skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cars shape and structural components are designed around the battery. The cars software, motors, charging electronics, software, cooling systems, etc are all designed for the specific battery. The battery eats up a significant fraction of the cost of the car, and the systems designed around it a significant fraction of the remainder.

Asking for interoperable batteries between vehicle brands is like asking for interoperable engines between vehicle brands, it's ridiculous. The government should not be saying "hey, that $xx,xxxx item with a million constrains and optimizable variables, why don't you make it meet this arbitrary standard so people could theoretically put it in another chassis that wasn't designed to let you optimize it as well as possible".
What does it mean to be in a Cold War with China? On the US side, the Cold War with the USSR involved coups (many but not all successful) in the Middle East and Latin America, training death squads at the School of the Americas, installing nuclear ICBMs in Turkey and on submarines surrounding the USSR, propping up puppet/minority governments resisting “contagion” (and even going to war on behalf of some of them). This was all done to resist “contagion” (sometimes USSR imperialism, but mostly just people agreeing with ideas we didn’t like).

What does it mean this time? There doesn’t even seem to be any argument akin to “contagion”. I don’t see any Chinese imperialism or even a big ideological soft power push. Even China’s loans and purchases associated with the Belt and Road come with almost no ideological strings, especially compared with IMF loans and US’s push for the Washington Consensus. What material actions are being asked for here, in order to make up for the lost focus on this supposed “Cold War 2”?

This whole article is saber rattling nonsense to me.
In context, I think "lots" meant "more than I would want to list here", or "enough that we can say it's not just one fluke case".
Lol you had me going for a minute there.
> and writing interfaces and top of that piece of crap that can only process data at night or during the weekend.

I worked on mainframes and this seems like some deliberate policy not a mainframe limitation.

Also your Kafka+Java architecture is unlikely to still be supportable in 2 decades. Will have the same problems with Java and Kafka in the future as you have with Cobol today.
It seems to be all the same story. People talk about these huge pays and guaranteed jobs but the average developer is already getting a huge pay and has no problems finding work.

The pays for COBOL do not even look that compelling and you are walking down a dead end when these systems finally modernize. I wouldn't touch cobol for anything short of $300k and the promise of enough work that I could retire within a few years.
I sometimes return a 418 when request heuristics detect bad behavior that looks intentional. I don’t document it, though.
There's a longstanding concern that the physics of electrical currents in large-scale plasmas (at solar system, interstellar, even intergalactic scales!) and corresponding magnetic fields — in sheets and filaments, which organize spontaneously according to the laws of nature, and involve powerful long-range interactions between them — has not received the attention it should, primarily because during the many decades in which the current "majority mindshare" astrophysics evolved, it was extremely difficult to attempt to model/test those concerns, with respect to both extreme computational complexity (super computers needed) and the fact such interactions don't readily boil down to simple/er models, which are easier for humans to iterate upon.

In effect, many astronomical observations are analyzed through a conceptual lens that reduces cause-effect to gravitation and resulting heat, i.e. something "sparkling in x-rays" must be accounted for by acceleration ultimately caused by gravity, or an explosion resulting from extreme gravity.
What a joke, leave the poor guy alone.
Infrastructure Bill Could Cut Carbon Emissions by Nearly a Gigaton
Looks fairly unremarkable to me. It's passing between the camera and the engine nozzle, so it must be very small -- maybe a speck of dust or a fleck of paint.

Bear in mind that at this point in the video, the spacecraft is in direct sunlight and the background is pitch-black, so it doesn't take much to reflect enough light to be visible.
Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal
Yep, nothing worse than wasting time because of bad information.

We're intending on offering a self-hosted version a bit down the line, exactly for those companies who need complete control (for compliance reasons or otherwise). And as for pricing, we're going to be watching how people engage and potentially be adjusting the price over the next little while.
Ah fond memories of my roommate and I (circa 1997) hacking together a webcam of an RC car in our backyard. It involved me writing some sort of perl script to pipe the low-res jpegs dumped from god knows what camera to I honestly can't remember what sort of web resource (maybe I transcoded the jpegs into an endless streaming GIF?) and my roommate doing the dirty work of bit-banging some kind of rs-232 connected servos to wire the remote up to the server (which I then hooked up via some perl scripts to our webpage).

I think we made Slashdot. We ran this off of one of the first batch of cable modems available in San Diego at the time and well, as I recall it, all of a sudden the car just starts moving all over the place freakishly and then we lost all connectivity.

Fun times!
Saying a language sucks and the people who use it are bad programmers is not merely a "direct, honest style". At least to my understanding, the article is talking less about good-faith critiques of languages, and more about snide and uncharitable remarks.
Oh come on. Silver's polling averages, and his election predictions, were up a year before the election, and are still up for everyone to see. "Retrospective now" doesn't even make sense. Keeping up his model and his averages on the web isn't "memory holing" anything, it's being radically honest. You can still see his 2016 predictions too!
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Agree. The challenges are still real in that with enough of these you'll lose people (just like you do in airplanes occasionally) but this is a pretty significant moment. I haven't seen any mention of any "science" they are going to do which was a late add to the qualification list for astronaut, and it was really apparent the difference between having access to the NASA deep space network vs not having that access. Once Starlink is a bit more populated the access to the NASA DSN should not be a problem.

The other interesting thing to note is that SpaceX needed to use pad 39A for this but they are actively building a launch facility in Boca Chica. So this will force the issue of launch air traffic control which appears fairly primitive given that the US only has 2 launch locations.

And finally there is the whole, 3 days in orbit vs the 3 minutes of free fall that Virgin and Blue Origin offer. Certainly there is an interesting value proposition there. I don't know if it covers the $62M which is the 'cost to LEO' that SpaceX nominally charges. Let's say it did, then a tourist flight with a ticket price of $20M[1] each would have a nominal gross margin of nearly 30% suggests a pretty viable business model.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos#:~:text=Roscosmos%20....
Publishing some flavor of SOAP services seems to be easy and common in companies that live in the Microsoft ecosystem.

I’m no fan of that, but unfortunately we are forced to use some such SOAP services.
If this was about iPhones this would have 999 comments and 10 times as many upvotes, but any other brand and people are like oh no, anyway.
That's fair, I was more speaking about XML and its use as a form of binary transport. Things like WS-Management and explicit SOAP obviously came a little bit later, and SOAP-like technologies were popularized for more general use in the 2000s. I think it's fair to say my experiences in general lean more towards observing standards groups.
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Text, email, zoom, etc. Facebook did not invent online communication. Facebook didn't invent the ability to share photos online.

As far as I can tell, Facebook's innovation is it's great at identifying people susceptible to extremist conspiracies and at connecting them. Per Facebook's own research:
"""Even before the teams’ 2017 creation, Facebook researchers had found signs of trouble. A 2016 presentation that names as author a Facebook researcher and sociologist, Monica Lee, found extremist content thriving in more than one-third of large German political groups on the platform. Swamped with racist, conspiracy-minded and pro-Russian content, the groups were disproportionately influenced by a subset of hyperactive users, the presentation notes. Most of them were private or secret.

The high number of extremist groups was concerning, the presentation says. Worse was Facebook’s realization that its algorithms were responsible for their growth.The 2016 presentation states that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools” and that most of the activity came from the platform’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” algorithms: “Our recommendation systems grow the problem.”"" [0].

There were QAnon groups with millions of members. Facebook created these echo chambers and then ushered people in. And the only thing you can think of is they allowed you to communicate with your mother and share images?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201219115127/http://wsj.com/ar...
Yep. I have a Bolt. We are fortunate that the previous owner of our house put in RV hookups so during the recall we have been able to charge while parked in the driveway rather than charging in the garage and then moving to the driveway each night. But there is no way we can follow this latest guidance.

The farthest we could park is on the street evenly spaced between our driveway and our neighbor's driveway. This will end up being about 20 feet from the entries to our respective driveways and 35 feet diagonal from our respective garages. And I don't live in a dense area at all.

My biggest concern in all of this has been that there is a large pine tree in our front yard and there is literally no place in the driveway or street that isn't at least partially under the canopy of this tree. If the car catches fire, so will the tree, with pretty good odds of falling on the house.

We love the car, and don't really want to go through the hassle of shopping and buying another car to replace it right now. So it is really tempting to look at 10 fires out of 140,000 cars and say those are reasonable odds, but I don't know if that's the smart thing to do.
This is what got me to switch to iPhone. Ewaste is a big problem with Google phones. My wife has always bought iPhones and has gone through half as many phones as me.
Reminds me of Hawaiian Pidgin :-)

'If can can. If no can no can'
New York City Has Once Again Defied the Doomsayers. Here's Why
My SO has TikTok.

It seems like mostly staged videos and folks with barely informed political rants to me.
Well, yes, in 2001, PHP was a badly designed, objectively bad language. Cannot deny.

The problem is not with the language, or whatever other suboptimal circumstances people may have. The problem is in the desire to mock, to put oneself on a whatever kind of higher ground, in lack of humility and compassion.

If somebody had to use PHP in 2001 (like e.g. the Wikipedia project), one should rather find out what forced them to use that language. Existing libraries, hosting options (a big thing about shared hosting offers prevalent in 2001), some other constraints. Considering other people no less intelligent than yourself, and respecting their choices as likely rational instead of deriding them as "obviously stupid", takes some growing up.

This problem happens more often to teenagers than to people with some more life experience. The computing world got filled with students and high-schoolers in 1990s as reasonably powerful PCs and the Internet became accessible. A lot of things were in their infancy then. It was unfortunately hard to expect maturity and humility from an average community member in nearly any newly-appeared community.

History can't be redone, but at least we can avoid repeating it in the future.
>I don't see how you can honestly use this phrase to describe the worst pandemic since HIV.

I mean, according to CDC's data, it is a very minor illness. Affects very few seriously, and kills even fewer: CDC believes (they obviously don't know for sure) only about 5% of their "total COVID deaths (deaths with COVID), are actually attributed specifically to COVID. As of right now, that would put total deaths from COVID at around 33K, that's over 18 months that we've started tracking. Total deaths from car accidents, yearly, around 36K and rising quickly over the last two years.

I've had it twice, 18 months apart. Yes, it was not nearly as bad as the flu, and definitely not as bad as the antibiotic resistant strep I had picked up at a hospital.
To put a finer point on it, they are referring to particular attitudes as vile, not necessarily all attitudes that came out in opposition to codes of conduct.
> In my previous job where I used it heavily, every module had an enable parameter. If it was true, the module would follow one logic branch (install package, write config, perform action) but if it was false then it would follow another (remove package, delete config, perform action).

This is one area where NixOS shines: The ability to remove things from your configuration with no mental overhead. Even if you take great care to do all the cleanup work in your runbook, something is bound to get missed and you still haven't accounted for the state of the system before the runbook was run the first time.

For NixOS it's easy: "Not in config" = "It's not there". All system configurations are themselves normal Nix expressions that get evaluated into derivations which are then built into immutable paths under /nix/store. Most files in /etc are simply symlinks to files in the Nix store, and the activation script takes care of creating and deleting those symlinks when a new configuration is activated.
Probably 1st stage debris.
It's not a crime, that's the point. The regulation does not exist (yet)
Everything about FSD is truly mindblowing. They sold the product but are not letting most users get the version that tries to be autonomous (and thank god for that). It won't be available to most of these people on the car they purchased it for, and can't be transferred to other cars. That has to end in a refund or class action law suit right? And now they have a subscription available? That also doesn't include these features? Who are the suckers paying monthly for this, especially after years of failed promises about this product (that's giving the benefit of the doubt, I think "lies" is more appropriate at this point).
> If you have any business understanding

So I assume that you’re an investor in $AAPL, and not a user of Apple products?

Nobody is arguing that these lock-in moves won’t make them money, but that their greed does harm the user experience - the result being that you can’t buy Kindle books on iPhone now (and countless other such examples).
> One the shooting started what would stop the Taiwanese from simply lobbing missiles at the heavily populated South of China.

I doubt Taiwan would target civilian centers, rather they'd be more likely to put all their surface-to-surface arrows behind sinking the PLAN's amphibious landing ships first, and the rest of its ships next. Without those, there can't be an invasion.
This is a part of a significant Science endeavor. It’s not the most or least important part, but it is a part.

Whether you find inspiration or not is more a reflection of your current internal state than anything :).
My Subaru does an annoying thing where every time the car is turned on (or cranked from the on position), the radio comes on. At least it’s whatever volume was set last, but it makes me a little crazy.

The Bolt I test drove didn’t do that at all, IIRC. I’m going to look at another one soon; I’ll pay close attention to that.

Maybe yours is faulty?
Sure, and I'm not making an argument against regulation. My point is that there is nothing inherent in cryptocurrency to create these forms of fraud except the lack of regulation, otherwise the same fraud would exist in traditional markets.
Certainly no one should expect to be able to swap the main batteries that are embedded into the chassis of the car. The total weight of the batteries in a Tesla are around 1200 lbs.

But it seems like there could be a hot-swappable portion of the battery, kind of like a separate "reserve tank" (although it wouldn't actually be reserved).

Some back of the envelope math says that if 1200 lb battery gets you 250 miles, a 200 lb hot-swap battery would get you 40 miles. Possibly enough to get to your next destination.
Thanks for that detail.

Re: Lua, I don't know about "scrutiny" in the code-audit sense, but I believe that there are a few battle-tested deployments of Lua in entirely-untrusted sandboxing use-cases. Some games (e.g. Minecraft's Computercraft mod) allow players to deploy arbitrary Lua scripts which are then executed on other arbitrary players' computers; and yet nobody's managed to nuke anyone else's hard drive through these scripting mechanisms yet, despite griefers having high motivation to try.

For the same reason that blockchain software continuing to exist makes me have a lot more faith in the collision-resistance of SHA256 (despite a lack of cryptanalytic proof of such), I'd trust a tightly-constrained Lua sandbox. (In both cases, of course, there might be a state-military-level adversary with a vulnerability in hand, who doesn't want to show their hand for something as trifling as money. But such an attacker is highly unlikely to deploy their exploit against my service in particular, even if they have it.)
I'm increasing worried more so for what kind of nonsense my older relatives are picking up on the platform.
You used to be able to visit a space station for $20M. This price outstrips the inflation rate since 2001.
Same. Unfortunate. I mean, I have a G account - but I like seeing info w/o sign-in

Edit: from an auth'd account, there is a TOS checkbox/modal.
The devs decided to essentially eliminate yaml config files in favor of GUI configs. The reasoning being less braking changes (no need to individually update your yaml files when an update requires it) and easier adoption for new, less technical users.

I don't know about op, but I very much prefer config files. Using tools like sed or grep to make changes is much faster than mouse clicks - but I understand the devs point of view.
buying a new car is generally antithetical to buying a sustainable car
Another SMH article mentions Scomo said they intend to build them in Adelaide
They're not a democracy so they don't really have to justify anything.
Ethanol gasoline degrades older vehicle's rubber fuel lines, This has lead to many fuel fires.
Pixel 4A: Known for failures of its OLED screen manifesting as quickly-spreading purple smears.
Wrestling with the Scalability Trilemma
What you are saying would make sense if we ignore the context of the conversation. OP is losing sleep, which is a common way of telling the reader that their mental health is suffering due to wrestling with the concept of climate change and how society is underprepared for it.

If we ignore all that, then it sounds like I'm saying to give up. But if we take the context into account, it is evident that I'm actually giving OP advice on how to mentally and emotionally survive the coming apocalypse.

Though, maybe I should have been more clear.

> which could easily be interpreted

Perhaps there are more than one way in which to interpret certain concepts? Or maybe I'm interpreting your comment wrong?
I think we learned in 07/08 that even when the game isn’t fair, no one cares, and no one goes to jail :)
Flutes retain their tonal function despite age. Bone flutes from times past exist.

Flinders Petrie museum in UCL (London) has some stuff on ancient music I think.

The Taipei National Palace Museum collection includes bronze tuned bells (gongs? cymbals?)
Some people have gotten buy backs. GM Says that a buyback is an option for me, but I have to wait 5-7 business days (from a few days ago) to speak into more details.
The email felt very off to me. Strange wording to the situation.
Please name one single major poll that did not 'overly favour' Biden?
I am happy to engage but please do not accuse me of lying.
Maybe we can get Malaysia involved, then we can call it MABUS.
Cold War I ended with the breakup of the USSR. Quite possible that Cold War II will have the same end, marked by economic crisis and ethnic strife, but most importantly by the complete dissolution of the average person's faith in their own country. The submarines are a side show, mostly a signal of economic health.
Consoles were pretty open at the beginning. 2600 had plenty of third party games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#Early_years_(1980%E... and even crazy futuristic peripherals like modem (online game renting service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameLine. Same for Genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade. Atari f** up on NES by committing blatant copyright infringement and scamming Patent Office <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_...> if not for the method they used it would of been fine too.
Does Bolt have something equivalent to FSD? If not, why are you including it in the price comparison? Isn't the Bolt also dog slow compared to a Model 3? I'd also assume it's handling and suspension is markedly shitbox compared to any Tesla as well.
You would need to counternotice with your personal details. (And the cops abusing the copyright system would get a copy)
Best of luck with your upgrades =D
I think there was all of one BCT in Afghanistan with the ANA doing most of the high risk work. I think it’s more likely that the politburo surrendered to allow China to expand into Central Asia. I’m sure there will be some book deals and paltry speaking fees collected in the coming years.

Almost nothing the federal government does makes even a modicum of sense unless you look at it through the lens of it being a corrupt criminal organization auctioning off national assets to the highest bidder.
Stainless straws are extremely resilient and hard to break. I use them at home where I wouldn't bother using a disposable straw.

But I'd never use it in the car, where I predominately use plastic straws. No more than I'd stick a screwdriver in the cupholder, sharp end up. Makes me nervous to think about.
I've never thought of this as a footgun. It's useful to accumulate state in a function, sort of like a static variable in c. E.g.,

def func(x=[]):
x.append(5)
return x

I've always been annoyed that pylint yells at you for this.