skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are increasingly more and more chargers everywhere now. Especially 100kw+ rapid chargers are getting more and more common. A lot of the petrol stations here in London now also have multiple 100kw+ chargers.

Even when looking at non-exotica every-day vehicles like current-gen nissan leaf you get ~200 miles of range, and can recharge 240mph (more than 4 miles per minute) [1] More recent cars getting launched now (and again, not necessarily exotic brands, but even Hyundai and VW) have even faster charging rates.

So even a 15 minute break for the toilet and getting a takeout coffee will give you 60 miles of range. Stop for 45mins for lunch? Add 180 miles of charge, or 3 more hours of driving at 60 when you might want to stop again for a toilet break or to stretch your legs.

If you truly need to drive for 7 or 8 hours (400-500 miles at 60) without any kind of significant breaks on a regular basis, then I'd argue that you are probably taking quite a risk to your safety (and those around you - both inside and outside your car) due to tiredness.

1 - https://ev-database.uk/car/1144/Nissan-Leaf-eplus
Lets summon the immortal George Carlin:

"...The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!"
I don't understand the strawman you are trying to construct. Obviously pickup trucks and long range EVs are not for you if you don't need them. That's a non statement.

Of course, there are lots of people who do need those things. There are lots of people in the world living in lots of environments that look different than yours.
Discussed at the time:

Apple iPhone Security Issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418558 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)

Apple gave Uber's app 'unprecedented' access to a secret backdoor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417137 - Oct 2017 (3 comments)

Uber app can secretly record your iPhone screen thanks to special ‘entitlement’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15414884 - Oct 2017 (39 comments)

Apple gave Uber app 'unprecedented' access to backdoor that can record screens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413036 - Oct 2017 (4 comments)

Uber’s iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411533 - Oct 2017 (21 comments)
It would be great to port Meson from Python to pure C for portability. There is Boson[1] attempt to do exactly this but it's just a first step towards the goal.

[1] https://sr.ht/~bl4ckb0ne/boson/
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The model works for you for streaming, and the same logic will apply here.

I can easily get “the news” like you have access to TV or YouTube with similar content to streaming sites. But if you want niche subjects or specific voices, then sub stack subscriptions for the niches you care about makes sense
Not enough competition?
Driving your own car to an airport is usually not a great idea even if you have one that can make the trip easily.
The display shows the current drivable distance based on the energy remaining in the battery.

The amount displayed represents an average based on driving style, changes in elevation, windspeed, ambient temperature. For example, if the drivable distance indicates 200 miles, and I drive that distance on a level road at 65 mph in still air at 70 degrees F, I can go 200 miles.

If I drive it at 85 mph, I'd get about 160 miles.

If I drive it at 55 mph, I'd expect 210-220.

Up hill into the mountains has a significant decrease, and driving downhill can actually restore energy, depending on the rate of decline and driving speed, thanks to the regenerative braking.

I do think the calculation could be more accurate if neural nets were used to learn a specific driver's style, combined with driving destination in the navigation system, ambient temperature, air conditioning drain, etc.
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Yeah, the acting part is a valid concern. A mod for The Witcher 3 does this to give the main character voiced dialogue[1], but it doesn't really sound.... right. I mean, it is voiced and some lines feel authentic, but some lines also just feel odd.

[1]: https://www.gamesradar.com/witcher-3-mod-uses-ai-to-create-n...
So that's a "no" to the question of whether there is any empirical evidence saying that this intervention has a positive effect. Got it. No evidence.
I guess the argument then is "technical limitations excuse privacy lapses."
Range deterioration is an issue for uncooled batteries in hot climates. For example, gen 1 Nissan leafs were suffering in Arizona. But most everyone else uses active cool, which really slows the degradation. You can't really apply small battery (cellphone) logic to something as large as a car battery.
Any detailed comparison with Matrix?
Rant or not, I have to agree entirely. They literally tried to do a Die hard in Space episode...

If you think of it as `Star Trek: Burnham and the continuing voyages of Discovery`, then it sort of makes sense. Doesn't make it any good though
> The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it

No. The greatest danger is lack of software supply chain management followed by near-universal disrespect for formal complexity management methods.

The only way I have found to win at this "are we actually secure" game is to minimize the number of parties you have to trust. The smaller you get this figure, the easier it becomes to gain control over your circumstances again. How many of us can immediately state the exact number of unique parties that we have to trust as part of building solutions for other people?

What about complexity? Most of the time, something is insecure not because of malicious intent (covered by the trust angle above), but because its so goddamn complex that no one can say for sure if its correct or not. Why do we tolerate this?
Yes, it’s possible. There are some proofs of concept for that IIRC. If you prefer to write everything in Javascript you can do that and do all heavy lifting in the client (plus some extra work to provide indexing and metadata like Terracotta).
Normally you try to think and reconcile it with knowledge and experience you already have.

The problem is when everything you have ever learned is suspect.
> mandatory vaccination will be interpreted as an aggression/oppression by many and is therefore dangerous.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it "dangerous", but … it might be reckless, yes. I've been myself during COVID very vocally opposed to over-cautious rules that didn't take into account political climate (because overly aggressive rules may create future antivax advocates). I wrote about this here if you'd like to read: https://tildes.net/~health.coronavirus/ve8/covid_19_in_belgi...

> Therefore I maintain: there is no way to compare long-term risk induced by a new vaccine to COVID-related risk, I see no way to directly conclude that vaccination is the best path.

It sounds like the main thing we're disagreeing on is how much weight is given to an unknown risk of an unknown chance, that may or may not happen in the future.

This is all weighted against the fact that COVID has known risks, today, and further unknown risks, today as well. Furthermore, you don't seem to take into account the fact that catching COVID may in fact do all the things you dread from a vaccine and then more. It's a virus. A disease that rewrites your DNA, fucks with your blood, spreads, mutates, comes back for more. I don't see how you can possibly put this on the same scale as a vaccine which, while I grant you has unknowns and has risks, still has been thoroughly both in clinical trials (I'm myself part of a clinical trial for a vaccine, CureVac) and in the real world.

I cannot read the future, no. But your argument essentially relies on you reading the future for the virus, rather than the vaccine. Since neither of us can read the future, it makes sense to make decisions based on what is more likely to happen: Long-term issues from the vaccine vs long-term issues from COVID. The latter is more likely to happen, because there are both known short and long term issues from COVID as well as unknown ones. Whereas the vaccine only has unknown ones of any significance, at this point.
No, it's really not. Every single thing you mentioned uses 100-100,000 times less power in whole of the entire world than Crypto uses. Your comment is like saying 'the problem with fossil fuels is not with their pollution but with that our planet is too sensitive to their output, change your planet, keep the fuel!'

If Crypto is innovation than it should innovate itself into making sense on the planet it exists. This is why POS-based crypto is key to the future but there are WAY too many miners and HODLers that don't want to lose their income because it was based on bad choices.
Free is preferable, but if required to pay, I want to pay as little as possible and only for what I want.
Cutting down things that are unnecessarily complex would be a good start. I.e. most websites out there could be easily replaced by static code generators. Webauthn and client certificates can be used to protect admin interfaces. Technology is here but there is no demand for it because making things less secure is way cheaper.
Maybe it failed in the consumer app space because it couldn’t keep up with user experience expectations. But if that is the metric, then Matrix already failed too, right?

One new server + consumer app combo could revive XMPP for consumers quite easily.
Building "on top of the original one" is not an asset in the deepfake process, it's a hindrance, because then the deepfake inherits the unnatural 3D facial animation, which is most of the reason why traditional VFX 3D facial replacement works so poorly.
> What I want to challenge is the assumption that everyone needs a capability that most will infrequently avail themselves of.

You are the only person asserting that. Nobody is saying that everyone should buy a long range EV. But there is a market of people who actually do need it, which is why they are being developed.
Really hard to replicate Tandem Nonstop's feature set if that was what you actually needed.

Of course part of the reason it faded away (indeed, was gradually fading away even when I worked for Tandem) is that almost nobody does need that sort of reslience.
It appears to not be linear, based on the data entered by the Dutch Tesla Motors Club, see the chart near the bottom:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-tesla-model-3-survey...
The problem also is web developers themselves, with the author of this piece and the Redditor they quote included.

Whatever Medium's needs are for putting images and the written word on the screen were satisfied a decade+ ago. The fact that that Medium article doesn't work is a consequence of how web developers have normalized the practice of passing the blame for their failures and lack of competence on to the browsers and browser makers by extension.

We shouldn't even use the term "web developer". The entire industry, bolstered by analogizing themselves to mobile app programmers, have snowed the world and warped expectations that they are or should be anything other than experts in digital content publishing. The entire notion of "full stack" (which embodies a lie in the very term) should have never even happened.

If we really want to pick bones, where the engineers working on web browsers and "web developers" are both fair targets, then the overwhelmingly pressing matter would have to be how the latter are a piss poor substitute for anyone competent the skills they should possess, which would involve library and information sciences and a smattering of practical tech discipline. The industry is a perfect example of the rampant "consultant effect", where people create massively complicated stacks that often don't accomplish anything that their forebears couldn't manage, and then get paid bloated salaries for mastering the tools and workflows that are ostensibly meant to solve the very problems that they are responsible for foisting onto the world in the first place.
Or even better $10 for n tokens, $20 for n * 2,5 tokens, $30 for n*3 tokens or something to that effect.

Charge me monthly to to up but not if I have more than m unspent tokens.
IBM is still making deeply custom chips for the z-series mainframes, running them at a higher clock rate than anybody else, and applying water cooling at the system level. Also they have a bus that intermediates between the CPU and RAM, someday the rest of the industry will catch up

https://www.computeexpresslink.org/
Portal is the fastest way to load and visualize your deep learning models
Portal is the fastest way to load and visualize your deep learning models. We are all sick of wrangling a bunch of cv2 or matplotlib codes to test your models - especially on videos. We created portal to help teams, engineers, and product managers interactively test their model on images and videos, inference thresholds, IoU values and much more.

Portal is an open-source browser-based app written in TypeScript, React and Flask.
You can find her publication here.

https://advisory.kpmg.us/articles/2021/limits-to-growth.html

She is not a hardliner, she has multiple scenarios and although they all indicate a decline starting around 2030 based on empirical data it is inconclusive whether subsequent declines will be so steep as to constitute collapse.
The closest aligning scenario indeed shows a collapse pattern, others however show a moderate decline.

Either way it's not going to be pretty.
Ok we've replaced that with a more neutral description from the article body. Thanks!
I don’t really think it’s a straw man. If you look into it the vast majority of pickups are used to tow or haul once per year or less. People aren’t actually buying them for practical reasons.
Arguably, performance v. efficiency is a fair decision. In most cases it means the same thing but in a few cases it really doesn't.
Thoughts on Software, Life, Technology, and Other Random Things
>The Economist doesn't have bylines because that wasn't really the norm at the time when they started out.

A position they held steadfast to when newspapers unionized and it became the norm. Their reliance on surprisingly young journalists (kind of like consultancy bodyshops that recruit out of uni) is one reason they were able to avoid them.

Newspapers have often been threatened by their more popular contributors leaving and taking subscribers with them.

They'd therefore never introduce bylines if they had the leverage relative to their journalists to avoid it just as McDonalds wouldnt offer free daycare if it werent struggling to hire and tech wouldnt offer free food and lavish comps.

>Your point--that reporting shouldn't be primarily about individual credibility

That doesnt seem like a point I would ever make.

I mean, you can justify it "in principle" however you like, the economics boil down to the relative leverage of management and journalists. Bylines function as an asset (reputation) that journalists can, in a sense, capitalize and gives them the leverage to take subscribers elsewhere allowing them to negotiate a greater share of the newspaper revenue (lowering profits).
Range anxiety is one of the top reasons people don’t want to buy electric cars! Are you kidding?
The Map of the EV Industry
Back in the day, many people used RSS so they didn't have to check a site all the time. Even if it's push, if I'm paying for something and I seem to rarely get an email, I'll probably stop paying.
I linked to desktop and most messages didn't decrypt. I didn't know what to do.. had to press request message again to decrypt. That's weird, and a pain.

I remember some issues with images not decrypting.
It hasn't really been there:

- encryption wasn't really there (and still is experimental)

- decentralization does not exist to the degree that Matrix provides it

And Matrix is fundamentally different. It works somewhat similar to git compared to XMPP being more like IRC, which results in a completely different form of decentralization.
E2EE is different as well - even if both are based on the Signal Protocol: Matrix encrypts for groups of people instead of single devices

I doubt Matrix would be where it is if they tried to bend XMPP
That sounds like a fairly big ethical dilemma that Disney will happily ignore if making a puppet show out of people's corpses earns them a few extra bucks
I think the "shared history" part has as much to do with slavery and racism in America (and probably also Britain and Western Europe), which is/was definitely a shared common experience.
I had never heard of FluffyChat and so visited its site. Appears to be a very attractive landing page. However, UX of the site leaves a lot to be desired.

Their FAQ link in menu bar just links to their GitLab issues page, and AFAICTA nowhere on their site does it actually explain what FluffyChat is or which what network it operates, etc. (clearly from context I infer it is Matrix)
Screw the Australian government from blocking the Great Barrier Reef to be put on the UNESCO world heritage list.
Understandably people are realizing that it's now much easier to discover what plants (and animals, and fungus, etc.) exist around you and whether they're special in some way.

But when picking apps to accomplish that task, I suggest selecting for those that respect your privacy (because a lot of these plant observations involve GPS location), are clear about how the machine learning datasets are trained and what's being done with the data you're supplying, and lastly how these apps and companies are funded.

PictureThis is owned by https://www.glority.com

Candide appears to be a UK startup: https://candidegardening.com/GB/about

iNaturalist and their Seek app (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app) is a joint venture between the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about

Moreover both iNaturalist (https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist) and Seek (https://github.com/inaturalist/SeekReactNative) are open source. The former is a Rails app, and the latter a React Native app with no account registration system making it safe and legal to use for children since all observations are stored in-device by default unless you chose to send them to your iNaturalist account to share with the community.

On functionality alone it's extremely rare for Seek not to recognize an organism (yeah, it's not just plants) and when it is, I simply send the observation to iNaturalist whose network of naturalists both amateur and professional usually manage to definitively identify my observations within a few hours. Here's a recent example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/86844469

The iNaturalist community itself is fascinating and quite transparent with detailed site stats (https://www.inaturalist.org/stats) and a clear mission statement ( https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/what+is+it):
> iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature

At a time where biodiversity is more threatened than ever, I welcome any tool to help folks identify and value the organisms around us, but if you're going to pick one, my recommendation is iNat & Seek.

PS: I'm not affiliated to iNaturalist in any way other than as a happy user.
There's some backstory there, and some photos, and links to other things like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogxwyWHLKCTnBXRGQXbnYg. I think it's ok. It's a hell of a topic after all, and better yet, seems to pass the "can't be predicted from any pre-existing sequence" test, which is the gold standard for HN topics.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Physicists Explain How the Brain Might Connect to the Quantum Realm
For z/OS, I don't think much anymore. The high level of single-machine redundancy and architecture of I/O offload USED to be better than commodity machines. That's been eclipsed by raw power and improved distributed functionality in the commodity world.

There are still companies (Visa, Airlines, GDS) having issues getting off the more unique TPF operating system. It's basically a distributed K/V data store that scales very well and deals well with write contention. So far, only Amadeus has been able to migrate off of it. Some smaller airlines were able to migrate away, but not the larger ones.

The company that Google bought (ITA), was on their way to writing a full reservations system. They had finished the shopping engine but not the whole system. That was a company chock full of money of talent, and they didn't finish. Though their shopping engine is the best one that exists.

Edit: Somewhat related point. The "developer efficiency" was quite good in these environments. Since the OS came with everything a developer needed, there was mostly only one right way to do everything. The languages, libraries, database, batch management, "UI", authentication/authorization, security, and so on, was already decided for you.
Well, this news is no good! The great barrier reef needs to die to provide justification for all the climate change stuff!
LEO and TLA need vendors with constant supply of exploits.
Yes part of our accounting system is still running on Cobol from 1982, but don't worry it has been upgraded to the AI Cloud and it only costs 200M a year to keep running.
More info on WatchKit, per [1]

> Can I use custom views in the Apple Watch? Can I customize the interface elements beyond their public API?

> No. You can’t use custom views. WatchKit only supports certain native interface elements. None of the interface elements can be subclassed or customized beyond their public API. The available interface elements are WKInterfaceLabel, WKInterfaceButton, WKInterfaceImage, WKInterfaceGroup, WKInterfaceSeparator, WKInterfaceTable, WKInterfaceSwitch, WKInterfaceMap, WKInterfaceSlider and WKInterfaceTimer.

In the original watchOS release, you can't even draw shapes, only display images. So to make a custom map you'd have to render the image yourself for display as a WKInterfaceImage.

With watchOS 2 you were able to draw to a WKInterfaceImage with Core Graphics [2], but Uber had written their app before this.

[1] https://www.raywenderlich.com/1950-watchkit-faq

[2] https://github.com/shu223/watchOS-2-Sampler#draw-paths-updat...
I live in the midwest. There's 300-600 miles between major cities, which I visit multiple times per year. Couple that with the winter months where EV batteries lose some significant percentage of range there's little chance I, or many people, could own an EV as an only vehicle anytime soon.
Iirc the software sold by the NSO group is considered a weapon under Israel law, so it is somewhat regulated. Not as heavily as nukes though.

This begs the question: Is there a compelling reason why selling weapons to other states should be legal?
Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage
Plantnet is a gem, they don't even want you to "register"/"connect with FB/Google" for "tracking" purposes
The person that wrote that blog shared his website some time ago here on HN (whem we were talking about graveyard of sideprojects). Lots of interesting pieces of thoughts, some really personal stories that give hope, some good advice...
Ah, so it’s just a post about some company with a god complex, complaining.

Nothing to see here.