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>Conpanies like Nissan have reliable EVs that have been there for a while (the Leaf). However they make more profit selling petrol-powered SUVs, so the dealers don't promote them.

I recently was looking at purchasing a used Leaf Plus (the new gen) but I was utterly shocked to discover threads on the Leaf subreddit discouraging people from taking long roadtrips on the Leaf because the battery overheats and will reduce the charging speeds. You cannot just go from charge > drive > charge and expect the same speeds. I was about to move from NJ to California and driving across the country :/

Now I am forced to look at the Volt as that is all I can afford. I don't even like this car but I want to get onto at least a semi zero emission platform.

The Teslas have tons of problems, (random build quality, poor parts availability, high insurance caused by the above). Someone who wants a reasonably priced EV that they can use under all circumstances as a regular car don't have many options right now.
Google has never, ever, required that I use Chrome to access any of their sites and services.
It's not just a question of "is this memory accessed by multiple threads" and call it a day for full TSO support being mandated it's a question of "is the way this memory is accessed by multiple threads actually dependent on memory barriers for accuracy and if so how tight do those memory barriers need to be". For most apps the answer is actually "it doesn't matter at all". For the ones it does matter heuristics and loose barriers are usually good enough. Only in the worst case scenario that strict barriers are needed does the performance impact show up and even then it's still not the end of the world in terms of emulation performance.

As far as applying it the default assumption for apps is they don't need it and heuristics can try to catch ones that do. For well known apps that do need TSO it's part of the compatibility profile to increase the barriers to the level needed for reliable operation. For unknown apps that do need TSO you'll get a crash and a recommendation to try running in stricter emulation compatibility but this is exceedingly rare given the above 2 things have to fail first.

Details here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...
the (magnitude of) risk isn't certain yet, but it's unlikely zero, given our history of poorly quantifying the harmfulness of a variety of substances. a reasonable hedge is to buy organic for the dirty dozen and non-organic for other produce. eat less processed sugar regardless, whether you replace it with fruit or not.
Cool concept, looks super slow relative to exciting assembly plant paint though. Upside is you can buy a plaid car from the factory, downside is it’s +$5k and an extra month lead time.
Is this a new technology or just a new use case for an existing process? Inkjet print heads are very close to the surface being painted but this process appears to have a few inches of clearance.

I suspect the paint has additives to help with this process. We didn’t see any color other than black in this demo.

The video doesn’t show any close up pictures of the process but it looks novel.
I love Honda but this is just a vaporware announcement...

Honda is one of the most conservative manufacturers out there and unfortunately they're about to be slaughtered during the transition to BEVs as they've failed to build a solid transition plan or innovate in meaningful ways. I hope to hell I'm wrong because I would love to live in a world where Honda makes it to 2040 and still be a major transportation provider but I just don't see it happening.
I bet their drivetrains are a bit younger than that.
Microsoft did not release anything worthy since Windows 2000. All their features were not needed. I'd easily pay $500/year for Windows 2000, just as it was, with support for modern hardware and other things needed to survive in modern Internet.

Now I'm not talking about internals. I'm sure that kernel was progressing all those years, for example. I'm talking about user-visible stuff.

Windows XP cartoon UI: terrible. Windows 10 UI: terrible. Good old Windows 2000 UI was just better in every way.

Windows shell? It was good in Windows 2000. Start was good. May be fast search would be a worthy feature to add, but that's about it. They redesign it every year, but it's not getting better.

Windows explorer? It was good in Windows 2000. They move buttons around, but that's not needed.

Control panel is 100x better than this settings nightmare UI.

They invent new UI frameworks every few years. That's not needed. WinAPI is good enough.

It won't happen. But they actually built a perfect OS and lost it. Forever, as corporations can't admit their mistakes. They could have improved upon it all this time, instead of trying to replace it.

With Nadella Microsoft is going downhill. Yes, they're doing things that looks interesting. Like integrating VM with Linux. That's cool. But they kind of gave up. Back in the time, they were actually pushing their own agenda. They had their own tech. Now they gave up and adapt old proven tech. Good for customers, but it's path to the end. If someone learned WSL, it's just one step to true Linux, why pay for Windows at all. Ditto about Edge. They built their own browser engine. How cool is that? Very few corporations were able to do so. And they gave up.

Microsoft lost his teethes. May be they just don't care about desktop anymore. Well, I don't care about Microsoft anymore.
They're still around:

https://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi
The optics are certainly very bad on the timing and size of these trades to the point where it should be investigated for an ethics violation. That will NEVER happen.
Sorry, but that is complete corporate-profit-driven-paranoia BS.

Lithium-ion cells are one of the easiest to charge - there's minimum and maximum voltages, and a maximum charge current. Simply limit charge current to the maximum until the cell reaches its maximum voltage, and then wait for the current to drop until it's nearly 0.

Of course, exceeding those limits at the upper end certainly can result in flames, but it's seriously not that hard to charge a cell. But people like to spew plenty of FUD about "complex algorithms" and the like, because the companies who make the ICs stand to profit from that.

Source: I have also worked in electronics on battery-powered devices.
Can't we develop some protein that locks onto these circles and then triggers cell death?
SEEKING FREELANCER (remote)

Looking for website dev and animation, to make something similar to https://www.aqlab.io

Contact hello@simulation.science with subject 'HN website dev', and please provide examples of similar work you've done.
There's no way to fake this? I just looked it up and it seems Magisk is able to fake these attestations somehow. I remember using it to get some mobile games to shut up about my rooted phone. How would rooted devices and custom ROMs work otherwise?

I hate it when these fucking companies use cryptography to control us. Cryptography should be empowering us...
Mac SE/30 Odyssey
The errors stack, so you get about 6 cents error between the G and E string. That's enough to be a perceptible difference.
Speaking as someone who was 'that guy', it's pretty possible they don't know how badly they come across. A lot of engineers (and people in general) struggle with social skills.

Are you the only one having issues with them? Maybe you could bring it to their attention quietly, and if they're writing bad code it should never pass review.
I'm a Chevy Volt owner, I love that car, and given my driving habits I'm on electric 95+ percent of the time.

That said, highlighting the Leaf, e-Golf and Bolt only make the legacy makers look worse in my opinion. I mean, how many times have you heard any of those vehicles be spoken about as "an object of desire". Most people view them as a "good thing" the same way as they view a colonoscopy as a good thing: a wise thing to get but certainly not something you're excited about having.

So far in my experience the only legacy automaker that is putting out truly compelling electric vehicles is Ford with the F-150 Lightning and the Mustang Mach-E.
I feel like local accounts on windows is just like local vaults on 1Password.

They kind of support it but will keep annoying and bullying the hell out of you to move to the cloud for “your own benefit”. Until you either leave or submit to their will.
> What does he want us to do, re-wire our brains on demand?

He wants us to get hooked on his deliberately addictive products, but blame ourselves for it instead of him.
This is precisely my point about getting new buyers but couldn’t think of the terms. There must be some clear up shot to spending so much on advertising.
"citation needed" :-)
> gitit is pretty nice. Why do we need another one of these?

Gollum and Gitit have both been around for more than a decade. Thousands of stars, hundreds of forks, and active commit histories spanning more than ten years suggests the world views both as of value.
Open source radios are the first step to privacy. We need to be able to choose the towers we connect to.
Because what many people making that argument want is for Facebook (et al.) to remain as powerful as they are, but be compelled by law to use that power to publish speech against their will.
I agree about the "just". You're right. It's about the same level of misleading as "scientific fact". People used to use "just a theory" to discredit relativity or evolution, exploiting the fact that the alternative terms like laws of physics or truth sounded stronger even though they weren't.

I still think it's harmful to general understanding to put any scientific knowledge on a pedestal of being unchallengeable fact. How can we know where we might be wrong? The earth is round, is it? What if that's just a slice of it in 3 dimensions and it's actually some other higher dimensional shape? Future people might laugh at our simplistic belief based on only seeing a little part of it - similar to ancients believing the Earth was flat because it was flat as far as they could see.
Pretty much all of them work in 2x2 quads. DyDx is calculated within a quad. But, not across them. This is an imperfect approximation to the derivative that needs to be accounted for. But, it’s useful and very cheap and trivially easy.
Very true and easy to blur the lines of thought between SOC and CPU these days upon ARM. Thank you for the poignant reminder.
Families are free to choose to not use the middleman.
Which resources did you use to learn to rw Hungarian so fast?
For some people, this is why: https://twitter.com/paul_griffiths/status/144407385177687245...
>This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce

No.

>should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce?

Yes.

It is no surprise you feel torn. Tons of money is invested into the marketing of "organic" produce when it has, in-fact, ZERO positive gain over conventional produce. The FUD being forced down everyone's throat by the "organic" industry is designed to make you feel exactly like that. When you introduce doubt, you create a path to convince folks into spending money on your product.

But don't take my or anyone else's word for it. If you can muster the time, spend an hour or so perusing Wikipedia, reading articles and collecting sources and you'll find in relatively short time the "organic" thing is solely a money grab. With "organic" food, you are getting the same exact thing grown by conventional methods but at a higher price.

Groups such as the one mentioned in this article don't want you to perform your own research, they just want you to believe what they have on their web site. It's bogus.
I don’t necessarily agree with most but it seems like Tesla becoming a battery company primarily is interesting enough to give it a look.

The main reason they’d probably want to be a car company is margins - I’d bet the battery market blows up with competitors as it’s sort of doing now and it’s almost too much of a risk to be all in on just batteries, where if you’re a battery wholesaler any shift in say resource mining availability could create pressure, where if you have a decent margin product on the back of it you can “eat” those costs, and also aren’t beholden to other customers. The legacy auto industry doesn’t treat suppliers well.
> For the average consumer — everything.

> I'm kind of torn between the two opinions.

I am not torn. Because of us two, apparently only one lives in an authoritarian country. When your computing device blocks you from accessing anything not praising the current regime, it kinda devalues the user-friendly interface and manufacturing quality. Shiny chains are still chains.
Yeah, brakes that don't function when power is lost would just be too brittle. That'd be unacceptable in any market regulated by one or more working brains.
So, 74 'Highly Hazardous Pesticides' from just 12 fruit. And likely with significant crossover, so you get double and triple-dosed.

We know they're more toxic than your ex, and we know that there's people out there eating all these fruits and grains, like your mum.

So why do we have debate on Round-ups' toxicity, or the 'economic benefits' of robot-powered, topsoil-eroding mono-cultures with no life in them?

Why do we talk about MDMA piss polluting rivers after festivals, instead of the persistent petrochemical pesticides fucking up all our water and insects and birds and insides?

We know organic perma-culture is better; for our bodies, for the soil, for the water and birds and bees.

... But there are statuses to quo I guess, so fuck us.
They spend 1B per year and have 3B cash on hand.

They can survive for 3 years and sell zero cars.
This is super cool. It's awesome to see someone trying to tackle this problem. I assume no carrier/mvno will adapt this but I'd be extremely happy to be wrong. I would instantly switch to a provider that made use of this tech.
Given how practically all Javascript nowadays is generated by Typescript or other compile-to-js languages, probably a stricter type system, actual integers and doubles (JS only uses floats,) maybe as often mentioned, a bigger standard library.

There probably isn't much benefit to different languages if you're just manipulating the DOM (which is probably why that model failed, having more than one language doing the exact same thing is needless extra complexity) but using the browser as an application runtime opens up the possibility of making any software written in a supported language accessible and executable from a URL.

The "JS as bytecode" model got us surprisingly far, but it was a disgusting hack, and Java applets and Flash had their day in the sun, but Webassembly is probably what's going to make the "multiple scripts in the browser" model eventually feasible.
"IQ isn't a measure of human value" is a message board scientific racism debate trope. When you can reconstruct an entire thread from the search bar, we're better off just leaving the discussion for the search bar.
Did you hear about network effect?
I made a very small investment years ago and cashed out recently. I kept monitoring the ups and downs and thinking "good thing I didn't invest much". It's too volatile for my taste.

Besides that, cashing out wasn't very simple and triggered all sorts of warnings in my payment processor and bank.
3Dnow used an immediate field for an extended opcode, but you still figured out the length of the instruction from looking at the first opcode bytes, so it's not really a suffix. As far as the decoder was concerned, it was just another fixed length, required imm field for the execution unit.

It doesn't have to have a L0 cache; a lot of designs don't.

And the decoder is wider than it seems. x86 instructions have more uOPs mainly from RMW instructions that would be three separate instructions in RISC. It'll be fun to compare Zen 4 (even at Ultrabook TDP) and M1 apples to apples once everyone has access to 5nm.
In retrospect, I agree, your approach would have been better.
the company lost that much. not a single person. so not the same thing.
Yeah the fact that it took us years to identify issues with like, BPA or trans fats -- and the constant churn on stuff like glyphosate where it feels like regulators continue to be slower than data -- have me worried. Maybe we should be buying more organic ... It's not any extra time and not overall a huge amount of extra money in the grocery budget.
Isn't the fact that Toyota lost this case damning to traditional automotive software development practices, rather than evidence of their importance?

The traditional players are already doing a bad job trying to write safety critical software the way things are now.
Yeah, really great news: more vertical integration for higher walls around those gardens. And, as usual, the majority of hackernews is celebrating this as a win and will happily shovel more money into the pockets of tax evasion and anti-competitions champions, privacy invaders, and polluters.
I found that feature in chrome://flags and enabled it. It did not make any effect. There are some extensions, but I don't really trust extensions so probably I won't use those.

Scroll animation is what I liked on this website. My browser does not have any noticeable animation when I scroll, it just instantly moves page where I drag scrollbar.
Alternate title: "Rivian, who is aggressively investing in building their business, files for IPO"

Just wondering when anyone in the media is going to figure out that it takes a f*ck load of money to build a modern auto manufacturer. Hell the incumbents aren't even willing to spend the money
OTOH the Prius was never an object of desire, it was more a very economic option that made a lot of sense. None of those EVs are anywhere near in the same class, but one could pop up like that.

I think it’s more likely that the market is flooded with mediocre EVs just as it’s currently flooded with mediocre gas vehicles. 2022 and 2023 have things like the f150, Honda Civic, Toyota Camry, and Ford Explorer coming out in EV variants.
Nice. A magnitude of 4 isn’t super bright, but I’ll definitely try to check it out! Thanks.
OMNI ftw.
> how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are

I'd say that our supply chains are pretty resilient if toppling them takes every government in the world shutting down their economies and locking everyone in their houses for months, all at the same time.
> No company information in the UK company database for either 6ace or sixace, despite a claimed address of "61,hallwicks road,Luton,Bedfordshire,London-LU2 9BG".

To be fair it is common for a UK company to have a generic name and for various activities run under it to trade under different names.

Usually however when the company is legitimate the footer of the website will say "Brand Name is a trading name for Actual Company Name Limited" where the company name will be registered at Companies House.

Not the case here, cannot see any info on the actual company, couldn't actually find a mention of that address anywhere on the site either where did you get it from?

That's a residential address for a random house in Luton. Not uncommon for a small company to be registered to a residential property, but the address doesn't seem to be in Companies House records.

Anyway I do agree this is sending off all sorts of red flags for me too, I think the post is telling a very one sided story and Google in this specific case has legitimate reason to ban that dodgy developer account.
Agreed, although (a) the fact that social security is the "third rail of politics" suggests that while it's not a contractual obligation like employee retirement benefits, it's effectively an unavoidable obligation; and (b) even if the future value of benefits to be paid out isn't recorded as a liability, the social security taxes paid should probably be treated as "deferred revenue" since that revenue is at least theoretically being gathered for the purpose of paying the future benefits in question.
Google "internet outage prepper"
This is a management failure. If not corrected, this person will eventually destroy the team and no progress will be made anyway.

You should continue to bring your concerns to your manager. Hopefully your manager will listen, or you will learn something you didn't consider previously.

Without external pressure this other developer is unlikely to change. Unless you already share a deep trusting relationship with this person, you are unlikely to be able to affect change on your own.
True, but how often are you going to play an open G and an open E together?
It's baffling that this information is worth so much. I'm curious as to what marketing is being custom sent to me based on the location data they get from me. I actually leave me phone at home most of the time if I'm going to the store or a nearby restaurant but I always take it with me when I go hiking. Even though I turn it off at the trailhead to save the battery in case I need it later, I'm sure I'm identified in some database somewhere as a person who goes hiking, but then what? I'm already an REI member. Maybe environmental groups could send me political and fund raising pleas (they don't but I guess they could).
All I’ve ever been able to discern about it is that people will sell the farm to never have to think about something, even if that something is a grocery list.
so is google docs working yet?
Thoughts about Shape Up
Librem 5 smartphone has hardware kill switches for WiFi/Bluetooth and cellular modem.
I have been making apps for both iOS and Android for past 10 years (I did take a 4 year break from Android though). While there's small bit of truth to your statement, I find dealing with Apple on pretty much every issue to be much better than dealing with Google. Maybe this is because of Apple charging the annual developer license fee.

With Apple, I always get to deal with an actual human when they reject an app or update and while their descriptions can be a bit vague, it seems to direct me in the right direction to fix the issue. With Google, it's a nightmare. For example, recently they banned DroidScript, one of the most popular IDE on Android accusing them of committing Ad Fraud, and the developer had to create a whole media storm to get them to re-instate the app after 25 days:

https://groups.google.com/g/androidscript/c/Mbh5TZ6YYnA
Google Earth Studio is Chrome only
> With "organic" food, you are getting the same exact thing grown by conventional methods but at a higher price.

But thats the problem: you have no way of knowing if "conventional methods" (i.e. no pesticides) were used to grow the produce unless there is a label signaling it. That label is called "organic".
I can still use Firefox to sign in to my Google account.
> fwiw, Wired wrote up our work on this several weeks back...

Link to research paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-schmitt.pdf
>We know organic perma-culture is better; for our bodies, for the soil, for the water and birds and bees.

It's not better. Not a thing about it makes it better than conventional agriculture. Indeed one could make the argument it is worse than conventional agriculture for the items you listed because of the less effective methods used for "organic" pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer application.
> They just don’t think it’ll be while they’re still around, so what do they care?

Ah yes .. the oblivion>reality optimisation the modern world has been gifted. Never ceases to create interesting use cases.

You're smarter than me with trading/finance. I cannot educe much sense from any of it these days - and don't have the kahunas to trade on vibe.

Weirdly, my only finance buddy (buys shares for super companies) actually cautiously observes a company's history and their management before investing in stocks. Maybe that'll become the move again once the asset bubble collpases.
> the same way government fiat in general makes problems worse, not better.

To be clear, you're saying that U.S. antitrust legislation left us worse off, historically?
Hack a drone to pentest with that same drone. Genius.