skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I point out in my post, they often do. For example:

Telegram - https://telegram.org/faq#usernames-and-t-me

NPM - https://www.npmjs.com/policies/disputes

Github - https://help.github.com/en/articles/name-squatting-policy

Most sites have similar wording.
Since the car produces 10.000Nm, I estimate the peak output power is around 1500kW. So at full power it could drain the 200kWh battery in about 8 minutes. In 8 minutes you will have covered ~33 miles @ 250mph.

Of course there are many other factors at play here.

For comparison: a Bugatti Chiron/Veyron is known to empty its 100L fuel tank in about 12 minutes at full power.
There usually isn't activity on dead people's accounts that are memorialized. I'd be incredibly heartbroken if someone took my deceased younger brother's accounts because he's "inactive".
Not if you’re battery-limited in performance. An ideal performance electric car is all battery and motor with the weight of everything else reduced as much as possible. That naturally means your battery will be way over-sized compared to a typical electric car.

Electric batteries are power-limited as well as energy-limited. So if you want more power, you need a bigger battery. (Alternate chemistries are also possible, but even then you reach a practical limit.)

The naive approach is to think of a battery like a gasoline tank, whose size and capacity you want to minimize if you’re going for performance records. But really it’s part of of the powertrain, and having a larger battery brings a bunch of other benefits like longer lifetime (in miles driven), charge & discharge speed (in kilowatts), higher thermal mass (can handle those big spurts of power that might temporarily exceed the cooling system’s capacity), and higher electrical efficiency at a given discharge speed (a larger battery at a given voltage has lower internal resistance, thus less resistive losses and less heat generation).
Thank you! Posts like these is the reason why I hangout here =)
You can always edit the trust store to add or remove certs your local computer trusts. That's easy, there are even GUI tools available to do it. Heck on MacOS there's even a GUI wizard to create a local CA from scratch!

Nobody does it because the hard part of being a CA isn't the protocol part, it's convincing everyone that you're going to do a good job of issuing certificates. The WoT just ignores that problem entirely - and it's ultimately a social issue.
How do you bootstrap a startup that connects businesses to marketers?
Moved my prior company from MySQL to Postgres in 2004 and never looked back. The stability across time and through upgrades was remarkable.
Hydrodynamic Simulations Using Gpgpu Architectures
Some charities are food-shelter-water. Other charities are, for example, medical or legal aid for particularly burdened communities.

And even for food-shelter-water you need someone deciding where to dig the wells, what to stock on the shelves, what food is most cost-effective and nutritious in bulk. And building houses definitely isn't unskilled; it's manual labor but that doesn't mean there's no skill involved.
Because a username on twitter is so important that it even worth to break the law. Your values are really interesting.
The energy costs associated with desalination are so high that the Dubai government wants to cut a piece of an iceberg from the South Pole and ship it to them for fresh water.
I have not used that particular new version. I hope blender is getting more refined and finally picking all the low hanging fruit. That being said, I have seen this cycle many times over the last 15 years. People say blender is working on its interface, I try it again and my mind is blown by the decisions all over again.
Yes, declaring the hard parts to be someone else's problem always works out in the end, doesn't it?

Hopefully in 20 years, when people are talking about MetaWebAssembly to abstract away the platforms that run on WASM, you'll have a different perspective on what you've said here.
Politico Space
Conspiracy theory much? This is HN, not Breitbart.
> 400 km/s is possible on the Autobahn ... but it is an exception.

Voyager 1 hardly achieves 16.49 km/s. It seems strange that German engineering can achieve better from tarmac & ICE.

/snark
A lot of those sensors and cameras are less accurate during the night or in weather or with sun glare.

I think one of the biggest issues is that people will not accept self-driving cars that are as safe as human drivers. They want perfect driving. If someone hits a pedestrian that jumps out from between two cars unexpectedly, it might get written off as an accident and the insurance company may not even have to pay if it was clearly the pedestrians fault. If it was a "robot" car that hits someone, there is going to be a suit for $500M because "Google killed my son!!!!!!". This also leads to people trying to get non-lethally hit by robot cars just to get money. The "robot" car has a big trolley problem that isn't easily solvable.
From which I infer that the database actually was at least remotely comprehensible?

Or did you transition to a completely new system - new storage / database everything?
I wonder how many people actually use their switch as a mobile game device. Almost everyone I have seen just uses it as a home console, so they really won’t care about the battery life.
TurboTax pushed low-income taxpayers to paid tier to make up for Trump tax law
Lots of people worked at making it look like "dumb luck". That point gets missed. What they did is not well understood by most people who cry about the dangers of the next pandoras box.
Sometimes I think Russia has my best interests at heart more than the USA.
Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M round led by A16Z
Companies are running webapps on embedded devices now, but I don't buy the ease of hiring excuse. Web devs demand higher salaries than embedded developers and they have more leverage in terms of where they can work (ie: they're flaky as pie crust). Embedded developers are also more likely to pass the hazing ritual known as the programming interview. Where's the upside to hiring web developers in that context?
This is the norm for supercars and hypercars. I listed a few in a comment further down.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20459194
Pointing a camera at something isn't vision. Making something recognize what they're looking at, and making it create a reasoned response to it, is wickedly hard.
#define's are a compile time construct though. I think the parent is describing a statement that alters the runtime location of a label.
I try to be, yes. And now I know what their policy on inactive accounts is, I will comply with them.

This was sparked off by Tumblr emailing me asking if I was happy to relinquish an old, abandoned account.
Using the Elastic Stack to Visualize Data on Seismicity in Greece
> Does anyone who owns a Tesla know if you can configure it to reduce the acceleration or artificially limit the top speed (e.g. "teenager mode" in other cars)?

In my Model 3, dual motor, I can do both: Limit acceleration and limit the top speed.
I love how you claim to feel guilty every time you take over an account, and yet continue to do it.

You may not have written the policies, but you can certainly choose when to enforce them. You waited only a week for Soundcloud, even when you knew it was ridiculously short.
For linkedin you went and 'politely' asked the active owner to transfer, telling him to his face he didn't have to, and when he refused you still went to check if you could force it by using a ToS.

Don't hide behind the policies, you are making the calls.
The Under-Appreciated Power of the Apollo Computer
Changing your service provider for bad thing X is not “doing your bit”
>When you move them to a cheater queue, they don't know. They keep playing, none the wiser.

When 99.9% of the people you get matched with are cheaters (many of which might be quite obvious), it's not that hard to figure out that your account was probably shadow banned. Some cheaters might not care, but it's certainly not hard to figure out.
Actually, what you said is much more eloquent than what I said. He is saying to go back, learn from your experience and come back and show us how it's done. Nothing racist about it.

Much different that the simpleton narrative going around that he said "go back where you came from".

it's crazy to me that anyone would vote for someone that has a proven track record of hating the US and everything it stands for, let alone 4 people.

It doesn't really matter though. In the latest polling, all 4 have such low approval ratings, they will be gone in the next voting cycle.

After hearing this, I actually have hope for our future.
I actually think this is more aggressive - simply raising a finger or saying “if you don’t mind I’d like to finish my thought” seems to be perfectly adequate in most situations
PUBG Lite – Squad – FPP Gameplay – M416 and Kar98 = Win
I would argue that ‘people’ break the social contract.

These people know where they are, what time it is, and mostly what’s expected of their surroundings. I think they just don’t care. I’m guessing it’s similar to anonymity on the Internet, where people behave differently because they don’t expect to have to face those they harm.
Peter Thiel on Eric Weinstein's The Portal [audio]
Becoming a YouTuber is much more likely then being an astronaut ever was, so this may be a good thing.
This is also true with ag and :Ag
Can you please clarify which CDN features are you referring to on your blog (can't find any) or anywhere else? Also can you elaborate what do you even mean by "so well"?
Sia was started to be built before IPFS was even announced and has hosted PBs of data already as a working product. On the other hand IPFS hasn't even released it's public testnet so it would be great to understand your point.
Edit: btw by IPFS I assume you refer to their Sia equivalent product, Filecoin. At least I do, as IPFS cannot be compared to Sia alone.
I think it would happen this way: firstly you would automate things that go on a track - like trains - which I think we already have. Then secondly you could have certain lanes or roads that are designed for specific self-driving vehicles. This could help buses and trucks (in certain areas) get around. Then you would keep adding more of those, until many roads have those and very few manual lanes. It wouldn't immediately work in a big established city, but some existing highways or interstates can be fitted easily. Anywhere that has an HOV/Carpool/EV lane can be refitted to be an automated driving lane. Think of it like the Cash Only vs. Easy Pass toll lanes. At first there was 1-2 Easy Pass lanes, then the cash lane was just 1-2 - now we automate them reading license plates.

So to sum up, I think that the self driving will start in very specific areas, and then those specific areas would be expanded until they are the only areas. Especially if those roads contain automated taxi (Uber, Lyft, etc) which you can call with your mobile device. The main reason a lot of people drive is because public transportation in their area is junk and you have to go by it's schedule and route. But having a point-point self-driving option is way more convenient. It's like the subway, but it doesn't need tracks.
Doesn't HN run on Arc which can use continuations for handling some web stuff?

https://arclanguage.github.io/ref/srv.html

NB I've never looked at the sources for HN
If a human can do it, I see no reason why an autonomous system can't, eventually, do it. It might take a very long time, but "never" seems short-sighted.
Even if it will be technically possible, and I'm pretty sure some day that will be solved. That's the easiest part.

The biggest hurdle for self-driving cars will be ethics, such as 'the car brakes for a child suddenly crossing the street but then kills the old woman' or perhaps even make decisions based upon social status. Lots of options here.

Those ethics have to be agreed upon, and they will likely differ per culture, state, country, etc. It's a political and sociological challenge. It will be interesting crossing borders.

And then those ethics need to be implemented in software.
I would refrain from saying it's never going to happen, but I doubt very much this will happen in our lifetime.
Conspiracy theory? I didn't even state a theory.
You only get 620 miles if you drive it like a Yugo. ;)

Otherwise, if you do lots of hard starts and stops, you'll probably get about 400ish.
Your C #define is done at compile time. This Cobol's alter example [1] seem to do so at runtime. Thus labels can be considered modifiable points. Actually, it's kinda interesting... does it support chains? Alter A->B and B->C, does GoTo A call C? If i now alter X->A then A->D and GoTo X, where do you end up? C? D? Hope you can at least undo that with something like alter A->A. Actually, I probably don't even want to know. Hope using it gives a big warning in whatever tools Cobal devs use.

[1] https://riptutorial.com/cobol/example/19820/a-contrived-exam...
> how would you feel if you went on a Hacker News break for 3 months and dang gave your username to someone else?

The funny thing is - dang (AKA gruseom) appropriated his username from a dormant account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093
A. When other people get cut off, tell the interrupter "don't cut them off. You, go ahead and finish what you were saying."

Be the person who does this. That way when...

B. Tell them "I am speaking, do not cut me off."

You then don't look like an asshole. You have an ethical principle you stand by for yourself and for others. You'll find very few people will attempt to you off.

It's what I started doing. Has worked pretty well in the past 6 or so years. It's better than being a victim.
0-60 in under 2 seconds is really dangerous!
This is it. Let's be honest - the things that make linux difficult are wireless and graphics drivers because the kernel api's keep changing (to prevent vendors from making non-open-source drivers). Why can't we write a unix compatible desktop os whose only difference is running the drivers in userspace?

Something like Redox(1). It's even MIT licensed, so you could include it in a commercial distribution with your own changes if you so chose when you made your gui.

1. https://www.redox-os.org
The Hellcat is dangerous, but I wouldn't say it's as dangerous as a Model S or Model 3 Performance, all that power can't hook so the Traction control lights are just flashing from a stop.

Meanwhile a Model S P100D is a whole second faster to 60 with this incredible 20mph 'JUMP' with zero lag, I got a test ride in one and felt as if something like a slip on the throttle off the brake would find you 20 feet inside a storefront, which there's a few examples of online lol.

https://electrek.co/2016/09/25/tesla-model-s-crashes-into-gy...
Never marry, am I right fellas
It seems like the easy answer is to kick human drivers off the road, right? That will eliminate a great deal of the unpredictability. Start with a small section of a city, and if the results are good, people will want to expand it.
If you don't know, look it up or ask a question. Launching into argumentative nitpicky screeds that are actually it turns out irrelevant to the point in discussion is just annoying.

I think it's unreasonable to expect every comment about every bit of technology, old or new, discussed on HN to come with pages of preamble, caveats and definitions of terms.
So, the singularity isn't imminent?
> - Robotic trash cans that perfectly sort recyclables and compostables without any contamination

Sorting trash is (at least to me) a surprisingly complicated problem. The frauenhofer here in karlsruhe is working on bulk sorting using computer vision with various sensors (sorting black plastic: https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2016/June/s... and sorting bulk goods: https://www.iosb.fraunhofer.de/servlet/is/15954/)

If automated, it probably makes sense to not sort the stuff in your home, but instead by your trash-collector companies.
Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities
I'd argue the rear wheel drive makes it more dangerous. Lower velocity, but way more unpredictable.
At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, do we really need some company to publish T&Cs to tell us how to treat each other? Why can't we just be good because it's good?
Cameras outside of housing like exteriors is fine.

Cameras INSIDE a home is just not OK. I cannot imagine a single legitimate purpose where that is OK, can you?
Probably with the 3rd row of the Model Y.
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Farming the Sahara would require huge amounts of energy, no?

There is plenty of space but other than that...
I'm sorry for your loss.

I know Facebook and Twitter have memorialised account options which prevent them being taken over. I wonder how many other sites are so considerate.

Here in the UK, it is common for phone numbers to be recycled. Which is distressing when you start receiving text messages from a dead relative.
The amount of quality farmland in the US that has become tract housing and strip malls depresses me every time I think about it.
No one will ever need more than 64kb ram - Bill Gates
Which is another problem entirely: when you shoot for the stars and miss you're likely to have out-achieved most people in the process. But when you would rather aspire to do what literally anyone can do the chance of you achieving something new, worthwhile, or novel are somewhat diminished.
hmm. i have to disagree. driving a car is a walk in the park compared to AGI. they’re not even in the same ballpark. for driving we at least have an idea how to make it happen and we need better tech, more training data and maybe alter the infrastructure to solve some edge cases. AGI? we’re guessing at this point (at least what’s public)
> Leftist culture can also traditionalist about different things.

From a US perspective, I would add "we are a nation of immigrants (therefore immigration should continue)" to that list.
> It’s much more difficult to prepare self-driving cars for unusual circumstances — pedestrians crossing the road when cars have the green light, cars making illegal turns. Researchers call these “corner cases,” although in city traffic they occur often.

These are difficult to deal with as human drivers too. This article is pretty light on details and basically pins the lack of progress on a couple of Tesla crashes. The thing is, regular people crash cars every day. I'd much rather share the road with self-driving cars than cars driven by humans. Especially with the advent of smart phones, not a day goes by that I don't see multiple people heads down messing with Instagram while driving.

This technology is a lot closer to reality than the article makes it seems I think.
it is accepted to post occasional links to articles on news sites, just not constantly post it. this has been the case for many years: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=lwn.net%2Fsubscriberlink
GM is already selling "Super Cruise" vehicles with level 4 autonomous capability on a limited set of controlled access highways.

https://www.cadillac.com/world-of-cadillac/innovation/super-...
Elon Musk reveals brain-hacking plans
From the video -- do they have the capability to fab custom silicon on a small scale? What kinds of setups / suppliers are there / order of magnitude price?
Sparrow6 – Perl6 Autimation Framework – First Release
Extended stay rooms and suites.
This all works with lock elision with TSX and similar HTM technologies.

- interaction with non-transactional code including access to shared data from outside of transactions

The non transactional code just uses the lock, or it uses other suitable semantics when non locking code interacts with locking code (e.g. rules about read only vs writable with technologies like RCU). Any violations lead to aborts due to the cache coherency, and degrade to what would happen without transactions.

- exception handling, and propagating exception info

Just aborts the transaction, and then it works normally.

- how would interaction happen with code that cannot fit this (transactional) model ?

See above.

- how to ensure that system makes progress in presence of conflicts (livelock)

HTM is generally (with a few exceptions) best effort, so always needs to have a valid non transactional fall back path. Usually the fall back path

However in practice this all rarely happens because real systems have enough noise, it's more a theoretical problem.

- debugging aborted transactions

You profile them. TSX has extensive facilities for that. I wrote about it here

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/05/03/intelr-tra...

There's also Processor Trace in newer Intel CPUs which makes it quite easy to see what's going inside transactions.

Some of the issues you're describing happen with a full software transactional memory model, not a lock elision model, where you don't want to rely on locks. But even those can be mostly solved with straight forward techniques, by falling back to global locks.

However most usage of HTM is not a full transactional model, but just lock elision, which doesn't really have any of these problems you're listing.
Maybe just most women aren’t interested in STEM, like most men aren’t interested in hairdressing? Those who are, both men and women, can get jobs as I see women being very good programmers and men being very good hair dressers
Show HN: An Electronic Travel Story
There are a few games that do diagonal scrolling. In general it's very difficult to do well on the NES, and you will likely have to live with some amount of glitching--unless you have extra name table RAM on the cartridge, which is fairly rare.

See http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/ for a database of the hardware inside each cartridge.
Nobody solves the problem from its roots. Population control would solve most of the problems, unless and until that happens, human population will be seen as a cattle field for the minds at the top.
The post points out that hotels also hide cameras, and when they do, they're usually harder to find
> Also, that picture look cartoon-ish... I wonder if it was modified in any way?

I think it's pretty much a given that a photo has been shopped unless they specifically say it hasn't. Even then one should be skeptical.

But I agree, the degree of post processing in the photo makes it look completely artificial.
if and when are 2 separate questions. i’m giving the singularity anywhere between 500-2000 years to happen if we manage to stay alive as a species
Other than "capitalism needs growth!!111" - why are we trying to get to 10 Billion people? Shouldn't the objective at this point not be "how do we keep growing" but - "how do we stop growing"?

Fighting global warming would be a LOT easier if we were encouraging people to not have 10 kids...

Ahh, good ol hacker news. Downvotes without a single person having a cogent argument against attempting to limit population growth.

A bus full of people texting on their phones with nobody in the drivers seat and everyone refusing because "it's not my problem". Instead of addressing the glaring issue, let's add WiFi to the bus!
I would be shocked if something as mundane as that would be the top of any sane person's worries after reading the average ToS (and actually understanding it).

They often already claim ownership over every single byte you send them, disavow any responsibility for their actions, and in the cases where local laws force them to be responsible, will force arbitration on you. Half of my digital life would be lost right now if I did a $1 chargeback against Google and there is literally nothing I could do about it aside from proactive things like leaving their platform beforehand.
Post-Apollo they've always preferred whatever the contemporary version of "rock star" is to Astronaut. Non-story.
Given that people feel confident falling asleep in their Teslas while it drives, I think the writer should just lower their standards.