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I just double checked and Mobile Service is still available in my area. I could actually get an appointment 2 days from now.

One thing to note though is that not all repairs are mobile serviceable. For example, when my Model 3 needed its front control arm replaced part of that service involves doing an alignment. The Mobile Techs aren't going to be able to do that one.
Power of two reallocs are usually there to prevent append in a loop from becoming accidentally quadratic so I guess it's either a bug or a feature depending on if you're going to do that.
Biden to sign order clearing way for crypto oversight
Buying a Tesla comes with its own set of problems, like the inability to test drive the car before paying for it, and some of the worst initial quality in the industry -- which means you really should want to test drive it before buying it. Once it's yours, the complete absence of an independent dealer network means you're fully at Tesla's whim for repairing those defects. They will often say "it's within spec" and refuse. Plus, "just buy a Tesla" comes with a price premium that's more than any "market adjustment" at even the shadiest dealer for most other EVs. What buyers of EVs from traditional makes are doing is keeping tabs of what dealerships are applying those underhanded markups and simply not sending their online orders there.
> the vast majority of NADA participants are the legacy/typical automakers

I don’t see where in [3] this is supported. NADA is an association of dealerships not auto makers. I think there might be some confusion between say Ford the auto manufacturer and a franchise Ford dealership.
At the end of the day Mac users are so few in number and cost so much to retain…

You're kidding, right?

In its nearly 40 year history, the Mac has never sold better; Apple has had many consecutive record quarters since the start of the pandemic.

It's obviously not just about price and consumers; several companies bought boatloads of Macs for their developers:

"Uber, Twitter among companies giving engineers 'fully loaded' M1 Max MacBook Pro": https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/11/08/uber-twitter-amon...
Dealer margins on the cars themselves are actually super thin* - they make their money on optional add-ons plus service

* unless the car we're talking about is _really_ expensive
As I remember that was part of the sales pitch for the Saturn brand.
As a customer, I find these type of sale strategies absolutely exhausting. I hate booking flights for this reason. I find a fair price, try to coordinate time off, accommodation, my partner's schedule, and then I go to book and... the price has doubled. Ok, cancel that plan, I'll search for alternatives and wait a few days to see if the prices improve. Ok, there's a deal again, but I'll need to shift things by a week. I'll just make that adjustment to my schedule and get confirmation, go to book, and... the prices have changed again.

For another example, I'm thinking about buying a laptop this month. Companies like Lenovo completely turn me off with their $4,500 prices minus $2,450 in "eCoupons". Another pain point is manufacturers that give different prices for the identical laptop configuration, simply because I started the customization wizard with different base models. I have no respect for these companies as they waste my time. I like the Apple pricing approach. I can feel confident making a purchase at any moment, because I know their prices don't fluctuate weekly, and they're not going to have a 30% off coupon code a month after launch that makes me feel like a fool.
Sadly the EFF is not usually in a position to serve as a technical witness in criminal cases.
I had mobile service come out to my car literally last week. It just depends on availability of technicians and the municipality. They're aggressively hiring for the role however, so it might be a temporary thing.
Oh! I thought that was when he read it, the first quarter of 1984. Off to buy another book...
This made me think of the Saturn GM brand in the 90s, which made the "no haggle" price and salespeople NOT working on commission a refreshing proposition.
Yah, I just about died when I saw the $40k dealer markup on the ford raptor a couple years ago. It was a hard NO on my side at that point. I guess post cov19 with all the shortages there is an economic argument for it, but in the past you would think ford/etc would be more than happy to eat chevy/toyota/etc's market share if their dealers weren't playing games with the retail values of these cars, because in may locations the same company owns a whole bunch of dealerships for different companies.

Buddy of mine, ~15 years ago, bought a couple cars by spamming the sales department via email what he was looking for in a 1000 mile radius then playing them against each other. I tried it to a lesser extend a few year after that though and they basically weren't playing ball.

There is a reason a lot of auto communities call them the "stealership" and then post their $1200 radiator replacement quotes.
Inflation is not transitory, you have been fed a noble lie for the good of social harmony.
When you said it, what were you intending to carry forward to the parent comment? I don't especially want to read several essays to try and glean what you hypothetically meant by it.
Tesla's no-dealership model has been an unmitigated disaster. I have never heard of any other company making people wait months for repairs, nor have I heard of any other company repeatedly making delivery estimates that are wrong by months, nor have I heard of any other company delivering cars over a year after they were paid for.
Not the OC, so not sure exactly what they meant, but if you go into File/Options it would recognizable to anyone from 20 years ago. But I would say the same thing about the equiv. screen in Photoshop. There's continuity in applications that have been around for decades, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Phil Kennedy is a hero. A bold risk-taker. The ultimate DIYer, experimenting directly on his own brain. And he's a scifi author to boot!
Jeremy Usborne: It's just, Big Suze and everyone, they're coming over. And you might want to make yourself scarce because we're going to be taking some magic mushrooms.

Mark Corrigan: Magic mushrooms?

Jeremy Usborne: Yes, and we're gonna smash down the doors of perception so we can see all the stuff that...

Mark Corrigan: Isn't really there.

Jeremy Usborne: That is really there but we don't normally see because we're so transfixed on...

Mark Corrigan: The stuff that is really there.

Jeremy Usborne: Oh, it's so simple for you, isn't it? But the truth that you're so scared of hearing is that in fact reality and fantasy are exactly the same thing.
Wasn't the polkit vuln a few weeks ago? And isn't this a post-compromise exploit? Title is a bit hyperbolic.
Weirdly enough I'm currently going through my first maintenance request with Tesla and despite me living 15 min from the service center they scheduled a mobile service appointment. I was totally expecting them to ask me to bring it in.
Interesting to note that I can't find that paragraph in the WSJ from Friday, even when looking at the writers articles. He wrote one article about the Ford EV split on Friday but made no mention of dealer changes. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-creates-electric-vehicle-g...
> * Apple's cultural push for $1 apps has made it hard to charge sustainable amounts for indie apps

I'm not going to blame Apple for that. Unless it is to have provided the App Store arena — within which developers quickly raced to the bottom on pricing.

Who can blame users though for expecting free stuff? Web browsers became free. Apple and Microsoft started bundling more and more apps with their OS's. Facebook: free, Twitter: free, etc.

I honestly don't know how indie developers make any money these days.

I'm considering trying shareware again. At least the odd check in the mail used to get pizza for the girlfriend and I on Friday nights.

But try and keep your day job too.
Are bit fields a good idea?
Well in the manufactures case they aren't making any of the extra margin, they would be better off knowing there is increased demand and making more of that particular model.
Deflation seems like such an impossibility, it’s hard to see how the genie goes back in the bottle here.
Startup believes it can speed delivery of items by storing them in orbit
I considered corn bulbs, but my concern was UV radiation. No one has tested the long term effects of putting these things close to your face - even a small percent of off target emissions could end up doing damage at 30,000 lumens for an hour a day every day. Would love to see evidence that this is not something I need to worry about.
The reason why it still is a good idea to do this is climate change. The cost of not doing anything is much greater than the cost of building new nuclear plants. There are no technical problems with storing waste - it's entirely political. The technically most suitable storage sites in Germany were dismissed for state politics reasons. Instead they chose a technically unsuitable site - Gorleben - which then turned out to be surprisingly unsuitable.
This thread was kicked off by discussion about ransomware hacking, though. I'm sure US intelligence agencies get up to all sorts of no good, and I'm sure our news is less likely to report on it, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent ransomware industry in the US (and the news has no reason to cover for petty hacking criminals in the US).

Actually I don't see a ton of news about national-security related hacking by Russia.
I was thrown off by your “replace”, replace who? Maybe you were thinking about a hypothetical perfect mathematical world that started off with a lot of couples in the 1st generation and people died after giving birth.

The context though is the current real world: It’s perfectly fine to have 1 kid or even no kids at all and just adopt existing orphans, because a lot of other people have been having way more than 2 kids for way too long.
Anything happens like you lose your job before the six months is up?

That’s just like saying if they agreed to pay you $250K in cash, and you lost your job in June, you wouldn’t get the other $125K.

But if we are talking about the 5 largest tech companies - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, I doubt they are going to be so distressed that they are going to not pay their RSUs.
not really though? Look at figma; look at stuff like Miro. Even Google Docs are getting better.

Discord came out of nowhere and now owning its space.

The one that has stagnated is GMail I guess; I think they have too much legacy stuff that they cannot cut, so it’s hard to innovate.
Related: "Arch Rivals Quarrel Over Quirky Geological Formations"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/arch-rivals-quarrel-over-quirky...
SwiftUI remains a long way off for big, complicated apps.

I think OmniFocus counts as a big and complicated app and it's being rewritten using SwiftUI: https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omni-roadmap-2022
Shell data processing: finding runs of “notable” data in a log
Have you read the parent comment?
Tesla claims they operate their service centers at cost and the goal is that they are explicitly not a profit center. This is why so many dealerships are disincentivized to sell EVs however. Less maintenance (due to less physical moving parts. No fan belt, no fly wheel, no alternator, no pistons, etc) means less service that can be marked up. The recommended service on tesla's best sellers (the model 3 and model y) is only every two years.
I have put together an OpenAPI based Test Automation tool. It uses OAS to fuzz requests. Do check it out at https://cymitra.com
Richer Asian cities often have good quality of life in the cities. Walkable and good transportation. It's true in many parts of China and all over developed Asia
Nah, most of the stories are about ransomware type schemes from Russian criminal gangs. I'm sure both of our intelligence agencies get up to no good, and US news sources are less likely to cover US intelligence agencies, but they have no real reason to cover for petty hacking criminals.
You might find Prototype to Product: A Practical Guide for Getting to Market by Alan Cohen useful.
Alternatively, you don't have a listing on Tesla's site saying that a car costs $40k, and then when you call them up to buy it, they say they are adding a "$25k dealer premium", so you can have it for $65k. That's what actually happened to me when I was about to buy a rav4 prime a year ago. So instead I just went and bought a model Y for $50k, and am extremely happy with it. And also blacklisted Larry H Miller from ever getting my business again. But I guess I haven't had to deal with repairs, so maybe things will get worse.
Anybody else get the feeling that some business savvy al gore replicant terminator might have travelled back in time and infiltrated ford.
Dow sinks and enters 'Correction Territory'
I have put together a Simple OpenAPI based Test Automation tool. It uses OAS to fuzz requests. Do check it out at https://cymitra.com
It is much tighter than 3D printing, though - good enough for most cases if you’re using a drill press
That has to happen. The government cannot deficit spend for free. The cost is inflation, and guess who pays - you and me.
To wit, inflation only briefly dipped below 0 once, in '08, at -0.38%, possibly a rounding error. The value of money only goes down.
The one disadvantage of that is you cannot easily see all available functions at once. It loses discoverability. Autocomplete on the input prompt will help rectify that somewhat, but only somewhat.
> the biggest thing from learning analysis - the ability to think clearly through a problem and prove it correctly

I was a math major and this is not exclusive to calculus or analysis. If anything, algebra classes in things like group theory were much more instructive on this point. Everything from my third and fourth years (when I specialized into combinatorial optimization) was built on a cornerstone of proofs and theorems.
> It is not uncommon to have AWS/GCP instances stay on for years (since the underlying hardware is abstracted way), etc.

This isn't hard to achieve with reasonable quality hardware and reliable power (which likely includes some amount of UPSes).

The scaling is nice, but as another poster said, 2x swing isn't enough; it would be more effective to buy for your peak and just let them idle on non-peak. If the swing is 10x, then cloud might be more economical. But you also need to build your system differently for frequent cluster changes, vs a stable cluster. Having a short cycle for hardware aquisition is nice, of course, if your load changes quickly.
Pretty annoying that they'd pull the rug like that. Actually, kinda worse than the bad-old way of doing things. I'm sure if they hadn't set the expectation that such a tool would exist, you'd have set your code up to be more easily search/replaced (or sprinkle macros around, etc).
Games aren’t made to look physically realistic at all costs; it’s an artistic effort to try to make games look visually good, communicate with players clearly, and balance performance.

SSAO is subjective if it looks good, but it often does communicate corners and edges clearly which may be what they are going for.
"If you've lost to them, join them."
There's two other ways. One is to use a USB 3 to PCI express bridge and then functional pcie USB controller chipsets. I'm not aware of any such bridge silicon existing.

The second way is what you said, to skip the bridge and create a USB host controller that connects though via USB. Again, I'm not aware of the existence of any such silicon.

Both could be implemented without any standards fuckery. Both would require new silicon and new host OS drivers.

You could make your own such device by glueing together USB host and device controllers with an ARM or somesuch. But again, you'd need a host OS driver.
Healthcare workers seem to be a poor study group - the 'value' is in their constant re-exposure to the virus and its descendants, wouldn't that also affect their immune response.

As others have noted, the duration of protection is conspicuously absent.
That's fair, I am a little bashful in this regard sorry.

We are decades beyond the pail at this point is why. There is of course reason to change your own behavior, but we need rock solid actionables from industry to change emissions at the scale we need.
By the next generation moving and staying in cities rather than sprawling suburbs. It concentrates public resources and hugely reduces transportation costs. Combined with most services like medicine, finance, and education, getting remottified and automated, deflation is possible. I think ownership is going to get really expensive, we can't have abandoned building hogging space.
How is an OS not a good place to find a calculator?
Cmd-click is not always working in M1/M1X
> one can imagine the competition for said funds incentivizing researchers and labs to take extreme measures to garner attention and acquire support.

Yep, I think the realities of allowing such a thing are quite clear: You can't skip the rats and go straight to a human, but you could skip the rats and go straight to yourself. Having human data at an early stage would be a huge advantage for getting funding, and there would only be one way to get it.
Encoding and Decoding Online Tools – DenCode
Walking to the store is faster than catching a plane
> Buy 25 ordinary LED bulbs, and make some sort of contraption to mount them on the wall or ceiling.

Like the dude living in his basement with dozens of lightbulbs hanging from his ceiling in Invisible Man. Love it : )
You make it sound like a law of nature when it really isn't. Look at Italy for a prominent counter example.
Is the model a disaster, or is Tesla's implementation of it a disaster? Or is Tesla's implementation of it given the confines they were working under a disaster? If you look at Rivian and Lucid, their performance in this space hasn't exactly been stellar either.

You are absolutely correct that these things typically do not happen with the major car manufacturers, and that Tesla needs to get its act together. But it is worth considering the other car manufacturers have been doing it at scale for a much longer time often with better understood materials and technology.

People often ask "What are the other carmakers going to do to compete?" and this is exactly one of those things that they'll bring to the table.
Oh, TFA is about nation states so I was talking about that.

Asymmetric commercial hacking is pretty easy to explain: hacking foreign entities is safer than hacking domestic ones in terms of risk exposure, and hacking entities in countries richer than yours is more attractive than the other way round.
Since this happens very often, I'd think people already asked it, especially those who were planning to post their ShowHNs. But I searched and found no related discussions.
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The US military runs engines without emissions controls because ... war. It is embarassing to waste so much wealth on endless conflicts. DoD spend continues to be a white-collar welfare program.
I mean no one integrates to find the area under subsections of the normal distribution because you have to use numerical methods for that anyway. And it only gets more complicated from there with chi-squared and various degrees of freedom etc. Tables are a perfectly fine way to deal with distributions…
It's true, "it won't help" is not true I suppose. It will certainly help. But we need much greater scale, and I am cynical toward the motivations of the global community.

We can't even get one of the wealthiest nations in the world, Australia, to stop digging up coal in 2022, when it's citizens are busy installing enough solar to power whole cities. We the people need to wield our power to get the people up top to do the right thing, else it's for nothing.
Not my industry so I don't know but it has been illegal for a long time in the US... and they were still doing it in 2007:

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-04-13-214...

Also probably going on elsewhere where it is still legal. Looks like shilling NFTs has a precedent after all!
No, most of STEM should learn calculus at some point. In engineering and physics they are useful; in CS, chemistry and biology they are reasonable foundational knowledge and used in some specializations. Trigonometry is used even in some of the trades.

For science-oriented high school curriculums, calculus is necessary, and should only be optional in a few cases where the student already really knows what they want to do.

By the time a student wants to specialize at say 20, they should have already had some foundational ability for that specialty, otherwise they wouldn't be able to compete internationally. For people who don't end up using calculus, it's a waste, but there is a trade-off. As a result, much of the high school curriculum is to build a broad foundation to prepare for multiple possible specializations.
Weird I got my Tesla within a month delivered to my place. Looks great and drives great no issues so far. Definitely prefer this to going into a dealership.
It is a law of nature. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. That stimulus check you got? Now you have the hangover.

Didn't Italy get the Germans to take the fall for their deficits a few years ago?
Successfully hacking the Gibson it the ultimate challenge!
From personal experience (I guess now that the statue of limitations has passed..) I was part of a large community of people in the not so distant past hacking into cable ISPs. Small ones were easy to bypass security mechanisms and spoof other customers devices or simply trick their servers into issuing valid configs, but obviously there was the one big one that I’m sure everyone has heard of. Anyway, before the community was shut down, in the quest to defeat the more stringent security mechanisms, a few folks figured out how to jump from modems to an internal VLAN, got access to privileged SNMP communities and eventually owned the entire network starting at the head ends and eventually made their way to the core routers (Of course, the provider used the same credentials for everything, in an industry that to this day doesn’t use 2FA). Eventually the community was shut down. However, said ISP never acknowledged the breach. If some hobbyists could figure it out, I guarantee that nation-states can do it.
Europe unification will crack within a decade. Southern Europe is strangled by euro without effective ability to shift course. It will be okay, like brexit.
For an article whose thesis is broadly ‘surfaces don’t darken much towards concave corners, so using SSAO is bad’, there sure are a lot of graphs on this page that show that surfaces definitely, empirically darken as they approach concave corners, in a way that looks rather like it could be quite cheaply simulated using SSAO…
You can always raise prices for the products you sell, but it’s very difficult to cut those prices later.
Deflation happens when you're on the gold standard, and the supply of gold isn't keeping up with demand.
The "+1" is not a superficial optimisation, it can be critical for correctness. Consider the following (correct) implementation, which uses +1:

def binary_search(array, target):
left, right = 0, len(array)
while left < right:
middle = (left + right) // 2
if array[middle] < target:
left = middle + 1
else:
right = middle
return right

If you change `left = middle + 1` to `left = middle`, it hangs in an infinite loop!

(Explanation: when `left` and `right` differ by 1, `(left + right) // 2` will return `left` and the search will not make any progress.)