skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a Tesla owner for 5 years - currently have a P85+ (mine), M3 (wife) and Mercedes GL (family car). Prior to this owned 2 Fords, and 2 Hondas before that. For me personally, I'll take the Tesla any day over any other brand, and my non-techy wife is the same. Hard to explain, but I think it's the overall ownership and driving experience including:

- Buying experience is so much more pleasant - set price and no pressure

- Service experience has been great - much better than Ford or Mercedes. Mercedes is good, but every time we take it in they want a small fortune for this or that - you really get the sense that it's a profit center, whereas Tesla is not like this

- No more gas stations - full charge every day, and superchargers make trips and range anxiety a non-issue (owned a Ford EV previously and it sucked in this regard), and overall electricity costs are much lower than gas

- We both love the user interface - as easy and intuitive as an iPad. I don't miss the buttons, and it's so much easier to use than the Mercedes or Ford infotainment systems - and integrated connectivity and OTA updates are superior to those systems as well.

- Fast and fun to drive - handles well

- Lots of room for trips - frunk, trunk, rear facing seats - the P85+ is a great family car - we've done road trips with 4 kids, dog and luggage no problem

- I like the styling - P85+ with chrome delete and 21s looks really great

- Less environmental impact - I support Tesla's mission and enjoy doing a small part to combat global warming and advance EV adoption

- I enjoy the gimmicky stuff - games, whoopee cushion

- Much less maintenance (except for the darn 21" tires), no oil changes, and over the lifespan of the car I believe maintenance costs will be much lower

I will say that build quality is subpar - the Mercedes is notably better in this regard - very nice. Additionally, I don't trust autopilot for anything but long road trips (it's excellent for that), it's tried to kill me too many times - I think the marketing hype is way ahead of actual capabilities.
Yes, Gatsby even seems to be controversal in the React eco-system.

Next.js is less opinionated.
Hah! I did not know that term. At least I learned something related to the post and its comment section! :)
Really? My wife has her mobile and work number on my phone contacts (iOS) and I can use the voice command to say:

"Call wife on mobile" or "Call wife on work" and it works.

I tested this on a 2016 Model X, 2015 Model S and 2019 Model 3.
Shifting by one and dividing by 2 aren't the same for signed integers, but the distinction goes away if you change the parameter to be unsigned: https://godbolt.org/z/GPJsdQ https://godbolt.org/z/m-rS90
Theres a difference between a warrantless home aearch and the police investigating your house based on probable cause established via a picture of illegal activity published by your cousin in the newspaper
Don’t put words in my mouth. And what about financial debt? Is the only argument you have non sequitur? Or do you just feel like it’s important you keep talking even when you have nothing left to say?
I don't think that's an exception. That's exactly what I'm saying. These guys are the real deal.
Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper
CEOs are exiting at a record pace
Thanks for explaining the distinction. Somewhat reminiscent of the People's Front of Judea vs the Judean People's Front.
>That’s gotta be a good way to gin up trouble, even if it doesn’t come to prosecution.

But how? Realistically the worst case scenario here is that you get denied the loan because the computer says no, after the initial application nobody cares unless you owe an outrageous amount and stop paying.

>Is this something you can actually speak to from experience, or are we both spitballing?

Yeah, when companies or governments ask me for my "home address" I definitely don't tell them where I live. I also go out of my way to corrupt my name whenever possible. Phone numbers? Usually just random numbers unless I know for sure I'm going to get a call I need to answer.

And yes, I have credit cards.
I think if law enforcement uses these DNA databases then their entire department should be required to submit each officer’s DNA and that of their immediate family members too. If prosecutors or defending attorneys want to use these databases, then the same should go for them. If a judge admits the use of DNA evidence for a case, then the same goes for them. Politicians by virtue passing these laws should get that same treatment.

Maybe the way to solve this issue is for law enforcement to be required to mail a letter to everyone who is in the database that they are a suspect in whatever crime being investigated each time law enforcement executed or delegates the execution of a search query. I mean that is how search works: you search everything or you compute hash functions on everything to avoid searching everything, but you’ve effectively tested whether or not everyone in the database is the suspect.

On a slightly different topic, how well are these DNA databases secured and maintained? A person’s DNA might not change, but the corresponding entry in the DNA database is subject to theft, manipulation, and data corruption. What’s stopping the presumption of innocence until proven guilty becoming the presumption of innocence until the DNA database reports a match? Arguably, people should treat DNA databases with the same level of suspicion and concern as some view electronic voting: absolutely vulnerable and absolutely abusable until repeatedly proven to be not sufficiently many times.
I'm sorry, but how long ago was the food system of Hawaii sustainable? And how did the society of Hawaii look back then? How many Hawaiians were there at the time, how many should leave the islands to go back to that state, and how many of those who should remain would actually be in favour of this solution?
Ya, some pre-2010 car should be perfect.
> Like in HN, when it says [dead], I have to read it, to see whether I agree with it being [dead] or not ;-)

And if you don't, vouch for it :)
That was Hetzner.
If you have had a Z06 (like the person posted) then you're familiar with big torque. (It has 650lbft) Similarly with any literbike in the last 10 years or what not... Just roll the throttle and you'll overtake anything in any gear.

I feel like the traffic jam stuff isn't about driving - that's about commuting.

I can't imagine being in a dead silent car all the time. It's not like they're dead silent anyway - you hear plenty of wind. I think the sound of tires squealing isn't a very appealing sound. So if that's almost all I'm ever going to hear while ripping up a road then I think I won't have as much fun.
What did they sacrifice for that? Nothing is free and those plugs are large.
>Hell, I know people who have received seat belt tickets while operating a motor vehicle in a parking lot.

The cops can cite you for anything anywhere anytime. It's on you to call them out for bullshit.
Also, it's really an indictment on how the era of superpowered CEO is going to hopefully end. While Marissa and Adam share the same winner circle, Zuck is in the same league as Gates.
I'm curious... what was it about the comments that you found infuriating? And did this provide some signal about the company itself?
A "take home test" of 6 hours is a waste of my time.

I'd rather spend those hours on a personal project which I can use for demonstrating to potential employers or perhaps use for a side-income.
I made a list of these recently, here are a few that come up often.

Slack for communication

Trello for project management

Github for engineering workflow

1Password for password security

Google Docs for document collaboration

Quip for document collaboration

Hellosign for legal contract signing

Helpscout for customer support

Donut for culture-building

Small Improvements for feedback

Lever for hiring

World Time Buddy (to manage timezones)

Typeform for feedback and surveys

Zoom for video chat

GSuite for spreadsheets & email

Zenefits for HR

Discourse for searchable communication

Okta for password management

OfficeVibe for team surveys and check-ins

CultureAmp for career growth

Zoom for video calls

Groove for customer support

World time buddy to see people's timezones

Teamweek for high-level team tasks

I'll throw in a plug for Holopod - it's a Slack add-on that improves visibility and communication for remote teams through automated status updates and message queuing.

The full list is here: https://holopod.com/blog/remote-work-team-tools
If you're a dealer?

"Sign up for this site. I'll give you $5,000 to put in your bank account. You're going to 'rent' my car, except I won't actually give you my car. In exchange, I'll give you a discount on your drugs for the next six months."

Drug addicts in the throes of withdrawal, or 'savvier'? Absolutely would go for such "deals" like this. And really, it's probably fairly low risk - the worst that is likely to happen is that Turo disables your account.
That doesn't seem possible. The US are the good guys.
Yes, at work we added swiftlint as part of our build pipeline, and we have it reject any usage of force unwraps.
An utterly baseless assertion. I mean, I guess it’s obvious she’s not changing your mind.
> - Message passing in ObjC is so optimized that it probably can't get much faster, and anyone acting like it's slow has a potentially skewed understanding of this

The problem with Objc message passing is not the absolute execution time involved in passing a message.
The problem is that the dynamism involved completely disables the compiler from performing any code-inlining.
Typically inlining small functions is what enables the compiler to unlock further optimisations. From simple things such as merging duplicate loads from same address, to auto-vectorization.
Actually, this is a standard feature of iOS Maps.
Won't this just make Twitter even more of an echo chamber?
Possible, but unlikely. There are exceptions to everything.
Gatsby was great until Next came along and took its crown
Incidentally, a Forbes writer was exposed a few months ago for publishing a puff piece from Epstein's PR team under his own name:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-ep...

> The article on the Forbes website was attributed to Drew Hendricks, a contributing writer. As The Times revealed in an article last week, he was not the author of the piece. Instead, it was delivered to him by a public relations firm, and he said he was paid $600 to attach his byline and post it at Forbes.com.

> Mr. Hendricks said he had not been aware of Mr. Epstein’s history. “All I knew was, this is a guy doing a science thing,” he said. “If I had known otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it.”
Do you happen to know which laws those would be?

The advice provided by GP seems to be "Apply for store loyalty cards and similar with fake information[...]. You could also open phone lines with fake information, ISP accounts and so on."
I am interested in seeing the effects on Politicians and News Media (not actual journalists but the talking head/news reader/podcaster/blogger/standup comedian/outrager class).

Social media metrics deeply influence their behavior (and the behavior of their fan clubs). Too many of them justify what they do because they think the like counts validate it.
Gatsby is great; we use it for all our marketing sites because it doesn't hide content behind JavaScript like plain React so it's better for SEO. Gatsby would be great to compete with Netlify for static React app hosting.
Storing Data on Cassettes
3M to pay $9M after selling defective combat earplugs to US military
It's due to how language and entropy work; basically people naturally tend to abbreviate frequently used terms.

Some languages have banned positional arguments, like Obj C, but these do get a reputation for being verbose. And verbosity, past a point, hinders readability.

My inclination is that for unary and binary functions, positional arguments should be sugar for the keyword arguments, and anything beyond that must be keywords.

An alternative rule could be you're allowed to designate one positional argument.

Keep in mind, also, that I'll bet there's code in keyword-only languages that just uses single letters for all the keywords. Some people just won't or can't write readable code.
It looks like they're only supposed to look for murderers and rapists.
Ask a teen
Nothing to see here, really. Economy starts quaking a little, things move around, people who did fine in an expansion don't always make it through a recession.
This is not equivalent. It will result in y if x is any falsy value (like false, empty string, or 0), not just if x is nullish.
How far back is that? I generally try to leave at least 10 car-lengths in fast traffic, 3-5 in heavy traffic.
> Really trying to understand but what is so different with a Tesla? Is it the Hype factor? The feeling to be in a religious group?

If you are really trying to understand, why don't you test drive one? Only then will you truly know. Having owned a Model S (traded it in for a Model 3) and X.

There is no way I will buy any other car. Maybe if MB, BMW or Audi leapfrogs Tesla in both charging infrastructure and software features. But frankly with the velocity of how quickly Tesla releases new features for FREE, I'm not holding my breath.
Toyota was late to the party, but they finally appear to offer Carplay across their model line: https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/available-models/
The fairness doctrine was part of a propaganda apparatus that greatly narrowed the Overton Window of acceptable discourse. Once people who remembered before the New Deal died people forgot this and it was dismantled, returning the US to normal politics where often the opposing sides genuinely hate each other, see Burr and Hamilton’s duel, the caning of Charles Sumner or the thousands of acts of domestic terrorism, including murder and bombing the US dealt with in the 1960’s.
I'd have a far less negative reaction to the article if it didn't attempt to blame "capitalism" in the title.
I'd bet a large chunk people who read HN have spent the past decade or more working on one thing: increase user engagement. I am one of them for sure.

All the networks seem to be realizing that wasn't such a grand idea and are now experimenting with unraveling these features. It's an implicit admission we've all been wasting our time making the world a worse place.
It's not a bad mindset to have.
This already happens pretty well with Apple Maps. (I think Google Maps does something similar too.) You just have to check the map for your parked car’s location.
Yeah thats my response under that comment too
> The "JS solution" for example is not a solution, but only a convention: the actual interface is just expecting an object,

Well if it uses de-structuring syntax, then it can be type-checked.
For a modest price (~$20), you can get a flight cover flown on the space shuttle.

This is is an envelope with a cancellations for "Launched" and "Returned to Earth" including Kennedy Space Center and Edwards.

Search for "STS-8 flight cover" on ebay.
Given the amount of time I end up spending sitting at a supercharger, it totally makes sense.
Apple Arcade is their solution to this. Pull the pressure off developers to build IAP's into their apps and see the quality of app increase.
Cool but they are going to be as big or bigger then the Apple Watch.

Go try a pair on ..why wouldn't you wear these glasses vs. just regular seeing or sunglasses?
This is just IPFS, or BitTorrent with the serial numbers filed off.
Probably is true within hookup culture. Not that I would know.
He did post a disclaimer that their approach wasn't designed to work for every company.

For such a small team, and an early-stage company, I believe it's critical to hire people who are absolutely excited about the mission. They're not simply looking for "an employee," but a partner who believes in what they're doing, coupled with having the ability to help them do it.
I loved RocketMail. Enough said.
I like how this is what interviewers are looking for and then you get hired and there are no tests, the code is a mess and the performance sucks.
If a DNA is found on a felony crime site, I think all searches should be possible. If possible restrict it with a need for a warrant.

I’m trying to think but so far there seems no way to justify limiting searches.
Reading this beautifully written piece brings to mind the recent book about Elizabeth Holmes - Bad Blood. Some of the completely unacceptable behavior by tech CEOs and "higher ups" definitely rings a bell; some startups like Theranos were doing exactly that and ended up getting a lot of negative attention.
As distasteful as it might be, you have to draw the line somewhere. Warrantless searches of every home and vehicle in the country would probably solve a lot of crimes too. Do you want to shred the USC to make that happen?
Forget privacy. What about unlawful search and seizure? Or how about habeas corpus? Presumption of innocence? The entirety of Western jurisprudence rests on these pillars.

Warrantlessly perusing DNA databases (of non-LEO entities) is at the very least a grey area, if not blatantly unlawful.
I’m a massive fan of Fitbit devices, they work great. But the same can be said of my Plantronics BT headphones, which I’ve used daily for almost three years, same for magic keyboards, mice and touchpad of different generations. Truth to be told, any cheap device that wouldn’t work reliably (I can think of a few BT headphones in the past) I just tossed or returned when possible.
We also integrate with Gatsby if you want the best of both worlds :) https://ghost.org/docs/api/v2/
> This notion, particularly among Tesla owners, that active lane centering and steering is a Tesla exclusive, is at times wilfully blindered, to the obnoxious.

Autopilot is more than just "active lane centering and steering" (known as LKAS) Autopilot is a combination of a lot of things (TACC + Autosteer + Auto Lane Change + Auto Lane Keep + NOA etc...)

Autosteer is also way ahead of everything else out there right now. The competition is mainly just TACC and basic LKAS.

For example, I am yet to see so other cars perform in conditions like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d32eo3/autopil...

> Most to all mid to high end vehicles have all this stuff

Yeah mostly an extra option and costs $$$. Basic autopilot and a ton of safety features are FREE on Tesla. It's actually pathetic how other car manufacturers charge for advanced safety features.
Both of those already are VMs, running on QNX hypervisor. It should be pretty trivial for them to add it if they chose to.
Look up ‘santy worm’ and the now defunct “howdark.com”. It never ended up in court, it went as far as lawyers letters until they backed doen. It wasn’t phpbb that sent the lawyers letters, it was a business owner that used phpbb that was hit by the santy worm. The lawsuit would have likely gone nowhere but she still had to spend cash on her own lawyers, she was 19 at the time and did nothing more than a standard vuln disclosure to the community. This isn’t even an extreme case, there’s much worse.
Of course F# has units-of-measure built-in
It's important to keep a sense of perspective. The US has several hundred murders per year. Cars kill 40,000 people in the US every year. A system like the Russian GULAG would kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. Trading off the non-punishment of 3–6 murderers per year against an increased risk of systemic government oppression—it seems like that risk would have to be on the order of 0.1% before that could plausibly be a reasonable tradeoff.
In most places in the world they have a generic law used to cover behaviour that everyone knows is wrong but isn't explicitly illegal.

For example in Australia we have a 'reckless driving' law which would definitely cover the case of you ignoring parking lot rules. Likewise if you had an incident I doubt your insurance company would honor the claim.
Maybe this is the highest form of intelligence?

Octupuses also have a very short lifespan which seems apt: you don't need societies, buildings, relationships etc if you have truly mastered the sole purpose of your existence really well - the nature of procreation and empowering the next generation to survive.

Human beings are actually awful at this it: makes me wonder if all social, cultural aspects are truly "too complicated" ways to achieve what octupuses have mastered through a much simpler process and potentially without needing arbitrary things like consciousness.
edit: didnt mean to piss off the children
Got an 1540/1600 on the SAT and a full score on the PSAT. I’m now in college on a National Merit Scholarship because of my PSAT score.

Today, it’s even easier to study for the SAT. Khan Academy offers free, official prep to every single student and 8 official practice exams to take. I also used free practice tests made by other companies to study, too. The only purchase I made for SAT prep was a $20 book from Kaplan that had 1000 practice questions and helpful (guessing) strategies.

The test nowadays seems to be a socioeconomic equalizer-those who can’t afford a book or a computer can always go to the public library and get the same resources. The only real reason anyone would pay for test prep classes is because it forces you to practice at regular intervals. Test prep classes also help students revise material that they may have been rusty on, which again you could do online nowadays. That’s why things like the Collegeboard adversity score seem absurd to me. Anyone, really, can afford to do well on the SAT.

Now, of course, the actual educational value of the test is another question altogether.
This assumes people don't communicate when they get blocked, but wait 24hs to announce it in a meeting.
It's very delicate because from personal experience most projects are likely to fail, and most projects start way over ambitious (almost a natural bias). What takes lots of experience to learn is also that that's not necessarily a problem. It's ok to fail sometimes, and it's ok to be overambitious at the beginning and scale back to achievability, most of the time.

Initial ambitions largely set an upper bound on whole project possibilities -- you generally want upper bounds set pretty high. All projects have unknown unknowns that will reveal themselves, and modeling this kind of meta-knowledge is difficult and perhaps not worth the effort.

So to offer a general counterpoint, it may be a valuable skill to listen to constructive advice including ones poking holes in your ideas. The key is to persevere in the face of problems, as long as they're not obviously intransposable (tip: don't go against laws of physics, e.g. thermodynamics or newton's laws). If those hurdles would come up sometime, it might be better to devote more time early on to overcome them.
My kids are 8 and 9. I’ve sheltered them from the world until now on the basis you suggest but reality is breaking through. I can’t get away with lying to them anymore about the planet. So no an activist at 8 is not disturbing it’s kind of inspiring.
Ask HN: Is it viable tu run a flight business using Skyscanner API as back end?
As the title says I want to know if nowadays competition allows for a flight booking landing page or app business to run on top of Skyscanners API
Ok now i am embarressed.. I was out by factor of 10...

i am getting 50Mbps.. copying NAS to tape

For what its worth..

Network Router: TG789vas v2

NAS: Synology DS1815+

Switch: (for Server, Tape Drive, Tape Library & Their Associated UPS ) Airpho Gigabit AR-GS108

Server: X3650 M3 Running Windows 2012 R2

Tape Library: IBM TS3100 3573 L2U

Tape Drive: IBM LTO6 8Gib Fibre Channel 35P1624 Feature Code 8348

Tape Drive Fibre Channel Card: Avago AFBR-57F5PZ

Server Fibre Card: Emulex LPE12002

Using NO compression

I understand the new IBM LTO 8 Drives can get up around 750 to 800Mbps
Felony crimes—such as lying to a federal government employee, like Martha Stewart, or possession of marijuana?