TM3 owner here. I agree completely that there is a level of hype around Tesla akin to Apple, and along with that comes a polarized audience. I can't change your mind, but I'll provide my anecdotal experience. In our objective search of fully electric vehicles, the model 3 stood alone for us on the 3 most important things in our case, with awd, 310 miles of range, and a mature fast-charging network. On top of that, in our experience, the fit, finish, tight acceleration/deceleration, low center of gravity and polar moment of inertia, and pure joy of driving make it the best car we've owned, EV or not. In our opinion it beats out not only EVs but all cars in the 50k price range.

Add to the above the following positives, and you can get an idea why model 3 owners might be ok dealing with a few negatives.

self driving features, ota updates, top safety ratings, pre-cool/heat interior (and now defrost with v10) from app, regenerative braking for one pedal driving, brake pads last longer, low maint costs, lowering overall tco

Similar to others here but I thought I'd share my way as well (on OSX here, but would work on other Unixes):

Throw these somewhere in your profile:

alias zonemode='sudo mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.zoneback && sudo mv /etc/hosts.zonemode /etc/hosts && dscacheutil -flushcache' alias zoneoff='sudo mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.zonemode && sudo mv /etc/hosts.zoneback /etc/hosts && dscacheutil -flushcache'

Then fill /etc/hosts.zonemode with the sites you want to block:

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

Then make sure your user can run passwordless sudo on those commands and you are set.

love pv, mostly use it for percentage bar on db restores:

pv -f *.sql.gz | zcat | mysql db_instance_name

Your argument is simplistic and one-sided, unless your definition of 'everyone' is 'the HN community'.

Neat, but this idea can only go so far on this planet (gravity, etc). Maybe on our next planet...

This sums it up. Similar assumptions about the human mind are what have led to the current poor state of the US education system. Teaching and learning are not one size fits all.

...and coffee will kill you early, but make you live 5 years longer, and walking down the sidewalk increases your risk of sprained ankle by 20%.

Nicely put, but too utopian for right now. There is still a place for coding skills in many fields where it may have not mattered before, with the ubiquity of computers in workplaces of all types. That being said, I think the 'teach ALL the people how to code' theme lately is overkill.

Too utopian in general, not just right now. The best argument in my opinion for "normal people" learning to program is not so that they can and will instruct their machines, but so that they know how it is done, whether they're the ones to do it or not. It's to instill understanding, so people will have reasonable expectations about their technology, be able to make intelligent decisions regarding it, and not relate to it as magic.

Even if HCI becomes so good that anything can be automated just by asking for it with no human effort involved, it will still be a good idea for people to know why and how it works. And frankly, things will never get that good (people can't even communicate among themselves without misunderstanding, let alone with machines), which makes it important for people to understand what kinds of things their computers can realistically do for them, what they can't, and why that is.

We live in an exciting time. So many ideas haven't seen the light of day because tech like this hasn't hit the tipping point yet. Once it does, the physical creativity of the hackers will be unleashed. Hell, maybe we'll have hoverboards by 2015 after all.

Please... read the original article.