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Yes, they do very informative reviews of basically any electric car you can name. They are self admitted EV fan boys of course but their reviews are interesting nonetheless. I've been subscribed for half a year or so and they seem to have good relations with a lot of manufacturers. E.g. they got an early test ride in a prototype VW e-golf recently. Also worth checking out their video on the electric land rover, similar to the Rivian product. It looks like electrical vehicles are going to be seriously competitive for off road stuff.

The Rivian product is extremely ambitious. The challenge for such a company is not going to be sales or marketing (like Teslas, these things should sell themselves) but the capital investments needed to go from the early product prototype stage to having the production capability to scale the business and serve their market. This investment makes a lot of sense for GM as they are essentially pretty far done with dismantling their combustion engine business and are now trying to ramp up their fully electric vehicle business as fast as they can before it is too late.

For those not familiar, the Rivian truck has tons of very practical features. Here's what I remember:

- Waterproof battery. This car can basically drive through a river without issues. The battery and engines can operate while fully submerged. The main challenge is stopping the car from floating or stopping the interior from flooding. When I was watching the review, I couldn't help wondering .... why not put a rudder and propeller on it already?!

-Individually operating engines on each wheel and they can even spin in opposite direction.

- Enormous torque. This car can pull enormously heavy loads. This is a big bonus since that is a common usecase for trucks like this.

- Huge amount of battery and a projected range of more than 400 miles.

- Tons of practical space, including front trunk, a storage space accessible with doors on both sides behind the cabin that you pull down that you can stand on to access e.g. the roof or sit on.

- A flashlight using one of the battery cylinders that they use internally as well that pops out of the door. Naturally, if you pop it back in it charges. This is a bit of a gimmick, but a clever one and it sounds super practical to always have a fully charged flashlight handy.

There was lots more but these were things that stood out to me. It seems like this should tick a lot of boxes for people interested in buying any kind of truck. Of course it remains to be seen if it lives up to expectations in terms of build quality, production volume, etc. But it looks like they are getting ready to ship in just a few years.

I don't actually own a car and doubt I ever will (I rent when I need one, which is a few times per year) but this one seems cool to me.
From the Wiki article of the "Monkey Selfie Case"

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On 23 April, the court issued its ruling in favor of Slater, finding that animals have no legal authority to hold copyright claims [1]

[1] https://petapixel.com/2018/04/24/photographer-wins-monkey-se...
also, DBAs hate developers. Developers want to make changes to the database to support their classes such as "i need to add a column" and the DBA response is "no." or, even worse, "fill out this ticket and it will get prioritized in the next scrum" meanwhile the developer is at a standstill.

I interviewed at southwest airlines years ago and i don't remember how it came up but we were talking about bottlenecks or something and i brought up the fact that having to go to a DBA to get a column added to a table, no matter how trivial, is a great source of delay. The whole room just nodded and looked at the floor, it was obviously painful for them.

NoSQL took the DBA out of the loop, now the developers were in full control of what was persisted and what wasn't. If they needed a new field they just made it so. On the flip side, DBAs got really freaked out and cried to whoever would listen.

In my experience you either have a DBA report to Developers or Developers report to a DBA. Never give them equal footing (even implied) because they'll just fight.
The OP actually has to live pretty close to Fukuoka for those prices (probably you were thinking they lived in Tokyo). The distance they are talking about is less than 200 km (maybe 150 miles) -- so about 15% of the distance you are talking about. Tolls roads are very expensive in Japan. Trains are also surprisingly expensive, though very well run.
If you actually read the full blog you'll realize it'll actually convince the right people to either adopt or avoid RN:

>The path of a world that is 100% native or 100% React Native is relatively straightforward.

but ultimately... hybrid apps are hard. Airbnb had a ton of infrastructure that needed porting over to RN that often required contributing upstream to fix issues they found. If you're starting from scratch you can get pretty far sticking to React/JS.

imo I can't imagine a startup using anything other than RN (or react-native-web) because of how quickly you can build things.
I’m super paranoid that some shady company is harvesting the voiceprints purely for malicious purposes or training an AI.

I used to simply reply with “Ola?” but now I just let GV screen the call.
For many of the smaller cities along the route; eg Gifu, it doesn’t make sense to route the train into the city.
"popular format", sqlite, Postgres are quite sensible.

My personal mix also contains rockdb (lmdb is interesting, didn't use yet) and redis, as potential alternatives for sqlite and Postgres, depending on the use case.
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"Always start with in-memory data structure with straightforward persistence (i.e. load and save it all at once, using some popular format)."

That sounds like a bad idea in many cases. Prone to many kinds of problems, like accidentally corrupting the stored state beyond recognition from a tiny application bug.
To clarify, I was talking about client-side code where there isn't a server component e.g. so your choices are usually to store in files, SQLite or IndexedDB.
Jesus. I stand corrected and a little impressed, and they’re right, Americans would literally riot over those prices.
I think he means the big disconnect between the progressive rhetoric that Californians talk about, versus the policies that are actually enacted. The anti-transit, anti-development mindset that makes urban California unaffordable for most people.
Sponsoring a green card does not necessarily mean the employee will receive it anytime soon.

Because of country-of-birth quotas, an individual can be approved for a skilled employment based green card but have to wait many decades, potentially over a century, to receive one.

Making it much faster to receive an employment-based green card once approved is the core problem that needs to be solved.
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You know the craziest thing about all of the mars exploration programs is to me?

The first time there is an entire full-up test of the system is live, AT MARS. There isn't a good way to test the entire entry descent and landing sequence because the earth's atmosphere is so different than mars. I know NASA works hard to test parts of it in the vicinity of earth, but I can't imagine designing something so complicated (especially the system for curiosity) and then not being able to test it completely before the real thing.
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Because the US voting system practically only allows two parties. You will never get a diverse political landscape with First Past the Post that dominant.

Fixing that might be nice, but is probably also a distraction from more urgent matters... since it would be very expensive (in terms of political capital) to make parties give up their own monopoly.
After developing with Postgres for several years and then moving to sqlite for dev, sqlite is a breath of fresh air. Now our policy is that everything goes into sqlite db unless the data requires multiple writers. The fact that you have to keep a process running and updated is reason enough to not use Postgres if you can help it.

For instance, we have processes that fetches and stores data from APIs. It's trivial to share this with other developers for dev purposes. This data is read only and it reduces an annoying step of loading the data into Postgres.

This is coming from someone who starts projects with only Postgres for many years and I do love Postgres. Sqlite is an underrated tool in the web dev world.
a map of Canada’s provinces and territories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_C...
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Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
I believe the objective is to replace expensive RAM with less expensive SSD if your workload is suitable for it. It appears there are workloads for which that is an acceptable cost/latency tradeoff.
The Daily Stormer was kicked off Google's domain registrar following the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Microsoft's Azure cloud was the host for Gab.com, and threatened to kick them off unless Gab.com deleted several anti-semitic posts.

These kinds of hateful websites have always been around, but we didn't have registrars and hosts trying to censor them until 2016 or so.
I built my startup using Ionic/Cordova (since certain APIs weren't available on RN). Now that iOS 12.2 beta is out, it is breaking certain APIs and leaving me no choice but to abandon the hybrid model. If anyone else out there is planning on doing anything other than a simple photo sharing/PWA app, don't bother with hybrid - you'll have to go Native at some point.
The Soyuz first stage uses the same system even today.
The result was worse in pretty much every way. Graphically (whole idea was it to take out all colors from the Ui? I don't know anyone who thought the 2010 UI was a good idea), Slower, less customizable , less features (for example they removed macro recording).

It was definitely not a good showcase for WPF.
We've been doing it since the cold war.

Greater good?
Change starts at home.
I cared. I had fun with the question, and it's not like it was detracting from all the other very relevant discussion on this page.

But of course I would enjoy it, I grew up watching Sergeant Preston of the Yukon!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Preston_of_the_Yukon_...
He means that there are rules preventing the data from being shared, making it harder to find a training set.
This is always true, the mass produced thing is going to have manufacturing lines that are tuned. And Toyota or Chevy can't afford to have a recall on something they made 100k of . Bespoke luxury vehicles are nearly hand made, with all the errors that hand building entails.

Wear a timex, drive a toyota, compute with a thinkpad, listen to a yamaha and process with a cuisanart.
I'm the kind of guy that would be willing to walk away from a sale to test what would happen if I refused to check that box.
Ok, watched it with open mind .

My impressions:

* Axel saying that Wikipedia shouldn't be against it because they added exception for them. He is missing the point so confidently...

* Missing all points raised by people not connected with Google/Amazon/Facebook. Nobody said it will be copyright issue for uploader. Everybody is saying that service owners will be more prone to removing content, just to be safe, in effect limiting access to information sharing. They also don't address existing issues YouTube has with copyright management and how it's abused by other firms.

* They are all talking about Monopolies and forgetting that such law will only strengthen them and minimize EU chance to create their own versions of google/facebook etc.

* They are focusing on newspapers/text and aggregators. If you don't want to be on google. Use robot noindex metatag. If you want to ensure your content is not aggregated further... hide it behind paywall or any other UX wall. There are technical solutions to do it. And in the end, if nothing helps, I believe if someone just copies your content 1:1, you can sue him for it. Even if it's news article.

* As for uploads and copyright detection. I hate myself for saying it... but leave it to copyright owners. Add legal tools for easier copyright challenges and arbitration. But at current state, our legal system is to slow to handle copyright management on such wide scope without hitting issues like Youtube has with many agents gaming the system. Let's maybe do some baby steps first by allowing for easier legal arbitration in general and then let's focus on also doing it for copyright issues. However... there is no money in it.

TLDR: Yes, we need changes to handle copyright management on the internet. However their approach is premature, to generic and uninformed.
I'm a (tiny) LP in TinySeed (Rob's fund), another effort with similar thesis, and am broadly supportive of these experiments generally.

Speaking solely for myself, but gesturing in the general direction of my peer set: there exist some software entrepreneurs who have substantial operational expertise and have made some money, but who do not feel like they'd add much value in the unicorn hunt, partly due to access reasons and partly due to different skills. There's a distinct body of practice between e.g. the things a YC partner would tell you to do about fundraising, the things a growth stage VC fund would tell you to do about organization building, and the things a self-funded software founder would tell you to do about e.g. testing AdWords copy. There is a certain degree of overlap, in the same sense that all of them overlap someone whose business model is buy-and-hold apartment buildings in Chicago, but there is a reason none of them buy-and-hold apartment buildings in Chicago.

By comparison, I feel reasonably confident that "six figure SaaS business trying to get to seven" is somewhere I understand pretty thoroughly, would almost always enjoy a conversation with that founder, and (napkin math) looks plausibly mutually interesting.

Why now and not five years ago? It feels like a generation-of-business thing: the reason everybody who made money at Google / Facebook didn't invest five years before they started investing was because they hadn't made money at Google / Facebook. Did the opportunity exist five years ago? Probably, as evidenced by the successes from that generation. Is the opportunity better now? Plausibly yes, as demonstrated by all of the people who were successful writing down what they did, doing technology transfer on that to new operators (often for free), the ecosystem radically improving (inputs, platforms, employees, exit options all got a bunch better), etc.
For what it's worth, my professional background is entirely in game development and systems programming. I'm not a professional academic. All the professional work I've done with mathematics is applied.

I think you're overstating some things, but I mostly agree. My main disagreement is with your implicit premise that the best practical theory should exist at the same level of abstraction as practical applications. The real numbers have been a really successful practical theory. Physicists and applied mathematicians know they don't "really" exist, but more "realistic" alternatives are awkward and messy. The same applies to more extravagant theoretical constructions like Hilbert spaces. They're an extremely nice mathematical setting for applications (e.g. optimal control, approximation theory, finite element methods, quantum mechanics). No-one should be losing much sleep over their ubiquity in applications. If your point is that we shouldn't belabor some of their technical details when teaching them to practitioners, sure, but that's already the case.
Yeah, seems like that.
I was under the impression that the question was regarding FFSC versus non-FF staged combustion.

You say the main benefit is just increased pressure?
Really though, I would bet 95% of wordpress websites will make do with sqlite.
"rsanheim news" is all lowercase, btw
India adds it's intellectual property to 5G standards
Ask HN: Any embedded devs/hardware folks looking for a side project?
I'm starting a project to implement a really interest blockchain white paper I came across [0]. I'm looking to try and design and produce a low cost hardware device similar to "cold wallets" like Trezor [1], but with some really novel features; however, I don't have experience in that area.

I'm hoping there's some hardware guys on HN that have some spare time and are interested in helping me realize my goal or, if they're interested, being a permanent part of the project.

If that's you, please drop a comment and let's chat.

0: http://freepdfhosting.com/408e68e786.pdf
1: https://trezor.io/
Cant you stick the wording "no junk mail" on your mailbox and be free of spam?

In Australia basically every mailbox has that on it and it is enforced by law.
No Exit: El Chapo Likely Off to 'Alcatraz of the Rockies'
How many places you are comparing have USA’s size and GDP or amount of goods moved around?
I'm a little late to the conversation, but this seems to be hijacked into an anti-Israel/anti-Semitic discussion rather than about spying, so I'd like to suggest one (hopefully obvious) point: nationality and ethnicity seems to intermixed too much. If I don't like the Syrian regime, it doesn't mean I'm anti-Arab or anti-Alawite. Similarly, it should be possible to oppose actions of policy of a nation state without being accused anti-WhateverTheEthnicMajorityOfThatNationIs. I assume if someone opposes a U.S. policy, it isn't because they are anti-WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant)... they just genuinely dislike American policies :)
Tepco carries out examination in Fukushima by remote-controlled probe
What prevents a botnet from sharing that same session cookie?
>"the free market won't fix this."

I've been seeing a large increase in comments like this across the internet. Can you share where you learned the definition of "free market"?
I was looking for a job commonly believed to not have creativity, so the stereotypicalness makes sense, but if you want me to confess to elitism, sure...I have plenty of bad biases. The point is not to say I'm free of them but to say they are bad.
Upon further reflection, my observation's mostly a straw man. HIPAA covers a patient's face when a dermatologist takes an image just as a x-ray covers a bone structure.

Privacy is hard to talk and reason about without defining everything specifically.

This projects images were sourced from Flickr. You can find medical imagery on Flickr reasonably easy as well it turns out.
All those things are true, but you must balance the bad against the huge good - cars are effective at moving people around the city and to the suburbs.
I don't see how this can be an "answer to Tesla" when it has less than half the range, terrible acceleration and seats fewer people than a motorcycle. If price is your driver, get a used Leaf. The article doesn't mention crash reports, but I wouldn't feel safe in this, sharing the road with full-size cars, trucks and SUVs.

I understand the appeal of a small, cheap EV. You could design a people-friendly city around these, with narrow roads and less space devoted to parking. But that's what they said about the Segway.
> This usually included weeks of work, after which it was possible to write web applications which could've been written with vanilla JavaScript on a static, handwritten HTML page in a single afternoon.

You can have a website up and running (not just locally, but live on the Internet) within literally 5 minutes using React and Heroku, netlify, now.sh or whatever. If it takes weeks to do that, you're doing something fundamentally wrong.
Isn't this kind of what V8 and other modern JavaScript engines do on the fly already?
The world’s most precious spice is on the verge of disappearing
At least they are starting to be fairly honest with what they really want.
Better safe than sorry, there are enough people who think context doesn't matter.
> You will never get a diverse political landscape with First Past the Post that dominant.

The UK has multiparty democracy of sorts with FPTP; the US Presidential system (as opposed to a Parliamentary system) reinforces and more strongly nationalizes the local duopoly effect that FPTP naturally encourages.
I agree, it's only appealing to our basest urges. Most of us don't get much violence in our normal lives so it's removed from the mundane and therefore somewhat interesting. It's amazing how much violence we witness on TV/movies when there is really so little in our actual lives.

I get bored with the "neater world where the good guys are good, and vanquish the bad guys" stories, but there are still lots of interesting stories out there.

I don't even watch the nightly news for the same reason, it's all rapes and stabbings which I could have done nothing to prevent. I am constantly thinking to myself, "why do I need to hear this?"
For an Oregon boy like me, the "mysterious east" is everything from Idaho on. Just like how East Coast Americans charmingly call the east-central part of the continent the "Midwest".
Airbus ending A380 program
Driving in that case is only slower if the train schedule matches more or less perfectly with your trip AND your destination is very close to a train station.

That's not the reality of train travel. You often wait for pretty long lengths of time for the train to arrive and then have to deal with transit on the other end.

The in-transit time for a train (just like a plane) must be MUCH faster than driving for it to ever really be worth it from an efficiency point of view. That's why we prefer planes to go long distances and trains in cities where driving times are very high (like NYC).

There are a lot of issues with cars (traffic, sprawl, environmental concerns, etc..) but Americans don't prefer cars in general because Americans are stupid, cars solve the last mile in a way that trains/planes just can't.
Do you think all of the companies that chose Cassandra and Dynamo were wrong to do so? There's no use case for NoSQL? There were no lessons learned, value adds from NoSQL?

How do you explain the 'NewSQL' approach, which seems to be so clearly borne of what we've learned from NoSQL?

It should be obvious that NoSQL has value, regardless of the issues with one of the earlier NoSQL DBs.
Of course, but if you are lost in a good book, you don't notice when one chapter ends and another beings. You are lost for hours, and don't think about changing to some other article or paper.
I'm very opinionated on this, and I can't stand the way modern UI has no respect whatsoever for my valuable pixel real estate.
> But the idea of ‘freight tracks’ vs ‘passenger tracks’ isn’t a thing in most other places.

Actually Shinkansen/TGV/ICE run on special tracks. Passenger-only local service (e.g. BART, nyc subway) has proprietary track systems.

In the US, apart from municipal systems, essentially all the rail roads are owned by private freight companies; passenger rolling stock runs on those roads at second priority. This is true in Australia as well.

In Europe freight on, say, SNCF roads has second priority to passenger service.
Ugh.. when did these clowns discover HN?
This article is from 2016. As compelling as arguing for a low-refined carb diet is, this all seems oversimplified. Can anyone weigh in?
For those interested, Swindled has a good podcast episode on the Fyre Festival.

http://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-2/episode-04-the-...

And I highly recommend rest of their episodes too!
http://swindledpodcast.com/ - A true crime podcast about white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil.
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