skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Elon's vision is to take over the world automobile market quickly. It's impressively how close he's come.

What? They are a microscopic fraction of global market share. They are number 1 in a particular, shrinking market segment that all other manufacturers are moving away from, because they produced 2 years worth of demand at once. Their month-over-month share of cars in that price range is decreasing.

>They made $3.7B with a 20% margin and just paid off $920M in convertible bonds. They have $2.2B on hand and sold 63,000 model 3s this quarter. Where's the desperation?

They made $3.7BB in revenue, at 20% GROSS margins, but still LOST $600MM+, after promising profitability every quarter in the future. Revenues declined 30% quarter over quarter. Paying down the debt doesn't show up on the income statement. They have $2.2BB on hand, $700MM+ is restricted deposit money, after burning through $1.6BB last quarter. They also drew down their ABL. Their capital expenditure is barely covering depreciation, yet they have to build out multiple lines and factories. Their AP barely decreased ($100MM), while revenues sunk drastically. They have $9BB+ in debt, and less cash on-hand than their AP. They are slashing prices on cars they claim have "insane demand". There are people all over Twitter and Reddit waiting months for service or parts. Insurance costs are sky-rocketing. There's inventory stuffed in abandoned car lots all over the country. Elon is fighting with the SEC and rumour has it the DOJ and FTC as well.

You don't see a problem because you don't appear to know where to look. No individual metric is an issue, but in aggregate it doesn't look good.
A Jeep Wrangler will cost you 35k for a base model these days and 40k for a "premium" that well, most people still upgrade and tweak for 10s of thousands of more when they get home.

My volt was super expensive in 2011, but 8 years on it still drives like the day it came from the factory. Unlike my Jeep (which i love) that is only a year old and already has aches and pains and squeeks and of course, drinks gas like its going of style.

BTW, when people shop for cars, the purchase price isn't the TCO. How much fuel will you be using and how much maintenance will you dump into it?
Wouldn't that be up to the device manufacturer and in the case of the app themselves, the app devs? Samsung has TouchWiz and LG has (I think it's called) Home. There are 3rd party launchers available to download that will use a smaller footprint.

I had an older HTC phone that was great for dev testing perf on lower end devices. It had a terrible memory leak that caused the phone to run slower overall, and you had to make numerous tweaks to fix it. One of them was to replace the default launcher. It made an immediate difference.

Although I do concede that Google's apps are terrible for lower end devices.
Yes, but the Solarflare ApplicationOnload Engine has several issues (e.g. limited Altera FPGA, inflexible architecture, logic on a separate ASIC that must communicate with the FPGA, and still uses a host CPU for the networking stack), which should be resolved by fully integrating with the Xilinx Ultrascale+ technology and putting all networking and decision logic on one chip. The result should be a much faster, much more flexible, and much more powerful solution.
"Is" is (heh) one of the forms of "to be" and can signify many different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime#Different_functions_of...
$20k is a lot of money is Lagos, and Lagos is more expensive than Accra & Nairobi
Definitely make sure to use this, or any email service, with a custom domain. You’ll have to get an appropriate subscription, but it pays for itself thousandfold when changing providers without having to reverse update your entire contact list.

Aside from that, yes I use proton, it’s fine. The Mac bridge is a joke but the rest works ok.
Current smartphones are an evolution of the PDA idea that started with the Apple Newton, Palm Pilot and others. People always dreamed of a handheld device that would enable them to communicate and get information. What do you expect a car to do other than carting people around? Once it can go autonomously from A to B what else will people use a car for?
Wheras presumably amazon or pure internet search history does not provide exactly the same function?

I mean yeah, audio does provide a new attack vector, but then pretty much every new technology does.
Impossible not to think in "A scanner Darkly"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqWBCsWRdw4
Good question. I don't know. When you use the native GUI you get all of that for free. You don't have to do anything special for accessibility. So I always thought that screen readers somehow traversed the window/control hierarchy to find the control that has the focus and ask it for any text that should be read.

Maybe you're right and you can send the text to be read directly to the screen reader. Not sure how well that works when your GUI updates every 20ms. You don't want to keep resetting the reader.
As an A320 family pilot, I still haven’t done cold and dark start. Maybe once day I will find an opportunity to.
Security updates are becoming more dire, but feature updates between versions has been dwindling since the early days. I've had an Android phone continuously since 2011, and while I could detail a laundry list of stuff we got from Gingerbread -> Ice Cream Sandwich or KitKat -> Lollipop, I can't think of many "game changers" from Marshmallow on that made each new update a "must have". Just trying to think of the ones I actually noticed or used:

Nougat: Slightly better battery with doze mode; Built-in Night Light so I no longer need cf.lumen or Twilight

Oreo: A better AutoFill API for my password manager

Pie: Adaptive battery? I lost the ability to record calls when my phone got the Pie update, so I wouldn't really consider that a feature.

So basically, other than having to use a third-party screen temperature app and needing to manually copy-paste passwords, there wasn't much meaningful difference in the experience between my Nexus 7 running Marshmallow and my S8+ phone with the Pie update.
Are you associated with https://www.ashampoo.com ?
Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories?
Security updates should be independent of all the other crap they lump in with them.
Why do you say that? Is there wild speculation or editorializing going on since he died so young and can't refute? I thought it was a raw and interesting biography of a largely unknown artist.

One of the things artists hope for is that their legacy will live on after their death, and this seems to have happened here.
Makes you wonder why Marx wrote his book at all.
> Now we hear Tesla don't even know if they're going to build it in China or California.

I believe you are confused here. The car will be built in China for some markets. The part that hasn't been decided is where US production will occur. The most logical place has been guessed to be GF1 in Sparks, NV, but they have considered California as well (possibly Fremont expansion).
I think you and all the replies to the parent have missed the point trying to be made. If you view the homescreens in iOS as your desktop, you don't want all your apps littering it with shortcuts. The op is talking about having to setup folders to hide away apps that they use rarely but don't want to uninstall. Android handles this in a far better way, where you have an app drawer that pulls up all your app icons on a grid that is easily searchable if you want to get to any installed app. That frees up your homescreen to be used for exactly those icons and widgets that you want, which is a lot nicer than the iOS way.
Don't forget Android One which is a pretty decent initiative. My updates happen within ~30 days

https://android.com/one
Ask HN: Why Is Bootstrap So Wide-Spread?
As a backend web developer, I'm not very good with design and styling. With that, I tend to lean on templates for projects. The big thing I have noticed, and tend to get annoyed by, is there are so many Bootstrap templates. Even when I pay for a template, Bootstrap. I tried to hire a freelancer once, and I had to go pretty deep in the bids to find someone who didn't use Bootstrap. Nothing wrong with it, I just know that there are other CSS and frontend systems that are simpler to manage than Bootstrap. So why is there so much of this out there?
This reminds me of Michael Pollan's comments about "magic ingredients", and our tendency to find some ingredient that either makes food magically healthy or magically unhealthy - see omega-3 for a positive example, or anything called a "toxin" for a negative example. Magic ingredients can then be added to or removed from factory-made foods in the interest of marketing.

Propionate isn't the proximate cause of widespread diabetes. A diet consisting primarily of refined sugar and white flour is the proximate cause.
Outlook has an amazing feature that allows you to make top level whateveryouwant@outlook.com aliases. Make one for the service, sign up, delete it.

This guards you from spammers stripping the + label, which I’m sure they all do by now.
If you're in the US, you may want to avoid Samsungs after the S5 - they all have locked bootloaders, and you will not be able to move away from the Samsung ROM. Maybe you don't think that's important now, but chances are you'll be keeping the phone for a few years, and you don't know how your needs or wants will change by then.

Also it's nice (and not very hard) to install AOSP/LineageOS to get a lighter, faster, smoother, bloat-free, but still feature-rich experience, without all the tracking and shady stuff that OEMs put in.

I used to have an S5 with LineageOS + F-Droid (no Google apps); the phone was faster and the battery lasted longer than my new S9 (from which I have purged all the unnecessary apps I can including Google's stuff).
Is anyone starting a clothing brand?
This is one of those "you need to be an expert to evaluate the claim" problems.

Talk to anyone with research experience who are building world scale ML systems that are used by real people, and it's unambiguous that Elon Musk is a con man.

It comes down to small details, like the nature of the training data, the nature of the customizations, the nature of the business problems, the nature of the regulatory problems, the difference between highway driving and city driving. The enormous amount of special casing, the nature of the QA infrastructure, the capital on hand, the routing and mapping problems...

What Tesla has is a decent lane finding system. What Google has is an end to end system. It won't take them long to expand to all the major cities; solving the geofencing problem is easy, they already made street view.

And they were doing L4 successfully years ago. They're keeping drivers in the cars right now mostly because something going wrong is a PR risk, not because they need them. And L5 isn't a particularly important goal.

My guess is I'd have to write up 20 pages of detailed analysis at minimum to convince folks. In general if you don't have 5 to 10 years in depth experience in this space, you probably shouldn't consider qualified to have an opinion.
Not many, aside from the anglosphere and western europe.

https://www.bloggingjoy.com/adsense-high-cpc-countries/
"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" -- The Man In The Shack, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
There are definitely some very big upsides to being able to move your entire user base to a new major OS version in a year. Apple benefits a lot from this and Google and the vendors and carriers need to somehow get their heads together and deal with this because it is a serious issue.

I just wanted to point out that there are some good things about a more decoupled model too.
I switched to ProtonMail from Gmail (with a custom domain) about 6 months ago. The web app is a bit janky, compared to Gmail, but I use Apple Mail with their desktop bridge app and they work fairly well, together. Their iOS client is comparable to the default mail client, but not to the Gmail app in terms of features.
Thanks, I like how simple and concise the declarative code is!
That article from the Grauniad is saying very little that's directly relevant, except for a claim that Hungarians should not be concerned about people from Muslim cultures immigrating there, and potentially being less-than-loyal to their surrounding society. That would seem to be a matter of opinion, at the very least. Hardly something that we should "call out" Scruton on, much less use as a pretext to fabricate fake news about Scruton's quite nuanced views on this and other matters.
I think that view neglects the costs of the fossil fuel infrastructure. At some point gas stations are going to start closing for lack of customers. That time is a while off yet, but all of the existing stations are not going to be able to be supported by say, half as many ICE cars. Convenience will go down and at some point prices may go up as the existing infrastructure is paid for by fewer stations and less fuel. At the same time electrics will continue getting better, cheaper and more convenient. This could provide an extra push.
I struggle to figure out what they mean by this list. I would normally dismiss it as meaningless pablum, but experience tells me people do take it seriously, and when I try to I'm left frustrated. I can't find a more charitable assessment than very poor communication skills.

For example:

>The internet is where we could live, love, learn and communicate freely. To be ourselves, we need to be able to trust the systems that protect us.

I disagree entirely. Not with the the ideal of course - it's about as positive sounding as possible - but with the word "could." We don't even have this offline, it requires a level of cultural conformity that doesn't exist outside a cult's commune. It's not going to be any easier on the internet, which nullifies the distance between mutually-incompatable cultures.

At this part in the line of thinking, someone tells me to stop being unreasonable, that they represent all the reasonable people's interpretation of "loving and communicating freely," and I'm being too strict in my definition, and I should really scale it back a click. It doesn't mean a cult, it just means a large social group that gets along really well. OK been there, done that. In different groups I've been both an insider, a fringe member, and an outsider. I don't think "live, love, learn and communicating freely" describes a single one of them. It might be easier to get along than randos, but you're either at the core steering the group to keep everything from falling apart with lots of bite marks in your tongue, riding the wave by keeping up with the broadly-acceptable norms you don't mind adopting in the context, or rolling your eyes at how "welcoming" the culture is while obviously incompatible with your own personality.

Then at this next point in the line of thinking, people usually just imply I'm socially defective and incompatible with all the good shit that's going on. But all I see is a bunch of fretting over the good shit not happening correctly.
I've been using https://github.com/yields/phony lately for my random JSON needs.
I really dislike shortcuts with `[` and similar keys. Design software also tends do use them. On a Portuguese keyboard layout[1], I need to press ⌥8 to get `[`. So shortcuts like ⌃[ become ⌃⌥8, which in vim produces `8`.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Portuguese.svg
Why? Is a medieval scribe hand-copying your GUI libraries?

A bible costs maybe $15, which is about 60GB's worth of storage - that seems like a more relevant comparison.
On the low end there is Android One, which does take out all the bloatware that slows down most of the low end. It's pretty good in my opinion.
Yes, but it'd be painful.
The article is only talking about major upgrades (e.g., going from Oreo to Pie). It is not talking about security updates, which are minor releases. People seem to be mixing up these two things. They are different.
Ask them. You can have a banking license and operate a grocery shop. I guess you can have a banking license, not be a bank, and do some other money related business.

Edit: I just looked at their website and didn't found any mention that they are a bank. I'll violate their ToS and link to their website here:

https://www.revolut.com/legal/website-terms/

> We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as an Electronic Money Institution under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the issuing of electronic money. We are included in the FCA’s registered of electronic money institution firms (Firm Registration Number 900562) which can be found on the FCA website.

"Electronic Money Institution" is not a bank.

Interestingly you can't link to their website from social media without violating their ToS. Funny. Also you can't link to them if you want to criticize them.
If this a joke?

Length not known, so prone to overflows at anytime, atrocious standard library, ... (and let's not even go into the Unicode situation).
For about two years.

Even OnePlus, which is better than most, tails off after that. They've just released a public beta of Pie for the 3T, which hadn't had security updates for the last four months or so.
Easy: LOC / hour.

</sarcasm>
You can also remap a key like Caps Lock to Escape, straight from System Preferences on macOS (unless you're already remapping it to Ctrl or something)
The term "root cause" was not invented for nothing. One should always try to find the root cause since if you do not find it you are fighting a symptom instead of a cause.
There is a huge amount of research about what causes inflammation so it is correct to say that inflammation is a symptom not a cause.
Unfolded clothes take a larger storage space. True, if left undisturbed in the basket after coming out of the drier, wrinkles are minimal. The problem is when other people in the household paw through the laundry and compress it.
Also, if you want to put the laundry in drawers, it gets compressed and wrinkles badly.
51% attack means you own the chain and can submit a new chain and miners will happily accept it since you are now the majority
True but it appears to be a single dump over the wall from three months ago and nothing else...

Can't even directly diff against chromium.
We have a completely different experience, I have many of the same polos and jeans as I had 10 years ago. Still going strong with just a bit of fading. Small differences in people's perspective and lifestyles like this is fascinating to me.
I don't know of any academic research, but Triplebyte is trying to understand this better. Their interview process involves a little of algo problems and pairing on hangouts.

Also, there's no one size fits all theory. There are companies where every ms of time you save by writing a better algorithm makes a big difference and most where it doesn't matter. Take home assignments, pair programming have all been tried and is still used by some companies, but majority still rely on white boards and it seems to work fine.
That was the initial claim. It sounds like they might not actually be turning those off, though.
What would magicians do without illusions, mere tricks, that's what. Shame on you.
Aside: this headline is poorly worded IMO. It sounds ambiguous with the execution duration of a software update. "Android updates are getting less and less frequent" or "fewer android updates happening in the field" etc might be clearer.

> The reasons for the slowing updates aren’t clear

IMO it is clear: people often "update" by retiring the old device and buying a new one. The metrics in this article are all from Google -- they show market share of android release (out of android devices).

People are refreshing less often because smartphones released in the last few years are: (1) not terribly different from the ones on the shelf now, (2) more expensive than they've ever been. People are spacing out their upgrade cycle because their current phone is good enough and because phones are more expensive.
It’s not about deleting. It’s about having them on the desktop. On Android you have a drawer for all apps and only the ones you use often on the desktop. In iOS everything is on the desktop. In android I also can have the same app in two different folders which is quite useful.
>Storing the length of a string alongside the string is a viable option in C, it's up to you to do it yourself though

Obviously, since many other languages that do so are implemented in C.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have people who will have to report to you interview you. If you're going to be managing people it's important to be able to tease out the root of poorly formulated questions. But yeah, it's annoying that the interviewer took joy in "stumping" you.
I was thinking this and this is probably true for many other more subtle things, but there is little subtlety in anaphylaxis and peanuts were the standard food in airlines for decades. If there had been this risk before, wouldn't it have been observed?
so... in Miami, I make $150k working for a non-FAANG company as a senior software engineer.

If I worked for a FAANG company, I'd make $300k?
Most of the things people call AI isn't actually AI. Buzz words just help with funding, and at the same time the projects are undoubtedly useful so everyone just goes with it. News sites get more clicks and ad revenue for writing articles on AI, researchers get funding, and the world gets better image classifiers.
Consciousness is the algorithm. What you call "consciousness" is how the computational processes that are you see themselves.

It could work differently, but for some reasons it doesn't, and we don't understand the reasons.
They (mostly) can, just the various companies involved have no incentive to actually do the work necessary to do it. Treble is supposed to make upgrades easier, but as the article points out, most people don't have Treble, and the carriers and manufacturers still don't seem to care, even with a lower amount of effort involved.
And there's some who simply don't want to.

I could afford to buy a car, but I have an amazing electric bike, and live in a city with fantastic public transport. The 5 days a year I actually NEED a car, I can just rent one. So why buy?
Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?
Fair enough, but I think that the onus of proof is on the weird-language-user here. That is, a discussion of how cross-platform GUI toolkits are a 'trainwreck' takes on a different vibe if you're insisting on using Nim or Left-Handed Pure Phenomenological Haskell or the like.
This is very good advice, especially number 2. Teaching programming, especially to a trainee, is a great opportunity for project-based learning approaches. Give your person problems and tasks that are difficult enough that they have to learn something to do it, but not so difficult that they'll just bounce off of it. Much of being a good teacher is learning to quickly calibrate tasks like this.

Provide help when they need it (critically, also teach them to recognize when they need help, most novices are pretty bad at this), but don't over support (if the student isn't reaching, they probably aren't learning).

Pair programming can also be a great tool in general for learning (with you playing the role of metacognition [1] for the trainee, which again is notoriously difficult for all novices - even experts in other fields have a hard time being metacognitive in new ones). The key there is again: don't prevent all of your trainee's mistakes as they happen, but try to guide them toward noticing them and repairing them before they get too stuck. The other part of teaching that's a learned skill is determining how much struggle / wheel-spinning is productive for your particular student.

All of this is with the caveat that YMMV - people learn best in different ways, but productive struggle and real tasks are really good starting points for most (and way better than lecturing).