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NHTSA keeps mandating new tech crap in cars on extremely questionable putatively utilitarian models. Infotainment systems are effectively mandatory now. The recent "infrastructure" bill also included language about investigating mandatory DUI-detection technology in new cars. Getting a vehicle without cellular is going to be impossible soon. My 2020 Tacoma (a pretty bare-bones pickup) even has a cellular modem.
> Not to mention property insurance rates have jacked up mysteriously in the past year.

Not that mysterious. The cost of home repairs has increased substantially in the last year, due to supply chain disruptions. Lumber is a big one.

My hot water heater failed last week. It cost more than double to replace it from what I had paid to install the previous one.
You've never spent a day at home?
There was a section near the end of video where the background flashed dozens of images in rapid succession. I’m not familiar with the process of setting thumbnails in YT videos - do you have to choose a frame from the actual video, and is this a trick to provide many potential thumbnails to choose from?
You're going to have to take what you can get on an English-speaking forum. Move to a Japanese forum and you can find all the Japanese perspectives you want.
ASML's first EUV machine contract closure was for $15 bil, and the contract explicitly stipulated that $3bil was just for the purpose of acquiring three specialty Boeing 747s for shipping the machines to the clients.

Each chunk of the machine must be shipped in vacuum. It takes about 40 chunks to make a complete EUV lithography machine. Each is about the equivalent mass of a school bus.
Based on that reasoning, though, I would expect them to build capacity around the typical usage, and not peak demand.
A lot of times, people have to waive their right to a speedy trial. Apparently, in some districts they don't like it when the accused doesn't waive their right, so much that the defense attorney will get assaulted by the judge.

https://youtu.be/jAv1QUkHFSY?t=397
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The article provides evidence to support the claim made in the headline, but there are important caveats included at the end:

> The death rate was between three and four times that of Denmark, and nearly 10 times those of Finland and Norway - suggesting Swedes died that didn’t need to.

> And Dr Bhatt does not think another, non-Nordic country such as Britain could have copied Sweden’s policies and got the same results.

> With about 23 people per square kilometre, Sweden has about a tenth of the population density of the UK, while about half of Swedish households comprise just one person - a major factor in local transmission.
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Hey, Zaf from Algora here. I'm sorry that you (and some other people in this thread) felt this way, but I totally get where you're coming from.

I wish we had more expertise and time on our hands to publish more thorough posts, but the truth is that we're just two young guys who are hacking up stuff in their home office, scrambling to get feedback on what we've been working on during the dwindling window of opportunity of the YC Build Sprint.

The "article" had no purpose other than to share our story, provide a food for thought and most importantly to learn from the community if what we're doing makes sense and if so how we can improve it.
Electric cars have a fire rate much lower than ICE, apart from specific problems like the LG batteries that caused 1 order of magnitude more fires for EVs compared to ice.
Until a year ago, no. I made it a point to go outside to do something at least once every day. :(
Would be cool if the US economy could be driven by supply and demand. Housing is needed - more houses are built. Not sure why that can't be the case. This isn't Tokyo.
You could install Joplin and be cool too.
I think responding to the human element is huge for safe driving. You would not want to safely drive the same way in LA as Boston, or Seattle. Other drivers make very different assumptions on your response to their (and others) actions, and that can create danger irrespective of navigation.
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Canon and Nikon make similar machines too, but they've lost market share ever since ASML released their dual scan system. And at the moment EUV doesn't appear to be a mature enough market to support competitors.
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Ingenious!

It only needs some build-in YouTube and Getty-Images browser to select fairuseify targets. (It should work for all kind of media, of course).

I think we've solved the copyright issue right now finally for good, didn't we?
At least in that particular case the image (if not the title) gave you, personally, the information you needed about the video topic. If you know what the Collatz Conjecture is, the image “3x+1” makes the topic obvious. If you don’t, your curiosity is piqued.
To quote Neil deGrasse Tyson, "The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it." While I actually have some qualms with that quote, the general gist of it is reassuring.

The sad thing to me is that the low level of "acceptance" of evolution by Americans shows to me fundamental flaws in our education system. When I was in high school and taught evolution, I was basically taught it as "this is how it is", and also with some examples of the evidence for it, but it's not hard for me to see how many people frame evolution as a "some evidence is for it, some evidence is against it" type of question given how it is taught in most high schools. It was only when I got to college that I was really exposed to how evolution is the absolute basis of pretty much all biological understanding, and that if it weren't true, that basically none of our command of biology (e.g. modern medicine) could work.

I'm not necessarily saying high schools have the opportunity to go into that much depth, but it would not be hard, for example, to tie in evolution into lots of different disciplines to see why it's so important, instead of just kind of throwing it out there as one more piece of information students should "believe".
Those same complaints are still applicable today.
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I never realized evolution was this controversial.

I always thought it was only rejected by the most extreme ~5% or so of fundamentalist Christians. Seeing that it's half the population is rather astounding.
If this is true, how are people paying the rent
Can someone explain why Intel needs TSMC to make their chips? Why can't they just buy ASML's machines and use them to make their own chips?
Past related threads:

Monkey Patching in Golang (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22442170 - Feb 2020 (22 comments)

Monkey Patching in Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9290917 - March 2015 (22 comments)
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Okay, but once I'm done with the hammer, how do I get the battery back in?
Heat pumps can be 300% efficient.
I was playing the role of the person that’s going to design these machines, because they sounded fantastical and decades away from production. Though if you’re just talking hydroponics + CNC machines, maybe that’s different.
Related, I am wondering if somebody is aware of a project to wrap cli utilies in a minimal 'TUI', along the lines of this: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey , but staying in the terminal. You'd pass the name of the program to run as the first argument. Haven't thought this through fully.

EDIT: well, some discussion about this: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/issues/296
> 3. Provide no justification.

> 6. Profit?

I'm not up to date with youth culture, but I think these were replaced with "refuse to elaborate further" and "leave" respectively.
Ah , non-violent communication, a great tool.

I've copied an excellent summary by @BeetleB

To add to the above:

1. Observations should be specific, not generic ("you are lazy" vs "you have not accomplished any of the tasks you've been assigned"). They should also be objective - third party witnesses should have consensus. We can agree that you've not accomplished your tasks for the week. We will likely disagree on whether that means you're lazy.

2. Feelings are internal and should not involve someone else. "I feel cheated" is really just saying "I believe I've been cheated" - it's accurately portraying your inner narrative (which may be OK), but it is not portraying your feelings. Instead, you may feel sad, depressed, upset, nervous, whatever. Another way to think of it: Feelings are always legitimate - they are never wrong. The narrative in your head, though, may well be wrong. If someone can reasonably dispute it (assuming he/she is not a jerk), then it probably was a narrative and not a feeling.

3. Needs: This, in my experience, is easy for tech people to state. If you think someone cheated you out of money, you probably need things like integrity, honesty, security, etc. If your report at work seems unreliable to you, you probably need consistency, peace of mind, etc.

4. This is making a request. A request is not a demand or a command (so yes, NVC is not appropriate/relevant in contexts where orders make sense). If the person declines your request and you're upset a fair amount by it, you probably were not sincere in making the requests. And finally, your request should also be precise. Not "Could you rephrase that in a respectful manner", but "Could you rephrase that and address me as Mister instead of Dude?"

A few other tidbits from the book (also in Crucial Conversations): You are not responsible for other's feelings. Relieve yourself of that burden/guilt. However, if you want to take things to the next step and have better relations with people around you, do care about their feelings and use techniques to have them feel better - but out of empathy and not out of responsibility or guilt.

In general, the book is about realizing that you have a choice in most things - even things like whether you want to earn money to feed your kids. Likewise, it's about eliminating the language of obligation from your internal dialogues. This may be offputting to people who have a strong sense of obligation.

The above is likely about 90% of the book. The rest of the book are specific, concrete strategies related to the above.

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Personally I've been studying this stuff for years yet still haven't been able to use it in real life. Not for want of trying or of opportunities. It's damn hard when the other person isn't playing along or interested in being understood or heard, when they just want to vent at you about you.
Different strokes for different folks, but I immediately dismiss any job posting that mentions contract to hire. Even if it's a 2 week trial. I have a mortgage to pay and regular expenses, and given I've had secure full-time development work for over a decade, I would never jump from a secure job to a contract position where a company does not have to offer benefits or even the courtesy of actually firing me so I can collect unemployment. If a company wants me to have wizard of oz style interviews, sure, I'll jump those hoops until I have an offer from a company I like. But I'm not going to sit in financial limbo while a company decides if I'm worth keeping or not.

Of course for someone just starting in the industry, or comfortable with contract work, this might be fine. But I imagine many SWEs have no interest in contract to hire for similar reasons.
Yes but in this case it's to sell it not to rent it.

I can (almost) understand that you don't want foreigners in the apartment that you own, but in this case they don't even want to receive money -- the same amount -- from foreign buyers, and in this case it's clearly because they want to protect their village from "being invaded". Yes pretty ridiculous, but unfortunately very common.
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Has it occurred to you that on an English-speaking board, posters in non-English speaking countries might be more likely to be spouses/expats? Just as the same would be true for Japanese speaking spouses on a Japanese board?
this was me, about 4 years ago, when I started using the Mac - and honestly you're totally right.
What do you mean? I'm pretty sure no two distinct floats compare as equal.
I just don't get it. Who are these awful small-minded folks who only like to tear down people for trying things? What motivates them?
> In reality, skilled disassembly is required. Engineers must take apart the cars and put them back together by hand. One misplaced wire can leave engineers puzzling for days over where the problem is, according to a person familiar with the operations who describes the system as cumbersome and prone to quality problems.

I think this is one of the more interesting pieces in the article for me. We all kinda know by now that there are issues around AI handling all driving situations. I think it's interesting to hear Waymo having difficulty with the manufacturing aspect.

It does make a certain amount of sense. Waymo is a company that is mainly trying to solve the AI problem around self-driving cars, but other things can stymie those efforts like assembly. This isn't meant as a dig at Waymo, just more an observation that just because a company is excellent in one area doesn't mean that they will be excellent in all areas and that even excellent companies like Alphabet/Google/Waymo can stumble in new areas.
It does not appear to grant (or attempt to grant) use of the software. So sharing and forking are fine, but not necessarily anything else.

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Someone posted a third-party thread-unroll link elsewhere in the discussion, I don't think that required a login?
We would be better off with taxing the unimproved value of the land (possibly until the market price of the land itself is $0) and rolling back the barriers to building new housing. That would result in cheaper, more plentiful and higher quality housing.
C++23 vs C++20 seem to be less drastic. So maybe they will slow down to a slow trickle at some point ;)
The first sentence is probably true. The third one is objectively false:

1. Poor quality drivers. The money is not there. Intel and AMD might throw a couple of engineers on it but the process is always catching-up: slow and incomplete. Think of video, audio, power management, etc. I recently bought an AMD laptop just to discover modern standby and my jack headset are not supported, that my internal mic and speakers occasionally stop working and otherwise are too low, etc. After two kernel releases all these problems persist, even if they were acknowledged by the developers that are working on it (very resource-constrained). "Linux-ready" laptops might be a safer option but in general they are not cheap and they share most of the shortcomings listed here, it's just a safer gamble and you pay the insurance premium. Of course, if Linux had been sold OEM for 30 years with hardware vendors providing state-of-the-art drivers even before releases, this would be a different story.

2. The state of the display server. Multiple HiDPI screens with different scaling factors are not properly supported. This is an all too common requirement nowadays: FHD laptop + FHD/UHD external screen. X+xrandr is slow and buggy with most video drivers. Even after ten years, Wayland adoption is slow both by compositors and by apps. And critical functionality is missing or in alpha-state, for example screen sharing (a must have in these WFH days), be it because of the design of Wayland itself or because it depends on technologies that are still more immature (PipeWire, portals, etc).

3. Fragmentation at all levels: distribution, package manager, desktop, toolkit. From the perspective of an app developer you get a tiny market share with no clear target platform and a propensity to break backwards compatibility every now and then. This of course enables a negative feedback loop wrt to my previous points. Must read/watch from kernel developers: Molnar: http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/ingo-molnar-what-ails-..., Torvalds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc. These problems are not unknown to Windows users (WinForms|WPF|UWP|WinUI and MSI|MSIX|exe, for example) but are way worse in Linux.
I can confirm about the rising property insurance rates. My Travelers home owners' insurance (for my two bed-room apartment) has risen up by ~11% from last year. In the past years, it was just about 3-4% YoY increase. When I asked them, they answered that part of the increase is to protect for the inflation. Inflation hurts everyone especially for people who will not see a lot of increase in their paychecks. It also seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy and I personally believe it'll be sticky (meaning, YoY inflation much higher than 2% will be with us for quite a while).
If I understand correctly, this appears to be Linux only?
I'm not sure how lidar would help in detecting yellow lights correctly. Seems to me like that has to be a vision system, at least until we get all traffic lights to report their state via radio.
Of course, and I'm sure if there is a wider issue with the ID3 then Volkswagen will issue a recall too. I'd imagine a lot of issues where the car can catch fire result in a recall.

>>and the owner didn't take it in to get fixed.

Yes, which actually resulted in a fascinating legal battle, because Ford says it's not their responsibility as they have issued a recall, and the owner says she changed address and there is nothing that would legally require her to inform the manufacturer of her car of that fact. So she really didn't know about the recall, which means the responsibility here is.......unknown, and at the heart of the $100M legal battle. One of the other fascinating things is that the Department of Justice has literally stepped in and said they don't agree for the owner of the car to be a side in such expensive case, and they are taking her place instead.
Calibration and following working procedures. The lithography machines have endless knobs to tune. It has to be done well to get a decent yield out of a factory.
If there was scope to increase rents, then why were they not increased already?
Often times at small Asian grocers, the service employee is the manager
In my neighborhood, many are occupied by a non-english speaking person, or small family.

(I'm not saying anything racist. I just know a few individuals whom shop at Safeway whom live in million plus homes that don't speak English. I feel we need more that a occupancy requirement. We need some hard requirements, a long with not allowing hedge funds to buy homes. This goes for American corporations too.)
You can, but the experience sucks for families. If you want shared access to your family photos or music collection, you kinda need a shared account. But you probably don't want your family members to read all your email, so you need separate accounts. And what if you want to email a photo from the shared account? You end up having to switch accounts all the time, and the experience sucks.

The result is that people just use web apps like Gmail instead of native apps, because it's a lot easier to sign in and out of services.
Discussed here:

Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25530178 - Dec 2020 (120 comments)

The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16873778 - April 2018 (161 comments)
Whichever one wins, you and your neighbors lose.
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... and you are right about graphical debuggers.

I left them out because I very rarely use them, unfortunately. It's my personal vice, of sort.
I tried to learn to use and love them, more than once, but never learned to be more efficient with them than without, and when a deadline hits, usually drop them and never look back.

I grew up as a programmer without graphical debuggers, developed a rather sophisticated way to debug with essentially "print" statements, but on steroids -- I have a library of debugging utilities which I kind of recreate for any language I am working with. I've a habit to anticipate where they may be needed, and my code is usually peppered with commented out debugging statements (of course all of them generated via code snippets), which help me to be very efficient in debugging my code.

I must say that some of my collaborators over the years hated it, others loved it, adapted my system and used it in their own code.

I think it would be good to un-learn this habit and learn to use debuggers efficiently, and to produce a bit more conventional code. On the other hand, life is short, and there are only so many fights you can hope to win...
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I’ve posted about having a phone walker service

A courier or ride share driver can have an additional service that fairies phones around and pollutes location data. Maybe even charge the phones too
The reality is that long term trips may, in general, be safer since you're on highways. Some statistics show that short term trips are more likely to have accidents.

See https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2020/09/study-25-percent-of-car-...
i think one of the main principal errors on Waymo (and other large players) part is not working with military. Given that for military the task is simpler while safety requirements is significantly laxer, i'd have expected that we'll see self-driving tanks/transports/etc. well before cars.
Ok, changed from https://doctorow.medium.com/machine-learnings-crumbling-foun.... Thanks!
Sure. But the point is that they misrepresent the evidence by pointing to the system as trustworthy. Even without tampering with the evidence the system isn’t trustworthy beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt.
What does renting location look like in practice?

Aside, thank you for taking the time to write these comments, in this thread and others like it. This is fascinating and important stuff, and you have a way of putting it together in a way that's easy to digest.
Good topic. Needs more focus.
At some point they’d probably figure out how to use the accelerometer to fingerprint your movements. Your accomplice will almost certainly have a different profile for how the phone moves when walking.

I guess you could limit accomplice activities to things like driving around.