skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered about the claim in the first sentence, but it is true. Toyota and it's subsidiaries produced ~9.5million vehicles in 2020, or ~2.4million per quarter. Tesla's total vehicle sales since it's foundation are ~1.4million. To be fair to Tesla, they have expanded quite a bit in the last few years, producing 0.5million vehicles in 2020. Even with that expansion, their rate of output is only 5% of Toyota's.
The issue with hybrids is that they're often used as a regular non-EV car, resulting in very little reduction of emissions. Combined with more energy-intensive production, this makes them pretty useless when looking at their environmental impact (especially when considering long ranges, people aren't going to charge every ~40km).
Do tax cuts for the poor produce economic growth?
That might be obvious to you but history has shown it to be inaccurate. Of course rich people, who have lots of influence will be in favor of things that lower their own personal taxes. But in the us it has been show this does not lift others up. The thing that helps lift the overall economy is more money to less wealthy people, especially poorer, because they spend any extra income they receive on necessities.
The sellers of a house I gave an offer for is.
> China went from 6000 Compressed Natural Gas vehicles in 2000 to 6M compressed natural gas vehicles 2017.
> 1000x increase.

China went from close to 0 EVs in 2000 to 4.5 million EVs 2020 [1].

4.5Mx increase.

Europe has the highest EV market share of new car sales, at 10% (China is at 5.7%).

> What do they know that we don't?

When it comes to EV adoption, developed countries like China and those of Western Europe are way ahead, so that question is still apt, just pointing in the opposite direction.

Countries are looking for any cost-effective way to get off gasoline for vehicles to reduce local particulate emissions and petroleum dependency. Some are also want to reduce global CO2 emissions.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/07/todays-elec....
Deployments I assume means police response, not deploying the system.
I'd not put that on my primary device either, maybe leave a spare plugged in near an open window, etc
When you're talking about side effects that are this rare, I can guarantee you that the side effects of just about anything are just as frequent.

"Nobody has died from a tax bill" is nonsense. If you give it more than a moment's thought, you'll realize that there's probably plenty of people who have in fact died as a side effect of any type of unexpected bill, and that can include tax bill.

Your premise that "many people don't really need" the vaccine for a highly infectious, highly transmissible disease is flawed from the get go. If you don't get the vaccine, you will catch COVID at one point or another, especially as its transmissibility goes up. And if you catch it, it's just a roll of the die whether you suffer side effects from it or not. This isn't about being scared of it or not, it's about numbers.

Regardless on whether you suffer side effects, you will be a transmission vector. And if you do suffer side effects, you'll be a burden on society. It is in fact society's responsibility to prevent this from happening.

I'm not a fan of nanny states, but when so many people are so eager to be not only selfish but a danger to themselves, fuck it all to hell, I'm pro mandatory vaccination at that point.

I'd never have been pro mandatory vaccines until I found out just how many anti-vax people there are. Funny how that works: The more of them there are, the more we need to make them mandatory.
No, the statement that was made was, "The only possible good use of a Mac, is to run Linux on it." Plausibly the poster might have had reasons other than moral considerations for making such a statement—maybe they really prefer Xlib to Quartz, System-V-style system calls to BSD, or Nautilus to Finder—but I doubt it. Apple's unethical and abusive treatment of their users seems more the more likely rationale for such a statement, since running Linux has historically been the escape route from such practices.

It's legitimate to protest against injustices and menaces to human rights even when millions of people accept those injustices and don't recognize those menaces.
Sure, but they should be scrambling to catch up instead of lobbying to hold back the right tech.
Anyone with a deep interest in science knew that some "pandemic" was coming. We've seen it before, and therefore knew it was possible, and we've had scientists warning us for ages now that the more we invade and destroy the natural systems of the planet that sustain us, the more chance there is that we end up releasing or coming in contact with some new (novel) viruses and diseases we've not seen before. Humanity chose the "business as usual" approach to all warnings we were given by those in a position to know something about it, and now we're all paying the price of that willful ignorance.
>shipping all the manufacturing to China.

How is this related? I enjoy not having to pay $2000 for a cellphone and $500 for a pair of sneakers
This an interesting post on Complex Step Derivative by the original author of LINPACK and MATLAB's founder himself:

https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/10/14/complex-step-di...
*if we let the rich keep a little more of their own money, instead of making them give it to the government, maybe they will invest it

For the record, we’re no where near a breaking point in America. For as much complaining you see on HN and reddit and twitter, people in real life are happy.
I'm sure it is, but the point here is that the manual review appears to be "aided" by the police "suggesting" where they believe the sound came from. And then, wow, wouldn't you know it! The manual review agrees. Case closed.
> I would say something like "get to the 80th percentile at anything" (or even 95th) would be much more accurate, though, that doesn't sound as catchy.

In many areas (sport, art etc.) being in the 80th or even 95th percentile means failure.
> The other thing that really happened is the consumerization of software.

Yes. Our customers were, for the most part, nerds like us in the 90's. We knew what features they wanted because we wanted them.
Then the kids did not "earn" it, though; they got it because of their parents' merit, which means it is not meritocratic.
> Frankly, they don’t know what they’re missing, because we have a strong culture,

Wow, I never realized I had such strong schadenfreude around MBA types.
Did that. But then you will find your disk quickly getting filled up with GBs of cached contents that you rarely search within.

Rather when you need that same content, you will find yourself going to google, searching that and the page is instantly there unless removed.

There's a reason why bookmarks aren't as popular as it had been. People now use google + keywords instead of bookmarks.
Okay, now keep going. How did the kids "earn" their money?

The general understanding of a meritocracy is that merit is rewarded. "Having wealthy parents" isn't usually considered a merit...
It seems the 2019 hybrid model used to come in a more powerful V6 engine, but the latest Toyota hybrids seem to downgrade back to V4 engines to improve efficiency.
I had old Nokia phones around 2000 and all of them had auto complete dictionary for Hungarian, called T9.
Obviously, us/government would have found a better way of spending Bill Gates' money than he did ...
> The police have resisted incremental reforms,

That's not really the problem. Even where the police have embraced incremental reforms they've driven funding and responsibility into the police, pushing them into more domains for which they are inappropriate, and haven't dealt with the underlying problems because those aren't peripheral policy problems but fundamental structural problems of having a general purpose paramilitary force as a top level local government organization unto which almost all law enforcement and some peripheral tasks are layered fostering an insular warrior culture without any other strong focus. (Note that when the US was founded—before standing paramilitary domestic security forces were common enough to be a particular general concern—avoiding a very similar problem with military forces which inevitably would get leaned on for domestic security was a major reason for skepticism of standing armies in favor of relying on militia + cadre, and thus for the second amendment.)

Which also suggests what the “something else” to replace the police could be—given that abandoning professional permanent law enforcement for reliance on citizen militia/posses is probably not viable for modern society, one way to address that problem is to have specialized law enforcement entities in domain-specific agencies whose individual foci are narrower, enabling each to have a cultural focus (and substantive competence requirements) that are domain specific.

And if you look at US law enforcement beyond the local level, that's what a lot of it looks like already. The highly centralized paramilitary law enforcement structure where the top uniformed commander is a the head of a top level agency of the unit of government (and possibly independently elected and effectively unaccountable to the civilian government officials) is unique to city/county government.
Homotopy type theory (HoTT) can mean several things: it's a new foundation of mathematics that was developed from the start with computer-formalization in mind. But you can also work on HoTT without ever touching a computer.

Conversely, there are many ways to do computer-formalization of mathematics, without every doing anything with HoTT.
CNG is good for very dense urban environments. But that's not quite the use case for most of America.

Also China/Egypt can easily sign an edict requiring CNG infrastructure build-out. Meanwhile in America, we can't even agree if Coronavirus is a hoax or not, let alone pass a decent infrastructure bill.
>The great majority of the world's population lives in countries with per capita emissions less than a third of the US's

So what? Emissions are global and rising especially in the places where most people live (Asia). If emission of the whole USA would be zero from today on, global emission would keep growing. At the current rate it would only take a few years for the rest of the world additional emission to replace the whole USA.
Needless to to say that zero emission is only a thought experiment. But if this better-than-best-case-scenario can only buy us 10 years or so maybe we should not focus on this?

If the average human causes half the emission of the US people then that is still more than the planet can sustain so why do we focus on the small portion of people who use the most? We should focus on finding a solutions that cuts emission for all. Its not hard to figure out that cutting emissions from all people in halve would have far more benefit than bring the US peoples emission down to the world average or even lower. It intuitively makes sense to reduce emission where it seems the highest but if you look a the whole picture it will not have the desired effect.

>It doesn't take ground breaking technology for Americans to stop driving Hummers on their office commute.

This is exactly what I meant in my original post. The whole green movement is about cutting emission at all cost. Regardless of the fact that removing hummers from Americans or even all cars that use above average fuel would do absolutely nothing on a global scale. Especially not if they have to be replaced by newly build cars.

The whole ideas that us middle-class and rich people who could afford to reduce their emissions should be the once who take the cut is completely absurd. Yes they probably could but would probably crash the global economy if they did and beside that it would not matter at all. The global emissions are not cased by luxury products and people with high emission hobbies like driving a sport car.

> Nor any new tech for sunny regions to cover building roofs with solar panels.....surely we buy a some solar panels and batteries.

It would takes 20-30 years and it would cause and insane amount of emissions to produce solar panels and batteries in these quantities that it would reduce significant emissions. In the same time the rest of the worlds additional emissions would at least double what the USA would reduce. especially if most of the electronics that the USA would need is produces somewhere else and the processing steps that case the most emissions would likely be done outside of the USA.

The reality is we dont know how to reduce global emissions in a significant way (unless you include "solutions" that would directly or indirectly cause the death of millions of people or otherwise would be ethically not okay). We waste time by doing green placebo-solutions rather than putting all the resources we still have into finding real solutions.
So true.
Professor. Husband. Father. Now I'm just trying to eek in GMing a tabletop adventure. That is the extent that my time+ability will allow...and I'm not sure I'm that good at any of them (impostor syndrome)
Poor baby gen X coder. He can't adapt to the modern world. He still thinks it's OK to use "He" pronouns to refer to a generic developer. He thinks having to provide tests for his code is hard work. "QA was other people". What an egocentric trash view.
DAI is not backed by USDT.
Are you saying that someone being given an economic advantage by their parents means that their accomplishments have less merit? I'm not trying to straw man you, I'm just having trouble parsing your argument.
Prius is pushing close to the cost of a base model 3...

Sure they start at 24k but around here the cheapest Im seeing is 32.
This cannot be allowed to happen - take away the money RIGHT NOW
Toyota is still trying to sell their hydrogen-powered Mirai.[1] After six years, they're selling a few hundred a month, all in California because that's where there are some hydrogen stations.

The hydrogen station situation is a joke.[2] Not only are there few of them, most of them are offline.[2] Right now, not one hydrogen station in the South Bay is working.

[1] https://www.toyota.com/mirai/

[2] https://cafcp.org/stationmap
> Although seemingly not so far away by sheer number, the 2000-2300 elo range is worlds apart from 2500+ (GM) levels

I know that. My point was that a score of 2000-2300 can still qualify as knowing chess well. Didn't know Morphy was a top level player when I made the comment.
Oohh I see what you mean. I thought you were talking about their technology like automatic cruise control (with full stop-and-go) and lane keep assist.

Subaru and Hyundai, for example, have both had those technologies in their cars since around 2013 or so, while Toyota literally only just recently released those features a year or so ago. And Toyota's lane keep assist is TERRIBLE.
Bad company who scared of the future and cant innovate, partners with bad people to halt the march of the progressive and virtuous. I believe this to be lazy clickbaity reporting

Remove the pearl-clutching and all Toyota is doing is trying to get the government to extend government subsidies beyond BEVs using the very same system of lobbying major companies use. Their methods are the same as every other company and their aim seems perfectly sensible
I think divine intercession by `dang` gave it a second chance.
Chess is to humans as Bitcoin is to computers (Chess : Humans :: Bitcoin : Computers). Except humans stick up for the wastefulness of both, and computers stay silent on the matter.
Um....are you sure those numbers aren't MRR? I'm running a 2-person business with over $100K ARR, and we're not special as far as I can tell from talking to other more micro-style founders.

EDIT: Oh per person, I missed that part. Still though, that puts us at over $50k ARR per person at an org size of 2. However it also makes the comparison completely pointless.
It's actually pretty tough to write out a proof, and going from a whiteboard where you're 99.9% sure it's right to something in LaTeX in a paper in your field is actually a long number of steps to take.
Oh please. Can we take these people out back and put a bullet in their heads. Reality is NOT about wokeness, power, etc. So much sunk cost fallacy. Not enough actual understanding of the term.

We as a species aveve had colonialism since neolithic times. It's how humanity rolls and always has rolled. ALL peoples are are not in Africa only got to where they are now by primarily killing off one to dozens of prior people, each of whom killed off the priors. And in Africa, there has been far more colonial expansion than even in the rest of the world. Can you say Bantu? Swahili is a "colonial" Bantu language. As is Zulu. Most of the natives of East and South Africa from before their colonization were "eliminated", "cleansed", or "assimulated" (see Xhosas) etc. Bantus originated in West Africa and that's where we'd still find them if it weren't for their colonialism.

I suspect there is a dysphoria and worry that places like America could someday (maybe even sooner than anyone would like) be colonized by other people and everyone currently considering it home would be "whacked" if they aren't the "right kind of people". The Chinese PLA has published books about "North America being proper Han Lebensraum needing to be cleared". Even our "permanence" isn't actually certain or eternal.

The thinking seems to be: "if we eliminate the word, it can't happen!" Yeah, no. That's not how it works.
It seems to me that we should use fixed point arithmetic to represent real numbers. The two key advantages are 1) we can reuse integer ALUs to implement this arithmetic, with no need for dedicated FP units, 2) fixed point arithmetic is simple and easy to reason about and 3) conversion to and from integer types becomes trivial.
If you live in a modern western country? Nothing.

The asparagus season might be a few weeks shorter, you may pay 3-5% more but ultimately no one is going to starve.

The best thing to do is prepare for slightly higher outgoings.

If you are in Sub-Saharan Africa continue doing what you're already doing, get on a dinghy and point it at Europe.
Meritocracy leads to inequality without effort to counter it, because people who accumulates advantages tend to accumulates even more, allowing them to access resources, experience, and wisdom that poorer people simply cannot access.
Turkey plans to introduce prison up to 5y for 'disinformation' on social media
How about tax cuts for everyone?
Show HN: Cryptr: a simple shell utility for encrypting and decrypting files
It's obvious that you don't live in the United States. The nearest grocery store from my suburban house is 2.3 miles away. It's a 1hr walk or a 30 minute bike ride, and to get there, I would need to scale a 400 ft elevation gain each way. The gym is 3 miles from my house in the opposite direction. I would bike there but the only road is extremely narrow and quite frankly dangerous to ride on. There is simply no way I can conduct my life without a car, and I say that as someone that loves to ride a bike and frequently rides 50mi and over.
>Are you saying that someone being given an economic advantage by their parents means that their accomplishments have less merit?

Yes. Being raised in a world where your physical needs are never even remotely considered is without question the single most important factor that leads to radically different outcomes in life.
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The difference is in why. Mathematicians do it out of necessity because they are at the edge of complexity they can handle. Developers do it because it is convenient. Developers have a choice.
I much prefer the old days. At the risk of the cliche (and I realize all the negative connotations as well), we were cowboys, but I liked it that way.

Of course, that may be what drew me to coding then. Perhaps the new culture attracts a new type of coder that likes process much more.
Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes
Yes, the particles are prepared together, then separated. Experiments on entangled particles have now managed to keep them entangled while separating them by huge distances—many kilometers. Of course there is a link connecting them, which we express by saying they are “entangled”. But we may never be able to connect this with concepts that are intuitive from our experience with the classical world.
> Are you saying that someone being given an economic advantage by their parents means that their accomplishments have less merit?

The fact that accomplishments are contributed to by material advantages supplied by parents (and more generally the network people are born and raised into and in) means that those accomplishments are less due to individual merit. The total contribution is 100%, so more of one contribution is less of the other.
Generally yes, because they spend what they get and we have a consumer driven economy.
this would be beneficial not just for stacktraces but for printing values, too.
FWIW, I think eventually EVs will dominate the market. It's a matter of when, not if (unless hydrogen makes a splash somehow).

The issue with trips is yes, many people don't drive anywhere near that range on a daily per-trip basis. However, people don't buy cars on a trip-by-trip basis, they buy a car to handle the range of regularly encountered transportation scenarios they encounter. So even if people only make, say, 7% of their trips outside the range of an EV, they don't want to go and rent a car to do that if they already own a car. They want to have a car that will do that, plus the one or two trips per week that go well outside that range. They don't want to rent another car every week or two to do that. Add to that a conservative 50% reduction in range in the winter (per Consumer Reports), range is currently a concern.

I guess I just think the range-per-trip metric can be misleading, because that can equate to a relatively large number of trips per time, especially given the expense of a car, regardless of technology.
Hikaru was making six figures before he ever took up streaming. He was sponsored by Red Bull back then.
> Isn't this already what Windows does? It's warned about unsigned binaries on first run for a while now, no?

Sort of? There's three I know of

1. the generic warning for files you downloaded off the internet

2. the UAC warning when you try to run any program as admin

3. the smartscreen warning for uncommon files.

The first two has the "run/open" equally as visible as the "don't run/cancel" button. The last one is the one where the "run" button is hidden.

>And I can see some argument for that, even if in practice it feels more like teaching users to blindly ignore warnings.

That's exactly the problem. The first two warnings show up for everything, so users are trained to click through.

>But holding uncommon or un-Microsoft-sourced (that is, signed) to a higher standard feels wrong.

The problem is that without a digital signature, you can't tell whether a binary from a legitimate developer and a malware developer. Hence the need to rely on file hashes and needing to warn users for uncommon binaries.
PC is a poor descriptor, and yes urgent and extreme action is necessary.
But why does that action have to include going 100% electric on an impractical timeline? Surely there are debateble aspects to this approach, and probably other sources of carbon emission that can be more easily reduced, thereby allowing for at least some gas cars.

Do you really believe the entire country of India will be selling no gas powered cars by 2030? Surely this is just an overly-aggressive starting point by governments that they can further bargain on?
> the first article I read was a column

A column is a personal opinion piece, not a news story.

> how this was "worse than Antitem [sic]"

I can't find any columns that mention Antietam from NYT published in 2005. Is there any reason to believe what you're describing actually happened?