skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with your points but one thing to note, electric car world has indeed settled on a universal fast charging standard. Its also just as ubiquitous, thankfully.

Every new EV from Rivian to GM to BMW uses the “Combined Charging System.” Tesla, chooses to continue to use their own proprietary design in the U.S. despite having CCS technology available. (and the implementation completed already - European Tesla models ship CCS - required by law.)

Tesla will sell you $10K beta software that wants to steer into pedestrians, that most choose to pay for because after delivery, the price doubles (so act fast!) Most who fork that kind of cash are not able to access all parts of this beta software, this software license cannot sold/transferred to the next owner regardless of what the maroney sticker says, but don’t worry, FSD is being launched next month.

If thats excusable, surely then everyone’s ok with vendor lock in for DC Fast charging unless one wants to shell out $450 for a slower “old school” Chademo adapter, the fact one cannot buy replacement parts for their car, and cannot repair their own vehicle.

Tesla - America’s Beta Test Success Story.
Ask HN: Do NSO exploits persist after backup and restore?
I'm wondering what I can do to keep good hygiene given the latest pandemic of exploits, especially the zero-click iMessage stuff.

If I backup my iPhone to desktop, then restore, would an exploit persist? Or would this remove it?
Perhaps the rationale is something like, “If your workload is memory-bandwidth-bound on 80 threads, this system is not for you.”

Seems like its ideal workload is lots of compute on a cache-friendly quantity of data.
If you're trying to save money, the bus system works. But... ugggh.

Train is more expensive for good reason! Its a much better experience. If we're talking about the price of Uber-rides / Rental Cars from NYC to Adirondacks... I bet you that the Train to Philly or even Washington DC will be cheaper than a rental car + all those miles you put on it!

So IMO, save your sanity and go with the train. But the busses exist if you really need to cut back on $$$ even more.
I mean we deliberately took a wrecking ball to our supply chain (destroying folks livelihood along the way) for a year and a half. You can’t just pay people to stay home... those people were doing something “essential” to somebody and they were all forced to close or dramatically alter their business. All the people not producing things no longer doing so is gonna have a huge impact on literally everything.

Dunno how anybody could be surprised at the outcome; people warned of exactly this happening back in March of 2020 but they were harassed, mocked, shamed and yelled at.

The second and third order effects from the last year and a half will no doubt have more of a negative public health impact than covid ever did.
EVs are just the tiniest bit better than gasoline engines for the environment, yet everyone pretends like the solve the problem because they don't want to be inconvenienced.

If you want to make a dent in the problem you need useful mass transit everywhere. Useful is more important than everywhere - useful will get people out of their cars, while everywhere gets people driving by and ignoring it because when they last looked it wasn't useful. (best to assume once every 5 years unless someone else finds it useful and raves about it)
Sounds like you're close. This is what worked for me:

1) Know what your goals are. For me it was "don't be the largest size in a typical clothes store + don't be exhausted for the rest of the day after a morning out". I think you've got your goals outlined.

2) Commit the time, forever. Never make exceptions. There's no such thing as done. Plan to be working out (whatever that means for you) 3-5 times a week for the rest of your life.

3) Find a community to support you. I like a small gym with group classes + experienced trainers -- I want to be able to turn my brain off and use their expertise. Other people like to teach themselves. Others still find a community in outdoor activity groups (like hiking or cycling clubs). There's so many ways to stay active/train/etc. Do one that keeps you engaged. This may change over time. You know you've got it right when #2 makes sense.

4) Eat a quality diet -- you need appropriate fuel to support being active.

IMO, community is the most important one. Have a reason to show up at a gym at 6:00am or whatever your commitment is. Second is having trainers/resources to help you learn and improve. Don't do it on your own.

Good Luck!
This verbiage is present in basically every S-1 and quarterly filing, if not verbatim, then very close.
I can be pretty confident that once I've finished a video, that very same video will be on my YouTube homepage for weeks. It's useless.

At this moment, my homepage's first 10 videos include 7 that I've already watched.
The car companies did the same, but what they did was cancel their slots for chip production while having little chip inventory.

So yeah, the root is back to the car companies. The rental car companies probably would have been dealing with a much smaller problem from the overall car demand increase from their sell-off if the car companies had maintained their production capacities of their supply chains.
Just rented a car and it was as cheap and easy as it was pre covid.

Use costcotravel.com
Right, I wouldnt hold my breath about the dark matter theory.
It is up there with alien space ships and santa.
12 United States 199.00 down / 72.7 up

I'm fairly skeptical of this figure, with most sq mi of the US unable to get anything like that.

Further, the typical upload speed for a 200Mbit cable connection is ~10Mbit. I can't see enough symmetric providers to skew the avg upload numbers that far.
From my understanding, a used rental is just a couple of notches above the bottom of the market so people who bought those replaced their beaters and sent those to the junk yard. So they are not stored anywhere but are being used in place of the cars that went out of the market.
The box isn't as black as you might think; they're not training some monolithic AI model, there are separated systems involved. Also, the models aren't entirely freeform; i.e. engineers embed knowledge of how the world is structured into those networks.

They can use those intermediates to project a kind of thought process others can look at - and you've probably seen videos and images of that kind of thing too; i.e. a rendered version of the 3d intermediate world it's perceived, enhanced with labels, enhanced with motion vectors, cut into objects, classified by type of surface, perhaps even including projections of likely future intent of the various actors, etc.

Sure, you can't fully understand how each individual perceptron contributes to the whole, but you can understand why the car suddenly veered right, what it's planned route was, what it thought other traffic participants were about to do, which obstacles it saw, whether it noticed the pedestrians, which traffic rules it was aware of, whether it noticed the traffic lights (and which ones) and how much time it thought remained etc.

...at least, sometimes; I don't know anybody working at Tesla specifically.

Here, for example waymo has a public PR piece kind of highlighting all the kind of stuff they can extract from the black box: https://blog.waymo.com/2021/08/MostExperiencedUrbanDriver.ht...

And while they emphasize their lidar tech, I bet Tesla's team, while using different sensors, also has somewhat similarly complex - and inspectable - intermediate representations.
When your technology starts working only when the entire world changes dramatically, you probably don't have a great technology idea.

In particular, road maintenance is already expensive and often left to rot. Still, current driving is relatively robust - even if a few signs are damaged or go missing, no major issues will occur. Road signs keep working even during storms, even if there is no power, even if something has hacked national electronic systems, even if the GPS is not accessible.

Replacing all this with brittle, finicky, expensive, easy to attack en masse digital systems is not a great idea.
A short history of JFK's question

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27581541/wh...
If someone is relatively unfamiliar with torture, they might think something like this. It is difficult to grasp the loss of physical and even mental autonomy and the lasting effects that it can have. One of the arguments against torture (from the point of view of effectiveness) is that everyone talks, even when they don't have the information sought.
EVs are not the solution for climate change.
What exactly is a "hard tech" company? And is this a recent change? Tech companies have been going public without issues for years until the last ~24 months when SPACs exploded (and mostly churn out negative returns after the initial pop [1])

Isn't a standard IPO also great for a tech company with future revenues as long as you believe in your business and future prospect?

Really trying to wrap my head around why a company would do this, and also why this isn't a huge red flag as well

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysi...
I think you mean severance agreement. Had I talked about how I was fired, I wouldn't have seen a severance agreement from that company.

If I'm misinterpreting what you're trying to say I'd encourage you to make it easy for me to understand.
China has about twice the purchasing power of the US. So the Chery QQ would be like buying a $8k car in the US accounting for PPP. Outside of the current pandemic used car market, $8K will buy a pretty great used car and will be more practical than the Chery QQ. e.g. I can buy a 2003 Honda Pilot 4WD for $5,600 which probably has a good 200k miles left.

People buy expensive cars because they want expensive stuff and don't know any better. As long as these people exist the cheap vehicle market will be fulfilled by used vehicles. It would be hard to make a new vehicle compete with a slightly used one at the same price because newer vehicles are subject to higher taxes and emissions standards.

That said we certainly need cheap electric vehicles which means we need enough new EVs so that the used EV market grows. The Cherry QQ only has a range of ~120 miles and top speed of 60mph. I just looked and I can get a used 2015 Nissan Leaf S for $12K which is a much better value overall.

Funny enough I found a used, road-legal electric 'golf-cart' car for sale for 8K: https://boulder.craigslist.org/cto/d/boulder-citecar/7373397...
In my opinion, the marginal reduction in transmission of infectious disease during a pandemic is not worth the cost moving away from urbanism. Humans are meant to congregate together, and city living and everything that comes with it are the most efficient ways to do so.
A non-trivial portion of Americans would call you a commie or a faggot for riding a bike unless you have to because you got a DUI.

This portion also has outsized influence due to how the electoral politics is set up.
Why the down-votes? ....ahh humans :)
> No, because despite whatever the talkshows say, both parties and especially the judiciary are largely committed to preserving constitutional rights

Wasn't there an impeachment procedure blatantly sabotaged by one of said parties like last year? Didn't the same party blatantly say they're stacking the supreme court in their favour up to the last possible moment, in an extremely hypocritical manner after refusing to accept Obama's nominees in his last year? Didn't multiple US presidents abuse and violate human rights with illegal wars and torture, mass surveillance? Didn't a US president order the murder of a US citizen without due process? Didn't a US state create a blatantly unconstitutional law for witch hunting women ? From across the pond, it seems that most US politicians in power, mostly from one of the parties, are wiping their asses with the the US constitution.
Have you been to Glacier Park? I suggest you go there and take a tour. Especially look at the pictures of what the glaciers used to look like, and then look at the real glaciers now. Hard to argue against global warming then.
From there, the modeler “sculpted” the car using digital clay on a pen-tool carving rig that was originally built as a surgery trainer for doctors in medical school. The tool has motors at each hinge point that allows the pen to offer feedback when “touching” the model. Because of this, it is possible to run the tool along the "surface" of the design and there's resistance offered when sliding across edges or lips.

Anyone have more info about this? It sounds like it isn't necessarily new hardware, but I'm very curious about the software end. Does off the shelf CAD software support those kinds of devices?
I agree with the philosophy even if I'm not totally understanding how you are getting there. I talked about my process which has similar elements like reusing components to build fast here: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/process
SMS has a delivery confirmation feature, my phone indicates delivered and undelivered messages, so you can tell what wasn't delivered.
public utilities don't usually pay taxes on gas
Keep in mind, it's not pass/fail. 2.7 is different from 2.8 is different from 2.9, etc. They're all bad, sure, even terrible, but limiting it _at all_ could make the difference for literal millions of people.

Fatalism leads to giving up, which leads to us hitting all those higher numbers, which leads to an unnecessary amount of extra suffering.
Their books don't look that good per this article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/24/1032308/is-ginkg...
I wouldn't imagine here that Rust's value add in this case is the memory management. Instead it's probably the strict and ergonomic control over constness (I prefer rust in that specfic context to js Object.freeze), the typesafe concurrency, and if you're the kind of crazy person that would use rust on the frontend in 2021 you probably are using it in the backend and you can therefore share code.
Recent I was having a "discussion" with an anti-vaxxer (though they don't like that term since it's not really a vaccine, according to them). They claim that "studies" prove that mRNA drugs cause cancer in almost all cases. So I responded that this was great news since it means almost everyone will die which will solve the Covid crisis, over-population, and the dumping of gases from the burning of fossil fuels into the atmosphere. Killing 3 birds with 1 stone! They were not amused.
Great advice here.
A lot of people try to get fit instantly and it's a big horrible negative feedback loop.

One thing to add which helped me get into shape - pick one main goal in fitness. Want to lose weight? Focus on that. Want to build muscle Focus on that. What to run a marathon? Focus on that. It's really really hard to manage multiple (often, disparate) fitness goals at the same time.

Hint: "getting toned" is a trap! Generally you can either lose weight or build strength. While it's certainly possible to "re-comp" it's demoralizing (ime) because it is very slow and can lead to wheel spinning.

And yes, consistency is key. I personally fell into the trap of "go really hard, get burned out, hate the gym" early on in my fitness journey. Find a fitness routine that you actually look forward to doing every day / every other day. If you feel anxious about working out, something should be changed.
What do you mean? There are tons of developer tools doing great on the market?

DDOG, PD, DOCN, FSLY, NET, TWLO, MDB, TEAM, etc

All of those are doing great, and there are probably like 50 more.
Don't think EV is going to help much. On the individual level anything you would do is miniscule. The change has to come from politicians, so its all about voting.
Yea it would be much better if only a small select group of elites were allowed to invest in companies.
Hi, aerospace software engineer and flight instructor here. I think you get shot down because the problems just aren't comparable. While I agree that there may be some philosophical transfer from aircraft automation, the environments are so radically different that it's difficult to imagine any substantial technological transfer.

Aircraft operate in an extremely controlled environment that is almost embarrassingly simple from an automation perspective. Almost everything is a straight line and the algorithms are intro control theory stuff. Lateral nav gets no more complicated than the difference between a great circle and a rhumb line.

The collision avoidance systems are cooperative and punt altogether on anything that isn't the ground or another transponder-equipped airplane. The software amounts to little more than "extract reported altitude from transponder reply, if abs(other altitude - my altitude) < threshold, warn pilot and/or set vertical speed." It's a very long way from a machine learning system that has to identify literally any object in a scene filled with potentially thousands of targets. There's very little to worry about running into in the sky, and minimum safe altitudes are already mapped out for pretty much the entire world.

Any remaining risk is managed by centralized control and certification, which just isn't going to happen for cars. We aren't going to live in a world where every street has to be (the equivalent of) an FAA certified airport with controls to remove any uncertainty about what the vehicle will encounter when it gets there. Nor are we going to create a centralized traffic control system that provides guarantees you won't collide with other vehicles on a predetermined route.

So it's just a completely different world with completely different requirements. Are there things the aerospace world could teach other fields? Yeah, absolutely. Aerospace is pretty darn good at quality control. But the applications themselves are worlds apart.
They're by far the main source. Coal burning for electricity is the source of >60% of all fossil CO2 emissions.

That's just coal power plants. No oil, no gas, no other sources.
In the book, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, the author goes over Ptolemy's historical records of rain in Alexandria and compares it to today. In short, Alexandria used to get continual rain throughout the year whereas today it gets rain from October to March and then not much else. I believe it's in chapter 2 if anyone wants to look at the charts on the Amazon preview.
Maybe we read different articles, but "Build an initial product" is what he said to do _after_ the hypothesis testing.
> I'd also recommend something like a mantis-x

I was thinking this would be something similar to the trigger squeeze and breathing monitors I used with weapons training VR, but this actually looks like it would be really useful, and very data driven. Appreciate the info!
complete nonsense and FUD.

I would argue that private equity has had a longer deleterious effect on product development, and also some IPOs have turned out disastrous, but it isn't a hard and fast rule to say that a company, once it goes public, automatically turns against its userbase.
> I think it’s fair to say that a lot of consumers aren’t much affected by them.

Not directly but indirectly through higher prices on just about everything. Plus ever had your dishwasher break? Good luck getting parts… that stuff is in super short supply right now and that is just one instance. Think about elevators, MRI machines, you name it…

The supply chain runs deep.
So what about other vaccine mandates, then - are those equally problematic?
Crazy GPU prices aside, I haven't really noticed any problems. So maybe the global economy is fine, or the local economy here isn't nearly as affected by the global economy as one would think.
If the price of gas increases are largely due to taxes which is sometimes the case it could be easy to simply offer rebates to public transit companies, just like you can buy diesel for farm equipment or heating without paying the road taxes.
I'm surprised there's never a breakdown of strain. Shouldn't this be important to track, if we want to help stop dangerous strains?
Are we going to see a version of Visual Basic being reconstructed with javascript soon?
Every S-1 in existence says that. Why people always share this excerpt when an S-1 is listed here in HN?

Just look back at any S-1 post and there's always somebody who shares it. Why? Do they really think they are illuminating someone else with the most boiler-plate phrase in the existence of S-1 filings?
I'm a life-long distance runner, secondarily a cyclist, and occasional 145lb. "meathead" at the gym. As such, I scoffed at games such as Ring Fit Adventure. Oh, it's fine for other people who aren't the workout stud I am, but not for me, no, no. Due to a medical emergency, I had some post-surgical recovery to do, and it would be a while before I got back to the heavy stuff. Right before the covid started full-swing, I nabbed Ring Fit Adventure (just in time, too, before they were sold out for six months).

I scoff no more. No, it's not the same as a 20 mile run in the mountains, duh. But for my off days it's a hoot, and I look forward to it. It'll never be hard workout for me without a weight vest or something, but it's enough to get some work in on areas I might not otherwise hit at all that week. And, whoo boy, I'll admit to feeling it on some of the harder ab exercises.
They sold them at a steep discount on the open market and presumably consumers desperate for a car at a good deal scooped them up.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2020/06/19/hertz-e...
Coconut Grove – Paradise on Earth
Good anecdata. I am from Russia, and was personally oppressed (fortunately, only by restriction of freedoms) for the exact thing the app in question was trying to achieve (e.g. getting someone else win elections).

I'd rather Apple and Google pulled from Russia precisely because people there do not feel responsible for the acts of their government, which makes them (and now also Google and Apple) complicit.

In my opinion the people in question are simply choosing the bad strategy in prisoner's dilemma.
Supply Chain Chaos Spreads to Inland Waterways
They're literally a YC company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab