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Why was Andrew Torba's comment (on this thread) - the CEO of Gab and subject of this discussion - downvoted and already censored ('dead') ? Absurd.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DooMz4QV4AEEuv4.jpg:large

Here is the link to his comment if you wish to reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18136380

And make sure you turn on 'showdead' in your settings otherwise miss key comments like this.
I had the car since March and I would say will never go back to ICE car and may be not even other electric car. I am most impressed by the simplicity of the interior, once start driving i never had a need to touch the screen, all the above seems silly, autopilot is only meant for cruising in freeway for now.
The real value of this tool is as an objective measure of how pleasant your communications are.

Now that Codes of Conduct are the norm rude/abusive behaviour is not tolerated, but this can cause problems because one person might see rude and abusive behaviour where another person does not.

Having a tool to objectively measure incorrect words and thoughts would be a great way to protect developers from themselves.
Because they are desperate. That's it. they are trying to survive.
Why become the top percentile of anything?

I see your motivation is seeing your peers "get ahead" of you. We all do through that. I've gone through that. I chased after something because I wanted to keep up with my friends. It made me miserable. It's years long misery to achieve something that is unhealthy and not what I decided what I wanted for me.

I'd avoid being allowing others progress and achievements place pressure on you.
You the MPV!
I agree. 230 mph seems high. Most commercial airliners and business jets make their approach at no greater than 150 knots which rounding up is 175 mph. I think the latest DJI drones do about 40 mph.

A drone striking a Mooney at 230 mph seems pretty unlikely. One has to ask what the GA pilot is doing if he’s flying 200 mph at 400 ft or less. It’s not necessarily an unsafe operation but it would definitely be an abnormal operation.

Edit: As pointed out elsewhere the latest DJI Phantom does 40 mph. Updated post to reflect that.
Codetermination seems to work well in Germany.
Employees and shareholders are both represented on the board and perhaps that allows better negotiation and less adversity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
Isn't it better to get your money and not be hoping for a bonus or stock award?

Most people would take the guaranteed pay raise over the non-guaranteed bonus or profit sharing/stock awards. Let people decide what to do with their money, 'benefits' largely benefit the company not always all individuals.

The problem is real pay/share of GDP to persons has gone down consistently [1] while 'real compensation' [2] has supposedly gone up and supposedly makes up over 30% of everyone's pay on average, that includes bonuses, healthcare, other benefits that most people don't see or use regularly. Even real compensation is dwindling. [3]

As an example of increasing wages over benefits, I'd rather people got paid and then purchased healthcare for instance on their own as it would be a more consumer, rather than employer, focused market.

Raises should be given on the regular and the base way to reward value creating employees, not some might be bonus or stock award tied to the company instead. A bonus oro profit sharing on top of increasing wages is still ok but not in spite of it. What if the employee wants to buy other stock, pay them so they can. Give raises, quit with the 'real compensation' gains that don't put actual money in your accounts, people would always take actual money over benefits.

The velocity of money (domestic money that changes hands) has also fallen off a cliff [4] because pay to persons/raises have been efficiently worked out of the system in favor of 'real compensation' which does not get money in accounts consumers can spend.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS85006151

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
I thought a complaint was that Obamacare introduced a tax on health care plans that were unusually generous.
That's because reviewers of experimental papers are not expected to reproduce experiments. In theoretical physics or mathematics a reviewer absolutely should follow the proofs and check they are sound.

The humanities (as opposed to the social sciences) are theory fields, they don't have experiment but they advance knowledge by good arguments that require real scholarship to support even if they don't have crispness of proofs. Someone reviewing it should go "Yep, that paper make a real claim and argues for it well enough that convincing counter-argument would need to be a significant work of scholarship in itself".

If a field of study produces a conversation made up of such arguments and counter-arguments, then it stands some chance of being growing repository of truth. Whereas if the field can't distinguish between it's own chatter and a hoax guided by mood affiliation, then the field is likely to be just chatter.
From what I know, their robots just didn't work that well and the quality wasn't there. They burned through $150M in funding, which shows they didn't have a great product, just a well-known co-founder who was one of the iRobot founders.
"Bringing Robotaxis to market is very capital intensive". With the front and center approaches rooted in the DARPA Grand Challenges yes, with much of that money being spent on propping up simplifying assumptions that break at the tail end and on technologies that will be obsolete in a couple years. HD mapping curated by humans, human annotation for training/testing data, Lidars, and all that superfluous real world testing, will soon be replaced by approaches that are orders of magnitude more capital efficient. The less efficient approaches that currently dominate will sputter at 1% market penetration at best.
Not aq big fan of Toyota's design, but is their UX seriously worse than "oh, let's control AC system from a touchscreen" nonsense from Tesla?
As a recent example, the cost to travel by train into Tokyo from Narita cost me about ¥800, but the tolls from driving cost about ¥2000. So, if you travel with 3+ people in a car, it's cheaper to drive, provided you already own a car.
So you are arguing that without that capital Musk would not have been able to raise money from the private sector?
> Absurd

The guy is banned, clearly because he's been an asshole to others. Since you have showdead, behold the kind of person he is: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rvcamo
Some recentish posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16651709

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16318076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697520
I dislike everything Google. Not only for this reason but for privacy reasons. So I confront this by using firefox klar and duckduckgo.com and gmx.com for my user combo.
Via the Origin header, just like the preflight requests use. The server is ultimately the one telling the browser what the rules are already. The reason a preflight is needed is so that there is effectively a default deny policy, since both historically and even today you can’t assume all APIs that accept authentication tokens from the browser take into account any kind of cross origin access.

Even still, a lot of people just put ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *’ on everything as soon as they run into an issue, so that rule has to ban credentialed requests altogether.
I figure that by the time this self driving tech makes it to Honda's vehicles, few people will be buying them, because Honda has failed to get on the EV bandwagon. Honda and Mazda may be victims of the surge of EVs soon to come from China, Europe and Tesla.

Other Asian carmakers such as Toyota and Hyundai are doing much better getting onboard the EV/Hybrid train though.
I was looking for an opportunity to say something similar. I didn't realize there was that much prior art!
Reproduction of results happens after publication, though. Simply getting published does not demonstrate that their ideas were accepted as truthful, you should look at things like whether their work was cited by other work.
Really disappointed that the CEO's response has been censored / dead'd here. Not a great moment for HN.
>There's a lot to be said for the simplicity of an outright ban. Ban ICEs.

Do this and a massive chunk of the population will die shortly after. There is no alternative to farm and transport food at the scale required for the modern population.

Banning CFCs isn't even comparable because all of modern civilization wasn't built on them like it has been with the portable energy enabled by ICE.

There is no viable electric-only solution for the freight rail network, the air freight network, or even the road freight network.
The publishers didn't agree to it. Brave is not allowed to unilaterally dictate terms. If I'm going to steal from publishers, nobody should benefit, especially not some smarmy browser vendor. Similarly, if I'm going to pirate, I'm not going to pay some piracy middleman who makes up some cryptocurrency to send to the content creators.

Of Firefox, Chrome, and Brave; Brave is by far the worst browser of the bunch. It's not even pretending not to be evil, let alone trying and failing like the others.
> What frustrates me is the tendency to use technology to replace humans beings.

It's a huge cost center, and the amount of labor required to operate a farm is considerably less than what it has been in the past. It seems like the major bottleneck is harvesting, packaging and shipping the majority of your product to market, it's a natural place to look for gains.

The moneymakers are the landholders anyways.

> Then you don't know how to solve the shortcut in jobs.

Most harvesting work is done on a "piece work" system. These aren't jobs that have any future in them because there are absolutely no skills required and no reason for an employer to develop them and they're highly seasonal.

> Couldn't we just slow down tech a little bit and let people do some good old hard work to keep getting their cut?

There may be cases where this is true, but when the labor is literally "just pulling food out of the ground and putting it in a box" I don't think the use of technology is an inherent problem.
Walmart only really has great profit margins in areas without competition.

So sure when it has a local monopoly it ends up with great margins, but in high competition areas the stores are far less profitable. https://www.businessinsider.com/states-where-people-spend-th...
I made one once, for a job interview. They asked for the top 10 articles with all the comments and the titles translated to two languages. It came out pretty ok.
Very much so. However it could be noted that the 'average' Australian income is in the area of $80k/yr ( https://www.livingin-australia.com/salaries-australia/ ) and the purchase of a $60k car is not uncommon at all.
I think all police should wear body cameras. Police misconduct declines. Civilian misconduct declines. Cameras are a potential source of powerful evidence. Everyone wins.
Did we not have this conversation in the 19th century?
It’s kinda a bummer to see 802.11ad being ignored. I use 802.11ad for game streaming in my house, and it’s great.

It’s also great for the “access point per room” story, if there was a mechanism to have cheaper APs and do hand off.
See Glik v. Cunniffe; you can record the police in public spaces, and laws that state otherwise are unconstitutional.
> "Yet almost all astronomers are certain: dark matter and dark energy exist ... [and it explains] everything that we see."

Siegel's cheerleading overstates the case, let's check wikipedia for a more sober assessment on the consensus:

Although the existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the scientific community, some astrophysicists,[15] intrigued by certain observations that do not fit the dark matter theory ...
This is another instantiation of "Keeping up with the Joneses"[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses
never heard of it, but farewell!
You literally said "A car with only one gear", not "single gear ice vehicles".

I'm down with math and logic, as well as physics. But the problem here appears to be that you left out a word, so your audience is mystified.
> If most of the workers are making less now, why would they vote to unionize?

You seem to be confusing the direction of time...
> they will wind up offering an inferior car at a worse price than the upstarts

Jaguar I-Pace. Mercedes EQC. BMW iX3.

Far superior to Tesla on all the metrics I mentioned before.
If the field doesn't rely on experimentation, why did their papers include fake experimental data (e.g. one of the papers contained a bunch of fake data about their observations of dog genitalia)?
What personal data will be collected with Presidential Alert?
2x cost for electric is not typical. The average cost premium is more like 10-15k (and the US government will allow you a $7,500 tax credit for the electric).

Of course the top-selling electric vehicles (Tesla and Leaf) don't have a direct ICE equivalent so it's tough to compare...
Ask HN: How do you market yourself at your mid-30's?
This is a test vehicle. Actual Waymo "production" cars don't even have drivers.

Humans are the weak link.
It sounds like you're in a rough spot. Luckily, it sounds like from what you're talking about that there's a lot you can offer and there's a lot of low hanging fruit that can be picked.

Here's what I suggest:

1. Find the easiest things to do that will save people time, or fix problems that people have been talking about. Especially useful if founder is one of the people helped.

2. Once you've found some easy things to do (<1wk), figure out which ones you can do without any help, resources, or authority.

3. Do it, and show it to him, or talk it up with the team and save them some time.

4. Tell the founder you've saved people time, and him money. Invest in some of your next ideas to save more time. Don't ask for permission. Just say you're doing it.

5. Success builds on success.

One thing I'd definitely point out is sometimes you have to go skunkworks. It doesn't sound like you've been there long and they are harping on you to ship something. You likely have plenty of time to just do some easy things, like automating paperwork or forms.

In terms of your staging workflow, again I'd apply concepts that I don't need permission for. Instead of blocking commits to master or even needing a staging branch, you could write some automation that takes a git hash. There's lots of ways to work around needing permissions or official things. Never underestimate the use of a button to do something, rather than typing it into a terminal.

It also sounds like you may have people problems. Is your founder stressed? It sounds like he's having a rough time with scaling growth. Find out what is stressing him out at work and use your talent to eliminate it.

If all else fails, use FIRE. (and quit.)

Good luck.
Hello folks,

I have a weird situation and if you don't mind, I would like to ask for your advice.

I'm having hard time getting hired, both onsite and remotely.

To be honest with you, I really suck at marketing myself.

I'm a Computer Scientist and I had worked in IT for 11 years and currently I'm unemployed for 3.

So far I have been in Tech Support my whole career life with an exception of 2 years as Web Developer.

Every time I would attempt to start as a developer, I would get either rejected or labeled as overqualified.

One possible interpretation could be my age; I'm 36 years old.

What confuses me the most is that when I interview for an opened position, they would let know that I'm a senior developer on a personal level.

To answer your possible question as of why they would reply in this way, let me tell you what (I think) I know and what I like doing during my free time:

Others enjoy solving crossword puzzles and sudoku, playing MMORPG games, and go out for a beer; I love playing with programming languages, libraries, and frameworks.

What languages do I like fooling around?

* shell scripting - automations, automations, automations!
* C - One day I will acquire Fabrice Bellard's 1 millionth of expertise and start doing incredible things like him. I'm looking at you Tiny C Compiler!
* C++ - I can't wait to see modules in actual use with C++ in combination with Concepts. It's a hard language to fully understand, but it worths the effort.
* PHP - For WordPress, its fork [ClassicPress], and Laravel. I did not like Laravel for some reason; it's alright though, but I prefer Django and Flask.
* Python - Cython language, Django, Flask, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, web scraping...so many things to list here that I find interesting!
* Perl - don't ask me why, but I LOVE this language's syntax. I don't use it that much though, but one day I will build a project to keep my head spinning.
* Nim - If you like Python's elegance, LISP's macros, and C's performance...well, there you have it!
* Lua - I haven't played a lot with this language, but it's so easy to use. I keep my eyes on Titan and Pallene programming languages which are AOT compiled sister languages to Lua.
* Ocaml - I want to learn a functional programming language to keep my head active. I plan to play with Haskell too for the sake of mental "physique".

There are so many things to list here that I'm really interested in.

What I lack is specialization and I'm doing my best to remedy this.

I can't stay unemployed forever and be forced to depend on my family at this age.

Can anyone help me figure out ways to stand on my feet?

Cheers.
I would really love a go to for this, but System76 are still bound by what Clevo makes. Lots of it just isn't that interesting. Clevo, from what I see, is a specs first company, but I think we're a bit beyond that now. I'm finding myself more and more interested in battery life, weight, and a good keyboard. This is already hard enough to find in laptops as is, let alone in Clevo's range

edit: I tried Dell's keyboard on the XPS and immediately disliked it. I don't think the developer ed would have different hardware in this respect.
> This is the epic tale of the unending hunt for dark matter ... Despite huge pots of money being poured since the 1970s into dark matter experiments on, under or above Earth, despite endless late nights spent doing calculations, and despite plenty of media coverage, researchers keep getting nowhere

It's ridiculous to refer to about 50 years of work so far as an "unending" hunt, and it's a sign of the very short-term thinking of our age.
Comments from banned users get killed automatically. I've unkilled that one. In the future, if you see a comment that shouldn't be [dead], that's what the 'vouch' feature is for: click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch'.
You're also welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and let us know, so we can unkill it. But please don't noise up the thread by posting offtopically about it.
Can't wait for the mergers & acquisitions that leave one guy owning the autonomous farm, autonomous delivery trucks, self-checkout-only supermarkets, and bank that issues the card you use to pay for it. Also, he's your boss.
Ask HN: Open-source commitment for commercial software?
Hi HN,

I write a bunch of open source software. I also make and sell closed source products. I'm a small shop and sometimes my clients worry about platform risk should I just decide it's no longer worth bothering to support the product I'm trying to sell them.

What I'd like to be able to do is put a clause in my standard EULA that says "If I ever stop offering this software on the market, I promise I'll give you the source under a BSD licence."

Is anyone aware of prior art in this space? I'd love to learn from history before trying it myself.
Stealth aircraft deploy them whenever they’re operating in civilian airspace so they can integrate into the existing radar-based ATC infrastructure.

They’re called Luneburg Lenses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luneburg_lens
Bingo. I still kind of wish there was an ability to make the browser invoke some kind of request that servers would reject by default (e.g. with a non-standard HTTP method) that could combine the preflight check and the request while still making servers that don’t anticipate CORS blanch and not take any dangerous actions. But the browser security model is complex and messy enough as it is, so I doubt it’s worth it.
You’d be shocked how little of the wing is actually supporting the entire structure. Typically there is one main spar that holds up the entire wing and the skin and ribs only hold a fraction of the load which is distributed to the spar. As you might imagine the spar is going to be a pretty heavy duty piece of aluminum and not easily damaged by something like this. A wing can sustain a fairly large hole as long as the spar isn’t damaged.

Control cables would be a concern but hydraulics and fuel aren’t typically going to be a concern. Fuel isn’t as combustible as everyone likes to think. There are also additional tanks. Hydraulics offer redundancy on aircraft that use hydraulic control surfaces.

I’ve seen a Cirrus SR20 hit a deer at takeoff speed and leave a 2.5 ft hole in the skin of the wing the went as deep as the reinforced fuel tank. The aircraft continued flight and came back around and landed just fine. Even flew to the repair airport after cleaning up some loose fiberglass.

Personally what worries me more is what would happen if they fired this thing at the plexiglass windscreen. In a GA airplane that would likely be fatal.
Smoking a cigarette harms society. Rich people can afford to compensate society for the harm they inflict, so that society comes out ahead.
Capitalism is "[s]eeking personal gain at the expense of others(...)"
That account was banned a long time ago for posting tons of comments violating the site guidelines. Obviously we ban any account that does that. We wouldn't be moderators if we didn't.

Banned users' comments get killed automatically. We often unkill good comments posted by banned accounts. I've unkilled that one.

If you see a comment that shouldn't be [dead], click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top. (There's a small karma threshold before those links appear.) You can also email us at hn@ycombinator.com to point out a comment that needs to be unkilled. Complaining off-topically in the thread does nothing but add noise, so please don't do that.
I wonder if they're behind the curve when it comes to the software that's become so central to the Tesla experience.
I like new numbering system which allows me to quickly deduce the generation of standards. No more a/b/g/n/a-something.
It's also quite inefficient to convert hydrocarbon energy to mechanical energy to electrical energy to chemical energy back to electrical energy and then back to mechanical energy, as an electric car does. ICE goes straight from hydrocarbon to mechanical. It would not surprise me if it's more efficient, though I don't know.
Companies piling downtown helps the environment. It allows more people to live close by or commute via mass transportation. Suburban sprawl is the energy-intensive way of living.

I've got an EV in Minneapolis (colder than Toronto but less crowded) and I love it. So does every EV owner I've ever met.