skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it delightful to think of EV charging rates in MPH. The original Leaf tops out at around 24 MPH, while modern Tesla super chargers are 200+ MPH charge rate.
> Funny, as a conservative minority in a straight white liberal company,

What is a "straight white" liberal company? Are you saying you've asked all your coworkers their sexual orientation, or are you making assumptions based on heteronormativity. Dating people of the opposite gender doesn't necessarily make one straight.

As a not-entirely-straight man in tech, I have never discussed my degree of "straightness" at work, but I would be a bit taken aback by someone assuming this.
If someone is bullying online block them or call the police.

Going to parents is probably unwise for a variety of reasons. Possible could solve the issue but more likely will increase the drama without providing any real punishment.
You are confusing radar and lidar I think. True solid state automotive lidar is largely still in a research state. Most 'solid state' lidar sensors actually have very tiny moving parts in the form of MEMS assemblies. Even more delicate than a macro mechanical assembly.

But for radar, correct, those modules are available as a commodity for automotive lifescales.

The general problem is that simple, cost effective radar is low precision while expensive, complex lidar is high precision.
I couldn't help but think "I heard you like orchestrators, so we put an orchestrator on your orchestrator".
I don't know your lived experience. I'm going to try not to doubt it. Maybe your coworkers are toxic and you are trying to talk to them about why low taxes are good because they encourage innovation, and that government-run agencies are not as efficient as private enterprises, and they are screaming the Communist Manifesto back at you.

But in my experience, that's not the kinds of opinions that I see the modern discourse have no tolerance for. Happy to be hear some stories otherwise and have my own mind be opened about the kind of discrimination you're talking about.
Would a curious, wannabe scientist be welcome at the Research Center as a visitor? Is there anything I could actually help with/volunteer on while there?
> Satoshi Nakamoto, a brilliant Japanese software engineer, invented Bitcoin back in 2008, using a blockchain algorithm.

Awesome, I can safely ignore this lazy dimwit.
>the former was at least a respectable, experimentally verifiable theory

One of the major problems with climate science is that it is fundamentally not experimentally verifiable. That almost places it in the category of soft science. Laymen tend to underestimate the uncertainty of the so called consensus. It is a fundamental property of the field of Climate Science. It will not be comfortable in certainty to something like Newtonian Physics until we have non-sparse, direct measurements on a the scale of climate change - including periods on the order of thousands to millions of years.

If you decomposed temperature variations sampled with a suitable rate and period (in space and time) you would find very noisy frequency and period spectra. It's like measuring the waveform of a song. With out current methods we are sampling the last second of a 3 minute song, sparkly estimating points from the rest of the song, and trying to make predictions for future sounds - in 3D.

There is nothing which doesn't suggest that we aren't in a warming period which happens to line up with out estimates of anthropogenic CO2 production, and historic estimates are simply not precise enough to definitively determine that past changes did not regularly occur with the same rate.

All I'm saying is that people need to recognize that doomsday scenarios are absolute worst case black swan predictions, and there is a lot less certainty to this pseudo-settled science than the zeitgeist would allow one to admit. Look at the reception received by anyone who raises critical points - the same pressures bias most literature on the subject.
Tesla doesn't _need_ to raise more money now though. They may do so to accelerate factory buildouts etc, but it's cash-positive.

So a stock crash would be inconvenient, but unless it leads to a shareholder revolt or something, wouldn't really matter.
Great point. That role is for an application developer to help build data management systems for oceanographic data: https://www.bco-dmo.org/
Fingerprint readers have been living under the screen in other phones for several years now.
Toyota's interest may not be in Level-5 autonomous taxis. They have a history of striving to fully understand every part of their supply chain; this could be a play at developing advanced in-house driver assists.

As an example, I was surprised to learn that Toyota designed their own ECU chips rather than buying off-the-shelf automotive grade MCUs until 2019, when they spun that business off to a subsidiary[1]. They really take vertical integration seriously.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-anniversa...
The DoD could 51% attack bitcoin with 1% of it's yearly budget.
I used to fly twice a month, SF<->DC, before 9/11, the seats in economy were not comfortable, and there were no lounges on domestic flights. Maybe in first class, but domestic first class usually is little more than slightly better seats.

This is no way in comparison to train travel. There's no "dining car" on the train. There's no tables for business meetings. There's no 2 to 4 bathrooms per car. Sleeper rooms are much cheaper and accessible than on planes, but sure, you can pay a multiple of $10k for a room on beyond-first-class international flights.

But even if I granted you that in the old days, you could show up 30 minutes before the flight, walk pretty much straight to the gate, you're still ignoring much more time spent getting to the airport, and time spent waiting for takeoff and baggage loading/unloading.

Major airports are generally located outside cities and near water if possible, train stations are usually located in the heart of the metro area. Sure, there are exceptions like Las Vegas, but in general, most people have to spent 45mins-1hr just getting to the airport in the US.

No one's saying you should use train travel for DC to SF. But come on, NYC to DC, or SF to LA is a no-fucking brainer. When you drive from SF to LA, most of Route-5 is straight land on wild open, flat prairie, and the main difficulty is when you hit the mountain range past Bakersfield, which every advanced country, be it the French, Swiss, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, already deal with, on far more harsh terrain.

There's zero excuse for the opposition to high speed rail for regional intercity, except for a stubborn, weirdly political opposition to trains, which George Will kind of outlined (accidentally) in a piece attacking trains as "socialist" but somehow air travel as "non-socialist" despite the fact that the Feds and States have funded aviation infrastructure to the tune of hundreds of billions over the decades.
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Both our kids had stints in an isolation ward being fed/hydrated through a tube with rotavirus at ages around 3-4. They couldn't even hold down small amounts of water for days. I could see how it kills so many kids in developing countries without access to that.
Yeah, the best thing about my M3 is I almost always leave home with a full “gas tank”, even though I’m using the level 1 charger for now: it’s mildly less convenient for road trips, but three to four hours between charges means you can charge while getting lunch and dinner, and it doesn’t actually effect your total drive time all that much (at least, if you’re like me and try to stop every so often anyways).
> People in these EV conversations tend to underappreciate the magic of simply being able to pull into a gas station in “AnywhereTown” with an ICE vehicle, top up the tank in less than 15 minutes, and then drive another 500 miles or whatever.

You are driving EV cars wrong.

> EVs don’t do that. In an EV, you drive for a few hundred miles at best, then you spend 30-60 minutes at a supercharger if you’re lucky

If you do this, you will have a terrible experience! EVs charge ultra fast when the battery is low. You are supposed to drive them down to say 10%, then charge up to around 50% repeatedly. This takes.. 10 minutes. You drive for 200 miles or so, stop for 10 minutes, repeat. It's pretty reasonable to take a 10 minute break every 2.5 hours. On an 8 hour (500 mile) drive, you will charge for 30 minutes or so. You should start using abetterrouteplanner.com

I bet, that when you go on a 500 mile drive, you are stopping that often to use the facilities and get some food already. Nothing changes.

> Because of the above dynamic, EV range figures can be a bit misleading

The corrected dynamic shows that EV range figures are spot on and you lose no time on long drives.

> Tesla’s supercharger stations are also a magnet for criminals — got the feeling I was being cased once at the Austin supercharger. (“The future is already here—It's just not very evenly distributed”)

I have exactly the opposite experience. In my city Tesla chargers are all in good malls, with plenty of people around, and lots of things to do. I've been to far shadier gas stations.

> For people who have access to a regular, dedicated charging outlet at home, or at work, an EV could make perfectly good sense

For sure. A charger at home is necessary. We had a few months between buying the car and getting the charger installed and the change was just astounding.
Ask HN: Opinions on lightweight JavaScript canvas frameworks
I have a simple game in mind, and I've been contemplating just directly using canvas's API. But I don't actually know if I'd lose out by doing so (e.g. frameworks may be able to catch obscure browser specific rendering issues I'd never catch.) There are quite a few frameworks out there, I'm wondering which is best for having a very light footprint, and simplifying some common use cases like image transformations. Would it also not be wise to go with a framework that hasn't seen any development in 3 years?
Disclaimer, I work at TransUnion but the following is based on my experience as a consumer.

Since I’m seeing a lot of confusion about how credit reporting is done and how credit monitoring services work let me break it down a bit. Let's say you are getting a new credit card with Chase Bank. When you apply for that credit card Chase does a hard inquiry on your credit report to decide if you are elligible for that card and what credit limit they are going to give you. If they then issue you a card they then report to the credit bureaus that you opened a new line of credit with them and the limit on that line of credit.

If you have credit monitoring you would get 2 notifications. You would get a notification that a hard inquiry was made on your credit report and a second saying a new line of credit was issued to you. The point of credit monitoring isn't for the bureau to catch mistakes but for you to be aware of activity that could negatively impact your credit score. The bureau has no way of knowing if something was legitimate or not since they only have the information that was reported to them. Credit monitoring does however let you know something major happened to your credit which means you now have the ability to respond to that knowledge.

There are 2 important things to remember, all 3 credit bureaus are legally required to give you 1 free credit report per year at your request. You can get it online from https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action or the FTC has instructions https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0155-free-credit-repor... if you want to request it by mail. I have heard a lot of people suggest that consumers should space out requesting the 3 free credit reports so they get one about every 4 months and use that as a form of credit monitoring. It isn't completely fullproof since lenders aren't required to report to all bureaus so something could show up on only 1 report and not the other 2. The second important thing to know is that bureaus are legally required to allow consumers to dispute items on their credit report. The FTC has a sample dispute letter you can use to file a dispute, but some if not all of the bureaus have ways to file disputes online. As someone else in this thread mentioned these disputes generally require some sort of evidence that the reported item is incorrect.

So say I get a credit monitoring alert that says my address has changed because some creditor reported my information incorrectly. Regardless of any other steps I should get that resolved with the creditor because it will probably keep causing issues. But I could then file a dispute with the credit bureau(s) saying that the address is incorrect which would probably require a bill or something to prove my current address (similar to how some state DMVs prove you are a resident).
I think series EV's with a generator are great and absolutely have their place in the transition to electric. Mazda just announced one for the US.

But! The charge rate on batteries is directly proportional to their capacity (given same battery tech). So a tesla 20 kwh pack would charge 10-80% about as fast as a 100 kwh battery. So I think series-evs would mostly charge at home as a result and get gas while out and about if they need range.
The effectiveness of OPEC (at least since 1980) is a matter of some debate.
That's what's being attempted, essentially.

Autonomous driving in good conditions on highways is already working quite well, but once it's wet/foggy and there are animals wandering onto the roads and other cars are behaving unpredictably... those are not straightforward problems to solve.
Last car I bought - the dealer would allow me to put only $3500 via a CC. The remaining balance was via cash/money order/bank check/whatever.
Well, there are less than 500,000 bald eagles, and approximately 2 billion kids, so 4,000 kids per bald eagle?
Have you looked at sandstorm.io ? I have been looking at it as one of the pieces for “regenerative software”.

I still have no idea how to make a living from this though.
No. I don't think it's in their hands anymore.
> There are costs, as heat or/AC will have to run more to keep the temperature in the right range.

Heat recovery ventilators can largely solve this problem, while also reducing particulate pollution indoors.
Doubling the useful life of the battery is more than marginally useful. Reuse is much better than recycling when you can do it.
> This is where case where it's worthwhile to talk to cops: if there is potentially verifiable evidence of innocence that stands a good chance of diminishing as time goes by.

Might want to think twice about that, you might be replacing one allegedly innocent suspect with a suspect you know for a fact is innocent, yourself.
I had to look it up but for reference in Q1 2021 the big auto makers delivered the following.

Ford: 521,334
GM: 642,250
Toyota: 2.46 million
VW: 2.5 million

If Tesla holds up they'll be larger than Ford in 2 years and be the largest automaker in the world in 4 years.
> It’s made quite clear that my only means of survival are to keep my mouth shut and present myself as entirely apolitical.

That's because most conservative politics is fundamentally opposed to the rights of any given minority group, pretty much via definition.

You're right, I want you to shut the hell up and be ashamed of your views. I want you to not feel free to speak freely about your bigoted opinions.
Isn't that tantamount to making the minimum $15.01? What's the point?
> We make project management, team communication, and email software. We are not a social impact company.

Someone should remind Github.
Yosys and NextPNR are great tools to get a hobbyist started. (Though whether easier than Quartus is very much debatable.) I’ve written about them. I’ve used them. I’ve even contributed to some minor pull requests. It’s a fantastic effort, and I’m happy it exists.

But they falls far short for anything that requires commercial grade work. (Which I’ve done for years.)

The timing driven synthesis is weak. The ability to specify timing constraints is limited to setting a clock speed. There are no cross clock domain timing checks. There are no multi-cycle paths. The post routing timing reports are indecipherable, with most references to internal signals lost. The NextPnR becomes slow to the point where it’s unusable once the design grows in size. The floor plan viewer is barely usable. There is no way to specify placement regions. There’s no way to do ECOs. There are no netlist viewers that tie in to the layout viewer.

The list goes on and on. And most of these items are absolute basic functionality, nothing corner case fancy.

And did I mention the nonexistent debugging features? Let me repeat that again, just to be sure: there is nothing that comes close to SignalTap.

I don’t understand why “bloat” is considered an argument these days. A Quartus installation is 10GB. So what? That’s 1% of my 1TB SSD.

“Do not get yourselves depraved.”

You guys are weird. :-)
Is the letter that the Linux Foundation sent to UMN available to read anywhere?
That’s not “unreliable”, that’s how the engine is designed.
Still lots of debate as to how the immune system works. If we understood it there wouldn’t be millions of people suffering from allergies (some who get it after moving to ‘clean’ western countries)
I note this is the case in the UK too tho: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/debt-soluti...
“Premium Sedan” includes a lot of things. BMW certainly classifies driving performance as part of that. As does Lexus. Mercedes has it’s own performance models.

Now if you wanted to argue that the Tesla Model 3/Y aren’t “Luxury Sedans”, I think you have a point. Not so much for the reasons you list, but because the ride is harsher than the Mercedes. But then, some BMWs have a similar ride so it’s hard to say.
... until the men who woefully find out that there aren't enough women get off the platform and find a ton of available women?

Or until the women find out that all the men are online and figure out that maybe they need to get an account too?

I mean, the numbers are still close to 1:1 so ultimately it should work out if you treat men and women equally.

If you make men pay you are only propagating stereotypes that men should always pay (and indirectly as a result) that men should get more pay, and that men should be leaders and women should be followers. Treat both equally and start we start eliminating these stereotypes. Women can and should be leaders as well in modern society, including in initiating relationships.

I mean, in cave people times, yes, men had roles and women had roles, but this is 2021, and we should be a whole lot more civilized than assuming roles based on gender, no?
I’m arguing against the idea that conflicting sensors is an issue. Clearly you can do no worse with sensors A and B than with just sensor A.

You might want to not have sensor B to lower the cost (as I suggested). Or you might want to have both sensors A and B because the provide some synergies (as gkop pointed out, better range of view, increased confidence, etc.). But it’s definitely not enough to just argue that the sensors may conflict.
To be clear I'm not arguing for or against the merits of any particular policy. I continued with the quota example because that's what started this branch of the thread. I agree the issue is complex, and my one sentence response doesn't do it justice at all.

My point is more that, it should be ok to question current practices; both those propagating societal issues, and those attempting to solve them. Currently on many topics, even slightly questioning the current remedy risks getting one labeled negatively.
It's not a pretty big mistake, it is very intentionally trying to create drama as if this was somehow an unsolved problem threatening Humanity only to then conclude that EV batteries are both heavily regulated and economically valuable.

It's just a fluff tech piece like most mainstream tech reporting.
Conservatives love playing the victim. Tale old old as time.
That's amazing. Wiktionary backs you up on this and compares it to "bla bla bla".

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B2%CE...
No they make a “deal” to integrate with the TV app on the AppleTV. Not to get on the AppleTV.

Yeah I know it’s confusing (not being sarcastic). The AppleTV is the device. The TV app is an app on the AppleTV and iOS devices.
> Many poor people have totally different experiences. My mother, for example, was only able to continue past 4th grade in India because one of her uncles supported her while making her create a budget for the entire school year down to the last pencil. This was while she helped her mom care for her 6 brothers and sisters in a house that didn't have running water or paved streets. She and my dad (who grew up not-quite-so-poor-but-still-pretty-poor) moved to the US and built up a very nice life for me and my sister.

I get what you are saying. I think good luck plays a huge role in escaping poverty and that it rarely gets the thanks it deserves. It has certainly helped me in my life, far more than perhaps I deserve. I grew up, not as poor as your mother, but quite poor by the standards of my country (ditch toilet, rigged running water, etc) at the time. I have no problem in ascribing my meagre success largely to luck, but I can't pretend it doesn't hurt a little when my private-school, politically-connected colleague (and heir to a $20,000,000+ fortune) asks me why I'm not a millionaire and I have to explain that I began by having to unlearn the habits of someone who grew up poor.

> In extremis, do we need to segregate ourselves away from the sensitive group in order to protect their delicate constitutions?

Replace 'poverty' with race, gender or any other form of privilege and then ask the same question. I could argue that poverty is probably the most pernicious of dis-privileges in that if you compared a rich person who was encumbered with every other common dis-privilege (gender, race, religion, gender, etc) they would be likely in a significantly better position that a white, Christian/atheist, cis-male poor man.

> Given that, does that mean that any and every discussion among the people not in that group must be couched in ways in order to not offend the sensitive group? How / where should non-deprived people discuss the best way to play the cards they were lucky enough to be dealt?

I can only give my personal view here - no, I don't think you need to avoid talking about "how to get rich" any more than we need to avoid the topics of race, religion, gender, etc. The BIG problem we have is that we talk about things in absolute terms, and only in terms of what we, ourselves, don't possess or claiming that something we do possess had no impact (and that it was all down to our hard work).

We talk about privilege as a currency, when it is only a tendency, a weighting on the probabilities of life. The lack of privilege is not a prison sentence, but life is much easier if you are privileged and, if you fail or fall, the path back to normalcy is much shorter and easier if you have the safety net that privilege provides.

> The goal posts seemed to have moved from "don't be a dick" to "pretend you're in a support group for X all the time". Is this where we're going?

I hope not. We can only fix these issues by reaching agreement and moving forward. If we start by berating people, that makes moving forward soooo much harder.