skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious, not to go all-in on the "fake news" stuff, but does anyone take this article or this entire site seriously and if so, why? The "author" is a fake persona using a photograph from a hair salon advertisement as their avatar. All of the photos are from Tesla's own materials. The lead photo is from their Q2 investor letter, and it depicts a machine in China, not California. The site is just weird clickbait and, if not deliberately misleading, at least seems to lack any reason to exist.

This article from the SAE (you know, the industry group of car building) is way more interesting.

https://www.sae.org/news/2020/06/tesla-model-y-big-castings
> Tesla had to do the R+D on a new alloy of aluminum to make this work.

Teslas RD budget is tiny, given for much stuff they do in-house - designing cars, autopilot, seats, batteries, robots, solar panel, solar roof, and many others. Their RD is roughly on the level of Mazda, which does much less stuff in-house.

> None of the carmakers do R+D on basic materials and are limited by the commercially available alloy formulas

You really believe that companies that spend billions of dollars per year on basic materials, that are some of the most important for their products, just look at the prodcut catalogue from suppliers and order from there?
AFAIK You have a right to remain silent during your arrest and before you face a judge.

If court orders you to do something (legal ofc) you will have to do it, if they ask you a question - you will have to answer it. Except something that would incriminate you or your immediate relatives.
Hm, maybe you're right. So in that case:

> hold them

Users have many ways to hold snaps temporarily. If they want to hold snaps indefinitely, then they should install them using he `--dangerous` flag. That won't give them any updates, but I'm guessing that's the point. They can always get the latest version of the app manually using `snap download snapname` and install it using `snap install snapname.snap --dangerous`.

> modify them

Just like a `.deb` package, users can unpack a snap, modify any file, repack and install the modified version. Alternatively, you can unpack the snap, modify any file and install the directory using "snap try". You can then modify files and rerun the app without having to reinstall it for every change.

> or even point snap to a different store.

The signing keys are baked into the Snap binary but the URL is configurable via an environment variable. So users can change to a different Brand Store without any issue. If they want to use a store with a different signing key, they have to install a different version of snapd which is compiled with the signing keys of the other vendors.

This isn't an insurmountable problem, but it is less flexible than apt, yes. Although I think "apt remove snapd; apt install snapd-fsnap" is still pretty easy..
It seems silly to blame the spark, rather than the fuel.

If there was a massive, undetected gas-leak that erupts into a fireball when a guy strikes a match, you don't blame the guy for the damage.
Advantages of Bash over Python as a scripting language?
I’m still not sure we won’t get develop Kessler Syndrome (runaway debris situation in LEO) so let’s hope you are right.
My Model 3 isn't any more expensive to insure than my Golf R was.
I agree that the post you linked to was downvoted unfairly.

Many of his subsequent posts have been fairly downvoted.

I think some of his downvotes are from people who have interacted with him elsewhere. His reply to one of my comments is why I’m using this alternate account.

His recent post about pkg.go.dev misrepresented the facts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24023998

He frequently takes an absolutist stance, often assumes negative intent, and is at best abrasive.

Here are some examples:

https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/mail-for-good/issues/357

https://github.com/kisslinux/repo/issues/100

> I would like to add, I use much of ddevaults software on a daily basis, and have found it to be some of the absolute best I've ever used. As such, I tend to give what he says at least a moment of thought.

It’s your call but I would be hesitant to use anything by him. How would he respond if I report a bug or open a feature request?
I wish you a speedy physical and metal recovery. Please consider getting counseling as there is a good chance you might experience symptoms of PTSD and early therapy after a traumatic experience can be a lot more effective than similar work down the line.
I wonder what happens on a cloudy day.. currently the satellite based DTH television displays a cloud and refuses to work. Technically is there a work around to that?
> cynical MBA middle management

Yeah, those cynical MBA guys who just couldn't stomach working for a homophobe... So what if he didn't want his gay employees to be able to marry?

/s, obviously.
Are genetic algorithms getting popular again? This was the topic of my senior project 20 years ago. I had barely heard about them since I left university, but all of a sudden within the last six months I'm hearing about them again.
SQLAlchemy – Asynchronous IO Support for Core and ORM
expediency
I am currently trying to convince a friend with teenagers that the 'going away' part of 'going away to college' is part of the entire point.

Keeping your kid in town is just infantilizing them. And god knows we have enough enfants terribles in the world, and especially in tech.

She's going to end up with a 28 year old son still living at home playing video games all day, while his degree rots away, wondering what went wrong. Maybe I should start logging dates and conversations. "Here it is, July 15th, 2019..."
So what? The welders are an utterly inconsequential distraction from much more important lines of inquiry.
> Can initial steps be taken to financially firewall Firefox development from the rest of Mozilla, as Thunderbird has done successfully? Start by moving the web standards advocacy brain trust to the separate org.

That's exactly how it's done for the past 15 years.

Mozilla Corporation is in charge of Firefox development. Mozilla Foundation is in charge of advocacy. Mozilla Corporation is fully owned by the Mozilla Foundation.

Thunderbird development is handled by a different subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation called MZLA Technologies Corporation.

Yes, their naming mechanism is awful.
(edit/p.s. I agree completely with your last sentence, except that the Eich flamewar should just be retired.)

It's not "absolutely clear what the commenter meant", and that is the problem. Internet users are a thousand times too quick to assume they know "absolutely" what "the commenter meant" and then react reflexively to it. This is how the internet becomes optimized for outrage. That's why we have that guideline, and commenters here need to follow it. Note this guideline also: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I'd like to add some positive thoughts. This is off topic, sorry, but it's been a while.

Edit 2: I'm going to move them to a reply so I can link to it later.
They can censor us but they can't stop us!
I wonder if the Cybertruck fails in this regard.
I absolutely loved my Windows Phones and was gutted when they killed the product.
> Yes, local variables are non-member variables. I'm just pointing out that people's habits may have been built in JavaScript or the like, where a non-member variable could be:

> - a global

> - from a closure, anywhere up the tree

> - an import from another file

C# has "from a closure, anywhere up the tree" and "an import from an other file" though, the only thing it arguably doesn't have is "a global".

> Whether or not the explicitness is still important in C# code, it's at least much more important in JavaScript and Python code (in fact I'm pretty sure both languages require it)

Technically you can use the `with` statement to make it implicit in javascript.

You should not, but you can.
Yup, both of my kids are in college, at different schools, and pretty much everybody fully expects that school will last for a couple weeks, then they'll send everybody home. The savvy ones are signing up for exclusively online courses.
How should I have done it?
Minecraft has been the most successful use of this, I think. Minecraft price has only steadily risen over time.
Apple reportedly launching subscription bundles with new iPhones this October
It's called signed exchanges.

https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/optimize-...
As a user and downstream developer, I'm glad that the Linux maintainers are committed to maintaining a sound architecture.

The idea that they need to be more polite about rejecting low quality work is puzzling to me.
Elm and Keep
Seems like a decision was made, repeatedly, to do nothing about it, while knowing it was an issue.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/hezbollah-denies-...

> Former port worker Yusuf Shehadi confirmed this account to The Guardian on Thurday. In his recollection, "30-40 nylon bags of fireworks" had been stored in the same warehouse as the cargo of ammonium nitrate for many years. Port workers and customs officials were well aware that both of these consignments were on site and potentially dangerous, and they had raised the issue multiple times, he said. “Every week, the customs people came and complained and so did the state security officers. The army kept telling them they had no other place to put this. Everyone wanted to be the boss, and no one wanted to make a real decision," Shehadi said.
Ex-FBI lawyer set to plead guilty to altering email during Russia investigation
What part of being heavily opposed to homophobic organisation is degenerate in your opinion?
Almost every AMP page I went to felt slower than when I went to the real page behind it.

I think a significant portion of that was that AMP wants everything rendered in a single paint. As opposed to the typical news site which shows the article for a while, then later hides it when the javascript had time to run. Seeing an article while the page finishes loading feels a lot faster than seeing a white screen until the page finishes loading, even if the content moving around on the first one is annoying.
Not always, we pay for a plugin for Thunderbird (ExQuilzilla) though. We're primarily working on Linux systems so it makes no sense to even have Outlook or Windows in our office. We don't make up a large demographic of our company (which is in the F500 range), but I wouldn't be surprised if there's other places that do the same.

It's a shame Firefox doesn't sell a developer ready IDE, I'd subscribe to that myself if it means better MDN and that the dev tools team is better funded, and Firefox in addition to other donations from elsewhere, throw in a VPN subscription to sweeten it for most people. I'm ready to pay for anything that funds Firefox directly.

I've even seen some in QA who do have Windows just installing Thunderbird.
Thanks for the kind words it was a pleasure to hang with you.
Oily rags are super dangerous. Depends on the type of oil or thinner but definitely something to keep in a small sealed metal container.
When I worked for a non-profit, the rule was that salaries could be no more than 90% of the general going rate for the same job in the same location (we had offices across the country). I don't know if it was a rule specific to this organization, or if it's an industry-wide rule of thumb.

Because of this 90% rule, the company never set any salaries. After you passed the interview and they wanted to hire you, they sent your resume and job description to an outside consulting firm, which would then calculate what your salary would be. The consulting firm contacted you directly and let you know what your compensation would be if you accepted the job, and why.

It might be common, but it was very new for me.
Wasn't there an article about how the async syntax was benchmarked to actually be slower than the traditional way of using threads? What's the current story on python async?

reference: http://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html
“Remain silent” is actually a bit of an oversimplification. We have a right not to incriminate ourselves. If you’ve murdered someone and hidden the murder weapon the government cannot compel you to tell them where you’ve hidden it. That information exists only in your mind and you can’t be forced to incriminate yourself. And they can’t say “okay, remain silent but you must drive us to the location of the murder weapon and point it out” so it’s not about “speech” so much as it is about your right not to assist the government in their prosecution of your own crimes.

Now that’s not to say that the location of the murder weapon or the contents of your phone are somehow protected. If the government happens upon the information another way they can use it against you. Even if the way they happen upon it is your own words. If you keep a diary and write “hid murder weapon here” the government can seize your journal as evidence and then use information from your journal to go find more evidence against you. But you don’t have to help them find the information that can be used against you.
Hable con Ella (Talk to Her) by Pedro Almodovar: I was young when I watched it, the impact it made on me was how important is to stop talking and listen.

Interstellar: I loved it the first time I watched. I recently watched with the perspective as a father to a daughter and it hit me differently. It emphasized the importance of the father/daughter relationship. One quote has stayed with me since: "Cooper: Parents are the ghosts of their children's future."
People have got to get over the math arguments here. Voting isn't about whether your vote will "matter" mathematically to your local races. It's a symbol of expressing your democratic power - a discipline and civic responsibility. We should all vote just as part of being citizens that care about and defend democracy.

(And then occasionally - you don't know when - it will also matter mathematically.)
There's multiplayer in Factorio.
Microsoft and TikTok = Nfw
Content ideas: What to post on social media
In my experience so far, containers are only really a bother if you're already doing things wrong and it's exposing practices that may be convenient in the short term but will bite you in the long term. I know in previous jobs the things that were obstacles to containerization were essentially anything that made a single server "special", but making "special" servers is a bad idea in the first place. Pets vs. cattle, etc. etc.

Specific points..

> Must build an image before deploying and it takes time, so deploys are slow (of course we use CI to do it, it's not manual).

How large are your images? Build times can be very variable, but if you have a good base image it can be very fast. I think on average my build times have been about 5-20 seconds. There's definitely an art to it, but dockerfiles are not in any way complicated and setting up a multi-stage build to cache the expensive parts (compiling C libs, etc.) is fairly straightforward.

> If I need quick hot fix RIGHT NOW, I can't just log in, change couple of lines and restart, must go through full deploy cycle.

Oh my god, just don't do this. This is such an antipattern. If you think you need this you're really doing things wrong. If you need a hotfix RIGHT NOW, you should hit that fancy roll-back button (which containers and their orchestrators make easy..) and then figure out what went wrong, instead of trying to use vim to fix some line of code in production.

> Must remember that launched containers do not close when ssh breaks connection and they can easily linger for a couple of weeks.

Huh? TBH I don't understand why you would be expecting a closed SSH connection to shut it down -- these things are almost always meant for running a service -- but this is a really minor thing.

It sounds like you just don't want to change any of your current habits, not that the habits that containers encourage are somehow worse.
Someone asked for a region where everything breaks all the time.
Actually there is a web version of most of the service and also a native Windows client.
> and get outbid by people with the same skills as you but willing to work for peanuts

More like:

underbid by people whose skills are indistinguishable from yours.

This is the same problem we've always had with remote work. As was explained to me, your salary is paid by someone who can't decide what your value is. If you don't know what something is worth, or in fact for, you might as well get the cheap one.
Yeah. It's funny to think about it. From one side, these companies, we can't deny, provide amazing services to us, and make our lives easier. On the other hand, they collect an absurd amount of data about everything we do on the internet. But that's not the bigger problem, the bigger problem is that they directly or indirectly enforce the production of things that are really bad for us like buying things we don't need, eating things that are bad for us, consuming media that is harmful for us etc. That is the bigger threat. Making money on things without real value and that don't bring any real positive effect to anyone.
> There's a world of difference between "we will notice it" and "we have to be worried about it".

The phrase I was referring to was "have noticeable effects on Earth's biosphere", not "we will notice it". The article explains:

Historically, each near-Earth supernova explosion has been associated with a global warming of around 3–4 °C (5–7 °F). An estimated 20 supernova explosions have happened within 300 pc of the Earth over the last 11 million years. Type II supernova explosions are expected to occur in active star-forming regions, with 12 such OB associations being located within 650 pc of the Earth. At present, there are six near-Earth supernova candidates within 300 pc.

That seems like quite a bit more just seeing something in the sky or seeing a few species get their migration patterns messed up. And re: gamma ray bursts, I do agree they would be bad if they occurred, but you might notice I didn't mention them either. My first worry was about fast-moving particles, which you didn't mention anything about. Why would those not be problematic?

You might very well be right about Betelgeuse specifically, but I'm guessing you're relying on more information because I just can't deduce it from the information I'm seeing.
> Find a way to make money on what you do best: Firefox.

They tried. Pocket and cliqz were attempts at that. Tell me if I'm wrong, but I feel like you weren't supportive of those efforts either.
We had a full `us-west-2` 30 minute network drop-out this week. CloudTrail shows nothing.
Long time coming, long over due.

Sandy Munro (and others) have advocated larger castings for ages. Watch munrolive, autoline and other youtube podcast interviews for ongoing analysis and discussion.

The community interest in unibottle, multivalve (name?), simplified wiring harnesses, large form unicasting, and all the other deepdive innovations is really gratifying. There's been such a huge backlog and now the dam is bursting.

Whatever else I think about Tesla and Elon Musk, this really feels like a sea change.
Neil Young Spends $20k to Disengage Website from ‘Corrupt’ Facebook and Google
Who organizes these welders?

Whose job is it to check the site come up with a safe plan where / before the welders work?

Maybe the welders should have known better, but there needs to be more between total disaster and welding than just some guys with welding tools who probably have little power to say no without consequences ...
I get the business perspective and there really is no disputing this.

> Nobody except tech geeks care about Servo.

This is a good point unless there actually non tech people that care about Servo.
That's about 54k a year just in rent.

The means, according to the standards set by the federal government, the employee should make at least $162,000 in take-home pay.

The fed (Department of Housing, maybe?) guideline is that you should pay no more than ⅓ of your salary in rent.
Which ones?

Boring company, aka, private tunnels for Model 3/S/X (https://electrek.co/2020/07/20/elon-musk-boring-company-tesl...)? It's as much of a public transportation as Uber.

Hyperloop, aka vaporware?
Not as much as TCP issues, but increased API call failure, across multiple services (cloudformation, ec2, rds), yes, on us-east-1. Mind you, still pretty low rate, but enough to notice some pattern.
haha, precisely. It's the primary reason I chose it for our company's projects -- no need for interrupts timing. From a business angle I view lazy code ~== time/money saved!
> This has been their plan for decades,

Democrats controlled the house continuously for 40 years until 1994, due in no small part to gerrymandering. Republican-advantage gerrymandering (on a nationwide basis) dates to only about 2010.
Simulated paleontology is such an amazing field!
I just got back from an AirBnB where I worked remotely for a week and the internet was DSL. It was about 1.5Mbps up and down. Work was still possible. Even group video calls worked.

Uploading and downloading large files was out of the question however. I had to do a lot of work SSH'd into a remote server.

So, 11 to 60 is not great, but still useful.
> when working on a roof a friend of mine did not properly calculate in the effect of an exothermic reaction in a vat of resin exposed to the sun

I see now. The other two were obvious, but roof work seemed counter-intuitive. But if epoxy is used in the process, then yeah, I totally see that. I ended up with a garage full of smoke a couple times from working with more resin than I really needed for my projects.
Entropy decreasing is not equivalent to time reversal.

[Edit: to expand a bit: time reversal requires that some previous macrostate is achieved again. Entropy decreasing merely requires that the system enters any macrostate represented by less microstates than the current one.

Put in more simple terms, the ice cube could reform but in a different shape. Entropy would have decreased, but it would not "look like" time reversal - it would just look like something very strange had happened. ]
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It's just a limited satellite network right now. I suspect bandwidth limitations may be due to limited ground station exposure.
For reference these are LTE category 3 speeds with better than LTE pings. A good start but nowhere near the Gb they've promised. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Amazon launches online pharmacy in India
So it takes two bricks to make one capacitor with the gel between them?
Where are you hearing about them? I haven't personally seen an increase in popularity, but that's not saying much.
Defunding MDN seems like an enormous strategic blunder on Mozilla's part. Its existence and popularity help ensure that developers are writing to the standard, and not just Chrome's implementation of the standard.

This is good for everybody, but in particular for Mozilla because it reduces the chance that people will write things that work on Chrome but not Firefox and then just call it a day.
Doesn't matter if they understand it or not. It's the one and only barrier between you and malicious actors, or you and a monopolist. And oh look there's Google, attacking the one thing that protects the world from their ownership of the web.

People might not understand how a seat belt works, it's still there and we still use them.
Correct, this is why it is reported that China and other nations like Iran are trying to create an alternative currency to sidestep dollar restrictions.
Sounds like you've never worked for a non-profit. Or at least not for a good non-profit.

I have. Your blanket statement, like so many generalizations in life, is wrong.