skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't not mention the battery pack and the huge crumple zones. Yes they have bigger, more expensive cars, but their design is fundamentally much safer than the standard gasoline designs. The battery is a huge pro-safety factor, it's very low, massive, and very rigid, plus it frees up space in the front/rear for crumple zones to be much larger.
I think the real advantage Tesla has is not that it builds cars, but that it builds batteries. Lots of them. The battery is the most significant part of an EV, cost-wise.

Having a massive production capacity in batteries means not only EVs, but also battery storage for utilities, power walls, possibly electric aviation, utility drones, etc.
They're not equal in the eyes of the law...
If you think you're going to have a good time living in the Carolinas, then I genuinely hope that you don't plan on being black or gay outside of a major city. There is a ton of bigotry and racism still present there, and the politicians in charge are happy to see it continue.
>Static typing fans hardly ever acknowledge how difficult the types make it to read the code

I think types make code much more understandable. I like them to be explicit so there's no mental overhead of thinking "what type might this be" - and the larger the codebase, the more this pays off.
Everyone has a different idea of a reasonable commute distance, but I'd say Skytteholm is pretty far — it's an hour by car to the city. Not sure what the public transport situation is like there.

For reference, Stockholm's suburbia is places like Hägersten.
I rephrased the "and that's illegal how?" because I was certain people will not get it. And they didn't.

How does it "show who her paymasters are"?

What I meant by the "illegal" line was, being a Putin supporter describes like 50% of Russians, it's not some fringe activity. Even being a vocal Putin supporter in Russia (as opposed to mere voter) is not much different than someone like Kanye being pro Trump, or the tons of Hollywood/music people being vocal Hillary supporters.

So, that doesn't "show who her paymasters are" at all...
Contrast this to how Croatian police handled a recent case where a man suffering with PTSD blew up his own house with a propane gas tank and was threatening and attacking with a billhook. The man was in such a delirium that he resisted the police for 12 hours, even after suffering third degree burns on 70% of his body. He also injured two policemen. [1]
They finally managed to overcome him with a taser, but only after hours of trying to negotiate!

One policeman was severely cut on his hands and needed stitching. [2]

More images [3].

[1] https://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/drama-u-opuzenu-muskarac...

[2] https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/dalmacija/dubrovnik/clanak/id/5...

[3]https://zadarski.slobodnadalmacija.hr/forum/clanak/id/565826...
This is why we need facts and numbers, because media stories only give us a glimpse of it, without putting it into context.

Yes, the problem is bad and it exists. But we need more facts to see: Is it getting better? What's working to prevent it?
“...[Bitcoin] also has some ideology built in – the assumption that giving national governments the ability to monitor flows of money in the financial system and use it as a form of law enforcement is wrong.”

Seems like the author I cited has it exactly right, then.
>I tend to look at most of our 'explorers' as violent colonisers, and consequently have complex (but mostly negative) feelings towards them. It also seems that's the way the public opinion here is moving

Yes, I would say it is generally the same in the US, although I'm in Seattle which is a very liberal area. I imagine the opinion likely differs depending on where you're from and how you were raised
Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
Yeah, as a Portuguese person living in Lisbon and having worked in the tech scene here, I can say avoid Portugal if you're looking for a SV type scene. The level of anything going on around here is far lower.

Sure the weather is the best I've ever experienced on earth, the food is great, and the cost of living is low. But on the other hand you have an ecosystem that is nothing to write home about, culturally it's good but not great like London or NYC, academia is lackluster (no world-class universities in any subject, bar 1 MBA), not very international, not a whole lot going on in general.

Portugal is a great place to come on holiday, go surfing, go sailing, and retire. It's not an intellectually stimulating place, and the general level of competence in everything from local government to enterprise management is extremely frustrating.

I would say to OP that usually if a place is interesting, it won't be cheap as there is more demand for it. Maybe look at Oxford, UK, Bristol, UK, Edinburgh, UK, or Rotterdam, NL as secondary cities with still enough going on. Apparently Bordeaux is nice but I have never been so can't say.
I think the point is that to frame it as either feeling shitty at a high-paying job or feeling good at a low-paying job is a false dichotomy.
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Teleconferencing systems with a 'communal' screen and camera do not make much sense to me nowadays.

Most employees have at least 2 devices with built-in cameras and a screen that can be utilized for videoconferencing.

Give everybody a headset. Done.
Isn't this essentially Discord? I mean it's not a game but it's a space you login where communication is largely text with voice and video when needed.
I hear taxes brought up a lot, but they're actually on par with major metro areas. Let's compare Chicago to SF:

1. Effective property tax rate: SF ~1.2%, Chicago ~1.7% *

2. State income tax: SF 9.3%+, Chicago 4.95%

3. Combined state, county + city sales tax: SF 8.5%, Chicago 10.25%

(* But property taxes do get much higher in the suburban townships!)

Altogether, the lower state income tax more than offsets the slightly higher property tax.

But taxes is a favorite bugbear in local political campaigns, because they're an easy item for politicians to harp on (who doesn't want lower taxes after all?). The other day I saw a political ad where the actor proclaimed, "I'm moving out of Illinois because taxes are too high! Support XYZ for governor." But let's be honest, uprooting one's family just to optimize a few percentage points on the tax return is a terrible idea. And as long as there are good jobs available, taxes are just one living expense among many.

As for the other items, I can't agree with them either. Chicago Public Schools are totally fine - they're very much focused on educating working-class and/or immigrant kids, so they're not like rich suburban schools with all the bells and whistles, but they do their job very well. And the magnet schools are top notch. Public works are a patchwork, but for example CTA is very well funded and runs much better than either MTA or MUNI. As for corruption - ok, I'll give you that one. ;)
It definitely could. However, written language is really powerful. We're still developing new features for the modeling language and keeping the cost of each iteration down is super important for us. A visual editor is something that would definitely help empower our target audience, but right now it would get in the way. I would love building something like that some time in the future though.
The article mentioned the city has build 5 public bathrooms in the area
Hi can the author or someone point to a hello world code using end-to-end of the above code?
This fast-growing Bay Area tech company pays its typical worker more than $256K
Maybe they have a difficult telling time telling them apart since they all act so similarly...
The problem in my last paragraph exists from the beginning. I would not be surprised if one of the reasons that the gap between C-level and worker salaries has widened so much, is due to the adoption of the term "meritocratic".

On a smaller scale, the aristocracy problem exists from very early on in the forms of "hiring in ones own image" and placing certain roles in higher regard (with higher reward or more opportunity for career progression) than others (e.g. sales > developers > UX > QA) even if they make equal contributions.

It is very difficult to evaluate merit across different professions (e.g is Tom Cruise a better actor than Lionel Messi is a footballer? Does a lawyer contribute more to society than teacher?) However, once you start claiming that you have a meritocracy, you are also claiming that those who receive the most reward have the most merit. i.e. in the example above, that your sales people are more hard-working and clever than your developers, who are in turn more hard-working and clever than your UX people etc.
And the ancient Skype even worked better than the new one... that's the sad part.
One need not have something as expensive as Hubble to have such angle sensitivity.

This instrument can resolve an angle change of < 0.3 millionths of a degree in one second.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4828

Disclaimer -- am an author.

Edit: and this instrument, using the autocollimator above, can do the same thing for inertial sensing. Same disclaimer applies. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4862816
I lived in Bangkok the past 6 months and made many "intellectual" friends since moving here.

Two things I do, occasionally stay in hostels to meet people (hit and miss) and going to tech-related meetup.com and eventbrite.com events in Bangkok and Chiang Mai (80-90%+ of my friends in Thailand were met this way)
It’s mostly reasonable inference, given that there is evidence of birds such as the common chicken being descendants of T. Rex. Where they both have common features, it’s reasonable to assume they have common genes, because you wouldn’t expect a reinvention of the wheel in that time span. Metabolism, skeleton, feathers, all should share common genes.
Catching up with 1961.
These are all very practical arguments, but spaceflight is not a practical endeavor. It is fundamentally an emotional activity.

The will to do science originates in the urge to explore. Whether we're spending the money to send people or robots, it's not a rational pursuit. We explore because we want to. Why do we want to? No one knows for sure.

Human spaceflight is valuable because things are emotionally different when a human is doing them. That's why spaceflight is so much more expensive when humans are aboard: because we have higher standards for humans, despite the obvious evidence that human life is abundant and cheap. The value of a human to another human is primarily an emotional calculation, not economic.

Even when the mission remote asset is a robot, we focus on the human element. Coverage of robot missions always includes a lot of people cheering at the launch, reactions in the control room, interviews with project leads, etc.

So, I would not be so quick to dismiss human spaceflight based on metrics of efficiency. The whole thing of exploring space is inefficient, and serves no practical purpose. Spaceflight runs on inspiration, and that's something we haven't figured out how to automate (and IMO never will).
Alexa integration is interesting. Doesn't Facebook have its own voice-AI? Why Alexa?
Yeah image quality is irrelevant for training... but physics do. I was hoping they would have ultra-realistic physics engine.

Like have X amount of force applied to a ball in simulation and real-world and then watch as the simulation perfectly matches how the real world ball bounces around. That would be impressive. Instead it doesn't seem as they're adding that much more to a game engine other than a couple robot characters.
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In 2013 I left Facebook. I decided who I wanted to stay in contact with and sent a message to each one explaining that I was leaving. I asked them to email me if they wanted to stay in contact. I am still in contact with every person I wanted to stay in contact with.
Perhaps more interesting is that Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, just IPO'ed on NYSE, and they, too, have a fully distributed team of over 700 -- might even be trending toward 1000 by now. Zapier is another one at multi-hundred-person scale, and is a YC company. A couple other scaled-up ones on this model include Automattic (company behind Wordpress), DataStax (company behind Cassandra).

There is also Wikimedia, Canonical, and Mozilla -- perhaps those 3 are less interesting since they have a non-profit mission tied to the internet-as-community and FOSS.

It's worth mentioning that when I started my startup back in 2009 as a fully distributed team, VCs viewed that as a major -1 strike against the company. So much so that we chose not to mention it during initial pitches. We ended up finding Series A/B financing, and these days, those investors ask us to advise companies on how fully distributed teams work, so new portfolio companies can decide for themselves. They were early believers in the model, but they tell me they have noticed a major change in attitude among fellow VCs toward distributed teams. That is, they understand the tradeoffs (finally), and believe the model can scale.

We now have a fully distributed staff of 70, over 400 customers, and millions in revenue. So 1/10 InVision scale, but it works well (and nicely!) at this scale. These days we also have an NYC office, but we refer to it as "the Internet cafe", about 20 of our 70 people "so happen" to work out of there regularly, with everyone else in home offices or co-working spaces. Our NYC office is also used for team gatherings, client events/visits, and board meetings.

I wrote my initial views on the different scaling models for teams here in 2012:

https://amontalenti.com/2012/05/14/distributed-teams

Also wrote a little about how the fully distributed team needs to be complemented, from time to time, with f2f interaction. This was in 2016 after several years of experience scaling hiring and organizing team retreats -- "Fully Remote, But Here For Each Other":

https://blog.parse.ly/post/4736/mission/
I think it depends what city you are in, we have not found any problems in Southern Spain, but I cannot speak for elsewhere.
Don’t sweat downvotes. It’s unpredictable. Anything you say can and will be downvoted on HN. They’re just internet points!
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We all want different things. Those who went to work not to be evil were duped from the start or lying to themselves as we all know money is the root...
You're still begging the question. How does one choose between doing something supports a questionably moral company (and what isn't a company without any moral baggage?) and keeping your family fed and warm?

> Just because a decision is hard doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility to make the right [choice]

I think this is telling: you believe there is a correct choice in all situations, from all points of view.

I have no problems installing Google Analytics or AdWords on a site if my employer asks me to, but I personally run with ad blockers. The "right" decision in my case is to keep my family fed and warm because I don't think I can find a position at a company that doesn't do advertising or analytics and my own attempts to start my own companies have failed. I'm not willing to take the risk of long-term unemployment or to take a significantly lower paying job at a company that does the exact same thing (e.g. advertising).

So please tell me why my decision is unequivocally wrong, especially in light of the ability of anyone to run an adblocker and that we adhere to all relevant regulations, e.g. GDPR. Additionally, please tell me where I (and everyone who doesn't like advertising) can find a living wage from a company that does not advertise or perform analytics (or do any other morally questionable activity).
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Can you not default to pretty and have a way to unhide it when necessary? Macs take this approach - they show the Apple logo until the login screen is ready, but if you need to change the boot device or whatever, you can hold down the Option key.

To me, this is an entirely reasonable behavior that optimizes for the 99% of time where you just want your computer to boot quickly and start using it.
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Yep, the degraded read cost increases a lot! But it only matters if you are losing disks at a rate similar to the time it takes you to do the 1PB of i/o, and also depends on how often you might need to serve from the data in question. I imagine that the Archive's data is tremendously cold, but I could be wrong.

You can make a sensible tradeoff for any given use case. For example you might get away with a 12,8 orthogonal nested encoding, that "only" has 67% space overhead and you will be able to rebuild a single lost member without reading the entire stripe.
cool, was wondering if it's still maintained (last big update from May).

Something I was wondering: If xlwings reads a big chunck of data in a dataframe, is there a way to keep it in memory without the need to re-load it every time one wants to do something with it?
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Minor clarification: I did say relative QoL for a tech worker, meaning less difference between how a low-skilled worker and a tech worker would be remunerated in Sweden vs another country like Poland.

If you're a low-skilled worker, QoL is likely going to be better in Sweden. If you're a tech worker, QoL is almost certainly going to be better in Poland.
That is some hard stuff. Thanks for calling it out, I wasn't aware of that.
No amount of "but muh skateboard is hard to roll over" will chance the fact that all lithium batteries, provide fuel and an ignition source in one place whereas liquid fuels do not.

If batteries weren't more volatile than gasoline we'd store them in thin sheet-metal or plastic enclosures (like we do with gasoline) instead of enclosures so substantial that it makes sense to use them as a structural member in the vehicle.
> Jesus fucking Christ if you could fuck the Homo Sapiens of that era and a fertile baby would come out, then no.

The whole point of the article is that modern Homo sapiens have Neandertal DNA.

This means humans were interfertile with Neandertals, and produced fertile offspring.

Neandertals were a separate species which is extinct now.

> The homo sapiens is not extinct.

True.

> It's not rocket science.

True: It's more complex than that.
What's persistently disturbing is that in a free (black) market the price for that commodity has sunk so low. It means that there's a lot of offer available...
Amazon’s private label business is on track to hit $25B by 2022
That depends. The district my kids are in avoids the issue by creating a fall break for the full week that just happens to cover Columbus day.
This. I'm from Argentina, what worked for me was to start a blog about the problems I was solving back then for my current job, worked in opensource stuff, responded questions for an opensource tool in a forum (there was no stackoverflow back then) and somehow built a "personal brand" for some niche technologies. It all happened like 10 years ago in the span of 3 months. I got my first remote job offer for an small software firm in Europe because they read a blogpost I wrote about solving a problem they had. I've worked since then for 3 different companies from Europe and the US.

I wasn't looking for a remote job to be honest, but it happened. I honestly didn't know I could work for a company remotely back then, I was very young and had not idea about the paperwork, transactions, etc.

There are a lot of players in this, some are just looking for cheap labor, but there are also companies that understand that talent is everywhere and they are looking for that.
I think the question should be. Are there humans today that are descendants of the Neantherthals ? If true, then they live through us.
> I was under the impression that pre 20th century companies just existed as a legal and organizational convenience in order to help collect a number of people with similar goals rather than to solely make a profit.

You might want to have a look at an history book then. Companies had slaves, got kids working in mines, got to use the government to shout their workers who rebelled because they had no rights whatsoever, or just straight up used private armies. It was all pre 20th century already. If all this was not solely to make a profit, I don't know what it was.

Furthermore the great majority of big ventures were family driven. There were not formal associations between "people with similar goals" who weren't blood related.
Spectre and Meltdown Hardware Protection Added to Intel's 9th Gen CPUs
Friends of mine who switched to Figma from Sketch say regular actions are much snappier than Sketch like panning and zooming around huge artboards. I really need to give it a try as well
The officers in these situations are (in the US) supervised by elected officials: the sheriff, DAs, and mayors.

The next time they are running for re-election, take out an ad with scenes from the relevant videos, with words to the effect that, if you vote for this individual, you are talking responsibility for their actions.

Sure, it'll be a bit expensive, but anyone can do it.

We aren't powerless, we aren't helpless victims. If we're really upset by their actions, we shouldn't act like we are helpless.

Ranting on an internet forum is useless.
> A Block chain must be write only

Write only? You can't read a blockchain? Does that mean bitcoin isn't a blockchain because of sites like www.blockchain.info ?

> & resistant to tampering, via global consensus.

Just don't allow pushes, only pull things. Voila, tamper resistance.
Pandas uses the openpyxl module, which can both read and write. It’s quite nice and pure python, too. Pandas is more high level and gives less control but also less code.
> yet they’re punching above their weight so easily.

If you follow the news and especially Musk's twitter and interviews; there's nothing at all easy about what they're doing. The sweat and hours Tesla puts in to making their company successful is far beyond any of the other typical "corporate" car companies.
Are Chinese companies in China under duress? Are they protesting? Whats the consensus of the Chinese hoi polloi?

China is not “the west”, their foundational philosophy is very different than ours. We can’t expect their decisions to be exactly like ours.

Would I want to live under their confitions? No. Do Chinese on the other hand object? It’s still playing itself out.