skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by relevant? Compared to all auto manufacturers in the world... if you're taking about revenue they rank 3rd. If you're talking about market cap they are 6th. The number of times mentioned in a rap song they rank 2nd. For those in the market for a entry-level luxury car it's among the most common choices along with BMW, Audi, Lexus, and Tesla.
I disagree, they usually have green or black. I don't recollect them using stars either.
Also, "mainline hard-core pornography whenever you're ready!"
Trans people face brutal violence, social stigma, workplace discrimination, homelessness, and healthcare systems not knowing how to provide care at a rate that far exceeds other groups.

It's not just "bored people", and I suggest you read up on their struggles.
Not exactly a phone, but I use it on my Android tablet (having a proper keyboard) to SSH into my server for coding. On my phone I used to use it to remotely reboot services on my server during a period when they seemed to be randomly crashing.
There are more than plenty of very real willing conscripts. They are going voluntarily or being pushed there by their relatives just because it pays too well. In dilapidated, systematically jobless provinces full of nothingness and not much different from a battlefield anyway, a chance to get 10x the money is a grab.

People who are fleeing the country and those who are willingly joining the ranks are from very different social classes, but because class system in Russia is very regional, these people barely ever meet each other so both sides can be surprised with the other's behaviour.
I generally agree with your statement, but it depends on what your goal is. Ultimately, do you want to build a successful business or bring a (specific) new technology into the world?
I suspect the former is true more often and it can lead to innovations along the way, but there is nothing wrong with the latter.
I assume they capture the conversation for 'manual review' and upload it to an S3 bucket to languish for eternity.
if you want more speed you pay more

Close, but not quite. You have the car that can do that speed. You're paying for permission to use it.
what app? I wish, but it asks to use phone number.... instead of their authenticator/other email
The best insights feel like obvious common sense after you read them. But you didn’t know it, or know how to verbalize it, beforehand.
"the vehicle software, part of the functional safety critical infrastructure, has been modified. please call a technician."

that's one very viable scenario to control "your" car. for your safety, of course.
Blockchains wouldn't fix anything here, though. The last-connected device doesn't necessarily have the canonical file, and the blockchain doesn't have any way to resolve syncing conflicts. Git is a much better choice for transactional history, and it didn't need a blockchain to implement this concept.
It sounded like you were saying that a 0 tolerance resistor would be worth the extra cost, and the reply is pointing out that a 0 tolerance resistor is not actually possible anyway, and as you approach 0, the cost increases beyond whatever your limit is.
Same. That and Sublime. JB for the unrivaled power; Sublime for unrivaled responsiveness.
OK, but when will there be a privacy-respecting messaging app that I can use from my computer?

The proliferation of mobile-only apps is making me sick.
So even if they retire it, I could never get a .GB domain? If that is the case I would much rather they keep it as it is.
I doubt the signal would be sent over CAN bus and if it is it's likely to be encrypted.
In case anyone is curious, you can remove trusted root CAs from firefox:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Changing_Trust_Settings#Changing...
>Think of the amount of complex computation must be happening for an elite gymnast for example.

By that logic, my cat should be trainable to a Chess Grandmaster level because she performs complex computation as she navigates my backyard.

>The subconscious is what I am suggesting we try to exploit.

Is there any evidence that a subconscious is exploitable it that way ... at all. Because learning doesn't work that way - especially for higher-order knowledge like Chess.
The people buying these cars (and buying these subscriptions) must care a lot about bragging rights. Literally telling people they pay extra all the time for this stuff. "Oh you got an EQS? But do you have the UPGRADE? See how much money I spend!"
Do any other languages use it for comments?
How Musk’s Twitter Faces Mountain of Debt, Falling Revenue and Surging Costs
There's a terrific episode about BEFLIX on the "Advent of Computing" podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6m1EPM2w1oX9aPoNyXa6Bb
I'm still trying to wrap my head around how a blockchain would be helpful, even in your example. How is tracking say, a cow, from farm to lot to slaughterhouse, and knowing what all was done to said cow, not simply something that could be done easily and fast with a database?

Is the portability of the blockchain the thing? I could see maybe how that would help, if there wasn't a standard across the databases involved or something.

Honestly just trying to understand, thanks!
Like many others here, I've read quite a bit of science fiction pondering what the future might be like for humankind. As far as I know, there isn't a single work of science fiction that explores the impact of subscription fatigue on the human soul.

I'm so sick and tired of getting asked to subscribe to yet another service. For electricity, there's no choice, and we're used to it; for mobile phone service, it's a modern necessity too; for internet connectivity, also; for video streaming services, sure; for music streaming services, sure; for email applications, sure; for office software, sure; for news outlets, sure; for web applications and services, sure; for webcam services, sure; for food delivery services, sure; and now, for "car performance" services too?[a] There's no obvious end to it.

It seems we're on the path to a hellish future in which we all have to pay up for hundreds (thousands?) of subscriptions to go about our daily lives.

--

[a] For a while, Tesla has been charging extra for a software update that enables greater acceleration: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-mobile-app-upgrades-accelera... -- Mercedes is just going the extra mile, so to speak!
Yep. You have to make the environmental goal correspond to a money goal of some sort.

And this can be exceptionally difficult because it can be almost impossible to actually work out the long-term effects of things like "more people should work from home". It's easy to say "shutting down a coal power plant will reduce emissions" because they're so bad, but more remote workers could result in MORE pollution if it enabled more "working holidays" and therefore more flying. And that's only one tiny aspect of all the long-term changes that could occur.
> would like to know how the answer is no

TL;DR: cryptography and secure hardware (think TPM)

This is a very interesting talk from Microsoft about how they made Xbox immune to physical attacks (modding) like you proposed. Now they are working on getting this tech into regular computers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

Of course, we don't know if the solution Mercedes used is as robust. For all we know it can be hacked in 1 minute.
This is why right to repair, not only for mobile devices for all electronics MUST exist. We are effectively at the mercy of a cartel.

Auto companies are pushing propaganda around this and exploit the less informed among us.
Counter-point. Musk has never been a genius manager or a businessman. His dreams of electric cars and space travel go back to his teenage years, and they happen to align with the vision of those who work for him overtime.

These are passionate and driven people, but they are still subject to Musk's antiquated management style - pull a deadline out of your ass and a feature, and watch the ants scurry around to please the boss. Does it always work? Wasn't CyberTruck supposed to happen years ago?

We can see how this strategy just stopped cold at Twitter. This is not a sympathetic, thoughtful boss that people might imagine him as. It is famously a solid way to get fired on the spot if you mention a word that is a remote synonym of "no" in Musk's presence. The petulant child is coming out in force under pressure.
TOTP ("Time-based One-Time Password") isn't exactly a "protocol", just a big random number as a pre-shared key plus a method for hashing that with the current time to produce a six-digit number. Whatever you're authenticating to does the same computation with the key and, if the result you provide matches the one it got, it knows you have the same key it does.

SMS 2FA is a different proposition, in that the authentication provider sends you the intended response directly. This is a little easier for nontechnical users in that it doesn't require an app that can compute TOTP responses, but it's markedly less secure in that anyone receiving or intercepting the SMS can immediately respond to the challenge, and less resilient in that you can't authenticate at all if you don't receive the SMS - which is the failure mode under discussion here.
Apparently Model 3 has a low total cost of ownership/operation per mile - i.e., popular for Uber for the same reason a Prius is popular for Uber.
This is all true, and the whole situation will probably end mostly poorly for most Twitter stakeholders.

I'm not one to defend Musk's management practices, but I think the main idea motivating this purge (which may or may not be a correct idea) is that Twitter, specifically, does not need "rockstar" engineers anymore at all.

Sure, he'll take them if they kiss the ring and work for peanuts, but he wants people who follow orders and don't talk back. He's not unique here: all management everywhere always wants this wants this but, in some endeavors you have to tolerate people who aren't this way, either because you don't know the right orders to give, or just because they're the only talent that can get done what you need to get done. Twitter's main corporate priority at this point is keeping the lights on as cheaply as possible, since they have a huge nut of debt they they can't afford to service, and on top of it all revenue is down. Again, I'm not saying this situation is desirable for Twitter employees, users, management, advertisers, or ownership (or even Musk himself), but this is the situation.
The biggest reason is social, or occasionally legal. There are tons of barriers in place to getting the legal system to agree that smart contracts are legitimate - which creates a barrier to real world, because regulators of real world business want to see contracts and legal language. (And you can't get away from if if you're operating a physical store with physical employees)

The only group that has managed to beat this was early Uber, and their political lobbying arm was legendary.
Right, this is a values problem, not a technical problem.

Who should get to see Taylor Swift? How much should they pay? How should profits be distributed?

These are philosophical questions. If you assume a particular set of answers to these questions, designing the correct sales process is not difficult. But everyone has a different set of answers.
> And they should.

Nah, even the Porsche Cayman is more prestigious than the Tesla Plaid.
Shared custody? I like being able to communicate, send/receive pictures/videos, do videocalls with my daughters when they are in their mother's place without having to ask her to share her phone for that.

I am actually travelling 10 thousands kilometers away from them for a month, having an instant messaging app is a saver for both me and my daughters.

We are currently using deltachat for this with email accounts I set up for them. They don't even have access to these accounts outside of deltachat yet and they can't be reached by others like they would with whatsapp.
What worked for me was to try it again from an IP I had logged in with before. For some reason it causes Gmail to not ask for a phone number verification.

Once logged in I could change the phone number.

Really stupid way to do it. No reason to lock someone out with the right password.

A better alternative would be to show partial digits of an old number and ask you to complete it.
The message of the original post appears to be that all other things being equal the poster would rather live in the suburbs in a larger home with a more carbon-intensive lifestyle. However, the misery of the commute from the suburbs to the office overwhelms that preference resulting in the decision to live in the city.

i.e. the assumption that the reduction in commuting would not be offset by changes in other areas is unjustified.
I once changed my Gmail password and promptly forgot it. When I was trying to recover it, I had no MFA set up (I had a yubikey, but somehow that wasn't allowed???), so the only option left for me was to provide them with the month and year I created the account. Since it was roughly a 10 year old account, I had no idea what those numbers were. There was also no way to reach out to an actual human for help through their account recovery workflow. I ended up creating a Twitter bot that would tweet at one or two of the handles owned by Google, once a day. After about a week, I had someone reach out, and I was finally able to prove that I actually owned the account and recover it. It was definitely a stressful time.
Declarative setup with NixOS. I can choose what services and software gets run and installed. I can define my user experience (sway, tiling wm). I have the control on OS updates, not Apple. Native docker. CLI works much better on Linux compared to Apple; macOS command line tools feel limited and crippled compared to almost any Linux distribution.

And, of course, I can modify any of the tools I use. The whole stack is open source.
I thought the article is about change is the only constant yada yada hence we should embrace change. How wrong was I.

> which is that an insurance company selling directly would have a cost and convenience advantage over those paying brokers.

Put it into software, to me it is about eliminating abstraction/boundary/communication. Frontend and backend is an invented boundary. Product and Dev is an invented boundary, CS/QA/Documentation and dev is also an invented boundary. Whoever break the most of the imaginary boundaries is going to make software building so much faster
Why Choose Process Goals? (Over Outcome-Based Goals)
Don't forget the (sibling?) of OCD, OCPD. Similar but different.
> Also, not all cults are religious

Now we're well into the map vs territory. In the attempt to define a cult (something which we intuit) we end up fixated on the boundary between what is a cult and what is not a cult, and try to create a taxonomic rule-based classification.

The mistake is then to assume that that rule-based classification defines what a cult is (rather than attempts to describe what is a cult) and you end up saying that something (like MLMs) are a "cult" even though they are not! I mean, you can make an analogy to a cult, or show cult-like properties, but absent a religious motivation (where "religious" itself is a similarly nebulous concept) it's not a cult.

If your rule-based model defines something which is not a cult (subjectively) as a cult (objectively), then your definitions are bad, period, and you should stop using them. Instead, embrace fuzziness and subjectivity and look for the interesting properties of "cult", and learn what it teaches us about language and society.
There is nothing more illogical in modern society than commuting to an office every day. Employees waste 2 of their 16 available waking hours in the non-productive commute while incurring significant financial costs (lease/insurance/fuel/energy) in order to support this patently absurd activity. Employers waste time and energy negotiating leases, re-arranging offices, purchasing AV equipment for meeting rooms, etc., in addition to paying the likely enormously expensive lease itself. The impacts on the environment, the number of hours of human life wasted in commute, the pointless buildings and associated costs to employers as well as the public infrastructure to support it (roads, trains, busses, etc.) are all incredibly wasteful. Surely, all of this could only be justified if physical presence had a dramatic impact on productivity. Yet, we cannot tell one way or the other if it actually improves outcomes.
You're right. Though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatswain says "formerly and dialectally also /ˈboʊtsweɪn/ BOHT-swayn", the dictionaries I checked do not list that alternative.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/boatswain even comments:

> Phonetic spelling bo'sun/bosun is attested from 1840. Fowler [1926] writes, "The nautical pronunciation (bō'sn) has become so general that to avoid it is more affected than to use it."
You see no benefit in Apps that cannot be "disappeared" by anyone (even the person who deployed it), and which scales without bound and can be composed (re-skinned or extended) without restriction? Or, forked and restricted to your own cryptographically identified and secured set of users?
Seems like this should be the default setup on Stripe's end.
The leader has to be more attentive of the group's environment than a follower who can basically doze off standing/walking while its swarming reflexes take over. Reminds me of how a group of cyclists (or a formation of geese) will take turns at the lead position in the wind, spreading the work for overcoming drag. It's not about physical work for sheep, but mental stress can be just as taxing. And chances are that the lead sheep won't graze as efficient while being distracted by leadership decisions as it would while just tagging along (focusing more on which grass cluster looks more delicious?) and then it's just as meaningful you balance the load as it would be between cyclists, or geese (geese actually do the same also on the ground, but there it's not just the mental load, those currently on guard duty actually don't feed at all because the stretch themselves as high as they can to get a better view)
Their 2FA is awfully annoying. I’ve seen they basically require you to have YouTube installed as well in order to verify it’s you (why would I need that if I already have you password + code)?
Some favorites from my two over the past couple years:

- Magna Tiles (TODDLER, PRESCHOOL1)

- Marble Maze (PRESCHOOL1)

- Lego Duplo (everyone loves these!)

- Stomp rocket (TODDLER, PRESCHOOL1)

- Books (PRESCHOOL2): Ivy & Bean, Zoey and Sassafras, but anything really depending on the kid
The inclusion of Ireland in the British Isles is now contentious. We're not blowing each other up over it but it is, at least unofficially, not the position of either side any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute
All these applications are useless. If it is on your phone it is not private. It is more private, yes.

Maybe we need to change our behavior, like not needing to talk to each other all the time, or saving our personal conversations for times when we are sitting next to the other in person.

Is this a solution in search of a problem? Or even a solution that is causing a problem?
Yes, but perhaps now that we know first hand how bad this can get, we can collectively prevent it from happening to others. :/
https://archive.ph/oh45i
> Downsides: glass is not scratch-resistant (mine's full of scratches),

The latest models do not have this problem.

> EDITED: I also discovered by accident that it still "works" even with 0% battery.

This is by design, I think in dumb mode it gets you another 5-10 days.
And the private key material Authy has in its database.
If you’re going to police the implications of “wife”, you may as well police your own gendering of the word. You’re the one who brought “women” into it, yeah?

Heh.
Why would anyone care how much gold the US government has?
Another mobile-only messaging app. If I wanted to use my phone, I'd just use SMS or RCS!
In this day and age we generally try to eschew gender roles. People who want status will seek status regardless of their gender or relationship status.
Ah good point, but the scenario in question involved both Ireland and Scotland leaving so "Great Britain" doesn't fit either.
Things would need to be really, really bad for the Unionist population of NI before they'd vote to join Ireland. I'm honestly not sure that anything bar the total collapse of the other island would do it, tbh ;)
If the dust settled why are we still talking about this?

If you want my personal opinion: blockchain had/has great potential but once bitcoin exploded the whole crypto world was hijacked by snake oil salesmen whose only goal was to get rich. People have been scammed (and continue to be scammed) by these techno babble and the dream of getting rich.
At drag strips, yes. But there have always been faster straight-line cars.

The EQE weighs 5300lbs. The EQS weighs 6200lbs. It is amazing and impressive how quickly they can accelerate, but inertia is still a thing and those things are not going to be even remotely nimble.

By comparison, the 911 at its heaviest (AWD, convertible) is 3800lbs. A porker for sure, but most configs are closer to 3400lbs.

And a Porsche Cayman weighs between 3000 - 3200lbs depending on trim.

Unless/until batteries get a lot lighter, even heavy GTs don’t have a lot to be nervous about in the fun-to-drive category.
No, I don't doubt that. The pricing makes sense within India.

It's just bad news for Disney+ profitability even if there's nothing Disney can do about that.
Considering how the sanctioned store basically already acts like malware, you're SOL, but you should be fine as long as you stay away from apps by Rahul Kumar Patel.
"You no longer own the car" - plenty of BMW, Mercedes and other premium brands customers don't want to own the car any more. They just want to lease it, get the updated model every few years and especially don't care to maintain it. In this context it makes sense to tax for a 20% increase in power. That will put significant additional stress and wear on the car so you need to cover the increased maintenance. Now I don't know if this is the exact context because the article doesn't really give details. Might be just a money grab that applies even to sold and post warranty cars.
Can we please ban these sorts of posts? This isn't news. People's news feeds are not the place for individual tech support problems. Take it to the Google community forum.
No, but Fb had 1500 employees in 2011, and it was much bigger and profitable at that time. I think that's the more appropriate comparison.
How would that work? Download the car's design (you wouldn't...) and have it manufactured by someone with the right machines?
Kangas creator/maintainer (or, one of) here:

We named it Kangas because our research team's mascot is the kangaroo, and pandas is the name of a popular related library. Since releasing it last week, I've had multiple people ask me if it the name was Finnish--really makes me wish I'd done it intentionally :)
Could it be climate change does not exist and was fabricated by mega corps and the politicians they control to drive social movements they find convenient and which make us poor but ignore social movements that could also help their made up problem but make us happier and wealthier perhaps ?
There are very few 3-4 bedroom apartments around but a townhouse or similar could work. Maybe I'm just stuck in a rut, I like my lifestyle right now and happy to continue. If I was WFH every day it just feels like it is artificially expensive to live in a big city and I should move. It opens a lot of alternatives which could be very good but I automatically ignore them because I'm happy right now. And the wife probably doesn't want that log cabin in the woods - so its easier not to think about it. :)