skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus you can always achieve it in post, but you can't make a dreamy-glowy photo sharp.

Actually it is possible to mostly get rid of the kind of flare I am talking about in post. It depends on the lens but often the are actually have high resolution wide open, just the flare makes them look softer.

> A sharp lens is strictly more useful in the digital era.

Sure, if sharpness is the only criteria you judge usefulness by. Nifty 50 lenses are still tiny and cheap and sharp enough for most things.
I have a hard time believing that the vast majority of cars won't already be 100% electric by then. Also, I doubt there will be nearly as many personal cars and that there will be much more ride sharing and public transportation options.
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This is an absurdly out of touch comment. The vast majority of cars sold in the US aren't even close to $60k.

The average new car is only $37k and only about 30% of car purchases are new cars.
There's something so weird about seeing HN readers saying "I'd love to live on a subsistence farm" when there's so many people in the world struggling to survive on the food they farm themselves.
It's like reading the same story, but with different protagonist and type of job.

I had a similar situation like yours, but I was in the traditional Sys Admin category.

Basically I had to deal with toxic behavior for a number of years and in reality what happened was to stay where I first started for the whole time.

When they had an issue, I would suggest solutions and useful alternatives, but I would get nothing but "No"s and "don't you dare do such thing!", so they could do their ways. Now, when they would mess up badly with something, they would come back running to me to fix their shit.

I was never trusted nor had they believed in me and my skills to improve our entire infrastructure.

I got tired arguing and fighting for nothing as I was getting nowhere.

Eventually, I automated my tasks to the point of not working, like doing nothing at all for like...4 years or so(?) and right before leaving, I took notes based on my scripts' implementations and then deleted them for good.

Lastly, the headquarters decided to close down our branch.

I don't think I would like to work for such type of environment anymore, but I'm afraid the majority are like this more or less.
> maybe triggered by a keyword or a cough or something.

Sounds complicated. Why not upload every 30sec chunk?
"...the First Amendment protects the right to record [police/gov't officials carrying out their duties in public places] regardless of whether the police/officials consent. This constitutional right would override any state or federal laws that would otherwise prohibit such recording."

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-police-officers-an...
Honestly how could that be actionable in a short timeframe?
Does YouTube allow unlisted/private live streams? That would be an easy hack to achieve something like this.
If you're unfamiliar with Gab, it's Twitter for neo-Nazis.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/11/the-alt-right-created-a-para...

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/ywxb95/gab-is-the-alt-rig...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/growing-platform-gab-woos-alt-...

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065777/inside-gab-the-new-twitt...
You're thinking of the rules regarding phone conversations (one party vs. two party states). You're allowed to record your interactions with police, although sometimes they'll lie and tell you you aren't.
Yes, these are all valid points.
Those would be worse as they are not even actionable alerts! True spam.
The door handles are probably a deliberate choice to get the drag down as low as possible, without the expense of motorized handles like the S or motorized doors like the X.

No other cars on the road have drag coefficients as low as the Model 3 (or the Model S, for that matter). From what I've seen, Teslas are the only cars that have the B-pillar flush to the glass, and flush, cavity-less door handles. That plus the perfectly smooth underbody nose to tail is what gives the Teslas better range per battery capacity than other electrics.
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Despite all the hype, smoke and crypto, if the mainstream payment processors cut you off, what is a business supposed to do?
Unfortunately it requires Siri to be enabled even if the shortcut itself doesn't use it (like when I want to trigger it with touch).

I've disabled Siri on my phone and watch because I never use it and there's a massive battery improvement when I disable it; the old Workflow app used to work without Siri, but Shourtcut requires it apparently :(
You're a neo-nazi.
There is a lot of air up there. I fly drones in Australia (https://serio.com.au/) and it's easy to stay well out of the way of large aircraft (don't launch anywhere near airports, and restrict your maximum altitude) and helicopters (you can hear them from a long way away).

DJI's software enforces a survey with local regulations before you can fly. The default settings are all very restrictive too.

The authority here provides an app that quickly indicates the flight rules in a particular location - airports and approach paths, non-controlled aerodromes, etc. It's quick enough that it's easy to check as part of your setup procedure.

The riskier situations I think are cropdusters (fly very low and launch from rarely used airfields) or sightseeing planes/choppers (operating close to the ground despite launching from a fair distance away). I often fly at this location (https://serio.com.au/media/20180171.jpg) and on weekends there can be vintage sightseeing planes coming down the beach in that bay, definitely below the 120m (400') drone limit.
This is fucked up. I hate that companies are dictating culture. I get that this is really visa and MasterCard but god I can’t wait for online payments to be a solved problem.
The ipfs.js library requests the files through WebSocket, and those various domains you see are different IPFS gateways. (for redundancy/latency I'd assume)
In most cases it's best to get the money today rather then wait for a future, that may not come to exist.
>In an unregulated market, there are no bad actors, only inefficient ones.

The history of planet earth is full of bad actors in all kinds of markets, regulated or not. The animal kingdom is full of examples of deception. Seeking personal gain at the expense of others is a very deep feature of life.
Unfortunately, it is not just Tesla that is moving controls over to touch screen. The latest Honda vehicles have moved the majority of knobs to a touch interface.
My current company uses MapR and I have to say their software is impressive. It's much easier to use than CDH or HDP. I think they'll do fine.
Impossible to look at on mobile. The charts run off the right side of the screen. Viewing in desktop mode doesn’t seem to work. I’m guessing they’re trying to use a responsive layout, but they didn’t test articles like this on mobile. Come on Phoronix.
356 ft-lb of torque. And the same MPG (50+) in the 2018+ models.

You might not beat a Porsche Cayenne, but you'll give it a hard time.
Genuinely curious what the /u/pulak thinks of this outcome:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/3/17934194/amazon-minimum-w...

Was our skepticism perhaps reasonable?
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What's fucked up about a private company not doing business with neo-nazis?
It's where the neo-nazis went when Twitter became a publisher.
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I'm curious - could you elaborate on your mistake regarding spending too much time on C++?
I'm struggling to find it, but there was a hackernews comment thread about NSFW payment processor alternatives to Stripe (which is pretty strict about NSFW content). Higher fees, though, of course.
That video fails to convey how the pizza robot arm is novel.

What’s to stop someone else from getting an industrial robot arm and making it do the same thing?
Regardless of what it's called (let's say, "nationwide alert") is it possible to imagine anything that is 1> immediately actionable and 2> must be known by every person in the country?

I cannot think of a single thing. Even "nukes incoming" -- well what precisely should you do in this situation? If it's not actionable, no matter how important, it's not urgent.

I had to switch off the FEMA alerts -- which are a good idea! -- because I was getting spammed by spurious alerts about things hundreds of miles away (I re-enable them when I travel and when I am near my vacation house which is in a fire zone). An earthquake down south or a fire 8 hours' drive north do not require my immediate attention.
This needs to be regulated against, in my opinion.
> There are several cases when unions actively push to destroy companies just to get short term benefits.

And there are many-fold more cases where managers and execs have ruthlessly driven companies into the ground for their own personal short term gain. That's unequivocally worse than workers trying to protect their livelihoods.
If the company is laying people off en masse, your "best people" are going to start looking for other jobs anyway unless they have faith in the company leadership.

Off the top of my head, a couple of ways offers help in that respect:

Buyout offers soften the blow ahead of involuntary layoffs. They give people a sense of agency, which improves morale at a time when it's likely to be low.

Offers give people time to plan. Even if they don't take the offer, they'll have an idea of the numbers the company is looking to lose.

Offers help spread out the impact of layoffs. Laying off a large number of staff at once can cause organizational chaos; laying off a large number of staff over a span of weeks casts a pall over everything until the layoffs are over. Having people leave voluntarily gives time for an orderly transition without causing as much dread.
> the car slowed at a stop sign down to 20mph before blowing through it

Not sure if you know or not, but want to make this clear - the current Autopilot feature does NOT know how to stop at signs or lights. It really is just really good lane adherence, and even that can be sketchy (hopping lanes into oncoming traffic, sudden hard braking for no reason).
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Is there a good tutorial somewhere for internet scale networking. Backbone networks, peering. Something geared towards software engineers who want to know more about that stuff?
The Model 3 is kind of in a unique category. It looks a like it's half way between sedan and crossover.
What drove the costs of the "Cadillac plans" up was that the members worked in injury-prone industries, i.e. fishing, construction &c. The benefits weren't particularly rich. Small wonder that the unions in those industries would come out against provisions that would penalize their members for working in their line of work.

There's plenty of things wrong with US unions, but opposition of fishermen to Obamacare isn't amongst them.
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Interesting comment on the battery impact of Siri. Did you notice improvements when you turned off Siri entirely or just the "Hey Siri" functionality? I find it quite odd that Siri would take up battery even when not running (given that "Hey Siri" is disabled).
I recently updated my phone (MIUI/Android) and it does fall back to LTE when it can't reach the Internet through Wifi.
Also known as "I support Unions, but only when they don't actually have any power".
Surprised by the decreased socket performance, are sockets not a first-class citizen anymore? Everyone just went to http?

Anyone have clues as to why this has degraded so much over the years?
And this is why engineers have invented the dead man's switch a long time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch

The basic idea is that the switch can only be maintained in a non-braking state by an alert, not-incapacitated person. If you press too hard, it brakes; if you don't press hard enough, it brakes. You have to apply just enough force, and that's something only an alert person can do.

Clearly, using the gas pedal to turn off auto-pilot is not good enough.

By the way, we now have a pilot program in Hong Kong where cameras are installed in buses and use computer vision to detect if a bus driver is dozing off. The system then automatically makes the driver's seat vibrate and sound an alarm to wake the driver up.
Are you saying they don't pay their bills?
We could tax the wealthy and spend more on education, universal basic income, etc

There’s not enough political will though.
Very nice. I usually find that the features in new versions of Rails are solving 'real' problems - issues that I have in daily development and have been solving separately with Gems, or custom code. In this case I have usually been integrating tiny-mce, but with custom work for the image and file uploads. Also looking forward to the multi-db work when it lands!
It's twitter (youtube live & other services) for people are silenced by mainstream providers (currently, people with extreme views)
Nah, I love my life. People that don't love what they do everyday for a living can't understand.
According to Graunt's own account, he used London's bills of mortality (weekly records of deaths in in London parishes) that were kept in the parish clerk halls. According to the account beginning on page 51 (as numbered in the scan linked below), the people who collected corpses in London would report to the parish clerk how many people had died and the manner of death. Every Tuesday the reports were compiled, printed on Wednesday, published on Thursday. Graunt claims (page 59) that over a period of 20 years these bills recorded 229,250 deaths. Numbers of births came from records of christenings.

Here is a scan of Graunt's book "Natural and Political Observations mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality." It is old and a bit hard to read. http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/...

There is also a transcription of it at Wikisource, but it contains frequent OCR/transcription errors:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural_and_Political_Observa...

Average age of a woman at marriage was 23.5, and vast majority of births were to married women, so mother's average age at first childbirth was above 24:

https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmate...

There appears to be a large collection of the actual bills of mortality scanned and archived here:

https://archive.org/details/collectionyearl00hebegoog
Genuine question: why do you feel you've cut your teeth more than most?

I.e. what kind of dev work do you do that makes you have to deal with this more than the average developer?
> No other cars on the road have drag coefficients as low as the Model 3 (or the Model S, for that matter).

The Model S is the fourth lowest at 0.24, tied with the Mercedes S class, behind the Model 3 at 0.23.

But leading the pack are the Mercedes CLA (0.22) and the Volkswagen XL1 (0.19).
It’s just bad UX. They will add some rotary encoders before long. No need to regulate it :)
Im fascinated by this machine. Do you have any more info about who makes it so i can read more about it? Im particularly interested in the business end of it, how do the leaves get removed from the plant? Is there some kind of mechanical cutting force applied?
Aws won’t be marketable for long. It’s the sort of skillset that is a prime candidate for offshoring, and the bar to enter is very low.
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The technology you build will help reach millions more. We are hiring multiple engineering roles in both San Francisco and Nairobi:

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"somehow return to a romantic past"

Contentiousness is not a 'romantic past', it's a perennial ideal.
What about safety differences that don't affect pedestrians and other such (nigh-)stationary objects?

For instance, I could easily imagine that some cars might have more powerful kinematic-prediction software+processors and therefore are able to use smaller safety margins, allowing for more aggressive/liberal driving-behaviors than would be possible to safely perform in self-driving systems that aren't so well-endowed.

(Then again, depending on how good the first batch of general-purpose self-driving systems are, it may be possible that traffic safety margins among the self-drivers will be reducible enough that even the base models are "good enough" for anyone who doesn't encounter too many meatbag-drivers on their commute.)
I do not have a fluid dynamics background, but my hunch is that at the speeds involved, and the fact that there is a column of air from the cannon already surrounding the projectile, that this makes this simulation close enough.
It is not that the drive train differentiates the car. It is that the drive train constrains possible electric cars to be poor fits for the existing mass market. Which provides a market opportunity for manufacturers that focus on what is possible with the technology now, regardless of how well it fits in current Detroit marketing plans.

By the time electric is capable of being used for comparable cars at comparable prices for established lines of cars for established auto companies, they will be up against entrants in electric cars that have lower margins and more experience. When existing car manufacturers try to switch over they will wind up offering an inferior car at a worse price than the upstarts. This is a story that has played out many times in technology, and it never goes well for the established industry giants.

It doesn't matter if the competitors are delivering sports cars or glorified golf carts. What matters is that traditional auto companies with traditional dealer networks will be unable to compete head to head when they become competitive with the mass market.

Everyone knows about Tesla. Go look at https://www.fastcompany.com/40517240/the-biggest-electric-ve... for a company approaching the problem from the low end. There are a dozen more where BYD came from. And other markets where competitors are developing.

There are many niches around the world for electric vehicles. They are filled with companies who are salivating at the juicy pork chop that is the US car market. Technology does not, yet, allow them to compete head to head in Detroit's main product categories. But when they finally can, established automakers won't stand a chance.
weird that you bring milk up as an example, because this is an industry where regulations tend to make sure milk prices stay high and production stays low; really there are not many examples of food subsidies/regulations that aim to reduce prices and increase supply, at least not in the developed world
Go to the shady ones :-/
The fallacy in your reasoning is that there is a unitary “interests of those warehouse workers”.

Collective decision making and fiduciary duties are directly contrary to each other but unions are supposed to feature both. The way the circle is squared is that unions don’t in fact represent all their members’ interests, only those of 50% + 1.
A similar anecdote in How to Win Friends and Influence people (which I read 15 years ago) has had me leave many an email in drafts.

It's cathartic to write, but you don't need to send. Almost every time I re-read the draft a week later, I'm glad it stayed a draft.
I say that the XL1 doesn't count. I didn't count the EV1 either, which had the same drag coefficient.

But TIL about the CLA.

Note: the CLA was tested at 0.30 drag coefficient by Car and Driver, though.
Or a car from the distant past. Trends repeat. It's like how push-button transmissions are coming back into style, or how hybrid cars were invented in the 1920s and again in the 1960s.
It seems like this was over nsfw content tho.

It's fucked up even if it's neonazis (but I disagree with your usage of that term). It sets a precedent that you can willy nilly drop customers that might be relying on you.

Amazon did something similar to me a while back. I was livid.
Surely the free speech heroes at Gab will understand that everyone else has also the freedom to not associate with them.
Change your content moderation to align with Stripe’s realm of decency, duh /s
Not Facebook. Not Disqus either. Not Google sheets. Oh, yeah, and definitely not Ebay.

To me a good REST API makes getting started easy. If I spend the first few hours with your framework trying to get oauth setup that's not a good sign.

Second way, imo, to design a good API is to not be pretentious. We should be able to guess where to look for things without having to learn any $5 words.

A good interaction to get a users photos should look like this:

- /get-all-photos/userId

That returns a JSON object with everything you need to know about the users photos.

For example: the ONE url to the photo, title, caption

Oh, and no paging and dont you EVER phone home in some weird alien way (embed a .gif to communicate, what?)!
Most electric cars have only one gear. Why does it break down more often?
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This. You aren’t happy and you can’t make your boss happy. Accept that it was a mistake, “admit” that it was your fault for not understanding what they wanted, and go your separate ways. Don’t try to get a “dig” in on your way out, just leave on a good terms as you can.
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Do you take similar issue with the framework Sinatra?
My only concern with VW is whether they'll be able to produce those battery packs as fast as the cars. They're certainly ambitious, they want to make 100k the first year and the plant they're using can make 1,500 a day which sounds insane when you hear Tesla is only making 5,000 a month.

[1] https://www.vwvortex.com/news/volkswagen-news/d-electric-hat...
Slightly more recent: B. Traven notes that in the 1920s in Chiapas 50 % of children would die before the age of 6. (He continues that those surviving early childhood could look forward to reaching a ripe old age.)
You might consider reading the manual! It does discuss the issue.
Why should you get to dictate the actions of another private business?
It's a double edged sword. It will backfire big time.
Agreed. $60K is well into Mercedes E class, BMW 5 class, Audi S class territory. "Not that much" for the average US carbuyer, not so much.
> Are you sure you actually understand what the "levels" are here? It's certainly widely regarded as an imperfect classification system, particularly at 2, 3, and 4, but 1 and 5 are clear enough and 5 is "start to finish without even a human in the vehicle at all, or everyone sleeping".

I understand ‘Level 5’ and I am an active AI researcher. Do you understand what kind of technology is required to get to Level 5?

Do you think level 5 can be achieved without understanding how humans behave in a vehicle? Commonsense is needed for Level 5.

For an example: What if someone sleepwalking or rather sleep kicking and break the windows open then leave a leg or an arm hanging out of it? Do you think a Level 5 car should not monitor how the passengers behave at all?

Do you have real information/references rather than speculation that Waymo and GM have plans to launch only after achieving Level 5 rather than Level 4 which most observers agree on?

Do you have a cost/benefit calculation of why the driver detection system is “not worth it” since it is better to wait for Level 5 before launching anyway? By the way, the driver detection system is something a team of competent AI researchers can do today (perhaps imperfectly but good enough) while no one even knows for sure how to achieve Level 5.

When do you expect Level 5 can be achieved? If your answer is less than 10 years, you appear to know more than most of the top AI researchers I have talked with or read their prognostications.