skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When was the last time that happened? GM is pretty fond of rebadging Korean cars, but I can't recall the last time they did it with a Japanese one.
Apple asked for and got exemptions to the 30% rule.
No, you made that up. There has been no decline.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car...

We’re going to add another 2 billion people and the world is getting richer. What do you think that will do the car sales?
Toyota figured out the Hybrid tech and then licensed it to everyone else, if I remember correctly.
All of those, plus "smart grid" stuff to get better control over demand, plus Power to Gas (electricity to methane) and gas turbines (very inefficient, but existing infrastructure can store huge amounts of energy, and efficiency isn't the primary concern for the exceptional case).
Study shows Indians are high-earners in UK, second to Chinese ethnicity group
I use KeeWeb[1]. Works well, it's able to sync the encrypted database on many cloud/web services, and it's based on KeePass. So even if the app stops being updated or even exists, I remain in control of my password database and can switch without having to convert anything. I use KeePass2Android[2] as well, which can be set as an AutoFill provider.

[1] https://keeweb.info/
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...
Wikipedia says "was a member of the Unix team". Not completely sure what that implies.
Rivals have collaborated on platforms before. (For instance, Mitsubishi and Chrysler)
Set up a VPN for that with Vultr. $5 a month, that's okay for me.
Wow, didn't expect this. Good catch.

They underestimated the volume of olivine rock about 3 times, which means that its mining would cost about 15% of the overall cost of mining of fossil fuels, assuming current prices of olivine rock and crude oil. This is a very rough estimate that doesn't take into account several factors, most importantly economy of scale.
Build enough batteries and hydro to last for a few hours to a few days and use power-to-gas for longer periods of low generation (e.g. winter and no wind). There is already infrastructure in place for strategic gas reserves. We just need to build additional gas plants to meet demand when wind and solar are at production minimums.
It’s actually an interesting concept. As a naive buyer I might think that lower MTBF is better and represents and improvement in product specs. However in this case it clearly comes at a cost of reduced reliability, since there is no backup. However “reliability” seems the same as “MTBF” to my naive brain, so I’m struggling to resolve this apparent paradox.
Makes perfects sense to me. Building a solid campaign takes a lot of thought.

You've gotta have a mix of storytelling, refereeing, and logistical skills to run an immersive game -- and that takes effort to learn. If you're going to spend a few hours prepping for a game, using specialist skills, why not charge for it? Add-in expensive models, scenery, etc. and there is a cost to recoup

Likewise, if I'm a busy player, why not drop some cash for a fun, immersive with a pro, rather then a random friend-of-a-friend-DM game, aka Neckbeard Larry's Elf Fetish Campaign?
Where do you think the plants' nutrients come from in those growing methods? Petrochemical plants also set to run out of resources. You're adorable.

Look at permaculture food forests and how they rebuild topsoil. While we still can.
OT but the picture of the gigantic machine is a bagger 288. An engineering marvel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288?wprov=sfla1
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Um, in the link you give, it shows that car sales have not grown in the past 2 years.
We see this A LOT in our implementations.

We sell & implement a project management financial metrics tool (supporting earned value analyss; google if curious). A key input is always the actual costs of work done, which has to come from the financial system of record.

A horrifying amount of the time, the actual path is through goofy undocumented Excel sheets, because nobody knows how to extract it natively from $FinSys.
> you can still ptrace an application on startup

You can only ptrace an application when you are its parent. Modifying system-wide desktop files is a privileged operation and flatpak's filesystem namespacing prevents applications from messing with the launchers in your home directory.

> Messing with environments variables and shell files.

Not when you don't have access to their home directory and all your file accesses are via XDG portals.

> You can change a user's entire shell

There are a number of access controls preventing this. First, modifying a users passwd entry is a privileged operation and using `chsh` requires the user's password.

> replace a user's compositor with a customized one

The compositor is the security boundary. Of course if you replace it the model is broken but if you have a POC where a program running as the user can change a users entire compositor to a malicious one I would love to see it.

GDM launches your session and is outside your control as an unprivileged user and if the compositor dies so does your session. You can't 'swap' it and your malicious compositor can never be shown as a choice in GDM since those preferences require root to modify.

> SELinux...

SELinux isn't designed to stop you from calling sudo. But it does make sure that the scope of a what compromised application running as your user is limited. It's not directly related but MAC is a piece of the puzzle.

> if not all of the important data will be in the user's home directory

Yep, which is why apps won't have access to it except for the files the users chooses to give the application via a system dialog.
> Mozilla Firefox

Depending on what you mean by "in some future update" and "pretty much guaranteed" (given an infinite timespan everything will disappear) I don't think that's true. I've kept my Firefox user.js (my manual about:config changes) under git over the past 3 years[0], and of the 44 options that I customised, 36 are still present and (seem[1] to be) active.

6 of the about:config user_prefs customised add-ons, so they no longer work due to the shift to Webextensions (but I can still make 5 of the customisations via another interface).

1 customised the GCLI, which was removed, and 1 customised Panorama, which was also removed. (However, most of what GCLI did, can be done some other way, and there are a couple of Webextensions faithfully emulating Panorama.)

[0] The file is older, but I added it to git only three years ago. Hence, many of the about:config changes have been "alive" for longer, but I have no record of those that were removed earlier than 3 years ago.

[1] Cursorily glancing through my comments above each entry to make sure that it still does what it was supposed to.
I've been using Blender 2.80 as a daily tool since it hit alpha, having started in the industry with the pre-release of Maya beta 4 in 1996.

I'm tempted to start with a snarky comment like "only 19 years to get left-mouse select?" or "Microsoft shipped a Linux kernel before Blender got left-mouse select" but the fact is 2.80 is a huge UI improvement.

At this point, the UI is merely a bit odd, as opposed to inconceivably terrible. If you are a hobbyist or have only occasional need for 3D editing, Blender should absolutely be your go-to tool today. At this point it's no harder to learn and not significantly quirkier than Maya or 3ds Max, it's just different.

When the last major Blender UI update came out (something like 2.64? I can't remember) I recall saying "one more round of UI improvement like this and I'd consider starting my next studio pipeline around Blender rather than Maya." That was about 6 years ago. Today I'd consider building a studio pipeline around it but probably decide against, though one more round of improvement like 2.80 and I'd definitely start a studio on Blender over Maya which hasn't advanced significantly in more than ten years. 2025 FTW!

I haven't pulled down the RC yet (I'm still on the most recent beta) so this might have changed in RC but if you are considering shifting from your 3D editor of choice to Blender, you'll want to know that parenting relationships are still needlessly buried but accessible[0].

[0] https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/127105/the-outli...
I only have a German source: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/braunkohlewirt...

> Der Bundesverband Braunkohle wies auf Anfrage darauf hin, dass seine Unternehmen auch für Beschäftigung bei Zulieferern sorgten und spricht von insgesamt etwa 50.000 Arbeitsplätzen.

> The German lignite coalition pointed out on request that their companies also provided employment for suppliers and speaks of a total of about 50,000 jobs.

Of course all of those jobs are concentrated around the mines. For those communities closing the mines is hard. But imho getting rid of lignite ASAP and just giving the affected people as much money as they got from working is the right way forward.
There's definitely a vicious cycle of outrage and controversy inflation that pushes people to become fascists simply because that's what gets clicks. They then try to say they didn't mean it, but that has the problem that they sold their entire channel on the basis of "authenticity".

Similarly the demand for sex work appears insatiable, especially if it can successfully pretend not to be. Someone mentioned Jennicam, which may have been broadcasting before Belle Delphine was even born.

Only external braking factors can reduce this. The thing that stops youtubers from going all the way up to snuff films for the clickbait is the moderation and risk of getting banned. Something to think about for those that think it should just be an entirely neutral platform.

Youtube, by paying these people, has been the invisible hand that's called them into this role.
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I'm not 100% sure I understand all of what you're saying.

Generally if you disable updates, you disable them all, so that means security updates too. If a given update isn't a security update and you disabled all updates ... you're still going to miss it if it was a security update too.
From a car companies standpoint, good enough for many people to want to buy and use them is threshold, not good enough that you feel comfortable.

Being what I would consider a beta tester for self driving cars seems a silly risk. But, people also pay lots of money driving vintage cars without modern safety systems which seems insane to me.
> the vi of 3D modelling

> I think it is the only program for which I had to Google how to close a window

Jokes aside, the UI really isn't that bad and they removed most of the little gotchas in 2.8 (e.g. left-click is used for selection now). I would say the UI is quite a bit better than a few other popular 3D modelling applications like Maya, but worse than Modo.
I almost cracked the org-mode code. Almost. Used it for some sheets but now I only use it for my journalling. Hopefully it will keep the embers hot until I decide to pick it up for real again.
> Needn't be the case -- Apartheid South Africa comes to mind, or English-occupied Ireland.

Which of these are supposed to be instances of local control? The first is where the majority of the local population didn't have the franchise, the second a central government imposing its will on local people.

> And in the case I'd illustrated, it was local businesses running the postal franchise who were discriminating, not (just) the local government.

How is that worse than when it's the central government getting it wrong, where the equivalent would be a federal prohibition on anyone delivering packages to black people anywhere?
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Bloomberg made it up[0]. It's mostly true of the US, though.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-28/this-is-w...

EDIT: More specifically on car sales, they do mention a decline in China: "IHS sees the biggest impact of mobility services coming in China. Auto sales there plunged 18 percent in January, an unprecedented seventh consecutive monthly decline, as commuters rapidly embraced ride-hailing."
That the German manufacturers were subsidy chasing production dilitantes did help neither. But yes, politicals played a role. Still do in solar to this day.
I use Pass between Linux and Android with a NFC equipped Yubikey. I've never had trouble syncing but then, it's git+ssh so no great mystery there. I guess my only complaint is that I wish Android had some kind of centralized SSH support, every self-hosted styled app does it differently (keys, connections, etc).
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Um, in the comment you're replying to, his claim was that car sales are not 'rapidly declining', which is still true if they are plateauing.
Does it need to be a desktop app? Why not go the web based approach?
> ...AArch64 support for the Raspberry Pi soon, especially since they have launched the models with larger amounts of RAM...

1 TB RAM supported by 32-bit ARM is not enough? I don't think increasing process virtual address size is the most pressing need at this point. Although it would help with things like WebAssembly, and anything else that benefits from mapping a lot of stuff in the address space.

The myth that you need to have 64-bit to access more than 4 GB RAM seems to still be very strong, despite not being true for a long time on modern x86 (since Pentium Pro in 1995) and ARM platforms (since LPAE designs, like 2013 Cortex A7/A15, etc.).

Of course I'd also like to get AArch64 on RPi4, but for entirely different reasons. To support double precision NEON SIMD and to get more registers to help Cortex A72 core out-of-order engine to keep the execution units busy. More registers helps to reduce dependencies, giving OoO more freedom to rearrange instructions for optimal execution.
There is precedent for requiring seat belts and air bags. It probably needs an order of magnitude better, but if that can be shown all new cars will be self driving by law.

Note that the ban isn't on all cars on the road, it is all new cars. 15-20 years latter it will come to all cars when human driven cars are mostly collectors items anyway. Until then self driving cars will need to deal with humans.
How much does 3d Studio max cost? I haven't used it since the 90s so even the name might have changed. I thought it was thousands.
AgileBits has been pushing people to the 1Password subscription model for a long time now by neglecting their "lifetime" desktop customers.

The 1Password chrome extension (not 1Password X) used to work great, then it started crashing about daily for me after one of the updates, forcing me to quit Chrome to fix it. The final straw was when they "updated" the extension to a design that looks 2 years old and is far less functional.

I finally gave in and tried out the subscription model. Here's why it's worse:

- The 1Password X extension is standalone (doesn't need the desktop app) so when you have three different Chrome profiles as I do, you have to sign in to 1Password 3 times. Super annoying.
- They force me to store my data with them. Sure they're the most trusted in the industry and do their security audits, but if they get breached, I'm fucked.
- The Command + \ shortcut to autofill and login doesn't work on 1Password X
- They could have just said that their current business model wasn't achieving the goals and that they needed to charge more (I would have paid more/for a subscription) but instead, they beat around the bush by creating a new product that is inferior.

I no longer recommend them to others for password management. I tell friends and family to use iCloud now.
This kind of thing is totally expected. I am surprised by so many negative comments and that shows that many HN folks are still on mainstream dogma and suffer the tunnel vision provided by the authority with its own agenda.

This is basically form of immunotherapy - most important thing for cancer is to evade immune system. Anything that triggers it in vacinity can have cleaning effect. In Japan you can get colly vaccine for example (intentional bacterial infection). In history, there are number of example of remissions after serious infective disease (in this case not so serious).

Its so obvious that it hurts me that people fail to see it. What is not obvious is what agent will do this.

It also makes one wonder weather certain vaccines actually promote cancer given that those vaccinated quickly clear future disease so infective agent doesn't have time any more to trigger the appropriate immune response (I am not in antivac camp, this is only logical)
I don't know why you're being down-voted - this is the answer. It's a ploy, in most cases outside of long-time career waiters/waitresses, by many chains to make their staff seem more professional. It's a literal marketing tool that is taught to staff in many chain restaurants which employ younger, non-'career' staff.
I doubt it. Contrary to the rose-colored projections of analysts, self driving cars are going to massively increase car usage. Self-driving significantly reduces many of the "costs" of driving: time (because you can do other things while driving), frustration, attention, danger, need for a license, et cetera. When costs go down, usage inevitably goes up. Not to mention the spectre of unattended cars circling for parking spaces or rehoming. And since the human driver is by far the biggest cost of deliveries, that is going to spike massively.

Now it's certainly possibly that sharing will reduce the number of cars sold, and electric cars may increase their lifespan. But with massive increases in usage, I don't think it'll make much of a dent.
Forget technology solutions. Depends on who the harasser is. I would respond to them with something like "You have been reported to the police and feel free to keep doing this". I would still report this to the police even though I know they won't do much until it becomes a real threat but a record with police is a good start.
These kind of shenanigans are exactly why Mr. Karadžić [1] pushed for an orthographic alphabet in Serbia, and why it quickly got adopted by neighbors as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87
And how many jobs do you actaully get from one mine today? 10 when you used to have hundreds due to automation. These jobs are gone and won't come back regardless of mining or no mining. That nobody manages to communicate that to the people and offer them alternatives is a large reason things like the AfD. Doesn't help that politicians in these regions are largely in corporate pockets one way or the other doesn't help.
Also a paying subscriber, and also appalled at the response from 1P team.

Will keep this in mind when recommending to family and friends, which I do a lot, and will definitely keep an eye out for alternatives moving forward.

The latest extension for Chrome on Windows and Mac barely works for me half the time with the latest update.
It's actually much worse. I use SolidWorks (parametric 3D solid modeler for mechanical design) and my company pays around $4k per seat, and it requires you to use a specific SolidWorks-certified GPU driver, which means you are forever stuck with whatever bugs that version has. It's an awful situation. My last laptop (Dell Precision M4800) had graphics issues with docking and undocking and sleeping and waking, but I couldn't update the GPU driver because it would break solidworks. Fun!
I am talking about importing CSV files in UTF8. If I use Japanese characters for example it fails utterly to display properly unless I import it as "Text" first.
That's an overly romanticized view. Moving long distances was slow and/or expensive. There was little in the way of international banking, so if you wanted to have money in your new home, you had to bring gold or silver or sell other things. If you were robbed, you were pretty much out of luck -- insofar as there were police forces, they weren't much concerned about foreigners.

It's true that you now have to cope with passports and visas, but for most places you might choose to emigrate to, you can expect a more or less fair police force, shops that will take your credit card, ATMs that will translate your money, and Internet to talk to people back home.
All the traditional car manufacturers make announcements all the time about how they're going to be really good at EVs in 5 years time or whatever. They've been saying stuff like this for a decade now. Here's a VW press release from 2013:

September 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Volkswagen Group has set its sights on global market leadership in electric mobility. "We are starting at exactly the right time. We are electrifying all vehicle classes, and therefore have everything we need to make the Volkswagen Group the top automaker in all respects, including electric mobility, by 2018", Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, said on the eve of the 65th International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main.

https://tass.com/press-releases/700457

So far its been bullshit from most* of the incumbents because the boardrooms can't give up on the idea of ICE.

* Honourable mention to Hyundai and Kia who have cars on the road that can genuinely compete with Tesla. Unfortunately they can't source enough batteries to make many of them.

* And ok Nissan and BMW and co had quite good 120-mile range EVs a few years ago but thats all history now, its 200 miles or forget it from now on.

* ok yeah the Bolt was quite good but they didn't bother launching it in my country (uk) so its not on my radar, and they didn't bother trying to sell any cos they were making them at a huge loss

* ok Nissan do have a 200+ mile range Leaf now so I'll give them credit for that. There are general concerns about price and lack of battery cooling though.
Exactly, which is why so many companies have transformed their professional corporate accounts into "sassy" viral sensations. Wendy's is fast food burger joint, but have millions of Twitter followers and high engagement because of their unrelated humorous tweets. Ads are starting to look less and less like ads every day.
> The world is getting richer. What do you think that will do the car sales?

We will have less cars, but each car will spend more time on the road. Currently most car are idle day and night in parking, being driven around 2 H/day (less for many many cars). Some families now are starting to use 1 car for the family + car sharing for everyone instead of 1 car per family member. If you combine that with self driving cars in around 10 years, the money will be made by the car makers making very reliable / sturdy cars for the driverless taxi companies.
Blender is also related with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. You can create and edit 3D models of AR/VR with Blender.
It's interesting that two of the largest automakers in the world need to work together to compete with a company the size of Tesla in this arena.
Don’t know specific situation in Germany, but gas turbine plants in my country are “mostly idle” because they are there to keep the grid stable (they spin up fast to cover peak demand). They can’t be run at capacity.
Unfortunately the food is rather bad for the price (at least in the Paris branch). So it's a fun experience but you end up eating food that's barely better than cafeteria food at the price of a fine dining restaurant...

I was really disappointed...
I can't imagine OpenCL in any way being involved with the rendering of the UI. Maybe you're confusing it with OpenGL?

If you're having problems making use of an eGPU (that's supported by apple, which rules out nvidia!), you should report that. eGPUs will probably be a common use case.
Thanks, those were the numbers I was really interested in.

I figured there's no way it would be as fast as say V8 who has Google+others working for years to make it as fast as possible.

Not that it's a bad thing! They just have different purposes.