skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this isn't the first mass-produced consumer vehicle with a unibody construction

Isn't it already unibody construction, along with basically every other non-truck vehicle in production (and some trucks, too)? The only thing new is using casting for so much of the structure.
If you really want to find things, then https://btdig.com/
Wow, sign me up. I already buy refurbished laptops and cellphones.

A potential issue is dealing with rust and crash damage, but just combining good parts and scrapping bad would be better than scrapping the whole car. Or, the cars that can't be fully refurb'd, can just be cleaned up and sold as used cars like they are today.

Give each car a grade, in a standardized fashion, and price accordingly. Also, let me order one by mail.
If you're fat you are going to regret going for a run for days just from the micro-injuries. It's not low-impact.

Also, even if you walk back home after an injury, you might regret running. You started your run able to run, now you're disabled!
Of COVID-19

They were unvaccinated.
James Webb is fully deployed
I think the main issue is consumer education, psychology and behavior.

Basically, people don't know how much it actually costs to make a printer and don't know enough about it (not a judgement, they probably have better things to do than spend hours researching printers) to choose based on overall quality and such metrics. They basically just choose based on price.

So manufacturers competed on price until they got to well below the all-in cost of the printer (including R&D, etc) hoping to make it up in the cost of consumables. So now they HAVE to make whatever money they are going to make on the consumables side.

If a company came out with a printer that was expensive enough that they could make money on the printer and not on consumables. How many would they sell? My guess is very, very few, as consumers would just buy the cheaper-up-front option.

Note that this mostly applies to ink-jet and not laser, as the latter have historically been purchased more by businesses which are more likely to know about and focus on overall quality and economics, and take consumable cost over years into account during purchase. I guess now that laser printers are entering the consumer market more and more, and consumers are still they same as they have been, we're going to see this issue pushed into lasers as well (as noted in this tweet).
Japan is a really interesting case in the course of the covid saga, and you have to look at the pre-vaccine numbers to see why.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53188847

July 2020

"""
Many paragons of Covid strategy, such as New Zealand and Vietnam, used tough measures including closing borders, tight lockdowns, large-scale testing and strict quarantines - but Japan did none of that.

Yet, five months after the first Covid case was reported here, Japan has fewer than 20,000 confirmed cases and fewer than 1,000 deaths. The state of emergency has been lifted, and life is rapidly returning to normal.

But there is no doubt that many Japanese, and some scientists, think there is something about Japan that is different - a so called "Factor X" that is protecting the population from Covid-19.

Tokyo University professor Tatsuhiko Kodama - who studies how Japanese patients react to the virus - believes Japan may have had Covid before. Not Covid-19, but something similar that could have left behind "historical immunity".

He thinks it is possible a Sars-like virus has circulated in the region before, which may account for the low death rate, not just in Japan, but in much of China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia.
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> the centralized platform aspect and the use of phone number

Don't forget how Signal built MobileCoin integration completely in secret for a whole year. Public was kept in dark just so $MOB insiders could benefit handsomely.
Oh the kids were cool about it, they just started new chats with sms messages from the beginning.

But why should they be forced to compensate for that dark pattern? User unfriendliness for sake of selling phones.
Yeah, I used a little bit of hyperbole to make my point.
Mochi.cards
> This is a non story, full of anecdotes without getting into the actual problem that home prices have been rising across the country faster than wages, making it harder for the lower income segments and young people to buy homes. That's it.

This is a serious story, with data backing it up. One factor of rising home prices is the limited supply, which ibuyers make worse when they buy what limited supply there is - here's your data:

> "The three largest iBuyers acquired more than 27,000 homes in the third quarter of 2021, nearly twice as many as they bought in the previous three-month period. At the end of September, the companies owned more than $10 billion worth of real estate."

> "Investors accounted for more than 18% of all U.S. home sales in the third quarter, according to research from Redfin Corp., the highest share since at least 2000. Atlanta was one of the most popular markets, with investors buying 32% of homes sold during that period."

> "McDonough, Georgia, is a hot spot within a hot spot. Roughly 30 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta, it’s a city of about 29,000 where two-thirds of residents are Black...About 70% of those houses went to investors, many without ever being listed."

And the sources:

> Deed records were pulled on Dec. 23 from a national database of iBuyer transactions compiled by Attom Data Solutions. Bloomberg News then matched records where the seller’s name corresponded with an entity used by Offerpad, Opendoor or Zillow. Buyers whose names didn't appear to be a person or a family or living trust were categorized as an investor or other entity.

> Bloomberg used location data provided by Attom to determine each home’s census tract, which was then used to pull demographic and housing characteristics of the surrounding area from the 2019 American Community Survey (five-year estimates). The rate of flips was calculated by dividing the number of sales to investors in majority White and non-White tracts by the number of single-family homes in those areas.

I follow news on the housing market obsessively - this is among one of the most thoroughly researched articles I have seen.
> Why not?

Because “ownership” is the right to exclusivity.

> Plenty of people own parks and gardens that are open to the public

You can choose not exercise the right to exclusivity (or to do so selectively), but if you don't have it, you don't own anything.

> Everyone getting to enjoy the thing while the creator still gets paid sounds like an awesome future to me.

Sure, patronage of public art can be great, but it's not ownership (except maybe “ownership” of an exclusive right to receive some defined form of credit for the patronage.)
Absorbs? What does it do with that energy, then? Radiate it? AFAIK it's just stiffer so it will effectively transmit the energy along to the next part in the chain. Eventually, that'll be a human.
I appreciate the idea, but what about preparing for the future? Money spent now doesn’t compound for later. I’m concerned about not being a burden later or leaving my wife without enough. There is surely a balance but without a crystal ball I wonder how to find it.
But it has happened, and several times I recall early in the pandemic when some of the reporting rules were perhaps not as clear. Whether it’s frequent now…not sure, there was certainly enough media scrutiny generated then to force a greater degree of care for accuracy now.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-35-investigates-questi...
The model Y, as delivered today, already has a very large casting in the rear: There are many sources out there describing it, and how it simplifies model Y assembly compared to the otherwise rather similar model 3. What they are describing here is to go further with a process they are already doing very advanced work on in production cars. They might have problems. They can fail altogether. Maybe it turns out to be a bad idea anyway, but I do not expect Tesla engineering to be just naive at this.

As for why Fremont is the last place to get the changes, it seems to me that there are simpler reasons: That factory is the main source for Teslas on the road today, and it operates more or less at capacity. Adding a new process would slow it down, at least temporarily. The Berlin and Texas factories, AFAIK, have yet to start operation, so they are good places to try something new, given that Tesla is selling the cars about as fast as they can make them. This is how a lot of the industry does things: Make your new facilities have the latest and greatest, and only retrofit the old ones when it makes economic sense to dismantle the older process. No matter what the theoretical savings might be for a new casting vs so much soldering and assembly, the old process is making cars, today, so decommissioning it is not as good a value proposition as just not even trying the old process in a new facility.
Shoddy coding has some Honda cars stuck in the year 2002
Don’t really want to continue an off topic discussion but it is widely supported and you can conditionally load a fall back easily.

https://caniuse.com/input-datetime
> What typically seems to happen in confluence shops is that information ends up being organized by TEAMS not by topic

It is usually a better idea to organize information by teams than topics in an organization. The reason is that if the tree structure is unknown to most people, they will not be able to find information easily nor to choose the right place to create information.

You shouldn't expect everyone to browse the whole documentation to understand how it is structured in order to be able to use it
Virtualizing macOS is explicitly allowed by Apple as long as you do so on Apple hardware.
Used confluence in several shops and never seen anything like that happen. Sounds terrible. Spaces are usually few and edit for all. Must have been bad admins and management.

Doesn’t mean it’s a good product though. Especially the cloud version is progressively worse, especially with regards to performance. Glad to see some competition in the area.
No, you're thinking of the Model S. The 3 and Y are predominantly steel.
Wait, the claim you made was "constant" news of terrorist organizations operating out of Canada. The list you cited was the Canadian governments' list of global entities that are designated as terrorist organizations and NOT those with an "active presence". (Tip: The US list is almost, if not entirely, identical).

Can you cite any "news" you've heard in Seattle about terrorist organizations operating out of Canada?
Sure, but that still means FORTRAN is an easy language if your intro to programming isn't centered around text processing.

And for many people, it isn't/hasn't been/doesn't have to be.

That's the author's take as well:

>The idea of introductory languages is not necessarily that they are suited to commercial endeavours, but rather that they are (i) easy to implement algorithm in, (ii) readable, and (iii) do not contain things that will confuse and bewilder.
3, 4, 5, and 6 don't seem _that_ hard such that they're impossible. It's not the tech's fault that the media hype and confused FOMO mania are playing out before it's ready.
Interesting stuff. I found an explanation of the shapes/patterns of fingerprints [video]. It also notes that identical twins have different prints.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKzz4in7Xg
Yes but the fact that the user will do what's convenient does not mean it is better. The thing about Bitcoin (as an example) is that 99% of people using can't parse the source code, but they all know that if there was an issue in it the alarm would have been sounded by now by someone who could.
It’s completed now. Congrats to everyone who worked on this phase of deployment.
Thats used for the India's Tata Nano
The pipes used are also mass produced and manufacturing circular ones is also usually easier and cheaper than cross-sections with other shapes. Obviously there are other important considerations like the ease of tunnelling and the strength of the pipes when buried underground as well.

However, one thing that none of this depends on is a circular cover being the only shape that can't fall down the corresponding circular hole. That was the standard answer that way too many companies that used this particular interview question wanted and it was wrong.
Queen Anne's Lace is wild carrot, Daucus carota, which is not poisonous.
So an iMessage group that was initiated with 5 iPhones using their phone numbers can add an Android in it no problem, but if one of them was added through Apple ID it's suddenly black magic? How about a notification asking the Apple ID user if they authorize the group to use their phone number instead so that "green user X can be included"?

Sure, if the Apple ID person actually has no phone number associated, it becomes black magic to send them an SMS/MMS. But how many iPhone users do you know have no phone number?
From the main page it seems they listened to the 440 tuning on the first day, and then the same music tuned to 432 the next day.

I very strongly suspect that people’s reactions to music can vary based on many factors, but the least of which involves familiarity vs newness.

Did they have control groups that listened to the same frequency tuned music on both days?

My expectation is that regardless of the tuning, people would be more relaxed listening to the same music on the second day.
There has been research into using it to fight gambling and binge eating addictions (with some moderate success in both cases). I'd guess it will work better for addictions which are associated with the state of euphoria, and less so or not at all with compulsive behavior where one feels miserable the whole time.
I'm not gonna claim it's different. It's not. Holding funds in a paper wallet means you have a piece of paper that's worth thousands, millions. It's a fact that there are inherent risks to holding that paper.

At some point this becomes about principles. Even if you have banks, even if banks manage to provide a good service without screwing up the economy in the process, you always have the choice to simply opt out of it. You can withdraw all of your money if you want and still maintain the ability to transact with anyone in the world. Now banking is no longer something that's imposed on everyone, it's an individual choice. It's a lot like the right to bear arms.

Your question about what happens to the money if you die is extremely relevant. My father asked me that exact question about cryptocurrencies. I came to the conclusion that if we own crypto then we must somehow make these arrangements ourselves because we can't depend on some government or bank to do it and certainly not some exchange that doesn't even answer emails. It should be possible for family to inherit a physical paperkey but I have to admit I know of no concrete examples of such a thing happening.
There is no ‘coming together’ with the denial of facts. The ‘left’ did not create ‘sides’. I believe the leaders on the ‘right’ created a public health crisis by fanning the flames of anti-science to fill their donation coffers and put people at risk. There definitely could have been more lives saved, and it’s not by denying facts but by accepting facts as facts and not demonizing our public health officials such as Dr Fauci. The ‘right’ is clearly in the wrong (as our hospitals are filled now with the unvaccinated) and bending our policies to make the stupid happy is not only inhumane, but not a rationale approach in governance. The approach should be to attack the misinformation, ban and penalize public voices that advocate mistruths, and remove funds from public officials using misinformation to fill their coffers. As the ‘right’ loved to portray: Facts don’t care about your feelings
Property titles are interesting things.

Consider the title to some property on the blockchain.

What happens in the following scenarios to the title ownership when:

* the owner passes away with heirs
* the owner passes away without heirs
* the house burns down and the hard drive holding the private key is lost

How does the title on the blockchain get transfered to a new owner in any of these situations?
Maybe the oil sold in Europe is more uniformly higher grade?

If I go to the local auto parts store here, I can spend ~$1.00/qt for oil or more than $10.00/qt for oil. Guess which oil most people will buy?

Also I don't really have any confidence that the dealers are using factory specified oil. I think they probably use the cheapest bulk oil they can buy. That's why I change my own oil, that way I know what is in the engine.
I look forward to looking at your other post and hearing your experiences as a teacher. My wife and her colleagues have experiences that are not positive but perhaps that's a reflection of the age group.

I think you are not understanding that it's not a bias if I see people wearing mask outdoors in completely mild weather and assume it's for the virus. Do you really think that people need to keep their faces warm when it's 65° and sunny? If I was walking around in freezing cold temperatures complaining about this you would have some fair point although a cloth mask is a grossly inferior way to keep your face warm compared to a gator where a ski mask.

Do you wear your mask outdoors when it's 70°? If you saw someone wearing a mask outdoors and 70° weather wouldn't you assume it's for disease protection?
Can confirm. I have a ton of ADHD symptoms but only in the last few years, due to depression rather than ADHD.
I would think security wise it would be like medication. Everything from highly trusted,tested and expensive sources to the free for all of the black market.

I would suspect you are right though that the idea of a knowledge injection is absurd.

If an athlete takes steroids they are injecting strength in one sense but not like a movie that they take the injection and are superman 5 minutes later. Surely, there are biological processes that can't be sped up all that much unless we are talking about complete science fiction with total mastery of biology.
So another unnecessary feature coming to a chat app that no-one asked for - just like including their own cryptocurrency in the messenger.

After all, from a privacy perspective it is still a disaster to create an account by using your phone number to sign in. From a typical user's perspective it is basically a worse version of WhatsApp that still cannot backup your texts and conversations properly, so why bother switching at all?

The users will still sit on WhatsApp due to the latter still being the case. Once your phone is lost, stolen, or you have a different phone, your conversations are lost if you are using Signal.

Oh dear.
LOL!

You have -3.8% of your expected lifespan remaining

I assumed they would get this right, how sad.
> var _ AltReader = (*AltReadWrapper)(nil)

I understand why, but I still find the idiom funny and clunky.
Leasing unless the manufacturer is doing something weird to hit quotas is equivalent to financing the car for 3 years and then selling it, so there aren’t big financial advantages one way or another, with financing giving you more flexibility.
Tripods, an HTML5 puzzle game I built during lockdown
I've had similar experiences with HP. Buy a cartridge that is supposed to be HP, but it complains. Plus it says it's empty way before it makes sense.

HP's software is also incredibly slow. I think it asks a server for something when I open it, which is unnecessary.

Is there some brand you can buy where this doesn't happen? Happy to pay up.
Don't take this personally (I really do mean it) but I think this attitude is part of the problem. My best, most alert hours are after ten pm. I can't just will those away, and I've tried. There is enormous social stigma around being a late riser. We're characterized as having low self control or accused of laziness. Perhaps that's deserved in some cases, but morning people can be those things too. I can go to bed at six pm and I'll guarantee you I'll still be a wreck at six am.

Night owls work well in the evening. Even if some of them can force themselves to operate early, is it reasonable to expect them to sacrifice their best hours?

Rant over, it's early for me after all :)
When I saw that I immediately said, "There is no way I'm going to click that many times like a rat in a lab experiment" and closed the tab.
Well, the web 1.0 way to indicate that text was clickable was to make it blue and underlined. What was so wrong with that convention?
>requiring custom metal alloys produced in part with SpaceX.

Folks don't realize all his companies (Tesla/SpaceX/Boring Co./Starlink/Solar Energy) are one big company. Yeah they have different names but they operate as one, taking advantage of every possible synergy between them. It is a game changer, everything from material science, communication, energy storage, transportation, etc.

It's like the Borg....a lot of companies and industry won't know WTF hit them.
I wish I could find a jaboticaba at a reasonable price in SoCal. They seem to grow okay but the one nursery I went to look at them they were very expensive because they’re rare here. Also they were mature plants kept in too small pots longer than they should have been so I didn’t get one of those ones.
Since they mainly rely on Bing, maybe Bing has made a change.
I had a cool moment along these lines when observing my parents' garden. They were growing squash in garden soil, next to table mushrooms on wood chips with the idea being the table mushrooms would convert the wood chips into additional garden soil over time. The mycelium colonized all the wood chips, but the fruiting bodies came up predominantly where the substrate was shaded by squash leaves because that was the most humid part of the mushroom patch. A cool example of accidental companion planting!
PC Monitors from CES 2022
Also as a reference, German electricity prices are up and their Co2 emissions are up due to unreliable renewables.
> from prestigious universities and previous FANG jobs are the likely candidates of success.

The universities they list aren't all in the same league.

> I’d rather work with a fund that had managers who understood due diligence, market analysis, and truly desired finding the best idea, not just pushing their own preconceived biases through pseudo-technical analysis.

These investors won't blog about how they do it! But they sure exist.
You are right to be cautious, but the mature plants are easily distinguished with a little care.
In neither of the articles did someone even mention even a use case for something even remotely value creating.

I suppose for some, enhanced control and privacy of full decentralization has value, but it's a very niche scenario.

Web 1 brought us the internet. It's already decentralized, and it changed everything.

Web 3 enabled us to interact a lot more with user-generated content. FB, YouTube. Nice, but it has some downsides.

Web 3 ... so far mostly Crypto and NFTs have some possibly interesting characteristics but are mostly giant pyramid/MLM style scams.

Web 3, so far, is a lot of hot air and a mostly hollow effort, it's like Tech Buzfeed. We should be doing better than this.
What percentage of Germany's population actually work in car manufacturing?
A quick google search reveals 300k.. and Germany has has a population of 83 million.

For example, BMW production exists in five different countries. You can find BMW manufacturing facilities in Germany, Mexico, China, South Africa, and America. The Spartanburg plant in Greer, South Carolina is the largest BMW production facility they have (by production volume).
IIRC the legacy automakers are already heavily invested in automation. I would not be surprised if Tesla's production lines are in fact a good bit less automated than, say, BMW's.