skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're grossly understating just how brutal it would be. While you're right about how concave mirror surfaces truly create lethal concentrations of energy, this vast reflective surface would still unbearably heat the land next to it at certain times of day. 200% of Arabian Peninsula levels of solar heat as only "uncomfortable"? You've got to be kidding.
Security can be used to create both a safe, and a jail. Remember that.

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I think Microsoft feels threatened at this point about Linux becoming more popular on PCs; what with hardware like the Steam Deck. Can't have Linux dominate the PC platform if you forcefully bind all hardware to the Windows ecosystem. Imagine if back in the day Microsoft used their dominance to block out all competing software on PCs but their own.

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I can see a dystopian future where Government can enforce code/file signing with technologies like this (DRM), so that you can never again have an open computing platform; you could only ever use code or view files approved by the State, and if you try to write code or create content, it won't work period unless it is first approved by the State. (such as with an AI scanning tool to detect and block "wrong-think" or "dangerous functionality" (i.e. dissent or otherwise that threatens the powers that be))
Yeah I get that, I guess for me I just see it like . Imagine some town with lots of manufacturing jobs and so many people are shopping at walmart for foreign made wares. How does it not click "If people dont buy local our local made wares, how will our factory stay open?" . I'm not saying so much like right right now, it's obviously too late in many industries to go back any time soon. But like in the 70s-90s, why didn't people working in these industries have the foresight to realize if we dont buy local made wares, there's no need for factory workers here, and if there's no need for factory workers here, there's no need for manager, and if there's no need for managers, the company could just be entirely in the foreign nation. And if if it's in the foreign nation, how are we going to get money to feed ourselves and pay our mortgages (keep the property values at least level) ...

It seems like it was more like "Well I could have a TV now, or a TV + Microwave now" and that was the micro decisions that lead to a hollowing out of the labor force.

I'm just armchair speculating here, happy to learn more in a concise way (ie doesnt require me to go get a degree on the subject) .
Ask HN: What blocks you from switching your small-to-medium business to Linux?
Question for small-to-medium business owners, working primarily with office suite type of software (think Microsoft Office programs, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - what is stopping you from switching from Windows to Linux? I am also interested to hear stories about unsuccessful switch to Linux and why you reverted back to Windows.
Primary (non-rechargeable) lithium batteries contain metallic lithium, but all lithium ion batteries in vehicles contain lithium only in ionic form. Building rechargeable lithium batteries with lithium metal anodes is still in the research stage. The problem with fighting lithium ion vehicle fires is heat from battery self-discharge which can cause ignition and re-ignition of the flammable liquid electrolytes inside the batteries. That's one reason researchers are also pursuing solid state lithium ion batteries: to take out the flammable liquid electrolytes that current batteries need.
I'm assuming they are thinking more about fraudulent spam, Nigerian prince's and fake goods and the like, rather than just advertisements for real products spam
In college (more than a decade ago for me, but still in this millennium) our MOS 6502 hardware/assembly programming lab was called "Microcontroller Design". This was as opposed to the later lab class "Microcomputer Design" which used the more recent Motorola 68k. I suppose the chip that powered the original Macintoshes is slightly closer to today's idea of a microcomputer than the 6502 and its original "microcomputer revolution" Apple II/TI Home Computer/Commodore 64. One of the takeaways from those courses was that the "microcomputer" has moved on so much from what you can breadboard in a lab (the Motorola 68k was one of the last "microcomputer" chipsets that you could breadboard and even that was still a hardware reliability challenge), but MOS 6502 was cemented as a "forever" tool as a "microcontroller". You can still get ICs in bread board forms and build it next to classic TTL logic chips and test/prototype it at human scale clock cycles (things you can see/read in an oscilloscope in real time). You can merge into an SoC core and run it at modern processor clock cycles. There are so many wild uses for the MOS 6502 as a "microcontroller" on the periphery of computing. Between MOS' bankruptcy and the many licensees of the 6502 and the many people that cut their programming teeth in the "microcomputer revolution" of the Apple II et al, the 65xx family likely really is a vestigial "forever chip".

As a programmer, and I've heard this sentiment from others too, I also think the 6502 was also the last "fun" assembly language to write directly without a higher level language, which adds to its legacy.
> It still leaves Tesla as the bad guy.

I mostly agree. I think good customer service norms do dictate a reasonable statute of limitation here.

I think where it becomes interesting is if someone acted negligently in the chain when they bought a P60 and sold it off as a P90. If someone wasn't paying too much attention, they might not have noticed at all. I for instance had no idea which engine variant my car had (1.5L vs 2.0L) until I realized my mpg was poor. So maybe it's a legit mistake. The changing of the physical badge is very suspicious however. But if Tesla changed the software badge then yes, I think they deserve the blame.
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Well, this is a disaster then. I was excited to get back to VRChat once I got a Linux compatible headset, but I guess that's not possible anymore. What a terrible change.
> Not the same person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
Author of the article here. I haven't played those games so I can't really comment on them :)
We’re talking about hypotheticals. If you want to make up a new hypothetical where tying the suspect to the VPN account is irrelevant, what is even your point?
You’re opening a can of worms but Kernigan and Ritchie wrote the canonical book on C and you cant go wrong with that.
There should be a law forbidding software locking. Otherwise I'm afraid it will keep getting more and more popular (like the "seat heating subscription"[1]). If I buy a piece of hardware, I own it.

1 - https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/14/business/bmw-subscription...
Tracking stations are a real struggle with Index. Headsets that don't track position of the head are uncomfortable.
"hated" doesn't matter unless customers actually change their behaviour. Companies will get screwed over on low cost RFPs again and again and again and do nothing about it but whine.

Customer satisfaction only has value if it drives additional sales, but plenty of orgs do not care.

Accenture and IBM have been doing this for decades. They do it because it works.
While there seems to be verification off the device how do we know the EFI attack isn't aware of this agent and presenting it with legitimate data for it to process while still remaining hidden?
> If my RTX3080 breaks, and Nvidia sends me a 3080Ti as a replacement(because maybe they don't have any 3080 in stock) then no, they can't lock it down to 3080

You underestimate the potential for straight up evil in $BIGCORP, nvidia treating video cards like HP treats consumer inkjet printers in the future is something I would be totally unsurprised by.
Smokeless for semi-automatic reflects the historical experience of trying to use black powder in repeating guns (even such as mag-fed bolt-actions of late 19th century).

As for technical barriers, it is obvious that they will be circumvented, yes - but experience also shows that most people don't bother, which is exactly why such barriers are still promoted by the industries that benefit from them. It's the same story for ammo and guns.

Note that I haven't said anything about the desirability of such barriers in either case. FWIW I actually own tools to manufacture "ghost guns". Nevertheless, it seems obvious to me that any such restrictions on ammo and ammo components would be effective in exactly the same sense that DRM is effective - by reducing the number of people involved in the activity by several orders of magnitude.
Don’t Just Open Your Repo
Who pays for the energy that is needed to move the added weight?
I think you've basically defeated your own arguement. These Web3 principles of decentralization are not new, and fully possible to implement with Web2. Bittorrent, DNS, Napster, PeerTube, Matrix, Mastodon... all of them are Web2 software that use the smart principles of Web3 without adopting asinine smart contracts or self-sabotaging governance concepts.

The Blockchain does have problems it can solve, they just got solved by Web2 first. Sorry.
I think it's more likely you are doing nothing meaningful at all to help Americans get healthcare, and feel better about it by making cheap posture posts online.
"It's dangerous to drink 7 pots of coffee in a row" is something that I would still qualify under "incredibly safe". The human stomach can't even hold that much liquid.
I think the main issue as a consumer is, do I trust Tesla to try to provide me with the best experience? Or are they going to squeeze me and hit me with "aha, gotcha! you should have read the fine print!" every time there's an issue?

As a consumer, it's extremely expensive to remain well informed. I want to purchase from brands where I feel that the company wants me to be happy, ESPECIALLY with such a premium brand as Tesla. I certainly don't want to need a lawyer on hand to figure out if I'm going to buy a lemon or not.

If Tesla makes an error, it should be resolved in the Customer's favor, period. Why would anyone buy a Premium (read: highly expensive) product if they know the company is going to try to hit them with monkeys-paw customer service terms?
"Any digital restriction or otherwise arbitrary lock that tries to supersede physical ownership or first-sale doctrine or Magnuson Moss Warranty Act shall have all congressional protections, DMCA, copyright, patent, and trademarks stripped from those products.

Any remote access after sale has occurred shall be considered a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and shall hold Chief * Officers, upper tier executive positions, and boards of directors fully liable, up to and including reimbursements of 3x per device to the citizens affected, and prison times no less than 1 week to a maximum of 10 years.

Enforcement of this law shall be done by the Federal Trade Commission."

I would LOVE to see something like this.
It really depends on how one uses the software. If it's used as a learning aid to reinforce certain patterns (eg. "I went to office" -> "I went to the office"), it's fine in my opinion. After all, everyone started as a beginner.

If it's used to fix whatever ESL word salad one writes, without using the corrections as a hint to improve one's command of the language, then I agree with you.
Take a look at Blood on the Clocktower - a true masterpiece.
Yeah early as in early in market domination.
> The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90".

Why not? Tesla not only replaced the battery, but REBADGED the car for him.

Putting this on the customer is asinine.
Amazon as a k-anonymity provider.
I am playing Population One on Quest2 and it is an amazing experience. So much worthy than 400usd.
No, it has to do with our relatively flat social structure. Nobody can win, so may as well focus on not losing. Canada is not a country that will let you win big for having big accomplishments.
Sure, but you might lose some of the fondness of those memories if you tried and repeat the same experience today.
As long it is implemented so the end user has complete control of the system in one way or another then these things are great ideas. Hard to think of how they'd do that given they seem designed more for central control than security, but if they did it'd be interesting to see what developers could do with it.
Not quite, a software limited 90kWh battery is worse than a 60kWh battery pack due to weight. So, Tesla can’t fulfill their warranty obligations with a software locked higher capacity battery.

A full capacity battery on the other hand could reasonably qualify as an as good or better replacement which is fine. Therefore whoever did this change at Tesla is exposing them to liability.

Technically if car identified as having a 90kWh battery then Tesla also befitted from that deception by being able to claim higher resale value. Thus making this arguably fraud on their part, though that’s unlikely to stick.
Same here, but my view is from interacting with some of them, specifically some higher-up engineers. They acted as if they were so much better than you somehow. I don't know if it was the fact their RSUs were making them rich, or something. Not everyone is like this of course, but it left an awful first impression on me.
The numbers in my post have some significant errors — I mashed it in just before my plane was taking off — but the argument is one I have seen carried out more carefully elsewhere.

175 km in 20 minutes would be roughly the top speed of the fastest train ever built. I'm doubting that.
There's a difference between ACK of the remote network stack (yeah, we got your packets, they're waiting in line) and ACK of the application (yeah, app X processed your requests composed of 1 or more packets)

Compare with the classic OS optimization for spinning rust hard drives - write system calls will return immediately, but actual write requests to the hardware will occur sometime later. It's assumed most of the time your computer doesn't lose power, but that does happen sometimes, hence journaling.
indeed. It's also possible to seek wider context beyond the immediate and understand where some stories start

https://collegenews.org/italian-university-suspends-course-o...
Highly recommended. Definitely seems like they'd be in your wheelhouse.
I wanted to clear up any misunderstanding with superchroma. I agree that the dead comment itself is not worth discussing.
never talked to someone who lived there, do natives really leave during ramadhan because of "infections from africans and asians"? because thats what i've heard, 5-7 years ago that the natives take holidays in order to avoid the influx of foreigners
Yes interesting. There are also good reasons to build cities in circles/squares.

1. Minimize the perimeter to area ratio. This minimizes the interface with the outside, such as protective walls and access points. On the other hand, in linear city, everyone gets a nice view, albeit basically the same view.

2. Minimize distance between points. Putting everything on a line means increases the distance for point to point trips. In a 2d city, things are closer together. In a 3d city, even more so. This affects travel, networks, etc. Important / highly frequented things will cluster in the middle.

3. Enhance resilience. If there's a roadblock or problem in a linear city, the whole thing gets blocked. In a 2d city, you can usually just reroute around. This applies to travel, sewage, grid, etc blockages. Linear city is just asking for single point failures.

Many of these points fall apart when you consider American cities are built kind of like 1d cities around highways and such. The linear city is just admitting it upfront.
Sounds similar to my javascript playground https://PlayCode.io :)

Looks awesome, works so nice and neat! Especially impressive mobile support.
You can look up various predictions. Depending on which scenarios come true, large parts of Earth around the equator can become simply unlivable (i.e. worse than Persian Gulf countries now, where life outside of air conditioned buildings and vehicles hardly exists) during our lifetime.
A 175KM long clothesline? </sarc>
A big part of the business claim lies in the generalizability. LLMs are basis technology that, once trained, have applications in practically all sectors and businesses, because text and data of other modalities are everywhere. Massive scalability potential.

Just to name a very short selection of apps that are very likely to be tranformed by LLMs, or are in the process already:

* chatbots and everything conversational

* QA systems, customer support

* writing and grammar assistants

* Code generation (Copilot etc.)

* Translation

Each of these has a billon dollar market, and you might be able to solve them all with the very same model. That is the bet.
I agree we need better laws around right to repair and what “ownership” means when software and telematics are involved.
I was into it but my enjoyment kept dropping. I "finished" it anyways because I am a completionist. Your goal is to find new branches in the decision tree and your reward is a novel joke. But your punishment for forgetting that you already explored a branch is to hear the same joke again, which for me is grating and retroactively worsens the initial novel experience. It also wastes my time, I don't want to be here I want to see new things. And the closer you get to fully exploring the tree the more often this happens, more and more of the game is retroactively ruined for me.
I never thought I would be a journaler, but got into it by accident.

I read self improvement books regularly, and I started keeping a journal of what I was reading. I try to read 10 pages each day, and at the end of my section I just write a paragraph summarizing what I had read.

After awhile the summaries started naturally including examples from my life so that I could remember the points better. And my own personal goals and aspirations. Once I was there it isn't that different from a standard "life" journal, but having the book you are reading really gives you a crutch to lean into and grow off of.
German language newspapers in the USA went from over a thousand to almost gone during WW1.
Good customer relations would have been to leave car as it was... Then again, if there is some ratio of fanatics that are ready to pay 4500 extra on second hand car this might make financial sense... You never know with Tesla and some people...
This is how Disney tends to or used to operate its theme parks. If you're coming from another theme park chances are you have been trained incorrectly meaning a person with no experience has the advantage. Not saying I agree or disagree, but I can understand why someone could think otherwise.
Use Nitter[1], turn the Japanese profile link into an RSS feed, and then you can read through the entries with your favorite RSS reader. I have a big OPML file with all the people I like on Twitter, and browse everyone's least-favorite hellsite that way.
> Its a full time job by itself.

Indeed, the game is a full time job.
I found BMW when I was in college and found it eminently readable. One reason is that I had previously read Arthur Clarke's Interplanetary Flight, and the other reason is the delightful historical background that BMW sprinkled throughout the book. I am not an aerospace engineer by training or by trade, but it was always my dream.
Yup - at two previous companies (one I ran, one I didn't) we had as a design philosophy "we don't cause regressions". If we gave a customer an extra feature by mistake and they've since started using it and relying on it, that's on us. They don't care that they weren't "supposed" to have that feature, they see that it was taken away.

Reputation and the customer relationship are worth more than the company's sense of "fairness", especially when (as in this case) you're not even deterring future customers from doing anything, because the customer who's affected is not responsible for the error.
From the extension docs:[1]

> In order to keep Feather Wiki small, many of its method names are extra short and can seem somewhat opaque. Hopefully this documentation will help make things a little more clear.

What kind of size difference would it make to have longer method names?

[1] https://feather.wiki/?page=documentation_intro
I appreciate this as well. I think "depression" can very much be a catchall for things happening in the body, external behaviors, and more.
I apparently have Pony Island in my Steam library. Gonna take a look at it after dinner I guess. Thanks for the suggestion!
TIL CircleCI didn't support GitLab. I'm surprised it took them this long.
I appreciate the suggestion, had never heard of Alyx before seeing this thread. I’m admittedly quite reticent to use VR in my personal time but mostly because I don’t play many video games (and have never “happened upon” any VR exposure thus far) - small amounts of time gaming is often something on the N64. The technology is immensely impressive, though, and hope the games gain polish over time!
Isn't one of the main selling points of Gitlab their built-in CI? Anyone using Gitlab use an external CI?
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Well, I own a Dell gaming PC. It came with the "Alienware Command Center" installed.

I suspect it may be an Alienware PC. If so, why wouldn't we call it that?
Isn't it a bit akin to disclosing hidden defects for a house? If you have known about those defects, or they were properly disclosed to you when you bought the house, in many jurisdictions you're responsible to disclose them to the next buyer, are you not?

I'm not on Tesla's side here: I have an expectation of reasonability that they're not meeting, and I feel that they've forfeited their "rights" to locking this configuration down, a long time ago.

But in parallel, it seems that strictly speaking the new owner may also have some reasonable expectation that the history of the care is relayed to them upon purchase. I say "strictly" because I also understand that's not how it goes in the real world. But since were hypothesizing here...
I do take Kissinger and Mearsheimer's views seriously, and I did not call Kissinger or Mearsheimer "biased". Instead, I attempted to address my understanding of the reasoning behind their statements (Mearsheimer certainly; I believe the same to be true of Kissinger). That reasoning led to many of the successes and not a few of the failures during the Cold War; it is worth taking seriously.

I disagree with the Great Power reasoning mostly because it is explicitly amoral and moral standing is important (at least from a morale viewpoint :-) if nothing else). That's completely unimportant. On the other hand, all of the honest-to-gosh International Relations people I've heard from (at least those under 70) also disagree with it, for a variety of reasons, and I take that seriously too.

I further believe your last sentence is a gratuitous misreading of what I wrote.
To be fair there is a lot of software everywhere that you know you yourself could easily fix but aren't allowed to.
Tesla doesn’t believe in having such folks (they famously eliminated their PR department).
I remember being called a reactionary naysayer like, 8 years ago, because i told that this would happen.
Liked the mention of "comradery" over "family".