skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The check engine light doesn't send a notification directly to your phone with a diagnosis of what's wrong.
The whole gestures thing, besides a few handy ones, requires such a specific set of circumstances (flip the phone over, turn it the right way, make the gesture) to make them workable they are mostly forgotten about.

In general, it's just simpler to press the button.
Sure, though that's a bit like saying there aren't any perfect squares only things you assume are squares.
Chemistry was dull until I took Atomic Physics at university (where I was reading Physics); I still remember the textbook, the masterpiece of brevity "Atomic Spectra" by T.P.Softley.

At that point, suddenly there was an underlying structure to it and it was no longer just the dull memorisation of facts that had made it my worst performing subject at secondary school (like you, GCSE was as far as I took it and I regret even wasting my time on it there). Far too late, of course; by then Chemistry was a distant blob in the rear-view mirror.
This is the same process I use on a whiteboard to plan out complex projects at work with my team. It's a nice way to see what tasks can be worked on simultaneously in non-solo work too.

As a side project I'm currently working on a tool to do this planning visually.
The car could no longer drive. Short of bursting into flames that’s about as bad as it gets.
TFA mentions a "pyrotechnic battery" which sounds like a great feature for a military fort but not so much for an automobile?
Many developers focus on a single platform, so for those living on Apple world, Swift is an welcomed improvement over Objective-C.

Outside of Apple platforms it is pretty much WIP.
The check engine light doesn't prevent you from driving.
No, it doesn't send your car location to the cloud and tells it to everyone involved, true.

The diagnosis however is available for retrieval via industry standard connector - OBD2.
Hi. I’m Tim. I’m a single cell in society’s body. U.S. society, to be specific
I mean, that is the only reason. It's a first party language in the Apple ecosystem. If you are working outside that ecosystem, there are better choices.
Did the focus cost $57k?
With the right OBDII reader it does.
According to you the 2020 equivalent of a blinking engine light is an immobilized vehicle.

That alone is worthy of a blog post on the front page if it were true (it's not).
The page looks like https://i.imgur.com/RqWJb7Q.png for more than 20 seconds until it finishes loading and then just keeps on downloading more and more and more data (400MB and counting). Pardon me if I ignore their ideas about design.
> air/car deaths/h = 4.2x

That number confused me (I expected to be zero point something).

For the reference, the actual numbers in Wikipedia are: deaths per billion hours traveled: air = 30.8 ; car = 130

30.8 / 130 ~ 0.24
Thanks! I was wrong, look at that :P
“I'm testing an experimental drug to see if it halts Alzheimer's”
I was sort of expecting the car to have exploded, parts strewn about, and the steering wheel missing. Nope, just a check engine light.
It also doesn't leave you stranded. Some cars have been driven for tens of thousands of miles with this light on.
It is the most often pressed key when coding in Oberon.
It also doesn’t stop you from driving the car to a mechanic or service station.
Same in Python, except multiprocessing has actually been around for longer.

Launching multiple processes without mutable shared memory is always an option.
One could speculate that Lexus owners are more likely to be able to afford the upgrade than with other makes. I'm a bit surprised that other moderately high end brands like Tesla don't do the same.
you are supposed to call a tow with a blinking light, so yeah. hardly different
This time is different: Interest rates are the lowest they've ever been and the money spigot is on full blast. In such an environment zombie companies can continue to exist for a very long time, continuously getting new rounds of funding despite having very low or no profits at all.

>> from the article:
"No matter the actual business of the company at hand, it’s probably calling itself a tech company and reaping the rewards of that sweet, sweet VC cash."
I've collected more miles on my last car with the engine light on than off. Earlier you could at least override false positives by just not caring.
I was very disappointed that the author's idea of Catastrophic was far less interesting than what I pictured in my head.

It's definitely not the only time an expensive car has failed in the first 6,000 miles of use. Also, the author's assumption that ICE cars don't fail while parked is a bit of hairsplitting. This isn't much different from any of the dozen or so times I've driven somewhere and discovered my car won't start when I go to leave.
Expensive cars tend to be more finicky, not less.
Actually I strongly prefer catastrophic failures while parked to catastrophic failures while driving...

Of course, having a defect in a basically new car is very annoying, but that is the curse of any technology. At least with an almost new car, there is little argument about whether it is carried by warranty. Tesla will either fix it or give them a new car and then they can hopefully enjoy it.
> groundskeeping

This is something that doesn't get mentioned much, but sucks up more of the budget then you'd think. I've attended multiple schools and I swear that a day didn't pass on my walk to class / my lab that I didn't see scaffolding somewhere to redo some part of some building / sculpture / landscaping feature.
My first startup used computer vision to extract tables from PDFs. We had great engineers but my co-founder and I didn't know enough about ML back then to design a proper feedback loop.

My advice is to find a technical co-founder who has built and scaled a CV system at a larger tech company, but who is looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of annoying problems that can be solved with CV as long as you create a way for users to help you get labeled data.
Originally on Windows the app store was coupled to the sandboxed application model, on the theory that users would learn to associate installation from Store with safety and reliability-over-time. For better or worse, they were gradually decoupled over time and now Store accepts unsandboxed Win32 apps and sandboxed UWP apps can be installed from the web or otherwise outside the Microsoft store.
> Stalin could easily have rolled over most of Europe while the Allies were still mired in Holland and south/west France, and probably beat them back, too. But he chose not to.

When were the Allies mired in Holland and south/west France? I'd say that phase ended by October 1944. In October 1944, Russia was taking the Baltic States, and still trying to get into East Prussia. Russia had exactly zero ability to "roll over most of Europe" at that point - they still had the problem of rolling over Germany, and it was going to be another seven months before they even made it to Berlin. Those were not seven months of Stalin letting his troops take their ease.

> By the time the Allies actually landed in Europe, Germany had been pushed out of Russian-claimed territory

Well, if you mean USSR-claimed territory, the Germans weren't thrown out of (all of) the Belorussian SSR until July 1944. D-Day was June 1944.
I guess I'm reading the sentence I partially quoted as referring to two different groups both with negative circumstances -- immigrants in detention on one hand, and on the other poor people selling blood.
Seems like this is the kind of thing you'd want to cache/host locally (as a separate step) so that your builds don't break anytime the MaxMind website is unavailable (for any number of reasons)?
Angular, OAuth 2.0 and Keycloak
I think catastrophic to me would involve some sort of destruction of the car. Like it exploding or something.
Including good suggested fixes is certainly better than not. But no suggested fixes are better than bad suggested fixes. Finding problems is a different skill set than proposing solutions. Letting people with these complementary skill sets coöperate in improving something seems to be better than requiring one person have both. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I'm not sure why emphasis on failure is a problem, when that failure is precisely what is being communicated. However, the comment certainly does look a lot more unfriendly in light of the responses. Perhaps I was too kind to "i'm confused as to why this project even exists", because I don't understand why I would ever want "code snippets" myself.
The Wayback Machine has copies of the last CC BY-SA 4.0 version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182209/https://geolite.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182412/https://geolite.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182527/https://geolite.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182816/https://geolite.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227183011/https://geolite.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227183143/https://geolite.m...

And the last copy of the download page before the download links were removed, for reference:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191222130401/https://dev.maxmi...
Wouldn't be a tech forum without comments trying to minimize the accomplishments of others.
Outside of targeting Apple devices, the biggest upside would probably be that way more people are using and writing about Swift than those other languages.
Had a similar problem with a VW. They sent a car carrier to pick it up, and offered to bring a rental. Didn't need a rental, but it was a nice offer.
on is different than blinking
Do what Fastmail did, and work with the community (generally via the IETF) to make your new standard open and compatible:

https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standar...
Are you sure? A catastrophe is often defined as “A complete failure” and the car certainly meets that criteria.
Microsoft tried with Continuum https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/continuum but Windows Phones didn't take off
I just don’t think that such things are bound to always be fine, is all. I’m aware of the evolution of language and not upset that folks don’t like it when I put a circumflex in “rôle” these days. I would like to know where new expressive vocabulary is coming in to replace what we’re losing—I don’t see it. Yes slang and such, as always, but those are mostly more close or exact synonyms for existing words and aren’t entering Standard Written English at the same rate we’re losing words, as far as I can tell.
In Dutch we use more or less the same words, but for me the top word is "wetenschap" (which is probably similar in German). Literally translated it's "knowledgeship", which would be a better word for science.

You can believe things, and you can know things. Science is knowing things, and what better word to describe that than "knowledgeship"?
Snippets for me are things I find that I google and copy+paste from stackoverflow semi-frequently. See the example here, it prints the currently loaded settings in Django. I don't use it super frequently (say a few times a month, depending on what I'm doing), but it's faster for me to find with a snippet manager then copying from the same stack overflow answer.

> python manage.py diffsettings --all
I know Teslas have a history of reliability issues, but I thought they've gotten better recently.
They still don't have a diagnosis of what's wrong with the car. They've been told about a whole bunch of things going wrong, including battery-related stuff (which is probably why the car was prevented from driving further!). At least it does seem to be an exceptional case, I'm pretty sure we would know if it wasn't.
Someone from Maxmind has responded a few times in other places about why they are giving such short notice.

I think it boils down to the law just recently being firmed up and it becoming effective at the new year.

I also believe that you have to download a new version every 30 days to stay compliant with the license.
Use-after-free can be expressed in C++, but there is no temptation to do it.
That was what I was imagining when reading the headline. The battery had spontaneously combusted or something like that.
Maybe so. Doesn’t make it more acceptable
Everything starts to sprawl into tree-like hierarchy. I think mindmaps are messy but if you can branch them by file it works fine. Freeplane with nodes that link to other files are best, then from there you can migrate some of that to kanban boards, which are more rigid and ordered. As a side note, that is also the best solution to multiple tabs, if you've ever had a pinned set in chrome. Best just to make them freeplane links.
I think you're downplaying the number of cars that actually do burst into flames. A car telling me it can't run seems quite undramatic.
With Chris Lattner's move to Google and the state of Java it would interesting to see Google embrace Swift and add official support for it to Android.
More like irreversible, total destruction.

It may have been catastrophic for his afternoon plans, but the car has clearly be repaired.
The trappings of this cult have trickled all the way down to ugly “intersecting cubes” single family homes. They’re ugly, badly colored, and lack a “home” feeling.

The opposite form of bad home architecture (McMansiondom) suffers many similar problems - no actual consideration of real livability and usefulness.

We repainted our house a pale pink with an aqua door and I feel happy every time I come down the street to see it. Bring some fun and whimsy to your home!
funny you should mention that: I saw a YouTube video last week that went through some linear algebra real-world uses - edge-detection being one of them... it would have been awesome to have been told/shown that rather than just "study this".
Fine. I looked.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome treated by chelation therapy. His hypothesis is that mercury poisoning caused it.

OP is not an anti-vaxxer but was accused of being one because they blamed mercury.

OP also had bone fractures and fascia disintegration.

OP also had tense forearm muscles (?) described as 'rock hard' due to RSI.

I don't know why you're being so vague about it. It's likely you're being downvoted for the vagueness rather than anything else. Still, he has an email listed if you're curious.
Depends what the false positive rate is, and it's no excuse for proper engineering and quality control.
You can set your demographic and still get many foreign likes. They are either using proxy service or something similar. FB does little to discourage and I frankly feel enables to drive revenue.

These likes also pollute your account and skew your demographic as they are not sincere. Makes it ultimately difficult to understand your buyer.
I don't know about the Model 3, but at least in the Model S Performance, the main breakers are some short cables with a pyrotechnic charge. When the maximum current is exceeded, the explosives blow up the cables... After all, they are only triggering in excess of 1500 amps. Seems to be difficult to build traditional breakers good for up to 1500 amps which react fast enough.
> * Expectations of privacy: Does Maxmind send out a response to those fulfilled complaint stating that their IP address will be made available to anyone on the Internet who registers for an account?

This can’t be otherwise, someone interested by this data would just have to diff databases to check for missing ip adresses.
https://insideevs.com/news/334322/tesla-patents-pyrotechnic-...

tl;dr There is a "pyrotechnic charge" to disconnect the battery in case of danger.
Foreign nations are increasingly using US tech firms as piggy banks, they fine and levy arbitrary taxes from them, or just use the threat of such to demand some change in behavior, it's quite the racket.
It was a "pyrotechnic battery disconnect", i.e., basically a type of switch/active fuse using some type of small explosive charge as part of its operation.

Here's the patent for all the gory details:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9221343

The fact that this part has a "problem" probably means that it was triggered, e.g., maybe some type of false collision detection, short circuit or other failure which ended up triggering the disconnect.
Perhaps that is simply length/readability?
I put 60,000 miles on a Jeep with a check engine light. Also spent thousands on trying to fix it at various shops which would replace all sorts of things, to no effect, including about 5 attempts to replace a costly computer board.

Eventually had a redneck guy working out of the back of his pickup truck have a go at it. After hearing about the history he spent hours unplugging, cleaning, and replugging every single wire connection and socket. And the light stayed off.
Electrical fails harder than mechanical. The problem with EVs is they are 100% electrical.
Which people drive around with for weeks without care because it usually feels like a light that indicates the dealer would love to extract some exorbitant service fee from you light.
> Previous studies demonstrating high heritability of IQ did not discriminate between genetic inheritance and social/cultural/environmental inheritance.

This simply isn't true. Studies of twins not raised together provide evidence that IQ is more than 50% heritable.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/neu.10160
The difference to me of the Model 3 not being able to start and an ICE car, is there’s a nonzero chance one (either alone or with help) can get back on the road in the latter.
I don’t understand your comment. The article explains that the blockchain will be managed only by the Chinese central bank or its proxies. Thus, it will be far easier to track than cash.

Are you disputing that assertion about the proposed Chinese cryptocurrency?
To me, the scariest part of the article is the last image showing the Tesla screen: "Schedule an appointment on your Tesla Mobile App". No ability to take it somewhere else, no ability to diagnose and attempt a fix yourself, you just have to hope that Tesla will fix it quickly for you.

I like Tesla as much as anyone else here, but that last image, imho, takes a bit of ownership/agency away from the owner of the car. I don't trust any company enough to have a $50k+ asset that _only they_ can work on.
Any high-end dealership I've been to will give loaner cars during any service. The Audi dealership near me will usually give you one of their A4's if its scheduled enough in advance, and for more "emergency" service if the lot loaner isn't available they'll ferry you down the road to a little car rental shop and pay for whatever they have in-stock.

I mean, to be clear: You "pay for it" with the fact that an oil change is like $150. But, you'd still get it for any maintenance that is covered under warranty, and its disappointing that Tesla doesn't do the same. One of a myriad of reasons why I'm confused why anyone buys a Tesla.
I am honestly surprised by your blasé reaction. To make an apples to apples comparison, have you ever had a:

1. New car,

2. Which cost almost $60,000, with

3. Fewer than 6000 miles,

4. Suffer a catastrophic failure (i.e. couldn't start with a jump),

5. While parked,

6. And had the manufacturer not communicate the source of failure,

7. Or how long it would take to fix?

That, to me, seems almost unbelievable. I have entertained the idea that our family's next car would be a Tesla, but stories like this make me want to wait another generation or longer.
> Unless the origins of the money are unethical (e.g. blood money), it's not where it comes from that matters...

Well, if it's government money it's hard to justify that it's ethical. Government money is blood money: don't pay your taxes and you'll get your property taken away from you, go to prison or even get murdered by the state.

I understand that the idea the government is "benevolent" is somehow indoctrinated into people's heads from a young age, but objectively that's very far from being the case.

Now, in regards to this "investment" in Proton, if it's government money, it's necessarily a "malinvestment". If people didn't get their money taken away from them through taxation and would spend it according to their needs, Proton might or might not exist. If it does exist solely because of that specific "investment" though, most likely it's not sustainable, and that "investment" created economic signals that are distorted.
I run a saas platform and from the outset, I knew that we wouldn't need to do anything special or groundbreaking. We are just sort of line of business. But what I found is that the majority of the complexity started to show up when we are scaling and needed to be able to get results to the user very quickly. That's when you start to deal with queues and pubsub and architecting things to run in parallel. We have a process that only takes about 10 seconds to run completely. Which is acceptable lag time for us. But now, 20 people are simultaneously making that request and the person at the end of the line has to wait 200 seconds, which is not acceptable. This only happens occasionally, so adding servers would be a big waste. That's where the more complicated cloud setups start to help.
> This sort of shit happens to all cars.

Sure, except certain brands have standard policies to provide transportation assistance for any lengthy (e.g. > 1 day repairs)

e.g. Toyota: http://toyota.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7653/~/if...
Easily U2's best album.
He's not the one saying it. The notification he received from tesla implied it.

If my car has suffered a failure and will no longer drive, I'm likely to consider that catastrophic as well, especially for such a new, expensive car.
I think he’s saying, you front pay service in luxury brands. Of that $57k, maybe $2k goes to a potential loaner fund maintained by the dealer.

Both my Toyota and ford dealer, for example, rents their cars for competitive rates (compared to the local enterprise). They are nice enough to give you a shuttle service between working hours up to 10mi away, but that cost likely comes out of the Service Center budget (hence the $49 tire rotation service cost)
But the English language already had definitions for "open" and "source".

English-speakers combining those two to produce the intuitive way ("you can see the source code") gives us our present situation.
100% on this.

Every time I use Waze, I end up pulling my hair out from all the stress-inducing second-shaving measures. Left turns zig-zagging across the city? What could be bad about that??

The idea of low cognitive-load routing is great. One could take in to consideration "how does this driver/cyclist typically navigate to the point they've requested," and providing a route that augments an already well-worn mental path with something a little better and easier (or faster) as well.

Does Strava take user feedback as an input? It irks me how Maps/others seem to not take elevation, road condition, or general "pleasant-ness" in to consideration when it comes to routing …
> And the light stayed off.

Are you sure he didn't just leave that particular light unplugged?
So, the 'cooler' experiments are also more dangerous, and your example is illustrative of that. I'd be hesitant to hand students a flask of aqua regia (the only acid that can dissolve gold) and tell them to go nuts.

Ignoring the obvious safety issue of every student having an effervescent, volatile strong acid solution (which is tricky to handle safely even as an experienced chemist), there are a handful of incompatible chemical combinations with aqua regia that would require an immediate lab evacuation and call to the fire department. You'd need constraints and some serious vetting of the students' plans before you could let them touch the stuff.

I like the idea of open-ended experiments, but technique is so crucial to these things that even if they're right in theory, in practice they'd often get a negative result because of technical shortcomings of their technique. This is why you end up with cookbook experiments
I see, thanks for the ARIA-hint and the quick tips regarding screen readers!
That "A Space for Being" room, you know we need in our lives? More mirrors.