skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems I've had to repair on the cars I've owned have mostly been things that don't exist on an electric car. If you weight repairs by cost, then it skews even further. And probably most of the ones that would still apply to an electric are maintenance tasks (replacing bulbs, brakes, tires). All of the non-drive bits of the car are still there, but in my experience those just don't fail as often, and they can generally be tolerated a bit before fixing it. Drive bits breaking in an ICE car tend to make the car undrivable.
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For the purpose of this exercise, assume a rectilinear ant.
Melting with Tenderness: Vladimir Nabokov on “Apostrophes”
> The issue of what to do about them hit the spotlight in May when a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that was heavily modified

From what I recall, one video was slightly slowed down, the other was just a montage of various clips joined together. I am not sure either constitutes serious modification or doctoring.
I doubt your claims are true with record low unemployment across every category and voting participation increasing.

But if they are, then change the policies that affect people today. Making up policies based on what happened centuries ago fixes nothing.
> Cars are for driving, not "infotainment".

If you're one of the ~30 million Americans, crawling along in your single-occupant vehicle through rush-hour gridlock, you will care a lot more about the 'infotainment' part of your car than the 'driving' part.
Except that the more remote your location the further you likely are from the nearest ground station, which means more hops through the satellite network before you get back down to the ground, higher latency, and reduced total throughput of the system.

The system Starlink is trying to beat is BGAN and regional Ku/Ka providers. If you're expecting them to beat the pants off of your terrestrial wired service you're probably going to be disappointed, unless you're on the edge of the range of some old neglected AT&T DSL line or still trapped on dialup. Even then it's almost certainly going to be much more expensive but at least it will have a sizeable speed advantage.
Yes! Maybe it could work like those song recognition apps. A microphone identifies the background music and then it plays an inverse waveform in to your earbuds to cancel it out. I would pay lots of money for that.
With the USAF, SpaceX has demonstrated 610mbps[0] to the cockpit of an aircraft in flight.

[0]: https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlin...
Curious about the 'doesn't work while moving' that seems to me to be one of the advantages of a phased array. Since it is software derived aiming I would guess it would excel at adjusting for movement. Do you have details on that I can read on?
The elevator ones I’ve seen are mostly silent, they just have a cycling static display. The gas station ones are a fucking abomination though.
People already covered why that's not possible with Starlink, but in-car WiFi is already incredibly cheap and works well.

My Volt included unlimited data for 20$ a month, and it was fast enough for streaming video and worked at times where my phone didn't (presumably because of the better positioned antenna)
Just having a hard deadline with an annual release cycle is aggressive. Seems like they should be doing a lot of these releases in point upgrades instead of forcing one giant upgrade per year.
If you remove all of that what's the point of even having Internet anymore?
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I'm not sure who you're arguing with, but the poster I was replying to noted the status quo is that you can run unnotarized executables. To your point, that should not be taken to mean that we won't eventually see it evaporate. On the contrary, we should assume it will.
Thanks for the offer. I will need people to try out the first release if you are interested. Will announce the first usable release here in a couple of months.
VGG was a long time after the first deep learning revolution.
> It's cool to decorate real world to look like a filter, take unfiltered photos (2d cafes)

It’s more of a comic book look in this case IMO.

See also: pop art makeup look

https://www.google.com/search?q=pop+art+makeup&tbm=isch

I wonder if anyone did the pop art makeup look and went to the 2d cafe with that on their face yet. That’d make for some nice photos for Instagram for sure!
Will Google please consider explaining to us why we continue to experience multi-region failures and what will be done so that we can build reliable systems on top of GCP?

I have been taught by AWS that we should expect occasional cross-AZ failures and almost no cross-region failures. This does not appear to be the case at GCP. I would like to have GCP as a cloud option - some of your tech is very impressive - but I have no idea how to design infrastructure on GCP so that I can be confident it won't fail due to a GCP problem that I cannot fix.
>Sometimes it feel that the main experience is "sharing a picture", rather than having an experience (view, sound, smell, all senses plus emotions) and then trying to share it with pictures.

Sure, I can agree with this! But whether you allow the experience to be hijacked is entirely up to you. You and your family/friends can simply put your phones away and look for yourself. Fighting smartphone addiction is better with friends.
> Shameless plug - my app, Writing Streak, has the "typewriter" mode (Alt+T) that prevents you from editing the text you wrote

Does it support overstriking? Typing o<BS>/ is a legitimately good way to type ø, for example; it isn't a universal input method by any stretch but when it works, it's very mnemonic.
In your opinion, what changes made that happen? When did the changes start, and how did they affect care, scheduling, etc.?
Could a tiny space telescope be added to each satellite, constantly sending telemetry down to earth via starlink? Maybe in concert that would be enough interferometric data to be a net gain for astronomy?

(I know nothing about it, just spitballing)
It's simply surprising that they continuously find an edge in an ever increasingly competitive market.

It's not a fair comparison to say they just "did the math" when there are thousands of other, highly qualified, highly intelligent people trying to "do the math" at the same time, all the time, yet RenTech has managed to always come out ahead and not just barely, but massively ahead.

I don't believe RenTech is doing anything illegal. I think they have a extremely significant edge that they've managed to maintain for a significant period of time and that should be suspicious to anyone who participates in the market.
I felt the opposite. Tesla's answer came across the worst to me, and reads to me with the over-specificity of a student making excuses for why their paper isn't done on time.

> "It was a supplier-related issue".

Passing the buck is really not a great look to start with. It makes the rest of the response seem like a series of excuses.

Tesla chose the supplier. Tesla built and inspected and sold and shipped the car with those parts. This is a Tesla-related issue. The only time Tesla should mention a supplier issue is in response to, "why can't you sell me a car?"

> "[It] did not pose any threat to vehicle safety".

That's good, but this isn't the safety survey.

> "[T]here was a[...] false service alert [... that was fixed] within two weeks of being reported".

I'm not even sure how to react to this one. Bringing my car in to be told "false alarm" is really not reassuring. And two weeks to fix a false alert doesn't help me - I've probably already brought it in for service.

> "This proactive approach to improved reliability is one of the reasons why Tesla is the highest rated car brand among consumers, according to Consumer Reports." (Paraphrased:) Our cars are the safest and best performing, and Model S is #1 in satisfaction.

To me, blaming a supplier for the issues is a terrible way to start, and this is likewise a terrible closing.

"You just fell in the rankings to come in 3rd to last in our reliability survey. Any comments?" "Our cars are the safest and fastest and we have always ranked #1 on your customer satisfaction survey."

Those stats are undeniably good. They also make me think those are the stats the company cares about a lot more than reliability.
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> Well, in an ideal case, yes, you would be doing it like that.

I mean, it'd be either that specific case or a bug. And if it's a bug, then the check constraint as described previously would catch it and prevent it entirely.

Another option, though, would be to not even bother with a separate field for "final"; if the only two states are "draft" and "final", and finality is conditional on there being an invoice number, then the application logic can be greatly simplified:

SELECT CASE
WHEN invoice_number IS NULL THEN 'Draft'
ELSE 'Final'
END AS state
FROM invoices WHERE -- yadda yadda yadda

Most databases can cache this as a computed value column on the table itself or in a view or what have you.

> Draft invoices do not have an invoice number, since they don't really exist anywhere.

Sure they do: they exist in your database. Unless your company has a strict rule about invoice numbers always being sequential with no gaps (and that'd be pretty darn strict, in my experience), you might as well pre-assign it.
A mathematical analysis of Uniswap markets
I consider myself an enthusiast, and still consider engine noise to be undesirable.

Among various other car things, I'm very enthusiastic for in-car noise cancelling: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/9/18175748/bose-noise-cancel...
The difference between "concentration camp" and "internment camp" is one of branding and there is no practical difference.
I wanted to try Firebase & Firestore (I like it a lot), so I built a web app for a problem I have...what should I watch next on all these streaming services (Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, HBO). Friends give me the best recommendations, but when I sit down to watch I forget what they said and end up browsing until I fall asleep.

theGoodflix allows you to create private groups with your friends so you can share show recommendations, save to your watch list, and browse the most popular shows.

https://thegoodflix.com

Welcome feedback! Also, best use is with friends, so please invite them to your group.
what about Telsa?
>who cares?

Apple said they weren't aware of the details surrounding the decision and had the customer (DHH) work with Goldman Sachs to determine the details of the decision. I don't think that's unreasonable and it's not like Apple just wiped their hands of it and said "We don't know, not our problem."

My response was directly responding to the person that said that Apple employees didn't know why the decision was made. Apple was attempting to get an answer for their customer. Especially with credit and finance information, this isn't something that would be acceptable for a low-ranking Apple employee to discuss with the customer and, if DHH is claiming that it should be because it's "Apple's card", then I think he's full of crap.
Not according to Apple.

If you try to notarize an app, you chase links for a while untyil you get to https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/devac02c5ab8, and then to get a Developer ID, you chase links for a while until you get to
https://developer.apple.com/support/purchase-activation/

If it's free, it's pretty well hidden, like US tax prep companies' legally mandated "Free File".
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Your sentence confuses me. Did he blame the cuts on the baby? Or the baby's issues on the cuts?
And so we reach the end of the for loop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506948

:)

To reiterate: You don't have to notarize, if your users trust you enough to manually allow your app to run.
> Yep, I am confident the government is more trustworthy because you and your employer have a conflict of interest here.

It is such a relief to read this position on Hacker News, for once. I am continuously astonished by tech workers' refusal to recognize these conflicts between our interests as individuals, and our employers' interests in profitability. Work only gets done when these interests find an equilibrium.

I am especially concerned with how little my employer considers my long-term health. With tech job turnover rates universally understood to be a handful of years, I know my employer is unmotivated to maintain my long-term health, preferring to accrue "tech debt" in me, a jettisonable unit.
It does not. You can use something like Avo to lighten the load a bit of writing those assembly routines. It takes care of register allocation, struct fields, and the necessary function stubs.
Yeah exactly.

Things were really really different then. Youtube was two years old, Facebook had only been open to non students for less than a year. Things like making databases of electronic parts or other less sexy B2B style ideas were often still wide open green fields with almost no competition. Plus just making websites work was tough, the cloud existed but just getting servers to work and stay up was a non trivial part of launching something.

You can't just do the X + Software formula anymore and expect to get anywhere.
AR could be more compelling than VR if the tech is there, but there's other issues. While VR has issues with mass market adoption (such as motion sickness) that AR may avoid, it will most likey still have a high price point and a lack of an ecosystem full of compelling content.

I'm sure Apple has been long hard at work here but I would be surprised if this grew beyond a niche product given the state of VR now, so they definitely aren't in a rush.
But why? Genuinely curious, is there a real reason why this might be done?
That's for making 2D stuff look 3D. This is the opposite--no perspective tricks or limited POVs are necessary, just outlines and stark contrasts.
It’s a bad analogy but maybe responding to the analogy in a way that doesn’t apply to the airplane problem came across as confusing and irrelevant.
That's a different question.
>I dig the WRX, but I would love if the engine were quieter.

As far as the WRX goes I would say you're in the minority. There was quite an uproar when Subaru ditched the unequal length headers on the WRX, eliminating the famous boxer rumble. That unique exhaust note is one of the reasons people love the WRX.

>IMO a quieter engine is always desirable - akin to how I always want my computers to have quieter fans for any given level of performance.

Aftermarket exhaust systems are quite popular, but I can't say that I've ever seen a computer fan noise amplification system. I understand not everyone wants a loud car, but there are plenty of cars coming out with factory valved exhaust so you can make the car scream when appropriate, and not just on high end sports cars either.
> The French Army, for instance was authorized to shoot Yellow Vest protesters

How is that monitoring?
You say this like you don't trip over bagged bread in every supermarket in Europe. Including some places that have essentially crustless white bread slices in a bag.

(Source, traveling around Europe now, with recent experience of French, Portuguese, and Spanish grocery stores)
Is there somewhere to learn about this type of engineering without going though education?

Just found your example a really interesting read and would like to read more!
This is crazy, so we are seriously adding 8 times the number of satellites without having a clear understanding of the impact this would be on things like... being able to see soon enough asteroids coming towards Earth?

I don't get it. Why are we going so fast? We don't have to.
Much like charities know that the best source of donations is previous donors, Apple knows that the best source of revenue previous customers who've already shown a willingness to open their wallets to pay extra for the Apple experience.
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"It's a roughly accurate measure though"

It's the ships speed relative to the water what causes any fuel consumption. For the purposes of saving fuel, if you don't know the water surface speed, you know nothing.
Yes, the word "constraint" is confusingly absent (or, rather, used colloquially) in the OP.

> FKs impose a lot of constraints on what's possible and what's not possible.

Thanks again for the further clarification.
Can you share a link to the web page where one can create a notarization account for free?
Have they solved the problems of

1. sulfur plating the anode?
2. The cathode swelling during charge and mechanically damaging the cell?

If so, I'm excited! But last I checked thier solution to #2 was to clamp the cell between metal plates, which nullified the gains in energy density when considering the mass of the clamps.
This thread is full of developers considering or actively abandoning macOS as platform. That means less options for end users like me.
Google "do no evil" .. yeah, right.
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reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21278705
This isn't a bad story, but copy-and-pasting to YC from Twitter-with-images is not an effective communications format.
If they can, certainly. Assuming the developer still exists, and they still have the source code, some idea of the build environment, and they want their game to still be accessible. And even then:

https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2017/04/868-hack-update.ht...

> Isn't this just a matter of opening up the project, changing one line and recompiling? Should take five minutes, it's not really a big deal? Yes and no. The 64-bit change itself is small but they change enough other things every few months that recompiling against new versions of the libraries doesn't simply work. You get a few linker errors and have to look up the new names for a couple of functions. Or there's a new element in one of the libraries with the same name as one of my variables so I have to find+replace to change its name. And then you run it and find that it's in portrait mode, squished into half of the screen, so you have to look up what changes they've made to how screen orientation works and change a few more lines. [...] It adds up.

Sure, you can work around it, but from the developer's perspective their game has just been designated obsolete for no reason that Apple couldn't have fixed themselves.
I specifically don't mean perpetual "competition" so thanks for flagging that I was not clear.

I consider competition to be not just commercial competition, colonial (ugh) competition, spying and the like. Spying in fact can avert war (well understood in game theory, hence the overflight treaties).

But when spend time specifically probing and actually attacking, say, your perceived opponents' infrastructure (e.g. "cyberattack" of another country's electronic grid) I consider that warfare. Student was unambiguously an act of war, though Iran was too weak to respond (also: clever!). In particular Iran posed no threat to the US, but attacking its nuclear capabilities served US geopolitical interests (Iran did and does threaten US allies).

If you destroy or degrade someone's capabilities remotely instead of sending a high explosive, do you not consider that perpetual war? Developing such capabilities is not, inherently, war, nor is probing for weaknesses.

But if the US considers Russia an adversary (a small economy, large land and population next to various allies) I can see how someone could consider it reasonable to make it harder for its government to function. I disagree, and do consider it warfare.
I think the disinformation you're thinking about matters [cf 0], but being able to project power to the right place at the right time requires a lot of logistical planning and material even if the information can be trusted. There are a lot of military areas where AI can inform traditional bureaucratic processes from planning to command and control [cf 1].

DOD maintains a lot of troops/bases/relationships around the world, and my guess is they want to be optimizing all of them as much as possible and be able to adapt policy to changes. Like any large organization, it's hard for the higher ups to have a good grasp on what's going on at lower echelons. They've had some pretty bad policy decisions handed to them from not being able to explain what was going on (e.g. the disbanding of the Baath party in Iraq). Being able to algorithmically integrate the information they've got and present it to policy makers has been an unsolved problem in its own right without the disinformation stuff.

[0] Whaley,B. (1982). "Toward a General Theory of Deception" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0140239820843710...

[1] MCDP 1. (1997). "Warfighting" https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/MCDP%201%20Wa...
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Too easy to fake. Maybe instead base it off of fuel consumption. At the end of the day, they can't fake a full tank of gas -- Require it to be documented when they buy fuel and use that to approximate what they're using for a cross-seas voyage (giving appropriate margin so that in case of storm/emergency they can still make it, but perhaps tax them if they eat into buffer)
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I thought this was going to be about ambient electronic music, which is something totally different. Genre naming is fun. :) Still a worthwhile article to me.
I think you may be referring to the concept of KWIC [1], "Keyword in Context", which has been used in text-based indexes for publications for quite some time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Word_in_Context
What if you were paid some/all of the profit via micropayments when people used your tesla/modem hotspot?
pastebin.com or similar
I’m not sure that Starlink is supposed to make money. I think it’s another part of the get Musk to Mars plan. If you are going to a planet with unknown resources what is the easiest way to bootstrap communications. Is it bury 100k of km of wire? Or just plug a bunch of “cheap” satellites into a low Mars orbit? Makes total sense in that light to try it here. I’m not convinced these plans and products are designed to make money as much as bootstrap humans living on another planet.
All of that, then, testing the entire stack again. Unstacking and manipulating them after packaging is a nonzero risk to all of them.
No, I wasn't. I don't think that a drink of water is the same as a battery swap.
correction: its what cash buyers are willing to pay for it. thats a small fraction of the entire market.
Without the US government playing it's current role, I am 100% confident that the US health data that is currently confidential would stop being confidential. Just as we see with companies adding spyware to software, selling out user's data is profitable.

Why would for-profit companies keep the data confidential when they can make more money selling it?
No lithium-sulfur battery (so far) survives enough charge-discharge cycles to be attractive for portable electronics or electric cars. But higher energy density makes it potentially attractive over lithium ion batteries for aircraft. Even if you have to replace the batteries after e.g. only 100 cycles, that could enable multi-month missions for solar powered high altitude UAVs.

The Airbus Zephyr was using lithium-sulfur batteries back in 2015:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/lighter-cheaper-satell...
If it's always OK to pay an extra $100/yr on top of all the other Apple purchases, then the market price is actually $infinity.

Also, some people may look up to Lawhead as a role model as a programmer/artist but not have awards and lots of $.
You want to downlink near the server, not near the client. Packets will move 40% faster through vacuum than through fiber.