I feel for anyone living in the Bay Area without a very high-paying job, but I'm not sure I'm all that worried about the nation's marketing professionals' salaries, as problems go.
The motivating example is a mess. 15_000_000 would have been a less distracting example, as this one has more-visible problems unrelated to the problem they're trying to solve. (Further, with default options, the opening example won't have the result shown: it will crash your program.)
I don't follow. Why is 15_000_000 less distracting? What problems unrelated to what we're trying to solve? And what 'default options' are you referring to?
The motivating examples read like nonsense to me. (I don't really speak Rust, but I think I'm reading them correctly? I don't know.) They seem to be saying that 1 + 1,000,000 = 1,000,000; or 1 + 100,000,000 is 16,777,216? With no remark? That's not right even for 32-bit floats.
vec![1.0; 1_000_000_000] is Rust notation for an array that contains 1.0 one billion times. I can understand it's a bit confusing/frustrating if you're unfamiliar with Rust syntax, sorry.
Unfortunately Honda's been responsible for some questionable actions (along with other cos) in the US in the past (I think it was an anti-repair bill/lobby involving Louis Rossmann). However, apparently Honda US operates semi-independently vs Honda Japan/Global.
(Highlighting this because I'm a huge Honda fan and didn't know of the US/Global separation till I read up. Please correct me if I said something inaccurate, I'm going off memory here.)
The image in the article is of hazelnuts (I originally wrote "stones" then quickly edited it), and it's not a 3-4-5 triangle.
3-4-5 describes the length of each side - if you count the lengths of the triangle drawn in the image (the lines of chalk visible between the nuts on each side), it's only 2-3-4. To get 3-4-5 you're counting the number of nuts on each side, but those aren't lengths - those are the number of points marking the start/end of each unit length.
I see, I think you are referring to the unequal spacing of the nuts on each side, i.e. the side with 5 nuts has them closer together than the other sides.
I thought there was some point being made about the use of nuts vs. some other arbitrary item. Why does it matter they are hazelnuts and not something else?
That diagram represents a length of 2, not a length of 3, see? Here's three:
X--X--X--X
0 1 2 3
It's not that the hazelnuts are somehow imperfectly laid out or are an imperfect representation. It's wrong in principle, not practice (I mean it's wrong in practice too but every representation is).
You didn't miss it. You were focusing on the lattice edges, and PP was focusing on the lattice points. You're both right (except for PP's "No!" which should be "Yes!").
The piccie has nuts at unit lengths and the first line of the article after the very short intro is:
"The artwork references the idea of relating the lengths of the sides of a 3-4-5 right triangle ..."
How on earth did you get 2-3-4 for a right angled triangle! I blame booze, drugs, a late night or perhaps a standard issue: "off by one" (this is HN after all) ...
Sounds like they would have been able to sell more cars to Hertz.
Depending on when they negotiated the relevant stuff, Tesla might have thought they needed to contribute more to the deal to sell even the cars they ended up selling already.
Solar power production patterns don't make energy free. Normal pricing mechanisms apply. This can mean that something has a zero or negative price sometimes (this occurs in electricity markets today), but that is an unusual circumstance. Usually when something is available due to some sort of regularity in the world, people find uses and this drives the price up to some positive value.
