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Drunk post : I live in Europe where cities are more pedestrian/public transporation friendly so I am biased but still, Ok, I couldn't afford a Tesla unless I ask the bank for money that I will have to reimburse over at least ten years (oh wait the bank won't give me that sum anyways) so my thinking is :
You bought an 100,000$ car so you can spend that sum on a car so you probably can spend 20,000$ on a repair years later. I get it it's overpriced but what you're paying for is not having to care on how/when it is fixed, you just call the number. Same reasoning if you have Apple hardware. If you're in the situation where you spend that sum on a car but you can't afford those repair prices you might have made a litle "caprice" just as my roommate who wanted a car and now is spending a thousand euros on his shitty second hand car each year (parking, insurance, repairs) which he can't afford. He should have stuck with freeriding public transportation imho.

My point being : Yeah Luxury is overpriced but that's the point. If you can't afford having status symbols, don't.
I certainly agree that many countries (US & UK included) should be investing much more in rail, but there is the pesky problem of rails and land to put them on - it's very expensive, and takes a lot of time.
>A brief taste of freedom may be more cruel than kind,

The logical conclusion of this line of thinking is that it's least cruel to keep all people in solitary confinement rather than remove a single freedom.

That's obviously asinine.
Gitlab: Praefect repository sync can introduce database record corruption
You mean the X86 BIOS? No.
“Race” is a shorthand unmoored from its pseudo scientific origins with plenty of people discussing the usages & meanings of it and how people & identities, self imposed or not, relate to it. You may have heard of things like eg “intersectionality”.

“Racialist” criticism is almost exclusively a universalist French concept. It isn’t entertained outside continental Europe, and is already being challenged within by the children of African & Caribbean immigrants who were previously kept at arms length in the colonies.
I enjoy working for a company that realizes we'll never have the entire market and is fine with the fact that there is plenty of space for multiple competitors to do well.

I've been at companies where "we want to be number 1, win all the awards, and defeat the competition" and I get where that comes from... a certain amount of that is healthy, but it can also get very twisted. I'd rather not.
F# and Ocaml are good examples from my limited functional experience.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2177110/in-f-what-does-p...
No. The only time I was sent off to get certs was when customers demanded that {x} percentage of staff have one. Even then my certs were never questioned in interviews nor did any hiring managers ask about them in later positions. They were more interested in experience and knowledge.
Do you have a structure to your update emails? And from your experience, what shouldn't be included in an update email?
They're both bad, and the comparison points out why the parent comment had a garbage argument. Being able to swindle many sets of employment laws is not the same thing as "being good"
Can we get a arewep2pyet.org ? Maybe the wait would be more bearable ;)

Or if you prefer threats: "If I die from covid before matrix p2p is a thing, my ghost will haunt you for evar!".
Please stop with the ad hominems here.

That is a relevant point (especially earlier in the pandemic), but it is decidedly not the issue at hand. Hospital beds are one of many issues at the moment. If we had more beds, that wouldn't alleviate the shortage of medical staff, for example. It also wouldn't solve the core issue at hand: a large percentage of the population is not willing to get vaccinated, despite an unimpeachable argument to do so.
> There's no reason, whatsoever, to have immigration tied to where your mother happened to be physically located when you came into the world. It's meaningless.

It's to avoid people using passports of convenience to game the system.

> He's been in the India backlog for a decade.

Truth is, a lot of that backlog is self-imposed. H1B are supposed to be for real employment for a specialty occupation. There are "Body Shops", mostly Indian owned, that will submit fraudulent applications to import cheap underqualified labor in the country. [0] [1]

If the people working at these body shops or their owners simply decided to start following the law, this would clear the backlog almost instantly.

> What the US needs is top-down immigration reform and a points-based program like Canada and Australia. Those countries get to cherry-pick the most skilled immigrants and the most likely to thrive in their new homes.

And yet how does it explains the brain drain these two countries have towards... the US!

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/silicon-valleys-body-s...

[1] https://cis.org/North/Indian-Body-Shop-Indicted-Abuse-H1B-Pr...
> That's what the cap is for.

Yes, but it selects for the wrong things. It's an axe when you need a scalpel.

> Almost every week there's a thread with Canadian Engineers whining about low pay. How are these out of control immigration quotas helping them out?

What on earth do you mean "out of control" lol. That's a value judgement you made that you're projecting.

Canada has low inequality. Most people are paid roughly the same amount - in line with much of Western Europe. The US is closer to PNG, the Philippines, Turkey and Madagascar. You can't have low inequality and high pay for one group. [1] Canadians value that. You don't, and that's ok too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
I'm not here to defend the patent system. But in general, patent lawyers are your guide to that system. If you don't trust your lawyer's instincts, by all means get a second opinion! But don't just ignore their advice.
"Of course they're entrepreneurs. They have to own or finance a car."

When we were taught business in school, it was about setting the price, hiring staff, choosing a target market. You know, thigs that make a business a business.

I am willing to bet my house that there isn't a single business or economics testbook where maintaining a car is even a consideration.
We are patiently waiting for Floridamen to start participating in public health. Until then we will continue the precautions. Eventually enough people will die and they will come around.
Elixir and OCaml mostly use a forum and it works well. Everyone can read it, it's easy to post on it, it's easy to moderate it, and it's great when you want to search for things. I don't think microblogging and instant messaging are what an open source community needs.
Xiaomi starts blocking phones in export-restricted territories
Tesla was and remains a luxury car. I don't think the Model 3 changed that. It's competition for BMW or Mercedes, not Toyota. Luxury vehicles are notorious for their long-term dealer driven maintenance costs. What Tesla has over its luxury competition is likely more reliability and less of those costs. But the same "you have to get it done at the dealer and it's gonna milk you bigtime" philosophy seems to prevail.

I don't think it's intrinsic to EVs, is what I'm saying. But more to how Tesla has positioned themselves re: market segment.

e.g. the Chevy Volt is now in its 10th year and only now are people starting to have real difficulties with gen-1 10 year old Volts and battery packs and getting GM to service and replace them. Prior to that it was just smooth sailing. Most are not seeing serious degradation and the warranty has been excellent on them up to 8 years or so. A third party market is building up around older Volt battery servicing in some cities, despite not many Volts having been sold.

I think it's entirely feasible we will see the equivalent of a fully electric Toyota Corolla in the next 5-10 years. I don't think Toyota will make it though.
The most comprehensive, non-biased source on critical theory (the parent theory of CRT) is from the SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

Critical racial theory (CRT) is a Marxist based theory that views everything as a racial conflict that can't be (fundamentally) resolved. White people will always be racist against non-Whites, anything and everything is entrenched in racial conflict, and even innocuous actions and conversations are a part of that racial conflict. CRT specifically is guilty of a literal black and white viewpoint.

I find the theory illiberal, poorly supported and a mess of badly defined unclear terms including it's basis of racial identities.
> It feels a lot more like killing someone rather than something. I guess that sounds silly.

No it does not. Animals and fish are sentient beings with their own set of perceptions, feelings, thoughts, desires, and more.

I do not think there is a defensible way to consume animals if you're living on above-poverty wages in a developed country and don't have some extremely rare health problem.

Killing is problematic (ending a life prematurely), but worse yet is the experience animals have on factory farms.

In your case of hunting your own fish seems less morally problematic than most animal consumption, but I understand the sentiment of "do I really need to eat that when there are plenty of non-sentient alternatives". Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
That might be relevant for the overall reliability of Teslas, but it's not relevant to how enjoyable the experience is of getting work done on a Tesla.
Updated to clarify that it is the time it takes to learn and the upkeep over time that I find not worthwhile.
I think libraries are just as relevant as languages, and dplyr’s pipes are wildly popular and (more to the point) even idiomatic R at this point.
> Without order liquidity, it is infeasible to maintain supply. Which company (or person) would stand ready to ride just in case an order came thru once every 4 or 5 hours?

The only solution here is if the ride is absurdly high, to the point where you break even with drivers in the nearest high-population city, which people also don't want since they'd be paying multiple hundreds of dollars for a ride. At that point, people will just get a car.

The issue with uber is that it's compensating for a lack of public transportation that takes you exactly where you want to end up at (or public transportation at all in most of the U.S.). Maybe the only way car-on-demand is profitable is if (A) we get self-driving cars, or (B) the government creates their own system with lower fares and runs it at a pure loss with no profitability in mind.
Unless you actually get duped into using XScale, Zephyr, Edison, etc....
Folks in the HN community - there is no good reason to downvote/flag OP's comment here, it's clearly not violating any guidelines. Please do not reflex-downvote out of a sense of casual moral outrage, as it's only hurting the community's stated goal of having thoughtful discussion.
Setting up an incentives structure for racing to the bottom is still more blameworthy than reacting to the incentives by racing to the bottom. It's a question of relative power: being in a position to even be able to set up incentives for others is inherently a position of power.
Agreed. Constraints (primarily in this context immutability) are invaluable.

Writing functional, immutable style in Python is handy but can be maddening when you never know what to expect from libraries.
Yeah, I thought the author might mean "some of you may be under the impression that the primary appeal of functional programming is it's weirdness. However, that is not the case."
The easiest and clearest way to resolve it would be to say "unpopular" rather than "not popular", although arguably they don't mean exactly the same thing.
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> It's to avoid people using passports of convenience to game the system.

Yes I'm sure people looking to immigrate to the US are checks notes becoming British Citizens. A country with notoriously difficult immigration requirements. Citizenship requires 5+ years in most instances to obtain (with a few small exceptions). Generally speaking all first-world countries have stringent rules.

> Truth is, a lot of that backlog is self-imposed. H1B are supposed to be for real employment for a specialty occupation.

I'm not sure that's what self-imposed means.

> And yet how does it explains the brain drain these two countries have towards... the US!

Immigration to the US is effectively suspended. [0] These days those folks are going to Canada. [1]

'"While the States has gone, 'Let's make it difficult to get the employees here on a visa,' Canada's gone the exact opposite, and it's beneficial for Canada," says Alex Norman, the other co-founder of TechToronto. "You had a fast-growing ecosystem here that's been getting a shot of steroids."'

That's what it looks like when you hang a "NO VACANCIES" sign in the window.

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/s...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799402801/canada-wins-u-s-los...
Question about these battery replacements: Is Tesla crediting the user with the value of the battery being replaced? That battery has a boatload of perfectly functioning cells that I believe Tesla already uses for powerwalls and grid storage.

It's directly in the swim lane of the entire battery recycling/full use lifecycle conversation.

There's going to soon be a very healthy aftermarket in people adapting tesla batteries for bespoke projects and electrifying classic car chassis. People are scooping up salvage Teslas right and left for this stuff.

I'm wondering how shady the service is being. "We have to replace the battery for 22k", OK do I get to keep the original battery component?
Again I see this strange idea that insects don't feel pain. Ants express pain much more actively than mammals, they don't cease to move after receiving injury.
most total annihilation units couldn't shoot past each other, the one who could where large, slow, fragile or otherwise unable t effectively blob due high weapon spread or vulnerability to splash damage.
> I never heard of that ...employers cannot control what you do in your spare time.

If you are self employed, you might not get the same contract. In our contracts, what has been discussed in the thread was clearly stated by our employer (I asked my colleagues about their older contracts as well).
Tesla releases FSD Beta 10 – bird’s-eye view, testing videos, updates
It’s a reductio ad absurdism, I’m not saying everyone has potential cancer, I’m saying that sometimes protecting your health isn’t convenient or fun. The idea is that it is temporary.
Technology giant Olympus hit by BlackMatter ransomware
I find functional programming reasonably straightforward to learn but difficult to master.

For example, this Common Lisp cheat sheets covers a large part of the language and isnt hard to follow

https://github.com/ashok-khanna/lisp-notes

I was doing some Haskell and Racket and I found basics not too hard to learn, but I did then too hard to master, but I think thats to do more with the complexities of the problems I tried to solve and less to do with the languages themselves
Is the complete example (ie, a git repo or the python file) linked anywhere in the blog post?
Again, Rust hasn't adopted Amazon's principals. It has adopted a mechanism used by Amazon by which it can define its own principles.

The tenets of the team I work on are stuff like 'treat every customer like your best friend on their worst day'. And 'learn something new every day'. They are tenets of a team in AWS, which makes them (to some extent) 'AWS tenets'.

Are they somehow nefarious because there are people who don't trust anything that remotely relates to Amazon? Or are they innocuous statements of intent that are applicable to most companies?

You don't have to like or trust Toyota to use Andon cords. You don't have to like or trust McKinsey to use the 7-S framework. You don't have to like or trust Motorola to use Six Sigma. You don't have to like or trust Amazon to use 'AWS tenets'.
The pipeline operator |> exists in Elm[0]. It is available in bash as & and the popular (in my limited experience) package flow[1] also implements it as |> for readability. It is a proposed addendum to Javascript[2] but I have no idea how seriously the JS powers-that-be are taking that.

The example you gave of Python doesn't have tagged union. I really don't know much at all about Python so maybe the type checker can tell you that you're handling all the cases, but with tagged union types you can have to handle every possible output of `str_if_zero` when calling it. That doesn't have to be an FP thing but I only find it when doing Elm and Haskell in my experience.

[0] https://elm-lang.org/docs/syntax#operators

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/flow

[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country.

My understanding is that there's one province (Quebec) that select it's own immigrants (quotas are per province).

They can't force anyone to stay so they tune their selection algorithm to match profiles that are most likely to stay.
genuinely curious, has there been any evidence in the past of large corporations decreasing the quality of programming languages that they have influence over?
I'm self hosting Ghost for blogging, Home Assistant for smart home controller, and in the middle of setting up Vaultwarden for passwords. I also run a lot of stuff off my Synology - Synology Drive instead of Dropbox or Google Drive, Synology Photos instead of Google Photos. I don't have a great solution for email or phone - emails is paid hosting through Zoho and use Android for phone. I'd like to get off those. It's all a long drawn out process.
That must be ridiculously expensive compared to using a generic tire fixing shop?
Did not know that, my current shop is all-in on Atlassian so I'll have to check that out
I remember reading in Reader's Digest back in the 90s that some people who had the small furry pigs as pets found out they could open the refrigerator even if they taped it shut or put a latch on it. If they put the latch up high, the pig would push a chair over and climb up there! Can't find that article, but here's some supporting evidence of their intelligence:

https://www.superpages.com/em/basics-pot-bellied-pig-care-fe...

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/other/cunning-pig-in-china-...
That's not true at all. Plenty of people run lifestyle businesses whose goal is to support themselves and their families, friends, and employees. One example is Aquarium Co-Op [1] who is into promoting the aquarium hobby in all its facets. Cory, the owner, is very frank about the costs of running his business and how he often sells products at or below cost because he believes they're important to the community. A far cry from big tech companies seemingly bent on world domination.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/Aquariumcoop
It is preventative though, it prevents the cancer from progressing and metastasizing.
There is no link for the 4th story, but it is on the same site as the 5th story. This link lists all the stories as there are some other very good ones there.

https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/
Just wait for those "store-only" versions of windows to grow in distribution, then Microsoft touting store policy for not allowing Firefox in the store...
I feel like your first and second paragraphs are directly at odds. It's not about "solving puzzles" and you decry cleverness and complexity, but you also think we should persist for joyous "a-ha" moments and brain-bending?
Is C++ Still Worth Learning? Absolutely
Not really. On the one hand, the distinction between morality and ethics, in common parlance, is nonexistent, so for all intents and purposes, they are the synonymous. But ethics is better understood as the science of practical reason. Sadly, a relativist view of ethics has taken hold. But ethics depends on human nature. What is objectively good for human beings? This is natural law theory ethics. It has nothing to do with laws or rules of government or anything else. Those, in fact, depend on ethical principles and prudential judgement which is the virtue of effective and and good practical judgement and action.
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I ran into this out of touch out of place person at a party recently, good conversation, he asked if I had a business card (no), then he tried to be trendy and asked if I had a Facebook (don't have that either)

He didn't know how to find himself on LinkedIn

We aren't in touch
The article isn't really about regular maintenance or other Tesla cost-of-ownership issues. It's about older Teslas that are out of warranty and the sometimes extremely high repair costs that come with battery replacement and repair, which are especially expensive due to Tesla service practices (replacing the entire battery).

It seems like Teslas (and other EVs) have a different typical cycle of costs than typical ICE cars. In the ICE world, maintenance and repair costs start fairly low, then become moderate, and eventually moderate to high ("I'm tired of throwing a couple grand at this car every 6 months, I'll just put that towards a new car", says the American consumer). EVs start with incredibly low cost maintenance, then continue with incredibly low cost maintenance, and then even more low cost maintenance ... until WHAM! the battery bill hits.

This isn't really a surprise to folks who have been paying attention to electric cars, but as more and more people go EV, it seems newsworthy to point it out, as well as to encourage Tesla to play nice with third-party repair shops.
YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording
I use hexo. It’s node and not super popular, but it does what I need and I’ve built my workflows around it so alost everything is done by cli (bash, imagemagick and hexo).

It can be seen here:

https://chrisbergeron.com
I’m not good at analogies I guess. I’ll come up with a new one.
Disease control, livable conditions, worker safety to name all I could think of.
I wish I was joking, but those folks often don't make it into the "early-stage" cohort because they don't get the simple routine healthcare that would allow for early detection/diagnosis
Customers love Uber for the same reason they loved pets.com: the prices are artificially low. A fair comparison between Uber and traditional taxis hasn't happened yet because Uber is hysterically unprofitable.
Please consider the power dynamics here. The HN community owes no favors to FB or FB former staff. When a former FB staff member logs on to post the kind of response they posted, community members may stand up and call them out on their trolling. I accept the consequences of my behavior (as my comments arguably violate HN guidelines), and am open to learning more about the FB’s behavior, from good faith commenters on both sides.
Yes, JACK2 in async mode will add 1 buffer's worth of latency. But that's only for async mode; sync mode or JACK1 adds zero latency.
Not sure why you are being downvoted (maybe the "I'm a slightly above average programmer").

I think you are entirely correct, FP is both more suitable to certain type of people and to certain types of problems.

I've used FP in some situations and loved it, and had to grapple with FP code that was utterly incomprehensible because the person that produced it seemed more interested in showing off what he could do with FP rather than actually getting the job done (or producing efficient code, for that matter).
Recursion is great for recursive structures, like trees. When you say "a binary tree is either a leaf, or a node which is a value and two binary trees", it's really easy to imagine how you will use a recursive function on it.
I assume it's because C compiler output is deeply intertwined with the host operating system as a whole.