skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GM is very very far behind, but they are now deadly serious about owning a majority of the EV market.

Great, I wish them well in that endeavour though I doubt they will ever get a majority of the Market share at this point given all the horrible mistakes they've made since the 70s, but they have a lot of catching up to do to get even close to its main US competitor (Tesla) and Hyundai, who also partnered up with LG and has a national interest in seeing each other succeed, has made a lot of progress in EV market. Perhaps a possible partnership with Apple could give them a much needed jump start since Apple thinks it wants to get into the Auto Industry.

But if Toyota's miracle battery comes to fruition and meets expectations then that could be the real dark horse and make all but maybe Tesla the only real competitor anymore.

It's very clear to see that other than some mainstays like the Charger/Hellcat variants, a high end Cadillac SUV and Corvette GM don't seem to be doing much in the ICE department worth staying in that game long term to keep the brand(s) alive and even the Hummer is being offered as an EV.

I've only been in a late model volt during a lyft and to be honest it all felt incredibly cheap, like a base model Jetta assembled in Mexico cheap. Nothing seemed to be remarkably good about it and the driver said he got under a 100 miles of range so he hung around the local college bars and charged on campus until the next hail, and while Teslas aren't exactly amazing when it comes to interiors either, the Model 3 I drove months earlier was far superior.

I'd decry there bailout in 2008, but if they're really taking EV seriously and the Biden administration is pushing for EV then maybe it was all worth it in the end for this perfect storm situation, as so much of GM's lineup were mainly disposable cars that ended up in the scrap heap after 7-10 years due to unreliability. I will say their LTX V8s engines were being swapped in every imaginable chassis up until a few years ago, so they probably could just keep making crate engines and parts with existing infrastructure and still make a profit. Otherwise its game over for a ton of people who will need to buy multiple engines/chassis just to keep one running until they pull a Cuba and create their own backyard OEM parts supplier alternative.

Edit: Mopar stuff is not Chrysler.
Here is the title of the article you couldn't read:

"Israel moves to head of vaccine queue, offering Pfizer access to country’s health-care database"

Guess who stayed bellow on the vaccine queue?
Exactly. And it turns out, if you are a good trader, you can negotiate your margin.
> Those who can't do, teach.

Oh, you must mean rubber duck debugging, where a programmer pretends to teach a rubber duck about a bug for the purpose of doing the job of revealing the fix for it in the process.

I absolutely love rubber duck debugging, too!

Do you tend to start a bug fix with it, or do you reserve it for times when you get stuck? I feel like I should use it way more often, or at least way earlier than I tend to. That would probably eliminate a lot of headaches.

Anyway, great to see a fellow rubber duck debugger here on HN! You know I bet if we tried teaching each other about rubber duck debugging we'd reveal even more techniques to become more efficient at doing our work.

So much to talk about! So much to teach and do!

I love HN!
Microcopy (UX Text) as Design Tokens
I understand, but I respectfully disagree. In your response you used words like “about that”, “high probability”, “frequently” and “unproductive,” all of which could be argued on a philosophical basis.

And by the way, if you are going to post things and then downvote legitimate responses—then perhaps you need to rethink things a bit?
They can't practically do that, you're just making up a course of events that can't happen (people can develop things anonymously and be paid anonymously, and it's absolute nonsense to say that governments are going to be arresting the general public for the "crime" of privacy.

And in America at least it's almost certainly unconstitutional.
Your model seems to assume a fixed production capacity? It would seem plausible that if you paid an extra billion or two, companies could find a way to scale up production faster.
No. CBD is a compound. Whether that is made syntheically or not is not relevant
Google is rolling out grid view and tab groups for Chrome on Android
So I'd have th unix box and macbook both at home, networked locally.

In the macbook I'd try hard to have no npm/rubygems/maven/... because these are all a security risk.

The unix box would be heavily firewalled so that no bad code could not talk home or reach my macbook.

Communication would happen primarily via ssh (e.g. macos iTerm -> unix box), but also as a NFS share so that I can edit files from my IDE flawlessly (I use Emacs which has a thing called Tramp which makes this unnecessary, but I'm hesitant about its effectiveness).

So, in my macbook I'd have a small number of trusted tools like iTerm and Emacs while everything else, like Ruby/node.js/Java/postgresql processes would happen in the unix box. My workflow would be typically:

- edit files to the NFS share;

- issue commands to the unix box via ssh (an IDE can abstract this away); and

- have some port forwarding for accessing e.g. the webapp I'm working on from macOS chrome.

In the end it would be a pretty vanilla approach and not tremendously different from using a virtual machine via Vagrant. The difference would be that the macOS machine would be thinner, and that the unix box would have greater focus on security and stability.

And of course performance - with a real box I don't have to worry about Vagrant/Docker/... making my macbook overheat.
Official battery replacement costs the equivalent of $16 in India, as listed on their website.
> The advantage of such a model however is that the complexity of this is abstracted away from even the compiler. This makes it a change in the programming model. That's why it's not _just_ named SIMD.

That changes the history of the term SIMT. SIMT was first used for NVidia Tesla in 2006: over a decade older than the incremental changes made between Pascal -> Volta/Turing.

There has been no name change from Pascal -> Volta/Turing, as far as I'm aware. Furthermore, the PTX is substantially similar. The per-thread instruction pointers is pretty transparent in most code.

> The advantage of such a model however is that the complexity of this is abstracted away from even the compiler. This makes it a change in the programming model. That's why it's not _just_ named SIMD.

Have you looked at AMD's GPU ISA? Its just jump instructions, extremely similar to NVidia's PTX / SASS instruction set. AMD SIMD doesn't juggle execution masks explicitly either: its handled at a lower level (probably the decoder or something).

You still pull the execution mask for things like ballot instructions, but... both AMD and NVidia SIMD are pretty similar. (Similarly, NVidia PTX can still access the execution mask for ballot instructions as well)

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Although, I guess both of those GPUs can laugh at AVX512, where the execution masks are explicitly handled by the assembly programmer. But I don't know if explicit execution masks is necessarily a bad thing (its the job of the compiler instead of the decoder or whatever...)

> Unlike a vanilla SIMD machine, you can diverge more cheaply when you need to

If we take CM2 from 1985 as a "vanilla SIMD machine", it had execution masks and diverged extremely cheaply, just like modern machines.

C-Star and star-Lisp even had a programming model very similar to modern CUDA.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/thinkingMac...

Back then, you'd use "when" statements to do a parallel divergent branch, while "if" was only for uniform branches. But it wasn't like "when" statements were expensive, they just diverged.
Roses are sexy,
Violets are hot,
It is forbidden to fire the jewish space laser on shabbat

Roses are fragrant,
Violets sublimer,
Just put the space laser,
On a timer
It could be about budget. It could also be perceived incompetence.

If students don’t seem to be getting benefit from education by professors who focus solely on mathematics, then that problem needs to be understood.

This is the second time this has happened according to the tweet, and the professors have been unable to defend themselves both times.

Maybe someone should offer to assist in improvement of the program. It’s probably a fine place to work if they want to stay there this much.
In theory you can just make your presence courses so bad that students are forced to do online courses to actually pass the course.
Sure there is, it's a different thing. Many monospaced fonts are also uniwidth, sure. The article is promoting fonts that are non-monospace but are uniwidth. It would be wrong to apply the term "monospace" to these fonts, so a second term certainly is needed.
Only if the signal that was caught isn't using SA_RESTART: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/s... ("If set, and a function specified as interruptible is interrupted by this signal, the function shall restart and shall not fail with [EINTR] unless otherwise specified.")

Therefore, correct code can also not handle EINTR as long as it uses SA_RESTART for all non-fatal signals. That's probably the most common case (nobody likes EINTR).
Same here on iOS14 iphone11, with a pihole with default settings. Worked fine on chrome for windows with the same pihole, privacy badger and ublock origin, so I think it’s a separate issue to content blocking.
Running Universities like a business. A scam and a travesty
If there is a disagreement, it is noted. I don't see a problem.
I watched most of the video attached to the article. It feels to me like a rehash of Tangerine Dream and Kitaro.
No, GME stock had a higher capitalization requirement than cash.
Chang’e 5 low rate telemetry
There are more of these schools than the big names with athletic programs. You just never hear about them.
When I was in high school, I wrote lots of stuff in BASICA and spent long hours with printouts spread over the floor, tracing through GOTOs to figure out what was going wrong. I'd seen articles about "structured programming" and felt it would stifle my creativity.

One dad Dad brought home Turbo Pascal. To try it out I implemented Conway's Game of Life. Once I got past my syntax errors, I was shocked when it worked correctly the very first time. I never wrote another line of BASICA.
"allowing adversaries to infer the users' visited websites by eavesdropping on the transmission channel."

Ah, ok, that kind of fingerprinting. I suppose then this might be where our local ISP's find a way to replace their now threatened DNS query sniffing. Assuming 95.4% accuracy means what I think it does, that's pretty impressive.
2008.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-211.htm#:~:text=Was....
This is so great! Still using my one plus 6T and not up for a change yet. Battery life is still good and the performance is more then sufficient. Now, the afterlife seems to be predestined, too.
This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently.
(I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, but Pushpin has been timing out on me a lot. Maybe I should just clean up my bookmarks...)
All (good) monospaced fonts are uniwidth, not all uniwidth fonts are monospaced.

Monospaced is important if you want multiple sequences of the same length to line up, uniwidth is less restrictive of the font (because "l" and "w" can be different widths) but allows you to bold without changing the visual length.
Ask HN: Do EV charging stations need coolant?
I’ve been reading seeing quite a few articles the past couple weeks about companies focused on EV charging stations...my question is do these require any type of coolant to protect it from corrosion or overheating?
I think they meant servers as in the machine hosting the content you are acessing, such as the machine that hosts HN. Not that every connection goes through a central server, but your content is hosted on a central server, as opposed to FreeNet where your content is distributed and so can't be taken down like a server can.
Even if we presuppose that everyone working could choose not to work at all, I think your scenario is overly idealistic.

What your scenario changes is that the labor supply gets to be much more selective about the job they take. Supply and demand still exist. Moderating facebook is still a low skill desk job. The pay and benefit floor may be raised across the board, but I don't see what the market force would separate moderating facebook from the other jobs with comparable pay today.

Sure, you could quit a job moderating facebook and not have to worry about keeping yourself solvent. But the same goes for every other job. What would separate them from the jobs that they're on the same level with today?
I have linux (pop os) running directly on a macbook (basic dev work), and the different key combo for copy paste in terminal is one of my very few issues.

debating with myself whether to remap keys (and then fumble on other linux terminals), or to just learn the new key habit.
Great comment. I really hope you will look into Ethereum 2 again though. Has the potential to help replace much of India and other countries' dated governments.
Don't Be Hostile Towards Pirates, Game Developer Warns
I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I wonder if it is usable on non-Android Linux kernels for hardware that uses USB charging.
Since when? I tried to cancel NYTimes and it was an ordeal.
"Yes, Minister" has an episode about a hospital with 500 employees and no patients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAk448volww

The show's creators said: "After inventing this absurdity, we discovered there were six such hospitals (or very large empty wings of hospitals) exactly as we had described them in our episode, notably one in Cambridgeshire in which there was only one patient: the Matron (head of nursing staff) who had fallen over some scaffolding and broken her leg."
I am going to install Element with F-droid or manual APK load on principle now. Fuck this.
except that uniwidth describes a different thing?
Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook
Amazon is one of the scammy shopping sites this articles discusses - it’s listed in the dataset.

I’d wager that many of the dark patterns persist because Amazon use them, making their justification inside smaller companies easier.
sounds like a problem to solve. build in both places, verify build hashes agree, upstream dev infra signs and sends signed build to f-droid, f-droid verifies hash against its own build, verifies upstream signature, signs and then lists. apks can have more than one signature.
Some people will only be happy when anything resembling a left-wing point of view is removed from education and the media.

Some of the "ism" culture war teaching in academia is indeed trite and silly.

But it's far less silly than Fox News and the entire right-wing media machinery - which most recently somehow managed to persuade tens of millions of Americans that a valid election was stolen, that Covid is a hoax, and attacking your own political representatives is a valid expression of democracy.

Honestly, compared to that having to pay attention to pronouns or learn something about black history is a complete non-issue.
Did you miss the part where they are deceived into taking the jobs and prevented from leaving?

> They often end up in the Persian Gulf after responding to deceptive and misleading advertising in their home countries, causing them to either pay large sums or to borrow such sums from employment agents to secure employment in the Gulf and to pay for their transportation, housing and food. When they arrive, they learn that, based on the value of their wage in real terms, it will be nearly impossible to pay off any debt they have incurred or replenish the sums they have expended. This encourages their employers to withhold, delay or simply not pay wages, coercing the workers to remain on the job, sometimes for a lifetime.
Vaasa in Western Finland is quite nice.
I'm not sure, the trend is energy become cheaper and cheaper and technology become more advanced every time.

I imagine technology that some day advance enough and autonomous enough and cheap enough that enable me to live off the grid with supply of unlimited solar energy and robot that can make me food.

The only thing that can fix society is to have no society.
There are negative rights and positive rights.
The former is freedom from other humans doing things to and the second is requires other humans to do something for you.

I believe that only negative rights are and can be inherent.

You can build social contracts that help people get services and materials on top of this, because people care about each other.
An explainer movie. (1)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronaut_Farmer
>> I fully understand why people want to use Apple for their consuming needs. I really don't understand why my fellow developers choose to go with Apple as their work machine.

> Because many of your fellow developers do not have and don't want a separate machine for just conding? Why is this idea so alien for some people?

Well as a salaried employee, which I have been all my working life, you are generally required to have a seperate machine for work. So yes, this idea is pretty alien to me.
While maybe not the sportiest things around, 55mpg cars are readily available and are perfectly fine and usable. Example: https://www.auto-data.net/en/volkswagen-passat-b8-facelift-2...
Still using the OP5. Battery and charge pin are my only issues as of now.
Have you driven a bolt and a Tesla side by side?

It’s like a blackberry vs an iPhone X right now.

Can they catch up? Sure maybe? But no signs of it yet.
Synthetic (cannabidiol, better known as CBD)

not

(Synthetic cannabidiol), better known as CBD
You have misunderstood the important difference between uniwidth fonts and monospaced fonts. Uniwidth fonts are proportionally spaced; monospaced fonts are not (by definition).
>> Don't the vast majority of companies have clauses in contracts that say whatever you create on your particular work laptop belongs to the company? I certainly have that in my contract.

> What do you think the chances are of your company actually being able to enforce said clauses?

Moderate to Very high, depending on the jurisdiction you live in. Like I’ve seen it play out multiple times with colleagues even, and one took it to court even and lost.
No, from what I read the theory is that Oumuamua had only frozen hydrogen/gases so the outgassing couldn't be observed as the object was small.
So this means that the phone will one day be able to run a stock linux kernel?
It's not that were going out of the way to not use them. If they worked on Linux we would have no problem using them at all.

The issue is that Linux is a free version of MacOS. I don't need a laptop to use it and I can just use a beefy desktop in my dev environment.

If I want to use a beefy computer my choices aren't Linux vs Mac, it's Linux vs Windows. And Windows is really annoying for a lot of us.

As for creative work, we are then forced to look for alternatives. With how costly Adobe is I wouldn't even use it on windows or mac tbh.

So no we're not trying to avoid anything. There's simply nothing for us.
Some journo sent an email that wasn't answered and suddenly they've "used" a random amount of money?

This is Astrazeneca, with a turnover of $24 BILLION. £336 million is a couple of days turnover for them. The accusation doesn't even stand up to the slightest little bit of scrutiny or common sense.

You shouldn't rely on Twitter for "news".
I really enjoy Adam Curtis’ documentaries. He hits the nail on the head and is great viewing for anyone that likes systems level thinking. I’m looking forward to his new film and have seen most of his prior films.

One curious thing is that after watching his documentaries, I do find myself a bit confused about what it all means. His theories weave sometimes complex narratives, and it’s a lot to take in. I think the hardest thing to reconcile is the intent of the people behind or at least catalyze the phenomena that arise. Is the world essentially driven by emergent incompetence and narcissism or is there something more sinister and intentional about it all?
It's odd state of the world where we will have to add significant amounts of noise to prevent browsers from revealing what site they are visiting because of traffic request protocols getting too efficient and browsers trying to be efficient in predictable ways.
I've experienced this on many Windows machines. It's a combination of memory issues, little programs breaking here and there, forced updates, and stuff I frankly don't understand. Together, they very frequently necessitate a reboot after 2-3 days.

> If this is actually true, there is something seriously wrong with your install

This is the problem. It's very easy for stuff to go wrong with a Windows install. They deteriorate w/time. Why do you think so many times we end up just re-formatting a family member's machine? I've had to do that many times, even when malware wasn't an issue.

I've never hard to reformat a Linux machine for such issues, even though I've been primarily on Linux for well over a decade.
> I'm not into web design but I think the core problem here is lack of accepted terminology and even awareness that this type of font is a thing.

It seems useful to name the property where character widths are consistent along their weight axis, but another case in point to support the sibling comment: I see only one other significant use of "uniwidth"[1], from 2015.

I also find "uniwidth" a poor and confusing name for this property, and "duplexed" and "multiplexed" even worse.

If I had to suggest a better alternative, I think something like "width-invariant" or "width-invariant proportional" would be clearer.

[1] https://www.fontshop.com/people/david-sudweeks/fontlists/uni...
Blind luck or maybe there isn't as much disturbing material on Facebook as one is lead to believe.
Maybe. Funnily enough. With the authoritarian and extremely damaging lockdowns in Europe, places like UAE feel 10 times more free than supposed democracies with a lot of freedom. Specially when it looks like dissenting in public (freedom of the press) might destroy your livelihood.
Where are you writing your options? Only the stablecoin pairs seem to be liquid
The idea that the "proper" touch typing technique is ergonomic is not unquestionable. I've read some forums about RSI and there were quite a few people stating they got RSI right at the time they started learning and using the proper touch-typing method.

It makes sense too. Without formal training your hands will assume comfortable positions on the keyboard and the writing technique will evolve to suit your hand size and your movements. This should be more ergonomic compared to strict rules, developed for type-writers, where you have to press each key with the same finger every time, and where typical programming keys (brackets, colons) are left to the smallest finger.
Usually not liquid coolant loops. Heat pipes and heat sinks and radiators are usually enough. They can generally put more silicon (MOSFETs and stuff) without worrying about weight as the stations are stationary. (So lower Rds values and more efficiency) Source: general EE knowledge, and owning a charging station for a Chevy Volt

Liquid loops are most useful at transferring heat rather than getting rid of them. (You still need a radiator) They are often employed to deal with high heat density applications, like processors or lasers and stuff.

Also - it's probably way cheaper to put a few more MOSFETs instead of dealing with liquid cooling. Pipes and pumps are expensive! Maintenance and repair costs would probably skyrocket with liquid cooling too. If they want to deploy these stations en mass across various harsh environments, liquid cooling is not the way to go.
Your solution will hang postgres at 100% CPU, with no indication what is wrong.