacitive touch made a lot of room for other improvements to handheld devices.
This is a silly article. Most inventions come about when a person or group of people recognize an opportunity based on many things that are already known, or exist. The original iPhone of course relied on touch-screens, feasible batteries, wifi chips and a many, many other existing technologies. But remember that, at the time of its design, mobile phones all used keypads: either the standard telephone type, or the full (but small) keyboard of the Blackberry. Apple's big innovations (among many) were to eliminate the keypad, and to embed a full-fledged OS on a small device. The lack of keyboard was a huge risk, and it was mocked at the time. History proved Apple was right. Steve Jobs (or at least his team, with his input) did indeed invent the iPhone.
s/repoting/reporting :D
There kavanaugh hearing wasn't a circus either (ignoring the protestors), but it's still just a tool to generate soundbites.

A closed door hearing is for fact finding, public ones are for proselytizing.
Exactly: The countries signing the convention agreed to its binding force but, except for fines, the ECtHR doesn't have direct to order countries. That actually foes for most judiciaries: Courts generally can only order governments to pay fines but these go back into the state budget. Few countries allow officials to be held in contempt of courts. Both, domestic courts and the ECtHR, rely on the respect for the rule of law and, at least for the ECtHR, that has mostly worked out well. Exceptions are Belarussia and Russia
Right, I had noticed the misunderstanding, which is why I initially responded by clarifying my terminology. "Abstract" is jargon in art, so it doesn't necessarily work exactly the same way there as it does in vernacular usage.
> these inquiries should have WAY harsher consequences than they have

As another commenter posted, we have a judicial system for that. We have separation of powers in our government for a reason. Congress should not be acting as judge and jury.
That we know of so far.

Maybe they didn't, but it's not like we know exactly what Google is doing with data.
Yeah, that is right. And I won't deny that there some very fine idiots on both sides.
One thing this article completely neglects to mention: Larry has vocal chord paralysis and so has difficulty speaking.

https://www.wired.com/2013/05/larry-page-vocal-chords/

This could have something to do with why he's reluctant to do a lot of public speaking nowadays.

[UPDATE] I was wrong: the article does mention this, I just missed it. I would delete this comment but I can't since it has been replied to.