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That's not just manufacturers though. Plenty of people are replacing standard halogens with aftermarket LEDs in response to others doing the same.

The end result is that night-driving is incredibly dangerous, because the brightness is spiraling out of control. Instead of increased visibility, you are forced to squint from the brightness of incoming traffic.

I try to avoid night-time driving as a result of this like the plague. It is simply too dangerous for me (I've been in 3 near-accidents in 2021, despite driving the least I've ever driven in a year).
I could see some standardised SQL language extension, similar to how TypeScript extended JavaScript, that has a transformation phase into the native SQL dialect within the database access library, or via some middleware.
> we've subtlety moved from total worldwide sales (Tesla) to US sales (Honda).

Fair enough. I will happily admit I am not an expert on global auto sales and was just Googling for information. But either way, I think the pattern is clear that car recalls generally don't garner much attention on HN unless they involve Tesla or some other interesting angle like the corruption and criminal behavior at Volkswagen.
1) Most people doing open source don't share the author's definition so this discussion winds-up not being about their

2) Tremendous effort and money goes into making the Linux Kernel secure. The fact that you fail to draw a good line between paid open source and "real" open open is indication that this idiosyncratic definition is fallacious and disingenuous.

3) Which brings me back to what I think the real, reasonable line is. The line is between cheap software, software that involves the minimal effort to squeeze out a feature and a full, carefully secured software process. Open source is virtually irrelevant. If some people didn't volunteer to produce free apps that got duplicated everywhere, you'd have a low-paid smuck doing somewhere, probably producing worse quality. Oppositely, highly secure software should be open source or source-available - the eyes the better. Linux, notably, benefits from many, many people testing it and that benefits the very heavy users of Linux who do employ people developing it.

good quality software where people pay for the quality.
I’m not sure how true this article is, it sounds a bit sensational.

But as someone who used to live in the uk where car ownership was practically forced on you due to economic reasons and seeing the destruction of public transport such that you should see a trip to the next city akin to taking a flight to another country, fuck em.

A car is a huge expense, i won’t lie and say it doesn’t have advantages, like if you have a family, but i’m single, and now i live in a country with an expansive public transport system and i realised, actually, car ownership is just passing on the cost of a public transport system to the general public at a huge cost to themselves.

I have a shared car scheme where i can rent a car by the hour, they have stations everywhere and i use it like twice a year to go to ikea.

I can’t go out with a car and drink, i have to find parking spaces, i cannot do anything productive while driving a car and i’m of the opinion that anyone who drives to work is on work time while doing it, mostly unpaid.

I take frequent taxis, but adding up the cost of all those is nowhere comparable to the cost of a car, sitting idle in a garage that would also cost me extra each month.

Car ownership was forced on us.
For certain, but recalls are not unusual for any brand. As best I know Tesla is alone in having the option of an app-scheduled mobile-service which is massively more convenient for me and likely an order of magnitude cheaper for Tesla (compared to bringing in the car to a oversubscribed service center).
It is eliminating ~8 jobs lifting boxes for every 1 job it creates supervising robots lifting boxes.

For it or against it, when people talk about robots replacing labor, this is exactly what they are talking about.
Could be with typescript in mind. TS works well with classes.
This is where Hacker News is at its best: endless discussions about what the word "rich" means.
This brings new meaning to the old quote, "history is written by victors." Today, the victors are Apple, Google, etc., and they are writing their own version of history as its recorded...
Iirc in some older db it won't be able to use indexes this way. Don't know if still applied nowadays.
Yes. I do own a Kobo and used the Pocket feature for a while. It works but the one down side was I quickly ended up with too many articles. Somehow that gave some anxiety whereas paper doesn't. Also it's easier to just pick up a pile and throw in recycling vs finding a way to remove half of the Pocket articles.
Pressure Grows on Biden to Shut Down Trump-Era Medicare Privatization Scheme
Is that the one that caught fire and they didn't want to use water to put it out because it would harm the robots?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-58190969

Also... As as exercise for the reader, compare the Ocado top-down picker with the Kiva (now Amazon) bottom-up shelf lifter, and then guess which system has a better value-for-money and is faster to deploy.
I use a (paid) app called Halide, but there are others out there too. I'm personally not aware of a way to do it with the native Camera app, but it would be cool if it exists.
A model 3 MSRP is $45k. A used one can be found for even less than that.

Check your local car prices, b/c that is not really that expensive and certainly nowhere close to "rich" territory.

A fully loaded F-150 is $78k. I would be shocked if you also said anyone driving an F-150 is by definition rich.

Also, a cheap used car may be drastically less expensive to buy for most people, but they will ultimately pay thousands of dollars of maintenance, part replacements, fluid changes and gas which a Tesla really never has to deal with, ever. No one seems to talk about this.
The model 3 and y is on that top 10 list as well, and they're not quite luxury goods.
Linus Torvalds on Git (2007)
That makes sense, except how does one have an undetected tick bite?
Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser
I haven't used Pdftk for some of the things detailed in the article, so I don't know: other than being declarative, what's better about this than Pdftk? I've always been able to use Pdftk for my needs, and it satisfies picky publishers' tools that barfed on other ways of achieving my goals.
You’re missing the point if that’s you’re take away because I’m saying is overly complex rules are more likely to harm smaller players than they are the larger ones given larger organisations have the resources and motives to work exploit loopholes.

This isn’t a theoretical argument either. You see it all the time already (eg tax avoidance).
I'd say that as long as bash script fits on a single screen you won't get any benefit from switching to some other tool or language
I like this:

> Sometimes liberty is differentiated from freedom by using the word "freedom" primarily, if not exclusively, to mean the ability to do as one wills and what one has the power to do; and using the word "liberty" to mean the absence of arbitrary restraints, taking into account the rights of all involved

It's from Wikipedia, and it implies this is the modern take of the definition. I think it's how I think of it as well. So it is neither of the two you mentioned, but a combination of them with the focus being the balance between them.

Liberty would assume all have rights they are entitled too, and that none shall arbitrarily restrict ones ability to do as they please, where non-arbitrary is defined as not restricting of other's rights.

I don't think it really puts people against each other. Some people simply disagree with liberty and favor freedom instead. Which would mean, some people want to be free to do whatever their power allows them too. You can think of it as whatever I can get away with because I'm more powerful. It would mean if I'm stronger I can strongman my way into doing more things, same if I'm richer, more influence, etc.

Fundamentally it's a disagreement with your objective. If you don't accept that the less powerful still deserve certain rights, or that power should not dictate rights and restraints, there's no amount of discourse to be had, you will be optimizing for different outcomes.

I also find the framing of rights as someone else's problem misleading. It is not someone else's problem, oftentimes it is because of restraints society imposes, the other person's problem is due to their restraint on other people's rights. For example, that I can't just walk in your house and sleep in your empty bedrooms as I please, and eat the food sitting idle in your fridge, or build myself a cabin using wood from your trees and on your land, those are all restraints society is imposing on me. So if I'm now homeless and without a job, I cannot just do these things to provide for myself shelter and food. But if you believe everyone has the right to shelter and food, and you are restraining my ability to get them as such, you need to offer an alternative, it isn't entitlement, it's the trade for accepting the restraints being pushed on me.

For me, it's the fundamental agreement, you accept the restraints from laws in exchange for rights. If the rights don't come, you're not getting your side of the deal. Now off course people can impose restraints with power instead, and that's almost always what used to happen and still to a large extent does today, but at least we seem to try harder today to be just.
> The interchangeable tops would be whats loaded in the warehouse.

You mean the tops are essentially pallets? Okay but how do you get them on and off? This seems like a forklift make more sense.

> They take away a lot of navigational complexity in a warehouse setting where you don't have much space.

I don’t see it. You still need a mechanism to load/unload unless the things you’re moving are capable of doing that themselves somehow. Unless your load/unload mechanism is somehow omnidirectional, you’ll need to turn the vehicle anyway, negating most of the benefit.
I was trying to find an all-electric 7-seater the other day. The market for this type of vehicle is nearly non-existent in the US, but for a brief moment I thought the Citroen e-Berlingo was the answer to my prayers: far superior in range and price point to any competing US vehicle. I was ready to look past the fugly Euro design and pony up.

But of course, they don't sell in America.

So, so much for that.
Sample size of 1: my service happens 6 days from now (Bay area). From past experience, getting a slot in the service center can be .. ahem .. difficult, but getting a service call has never been an issue. I bet it's easier to scale the mobile service than building new service centers.
The model 3 and y are on that list as well, and are closer to $50k.
https://youtu.be/0zpVfyEw6nU
Is this just a software problem? Seems like just a general trend of a race to the bottom of everything, and companies in every field trying to suck out every cent wherever they can find it. Companies that actually care about their customers beyond the point of sale are pretty rare and notable. Customer service in general is outsourced and terrible.
Crypto assets inspire new brand of collectivism beyond finance
It's true that there are recalls all the time. The differences with Tesla are:

• Tesla already has a service/repair backlog. This will make things worse for owners whose brand new cars leak when it rains, make odd noises, and have safety issues.

• Other manufacturers have extensive dealer and third party repair networks. They can handle large recalls more easily/efficiently.

• Other manufacturers have many more cars on the road, from selling for decades before Tesla existed. Have there been any other recalls that covered the same percent of any other manufacturer's fleet? If so, I assume those recalls were considered a very big deal.

• Tesla is 'disrupting' the car manufacturing market and trying to prove that things can be done a different way. Critics have called out their QC failings. Each additional recall gives more credence to critics' claims.
How to protect yourself from Covid-19: summary of available data by 538
> I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an e-reader due to its lack of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5 years ago and felt like the 'reading ergonomics' were terrific and have to imagine they're even better now.

How does that Kindle compare with laser printer paper? I get 600 dpi on the normal setting and the difference between it and an ereader is very noticeable.

Also bigger screens tend to have lower DPI. 6in screens are too small for me.
no, it's what they use because it's cheaper and easier to make, reason why majority of indie games favors pixel art

NFTs are about maximizing profits out of nothing

scammers won't trade with real art pieces
My 2013 Model S is doing great. I had all of the usual first-year-car problems, since then it's been fine. No fit-and-finish problems, no rattles, paint doing well, and so on.
2021: A Year Full of AI Papers – A Review
Since when is TSLA reflective of the company performance
Ohh, I was thinking 256/64 = 4x, but it's apparently it's 8 bits / 6 bits = 1.3333x. Thanks. Plus for email a little extra for a =\r\n on every line, so more like 1.4x.
Unorthodox opinion: would it not have been safer-in-net to keep those recalled cars on the road to prevent repair delays? Now maybe-possibly ineffectual recall repairs will swarm facilities, while owners with real, serious car issues will be forced to keep driving them. Another reason why car over-regulation hurts the driver most of all!
Collective Intelligence of Cell Swarms
I hate motion interpolation with a burning passion and have made it into practically a vendetta and will turn it off anywhere I see it by any means necessary, including downloading a remote application onto my phone and using the IR blaster to turn it off in restaurants and waking up in the middle of the night at friends houses to sneakily switch it off.
‘The Taliban say they’ll kill me if they find me’
I'm a 6'6" dude and I feel your pain. Every time I get company swag, the best they can offer me is a super wide belly shirt :(
That is certainly cool, but the video seems like evidence that it’s not actually very useful. The forklift pointlessly drives sideways to show it can, but a standard forklift could just turn and go straight so what’s the value from all the extra complexity?

Those sidewinder wheels seem like a much better solution than the captive spheres in the concept car, though.
That‘s hilarious. The way AI is developing we are turned into children full of magical thinking like „I made a great moonshot with my amazing device!“ when it‘s actually 99% AI handholding.
Never doubt an american's ability to turn a neutral topic like road safety into some kind of twisted partisan issue.

Just a reminder - even though you're probably right, in some sense, every time you do this, reasonable public debate gets another nail in the coffin.
> if all the consoles as a whole consume more energy than mining.

It does matter if you're advocating for mining and chain capacity to scale to the point where it can replace a financial institution. If proof-of-work chains are putting out the same amount of energy as the total energy expenditure of gaming right now as a niche system that isn't used by most people for daily transaction or as common assets, then proof-of-work chains are not an environmentally feasible solution at scale.

If your niche product uses the same amount of energy as one of the largest global entertainment mediums on the planet, then your niche product isn't scalable or environmentally friendly. Because you're going to keep adding more miners as you scale, as new chains are built, as mining becomes more competitive, and the problem is going to keep getting worse.

Looking at total energy expenditure and ignoring the actual amount of usage that energy expenditure allows is just a flawed way of thinking about these comparisons. Use some other substitute for transactions if you don't like thinking about playtime or sessions, but any comparison that takes usage into account is going to conclude that cryptocurrency is heckin inefficient: more inefficient than other technologies like games.
> These don’t provide a better turning radius than traditional wheels

Spherical wheels provide zero radius for off-original-orientation movement from a stop (and similar but somewhat less benefit at low speed) because you can thrust independently of the direction of orientation.

This isn't the same a reduced turning radius, but it has similar effects for certain low speed maneuvers to an extreme reduction in turning radius.
A pointer is a pointer is a pointer.

A struct pointer is a struct pointer.

If you want to allocate a Meow pointer to a Bark pointer that's your decision. It won't work to your satisfaction, but there's nothing preventing you from doing it. That's why we have programmers. Those people who have the intelligence and skills and know the limitations of a language.

Just like a gun doesn't care if it's pointing at your foot when you pull the trigger, most (all??) programming languages will let you do something stupid if you insist on doing so.
These reports are common. Look at the entire fast fashion industry. The term sweatshop was not invented for Apple, nor did it originate in the last 100 years.

You don't hear about these things nearly as often because they are primarily seen by locals to whom this is normal (or at least not surprising).

"Companies come here because it's cheap and this factory/whatever is about the same or better than other opportunities in the area," is what I expect them to be saying among themselves.
‘Still in pain’: Amazon employees say climate of fear led to high injury rates
I studied FETs, BJTs, and diodes for a year for my engineering degree, so I can mostly read and understand this article.

I don't understand a few things.

Some carbon is put into a furnace with an inert gas, and the output is a bunch of nanotubes. Some conduct like metal, so they can't be used as transistors. Others have a band gap, and these can. I guess it's something to do with the lattice orientation.

Now, imagine that I had a bunch of straws, and a block with straw slots on the top. I can think of no way to randomly disperse the straws over the block to get perfect alignment.

Somehow, the straws end up with good connections to a source and drain, ready for a gate to be wrapped around them.

Deposition of the straws on the substrate appears to be performed both in gaseous and liquid, but the straws must be made elsewhere.

This is completely mistifying.
Also, as a follow-up, both of the defendants in the article ended up getting probation and community service.
Oh stop it with the pearl clutching; fascism has been ascendant in the US since 1945, le orange man (bad) is just the latest stop on the train ride from Joe McCarthy.
> I find bassiness is a desirable feature rather than a gimmick for dumb consumers

It's perfectly reasonable to find bass a desirable quality. Depending on my mood I'll listen to music with lots of bass, or with little bass. However, I've zero desire to intentionally alter the frequency response so I'm hearing something different than the musicians and mixing engineer intended. Instead I'll just listen to appropriate music for my mood/taste.

Intentionally having a non-flat frequency response is equivalent to adjusting the colour space / colour grading of your monitor to not accurately represent colours. You can do it, and there are reasons why you might want to do it temporarily e.g. blue light filtering in the evening. However, doing so permanently without a specific (medical?) reason is a bit unusual.
An answer from a regular Joe based on this fine write-up describing how the Pfizer mRNA vaccine is put together:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

My understanding is that the mRNA payload codes for specific protein production and the lipid envelope is there to protect the fragile mRNA payload during storage and delivery.
> Do you think those individuals will see the difference?

No more or less than an individual whose home was not robbed because a crime was prevented unbeknownst to them.

However, I believe that the toxic data hoarding companies collectively don't see any difference, and so they don't care if individuals suffer. The suffering of individuals when data is leaked is an externality, and it is only when forced to pay for that externality that companies would start to care.

In this regard, the black hats and the toxic data hoarders both contribute towards undermining the common good. Companies don't care if money disappears mysteriously from the bank accounts of individuals who happen to be their customers — companies just don't want to be embarrassed, as it isn't their money being stolen.

But the grey hats disrupt this state of affairs. They are truly antagonistic to the toxic data hoarders, because they humiliate them, rather than merely use them to steal from somebody else.

This status quo of companies operating unsafely, creating massive but dispersed and plausibly deniable harm, is perfectly legal. But should the public trust these companies? Should the public trust individuals who work hard at these companies to build toxic data stockpiles and cover up intrusions, rather than those who expose the harms these practices bring? Who are the "good guys"?
Well, sorry to hear that and hope it works out for you.
No, it's not that they dont sell there, it s that you dont buy them. Too busy buying pickup truck-sized machines to 16yo children and calling everything not spitting black diesel smoke "fugly Euro" :p
:) I didn't say it was perfect, but my point was one of concepts as something feasible as opposed to pure marketing fluff.
When did they start to look prescient? 1776? Or was it earlier?