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On the one side, Apple going into heavy industry sounds odd, on the other side, they don't even seem to try to hide their autonomous driving efforts. This raises the question, what is Apple developing the technology for?
Apple always developed technology for their own products, so if they have an autonomous driving package, they would have to build the vehicle for it. Of course, it might look different from what we imagine when talking about cars, as the iPhone was quite different from what people expected an Apple phone to be.
I guess a car is similar to a cellphone like a car is similar to a cruise ship...
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Yeah right. Except that if you drive around the country enough you’ll find out that speed trap towns are usually small towns with nothing better to do. One pharmacy, a subway, 2 gas stations but 5 cruisers waiting for you to go over the silly 30mph limit imposed right after the crest of a bridge.
I recall doing a few of these conversions on paper in one of the written tests in my theoretical compsci exam.
Seems two hours or thereabouts is the sort of 'standard time' for 8-bit micros to reach a bash prompt. That's been the case for about 10 years.

Nevertheless, that's still a fantastic achievement. And the ARM emulator makes it even more so.
I completely agree but then Tesla came along.
I use AWS Workmail. If you have a personal aws account then it's very easy to setup. The web UI is pretty basic but I just use Apple calendar and Spark for email anyways so it doesn't matter to me.

It's $4/month and you can very easily bring any domain you have registered in route53. They also let you create as many aliases as you want. It also supports both the microsoft exchange protocol and plain SMTP.
But we can’t ignore Apple’s ability to sway people towards their products. Apple fans treat those products like jewellery and Tesla may not be the premium flagship car that it’s aiming to be after a few years
> Windows won't let you delete a file that's still in use, so this scenario can't happen.

Windows lets you delete files which are open all you want, and Windows also lets the application which opens the file prevent that. A lot of things like this are blamed on Windows when it's actually Windows providing options to the application developer, and the application developer choosing to take advantage of options like that when they don't need to.

see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/n... and note in the left side nav that reading, writing, and locking are all separate operations.

(This is a common misconception that I wanted to clear up, and isn't super relevant to the topic at hand.)
lol, fair point... but they can probably hack it remotely anyways...

Are you also of the opinion that you can't buy used phones?
I'd add a video demo in the front page. Without a demo or something in the front page is hard to figure out what it does. Maybe you guys (the team) know it well and the assumptions around it because you are working on it everyday but most people here have no idea.
Kudos - well done :)

If you still like the topic of path finding you can checkout GraphHopper - we always look for contributors :)
Or you should call some old friends. Or hug your kids. Or walk away from the screen and take a walk. Expand your mind beyond IT and rediscover your soul. Explore your spiritual side.

It’s a timeless issue. The year 2020 just brought a few of the elements into sharper focus. COVID is a reminder of what old age will be like. If 2020 is a drag for you, old age will be an absolute disaster for you. If you don’t grow, you’re just yourself in an older body and will live in a worse version of 2020 for the rest of your natural life. Prepping of a different sort is in order.
Net present value of future projected earnings, adjusted for risk.

That last part seems to be missing.

Likely because the smart money knows that retail investors + indices = momentum trading on sectors. As there's no ability for anyone to call BS in the way they used to be able to.

Or to put it another way: if I'm Toyota, I have a demonstrated ability to build cars profitably. If I'm someone who says I can build as many cars as Toyota, how many pitfalls are there between what I say I can do and actually doing it?

Admittedly, corporate conservatism and risk avoidance in leadership is absolutely a thing, but it feels like we're rewarding claims of execution over actual execution.
Google IPO'd at $85 a share with a market cap of $23 billion.[1] Quite a big oversight by Blank to say it IPO'd for under a billion. It is too bad good companies don't list sooner to let the public get some of the gains. I would have liked to have invested in Google pre-unicorn.

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/day-market-history-google-ipo...
We don't have to trade convenience. We have to trade houses for apartments. Cars are largely what make having a house in the middle of nowhere largely possible.
The skills needed to solve these challenges are very different

Indeed. I founded a contactless personalized food production and automation robotics venture in 2016. We tore through specialist and generalist employees alike trying to make progress toward a final prototype. We're now essentially there, but lost the team over COVID, while the investment environment for our technology is currently extremely hot. In taking stock of the situation to move forward, I've realised it's actually a blessing: the skills needed to reach mass-production on a very complex assembly are very different to the skills needed to iterate early and mid-stage prototypes rapidly and effectively. It would have literally been harder - and more expensive - to drag people 'over the line' in to production than to just hire a new team.
I'm glad you're productive in your CLI tool usage but just because it takes you an hour futzing with basic *nix tools doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. Powershell is extremely cumbersome for me due to the sheer verbosity of each command and the apparent MO of "let's come up with a new name for everything" and "sensible defaults? what's that?"
The iCar. I remember reading jokes about vendor lock-in years ago when this rumored. Given their track record, buying this would be simply giving over another aspect of your life to yet another giga tech company.

Die hard apple fans will love it no matter what and no matter what they sell and at what price, they'll buy it.
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Taking your car today to a factory dealer or authorized shop for repairs and servicing is akin to a walled garden. They would use factory parts and factory pricing.

There are lots of reasons why you might want to stay inside the walled garden. The higher the value of the car, the stronger they become.
Apple isn’t a software company. They are a hardware company that focuses on software to showcase their hardware.

They are the opposite of Microsoft which is a software company that makes hardware to showcase their software.

I can’t even run the later safari on a non apple product.
A Pythonic Simulator of the Dynamo Protocol
Take a look at D language library Mir for N-Dimensional array and its comparison to Numpy [1].

Its native performance inside GLAS implementation is something to shout about and even comparable to OpenBLAS that is currently being used by Julia and Matlab [2][3].

[1]http://docs.algorithm.dlang.io/latest/mir_ndslice.html

[2]http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...

[3]http://docs.mir.dlang.io/latest/mir_glas.html
> The private schools that are prestigious (i.e. highly selective) have substantial aid making them very cheap for families who earn under a certain amount.

Have you attended all of the prestigious institutions while needing financial aid? I am familiar with a handful of the programs having been through one and worked with several people that were in others. Some schools are doing a great job enacting need blind admission, others are not.

We are not at a point where the most prestigious schools are "very cheap" to any families* except the wealthiest and the poorest (where it definitely isn't very cheap to afford plane tickets, food with the dining hall shut down, clothing so you don't stick out as being poor, etc.)

* The one exception I'm confident of is Princeton, I've heard their need blind approach is actually well implemented and I've known more than one person that graduated debt free.
What you wrote has no basis in reality whatsoever. In fact, nerve conduction is slower in children than adults due to underdeveloped myelination.
KATE text editor mentions using this as well but I've had so much trouble getting it to work. It has it's own console in the editor where you can use javascript to modify things if you want. Something I still need to figure out but it's just more complicated than I think it needs to be for some reason.
> first mover advantage

Did you mean second? There actually can be a lot of advantage to being the second mover. Nissan had already sold 100000 units of the Leaf between 2010-2014, while Tesla had sold up to that point only 16k cars. Clearly, Tesla wasn't the first mass-market EV. Indeed, it seems obvious in hindsight that Tesla's success owed mainly to ignoring the mass market and selling very expensive cars at first.
I'd love some additional examples of technical problems microservices solve that are unrelated to scaling the organization.

I've mainly come across the occasional one-off where a different language is significantly better suited to the problem at hand, so that has been broken out as its own service, and there's another one here in the comments about migrating a python application between versions (I could argue the semantics of microservice here, but I'll roll with it), but I have not come across many where a microservice was the "right" solution to a purely technical problem.
That is true for sure, and we will have to wait and see. I know Apple has a lot of money but they also have a lot of catching up to do.

Building car companies from scratch is really, really hard.
It's not the CEO that became more effective tho, it's the money.

You can't do a Tesla without PayPal exit level of money, you can't do a PayPal without zip2 exit money and you can't make a zip2 without a real estate agent footing the initial bills

It's financial levers all the way down
> Scheme is the only one o the three that has t.c.e. as a language feature, of course.

Though Common Lisp implementations have been providing it for decades. 't.c.e.' is an optimization feature of various Common Lisp compilers.

> Scheme is far, far more performant than C.L. and that's due to language design choices.

That's not the case.

Actually Common Lisp has a lot of language features which make it performant: stack allocation hints, type hints, inline declarations, compilation semantics, implementation specific feature limits, etc. One of the design goals of Common Lisp was to support optimizing compilers on various platforms.
I thought of it as being 0k as in empty of information. Kelvin is K but I like this interpretation more.
I've seen it happen first hand. I had some stock in a company that was running out of money and having issues raising their next round. They ended up taking a deal with an investor that took a huge ownership stake and diluted the company significantly. To entice the founders not to bail they carved out some additional stock for them, but everyone else got hit by the full dilution.

Ultimately it was the right call from the company survival perspective -- everyone who was severely diluted (including early investors) at least still have something worth more than $0.
Media companies have always had to decide what is misinformation, and is an entire discipline called fact checking to support it.

Now obviously social media is not the same as traditional media, but they have the same reach, and with orders of magnitude less latency and more virality. I'm not sure how you propose the government and legal system can stay on top of this—by the time the courts hear about something weeks, months and years later the damage has been done and the news cycle has moved on.

It's not ideal for Facebook to be the arbiter of truth (and neither do they want that responsibility), but operationally any solution has to be deeply embedded within their systems.
what would be the benefit of this versus a reserved t4g instance on EC2, for example?
Rather you always had a back up generator that would let you shut down everything gracefully in the event of a power outage.

An uncle that worked in that area in the 80s/90s had stories about people who still argued these new fangled journaling file systems were pointless.
Functional language approaches are very neat to encode game rules.
Just define the sets to which a rule apply, define rule -> behaviour maps and then apply. With this alot of procedural/object orientated cruft shrinks down to
one page algo&definitions.

Lua does supply this style, just needs some slight additions.
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> Iphone 1 was far from a commercial success.

I don't think that's true. For example, less than a year after its release, the iPhone accounted for 28% of smartphones sold in the U.S. (and presumably for a greater percentage of smartphone-sale revenue): see https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/02/iphone-owns-28-perce....

And half a year after that, the news was better still: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/10/apple-officially-sur...
By age 2 your brain is ~80% of its final adult size, IIRC. So not sure if this idea is correct (but at the very least plausible and intriguing!).

I think the experience of time has something to do with focus. When you are young, or on lsd, your brain doesn't filter out all the signals and so time "slows down" as you suddenly need to process more. I know this is a well researched idea, just forget the actual terms for it.
It has more to do with Windows services and applications (and even the kernel) only reading file contents on initialization which always happens on a reboot.

Sometimes you can simply log out and log back in, and the requirement to reboot is nowhere nearly as frequent as it used to be, believe it or not, but yes you still have to reboot for kernel patches and core service updates, and there are a lot of those things these days.
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I'll second you on 3. I've been trying to find ways to turn Amazon boxes into either something more compostable or something that consumes less space in my recycling bin.

I ended up with a paper shredder that will shred cardboard, but it's still a pain in the ass to tear up the boxes. I would kill for something like a mulcher than I can just chuck whole boxes into and let it deal with.

I should probably order less stuff online, I know, but the recycling around here sucks. They only pick up recycling every 2 weeks, and the bin is smaller than my trash bin. Despite the fact that I generate a lot more recycleables than I do genuine trash.
My understanding is C3.AI primarily develop notebook extensions to work with data.
When an American friend explained it to me at uni I honestly thought they were trying to trick. It's just such an absurd concept, like how does anyone walk anywhere? Then I realised they don't.
And slowly milling the marine shelf fixed life to flour, whilst dramatically lowering salinity.

Multiple mechanisms.
They have been working in a similar highly regulated space (medical devices) for years.
Be careful about the last part, you might get more than you were asking for.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4344105&page=1
Regarding your third point, I've nothing but distain for bikers in my community. They put up signs to be treated like cars (since there generally are very poor shoulders in this area) but then will plow through stop signs and will not signal turns or anything. Nearly ran one over in a fire truck because they just ran right through the stop sign.
Leichhardt and his team disappeared on one of his later expeditions. Exploring Australia in the early to mid 1800s wasn't for the timid. Quite a few of the explorers of that era never made it back alive. Conditions were harsh. Most of the interior of Australia is desert.

Very brave men. I salute them all.
Does Intra work?
I shoot a lot of pictures. I have Nikon gear due to a chance decision back in the film days after my Pentax K-1000 was stolen and I replaced it with a Nikon FE. With product lock-in, I'm still a Nikon user, although both dSLR bodies I have are a decade old.

Outside of macro and wildlife photography (basically, extreme closeup and extreme telephoto), I tend to use my phone more than my dSLRs. It's smaller, more convenient, and the pictures it takes are 70-80% as good as I'd get on my heavier gear. Well, there's also an annual parade I shoot where I want to be able to control depth of field and trigger some strobes, and I use the dSLRs for that too.

I've been eying a body upgrade, but I can't really justify it. Having one crop sensor body and one full frame, I'd rather spend the money on new, fancy lenses. And the computer-designed lenses really are incredible. I have an 28-300 lens with vibration reduction that is frighteningly good for the range it covers. It has some distortion, but nothing that's not easily corrected in production. And it's very nearly as sharp as some of my pre-autofocus primes.

It seems one of the problems that Nikon (and the other manufacturers are facing) is that the quality of camera gear is just incredibly high across the board. I could spend a few grand to get a body with an extra stop or two, and a bunch more pixels. But I can hand-hold a modern vibration-compensating lens at 400mm down to somewhere around 1/100th of a second and get good results. I don't print large, so I don't need more pixels. Why spend the money?
Didn't they dissolve their car group a couple years back?
Hey, I'm sorry that you're feeling this way. Obviously we don't normally allow it, but if it's helping you in some way to comment like this, I suppose that's alright for a while. I hope you find what you need in order to feel better soon.
I don't think it's fair to characterize such people as
"incapable of learning how to do new things"
if they're not even being given the opportunity to learn.

I'm not saying that the OP should hire these people, or that they would even be good hires.
Maybe they don't want to take the risk or time of training up a new employee.

It just seems like a bit wierd non-sequitur to draw conclusions on someone's learning capabilities based on their performance in an interview outside their usual domain.
> Making electric cars isn't too hard (see Tesla)

I don't know, I think Tesla is a good example of how difficult it is to penetrate the car market as a new company. It took them nearly 20 years to get where they are today, and it's not like that was 20 years of smooth sailing. From what I've read they came close to going under multiple times. Aren't they the first major new US car company to start up and not go under since the early 20th century?

The situation for Apple is certainly different, given their size and the massive leaps in terms of EV tech compared to when Tesla started out, but let's not trivialise the complexity of the task and the inherent financial expenditure and risk.
Tulips were at some point worth about 10% of the world economy.

As they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, so I'm not going to bet against Tesla. However I'd be shocked if Tesla will be a top 5 car manufacturer 10 years from now.
> Two of the attorneys behind Prenda were convicted and sentenced

Thank you. A little heart warming sanity.
It's clear that the Wild West style of the Internet is coming to an end. However, this bill is particularly worrying because as written, it may end up affecting even porn art sites. It seems that there isn't a distinction between porn drawings and actual human porn, so the knock on effects could be huge.

For context, this bill comes following Visa and Mastercard dropping Pornhub as a result of an NYT expose on Pornhub hosting child porn and rape videos. Pornhub then removed all non-verified content from the platform.

Previously discussed on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418862

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378155
Watch to see if they have the notification for News or other apps that show their app install ads which seem to use data, not as much/well as FB, but still tracks users and for sure tracks install conversions
Same thing, really.
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You would typically use five axes for complex parts unless there was a compelling reason not to. Interestingly, as I am buying one at the moment (our first) I had a chance to talk to different machine shops about their different brands here in China. They alleged that foreign dual use export restrictions have resulted in a situation where China's local five axis machines are now both cheaper and more accurate than the available foreign imports (source: major prototyping shop, machine count >20, machine brands 3x, 5 axis count 10+). This was supported by the second shop I visited who also said they will no longer buy imports.
There is nothing to expect because the landing page has no useful information, as the parent comment stated.
I presume MTV changed that. You needed a great video to have a hit song. Hence Duran Duran, A-ha, etc.
So much for Montréal becoming the Silicon Valley for AI. Another Canadian/non-Californian startup bites the dust.
The chance of transmission in a small, quiet deli is significantly less than in a crowded supermarket. Several older residents in our town have switched from the Co-op to the local deli for exactly that reason. Unless you’re going to start deeming what food is essential and what isn’t, then your distinction is counter-productive.
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I don't know about "sinister", I think everyone involved thought they were doing the right thing, but it's historical fact that US jaywalking laws are the result of a deliberate concerted effort by the auto-industry and law-makers. They weren't shy about it. There were announcements and photo-ops and stuff.
Microsoft would love to do these things, but backwards compatibility guarantees prevent advancement a lot of the time.

You would not believe some of the business critical software out in the field. They rely on very obscure bugs being present in order to function, and they sometimes can't be fixed because the source code is missing.

Apple has chosen the opposite path, which is to give the middle finger to long-term backwards compatibility, and advance their operating systems technically.

You can't run an OSX game from 2002 on the Macs of today, but you almost always can run a Windows game from 2002 on the Windows 10 PCs of today.
I am not an astronomer, but I imagine intergalactic dust leaves a distinct fingerprint on star spectra that you can measure.

Also, these numbers always have error bars. They spend a lot of time coming up with sources of error and characterizing them in order to understand the data fully.
This will be fun to watch unfold. A company with no innovative leadership since Jobs will get a bunch of Tesla rejects to build a an electric car with pie in the sky battery tech. If it doesn't need lithium they might have a shot.

Also Apple isn't known for being a machine learning company, I'm sure the car will be very pretty but they're kidding themselves if they think they are making a self driving system that to sell. MobilEye already has that covered quite well.
You can try adjusting the height of the steering wheel? I run into the same issue in my E90 335d, but it's by choice as it's where I like the steering wheel to sit in relation to my seat position.

Very much agreed on the feeling and weight of the stalks. By far the best in the business. Especially for knowing the difference between a lane change vs. turn signal