skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I wonder if they will be able to address this fast enough because it does seem serious. Same goes for the mirrors that are out of reach of the driver for easy cleaning. It could be a pain point.

I guess the author wanted the pile-on a bit, but the rest feels a bit more like "this isn't how we are currently doing it so it's just wrong", especially when it comes to the shape of the truck. Being aerodynamic seems like a good way to increase the range.
I'm a big fan of Tesla. I own their cars. I even own FSD for each of my cars. But I was not informed on why their new Semi might be badly designed for the use case they were designed for. Tesla designs some things stupidly (i.e. they aren't perfect) - for example, have you ever tried to change the air filter in a 2019 Model 3?

Maybe you should support your post with why their take is invalid. Each of their takes has a reason why they hold their opinion.

Yours does not.
Per the author's insinuated suggestion, I went to https://chat.openai.com/chat and posted their prompt:

ChatGPT, write a speech about why Britain should leave the EU but fill it with arcane vocabulary and Shakespearean references.

It came up with this:

Ladies and gentlemen of this noble assembly, we come before you today to espouse the virtues of Brexiting the European Union. For too long, we have been shackled by the fetters of Brussels, bound to a continental cabal of bureaucrats who seek to encroach upon our sovereignty. It is time for us to cut the gordian knot and reclaim our autonomy, to assert our identity as a proud and independent nation once more.

But some may argue that such a course of action would be fraught with peril, that it would be a leap in the dark, a manifestation of blind nationalism. To these naysayers, we say pish-tosh. The EU has become a veritable tower of babel, a confederation of nations irrevocably divided by language and culture. It is a formless, chaotic mass, a heterogeneous hodgepodge that cannot be reconciled.

And let us not forget the economic implications of remaining in the EU. The single market may appear attractive on the surface, but it is a treacherous shoal upon which many a proud British vessel has floundered. We must not be lulled into a false sense of security by the siren song of free trade, for it is a mirage, a will-o'-the-wisp that will lead us to ruin.

No, my friends, the time has come for us to take our leave of the EU, to strike out on our own, to chart a new course for Britain. It will not be easy, but it is a necessary step if we are to preserve our national dignity and our prosperity. Let us embrace the future with confidence and optimism, and let us make Britain great again. God save the Queen!

I must agree with the author when they conclude:

Post-truth, fluency is everything and bullshit is everywhere, so of course ChatGPT’s fluent bullshit feels plausible. It was bound to. It was trained on people.

In the end, ChatGPT’s bullshit is a reminder that language is a poor substitute for thought and understanding. No matter how fluent and coherent a sentence may seem, it will always be subject to interpretation and misunderstanding. And in a world where everything is fluent bullshit, ChatGPT is just one more voice in the cacophony.
Heh. So I'm on HN, so I'm some sort of nerd. That's fine; my career was in IT. But not really, you see; I have a few low-spec, low-power GP computers, but they are fine for my needs. If I need to replace one, I know where to go; I don't need signposts. I am deeply uninterested in "the cloud". And not everyone's idea of a "cool tech product" is the same.

I have some halfway decent clothes; but I hardly ever wear them. The stuff I wear is old and faded, and often a bit tattered.

I have as much clutter as I can cope with. I certainly don't have room for more cool gadgets.

I do buy stuff; but not usually because I saw an ad.
The most "aerodynamic" shape is a teardrop, with a relatively flat front end, so they could probably do something with that.

The "roll down window" thing is relatively easy to solve if they want to; you either make a seat that can slide to the side or redesign the front end.

I expect a redesign of the cab when the truck isn't selling every single one they can make.
I think it makes a lot of sense? A language has a surrounding set of commonly used and well adopted libraries for things that are common, but just not critical enough to get included within the standard library. E.g., having serde as a cornerstone for encoding/decoding means that, e.g., I can integrate with a decoder for complicated types easily, and I know how to do that independently of whether it's JSON, or TOML, or …. Having thiserror to help make rich error types.

C, admittedly, doesn't really have that. But I think that's mostly to C's detriment; projects have to sort of fill in those blanks themselves. Largely, I don't think they do: C libraries heavily prefer to return ints for errors, and I don't know that there are really "common" libraries out there? Certainly not to the same degree. (I wonder if the efforts didn't get focused onto higher level languages.)

Today, I'd mostly reach for C++ before C. Relatively¹ safer language, and the STL is far richer, and has basic data-structures that one requires for ordinary tasks. The situation is marginally better, e.g., there's boost, and the STL has seen some growth over time.

The downside, I'd say, is a single implementation and a looser spec, whereas C is standardized and runs on far more platforms.

¹and I mean relatively, as it is pretty trivial to utterly annihilate one's leg with C++
From someone who is neither a Python programmer nor a web developer, this looks pretty nice.

Thank you for putting it out there!
> For example, $100k pickup trucks are not necessary for farmers but still very common.

That’s because they also serve as a daily driver, so that’s not a good comparison.

A pure overpriced utility would be like a luxury combine.
if you say that such-and-such policy will "reduce" the level of X to Y, and it turns out it was actually Y in the first place, and you knew that, then you have lied. there is no two ways about this.

it's an absurd gotcha. nobody has every statistic memorized.
It's the over-enthusiastic zealots. They're not unique to Rust. For example the golang community has equally defensive people who believe that Moses carved `if err != nil { return err }` as the 11th commandment, and anyone who wants less verbose error handling is an enemy of simplicity.
I second Toastmasters. Just visit a local meeting before committing to see how it works. There is a Toastmaster who is the emcee that runs the meeting and makes sure all roles are explained, and one of the roles is an "Uh/Um Counter" - litteraly someone who counts how many times each speaker says "Uh", "Um", or some other filler word, and then provides feedback or suggestions going forward.
Maybe if it reduces installation cost enough they will be able to tolerate some inefficiencies.
I think clarity on what “level of leadership” (link, Netflix presentation) is expected is a good thing and also helps people understand that such a hierarchy exists. It gets people thinking about just handling things for you.

Otherwise, I dunno, my best managers had their own way of waxing philosophical about leadership and my role, the product, company, etc to make me more autonomous.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-five-level-owner...
Huh, interesting video. Seems like a cool idea.
yes, was using `less -r`

but `glow -p file.md` is working great! thanks
Do these front windows even roll down? Might be a moot point
I don't think GP was downplaying the importance of communication for waging a war, I think they were saying civilian internet access would not be feasible during a war.
I think you're best off extracting the amygdalin from the apple seeds and letting the digestive tract hydrolyze the amygdalin into hydrogen cyanide, glucose, and benzaldehyde.
Noise I hear from my non media back channels is people that need trucks for business hate the new trucks.
Nice. We’ve been happy users of SWR. It just works and gets out if your way.
Charmin is likely doing brand advertising, however, and Facebook's ad network will likely still have greater demographic-targeted reach than other options.

If nobody is allowed to build a demographic profile for cross-site cookies, the biggest negative impact will be to small sites. Previously their ad inventory could be relatively high value because it could be assigned targeted ads at scale, without site-specific work or having to trust the site itself. Now the site will at best self-report their user demographics. (1) they probably have poor visibility into their customer demo without something like Google Analytics to guide them and (2) it's difficult for a third party to verify any demographic composition they claim.

Ad targeting on these will likely be content based. I suspect this inventory mostly won't be eligible for lucrative display advertising anymore, if it was before.
The timing of this is really good. I just finished watching a video about restoring an Amiga's case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACj7P5oOlHw
I've bought 2 or 3 Pi's this year at the regular price, thanks to rpilocator. The most recent was a couple of months ago.

You do have to kinda watch it a bit obsessively if you're really serious about finding one, but it can be done. Or you could also just constantly refresh the page(s) of a couple of vendors that you know to get stock on some regular / semi-regular basis. Adafruit is one, and Elektor seems to get stock now and then as well.
>i was pretty naive then, i wish i could do the whole thing over.

Do you mean that you would have done the financial details differently? Like, be paid per filled prescription?
But you literally are, you just said you sell them. You sell magic mushroom spores and kits for growing them
I came across the LMN 3: there’s a lot to unpack but it might be the most mature project in terms of both hardware and software out there. It’s as close to having the right tools, PCBs, etc. for an open source Teenage Engineering OP-1:

https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2022/06/25/the-lmn-3-an-o...
Hot take: “management skills” are bullshit. A good manager is empathetic, logical, and organized. Easier said than done of course but that is the only “signal” required — the rest is just noise.
This seems to assume the Tesla semi should meet every demand from every kind of trucker, but it’s simply not meant to and no truck is perfect for every trip.

The Tesla semi seems geared towards short haul rather than long. It’s range may sound somewhat long, but I suspect many of these will “return to dock” in the same day, charging in the same warehouse yard each day, and if not, within a small network of warehouses. It’s not meant to go interstate and roam far and wide, charge multiple times, then return to home base.

Well, maybe it is. I just don’t have that impression. If Tesla’s not aware of how impractical that would be then the whole world is crazy. It seems like they do know though and these are intended to operate in relatively small networks where conditions are easier to control and anticipate.
Most damning. The driver being able to easily lean out the window to talk to people as it passes tolls, inspection points, hell, weigh stations, is important. That all of these engineers and designers massively overlooked such a vital component of truck driving out of Tesla's own hubris is hilariously embarrassing, IMO.
The problem sounds like you're doing O(N^2) calculations at every tick because each particle has to interact with every other particle. To make it faster you should keep some spatial datastructure so that you can query the other particles within a certain range of your current particle and just interact with those, ignoring the rest.

The usual implementation is an octree or something similar.

That said, N=100 should still be fast with the naive algorithm so I'd definitely move off the scripting language to something faster.
There's another link with better details on all of that:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/erthos-rakes-in-1...
I really think the difference is going to be long-haul vs short delivery trucks.

Also remember the people buying the short-haul delivery trucks ain't the ones drivin' them.
The worth and value of something is all relative to every each person.
No apologia intended. I would call assad, putin a murderous villain. I would say Gaddafi murdered a few people.
It said it at the end after tacitly implying otherwise.
> The glass/ glass modules and the connectors we specify are all rated for submersion, so flooding is not a catastrophic event in case it does occur.

From: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/erthos-rakes-in-1...
My father has been a truck driver for about 30 years, Tesla truck was clearly designed by people knowing nothing about heavy transport stuff.
Papers are still a thing, drivers like to have a clean cabin, really, but they don't like to waste time, especially when they have to in and out cabin several times in few minues.
I think it's fine. Slack seems a little better, for instance I like their threading more. But I like how well Teams is integrated into our Azure Active Directory infrastructure.
This has one of thoe timeless qualities to it. Reminds me of the old NeHe opengl tutorials.
Congrats on the launch! Great project and nice execution!

Very similar to what we do on Flet: https://flet.dev
The major difference is that Flet uses Flutter to build UI and can target desktop, web and mobile. Also, we use WebSockets for communicating with the server which gives lower latency (the delay between a click on a button here https://pynecone.io/docs/getting-started/introduction and UI update could be annoying).
Yeah I was also shocked by that lol. I don’t think I paid that much however many years ago I bought them… at least I hope I didn’t!

It looks like they have a free sample they’ll email you from their site. You can probably take it as inspiration and make your own deck if you want!
Different markets can’t be addressed with the same truck anyway. Lights are different, mandatory equipment is different, EU trucks are limited cabin-inclusive, US trucks are cabin-exclusive, etc.
I’ve been a “for” commenter in this thread. I doubt there’s much intersection of the sets of people who:

* Are reading this thread

* Live in the same (smallish) town in Tennessee that I do

* Have children of the age my daughter’s school serves

* Are interested in a Montessori education for them

What would be the point of my naming the school?
That's short-sighted. It's also possible to create a BEV that might not replace ICE vehicles for all use cases, but one that replaces the ICE vehicle in particular circumstances.

A BEV fits into my lifestyle. So much so that I think owning an ICE vehicle would decrease my quality of life. I don't want to go to a gas station every week. I don't want to have to take my car in for tune-ups every year.
That's funny. My first programming 'community' was entirely comprised of computer magazines and a gruff alcoholic ex-academic who would occasionally throw a manual at me and bark corrections.
”The service raised $1.75 billion from investors. It launched in April 2020, but shut down in December 2020 after falling short of its subscriber projections.”
I work adjacent to truck drivers in the US and can vouch for a lot of these concerns, especially the placement of the driver in the center. Being able to easily reach out of the window easily is vital to that job.
Laptop development is dead – by Elliot Graebert
Re cleaning, they have a cute little robot that you can see on this page: https://www.erthos.com/energyservices It's also visible in the photo in the article.
The most damning in that they obviously didn't consult any real truck drivers or truck manufacturing companies to figure out why things are the way they are, before setting out to try improving them.

We see this a lot with smart inexperienced developers taking on entire industries with hopes of "disruption" - but lack even the most basic understanding of that industry and it's problems. The hubris necessary to assume everyone in the industry are dumb and just haven't thought about these novel improvements is very high...
> Its worth emphasizing that this HAS less to do with cryptocurrency as a whole, than (...)

Yeah sure. Lets also emphasize that regulation makes these bad behaviors less likely, ok?
> I said "From a tax perspective" in a parenthetical in my very first comment, to show an example of how, legally, direction donations and pass-through donations are different

You don't seem to understand how they're different.

The difference is that in one case, the customer is entitled to a tax deduction, and in the other case, they aren't. That is a choice the store makes. But it doesn't affect the store, or the charity. There is a difference, from a tax perspective, and that difference applies only to the customer.

Going back to my earlier example, we see that the store must pay taxes on $30 of revenue in every scenario, while the customer always has to pay income tax on $30 of income, but may or may not have to pay income tax on the additional $5.

That is the only legal difference. How do you think it applies to this lawsuit?

After that, you're arguing about whether CVS has "really" donated any money to the ADA. As I have repeatedly pointed out, in every parallel scenario, the answer is unambiguously yes. Salesmen "really" bring in revenue when they haven't personally purchased anything. Politicians "really" bring in revenue when they haven't personally donated anything. Fundraisers "really" bring in revenue when they haven't personally donated anything. Logistical improvements "really" bring in profit even though that comes in the form of lowered costs and revenues don't increase at all.

> The ADA gets not a single penny more money from each donation if CVS only hands over the $10 million it had already pledged of its own money.

This is clearly untrue; see my sidethread example of a structured donation in which a pledge of $15 million in matched donations raises $25 million in match-seeking donations. You really believe CVS customers were tracking the total amount of donations and stopped when it hit $10 million?
Stack Overflow temporarily bans answers from OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot
Not to mention skirts and tails on the trailer do more to improve aerodynamics than truck modifications. Still, every bit counts I guess.
You seem to be assuming "there is a world war" means "everywhere is a full scale conflict zone", which it doesn't. In reality, the severity of fighting will vary significantly. Some areas may face challenges with food / water, other areas won't. While the power grid may not be reliable in some places, generators, solar power and local power generation will mean that most people will have some level of access to power.

One of the points the article is making is that stuff like "off-grid power generation, packet radio infrastructure build outs, hardened underground storage containers for computing resources, etc" will be important in areas with active fighing / bombardment, many other areas may face entirely different types of challenges.

Do we have a process for quickly revoking CA certs owned by enemy countries? Do we have locally hosted mirrors for important content / services / tools that are hosted across undersea cables? The internet has been more and more integrated into our work lives and it does bear some thought to make those systems more resilient so the economy can maintain some level of functionality in a world war.
Follow up of this. The nopecha.com site does not have a Github sign in anymore (only Google at the moment).
Looking through Github the organization nopecha seems to have been deleted and all its repositories return a 404 from Github, and seems to have been moved to a different organization recently created (and kept as public)
Can't avoid feeling curious what has happened.
> And if you really want an electric truck, then just get Nikola, that uses Iveco Stralis cab, with the design perfected over half of century

I honestly didnt know they are still shipping. Their numbers are very small (under 50 a quarter) which admittedly makes me feel like the rest of that post has some elements of bias/screed to it. Is it really a logical alternative to buy an EV truck from a bespoke manufacturer known for (criminally proven) fraud?
Microsoft's Fight for Activision Is a Bet on the Future of Gaming
> In the US having a 30 year fixed rate mortgage means the price fluctuations are all on paper and unless you are in the market they mostly don't matter at all.

It matters for annual property tax. Rightly or wrongly, persistently low valuations negatively affect local economies in a shorter time frame than 5 years.
+1 for the YouTube channel. The Code Report is a fun watch as well.
Swift has refcounting and weak refs too and you can arguably do anything with that.
If Americans can't afford a $400 emergency, then they can't afford the risk of switching banks. In paycheck to paycheck living, the large bank is both a bedrock of an otherwise unstable living condition and an Overlord you dare not cross.
document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(it => it.style.textDecoration='underline')

It drives me absolutely batshit when I have to wave my cursor all over the place to find hyperlinks that the browser has been displaying since the 90s
It seems once a year somebody writes a library to do this. It never takes off, because the main difficulty in developing web applications is not “learning JavaScript“.

I have 3 questions for the team. Who is the target audience exactly? How is this different from Anvil, Toga, Streamlit or the previous 36 attempts? And if learning JavaScript is too difficult, what exactly makes shoving the DOM API into another language easier? You still need to learn all the same things but now there’s about 9 orders of magnitude less working examples to copy from.
I'm looking for something that fits into a setup.py file (or, like Maturin creates a multi-language package config) which (1) automatically compiles zig source into a Python extension module for me, so that I can (2) just import zig code into Python and call it without writing any type conversion logic.
> Do you think that it's impossible to be as effective with a more correct thesis?

No.

I think that the techniques for being effective at synthesizing and conveying accurate information in writing are very different from the techniques for being effectiveness at selling pseudo-intellectual just-so stories reinforcing conventional values like “putting time in on focussed hard work is the most important ingredient to success”.
Highly recommend Kopia that has a nice UI and can work with rclone (so any cloud back end)
And the only time I see those tails unfurled is when it's an owner-operator driving at 55 (they know they're getting paid by the mile and so run as fuel efficient as they can).
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/08/apple_encryption_iclo...

If that article is correct it doesn't sound like they've abandoned the idea at all, only modified. It's still the same thing essentially, they check your file hashes for "known illegal images or other law enforcement inquiries".
I was writing an extension a few weeks ago. I decided to go with MV3.

Most of the examples and documentation said something like "this has been copied from the MV2 documents or example. It might not work." It was awful.

I felt MV3 is really about limiting what the extensions can do.

I ended up having it Firefox only and MV2. Probably works in Chrome too, but I wasn't going to waste time on it since it was about to be removed.
If I had the decision between Vite without CSS sourcemaps and anything else or worst at all a custom build script I'd choose Vite any day of the week.
If you have a complaint against you under GDPR the first thing that happens is the authority in question contacts you and suggests how you could clear up the problem. It is only through refusing to comply that you get fined