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> Web components have their place but they're no panacea and the ecosystem is still pretty young.

And yet wc proponents keep pushing them as if they were panacea.

And "ecosystems is young" is a funny statement for something that is entering its 12th year of development (and fifth year of wide availability in browsers).

> The current native feature set is somewhat lacking so you're definitely going to want to augment with some sort of helper framework/library.

If they are lacking, have glaring unsolved issues, https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728), and you still need to augment them with a framework/library,... what's the point then?

If any of the existing solutions had the same amount of issues that wcs have, they would never have gotten of the ground. And yet here we are 12 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of effort later
I’ve always described this as “Rome didn’t burn in a day.”
Check yourself before you shrek yourself.
*On the internet
Good for you, and cool story :) That TED viral clip was awesome, indeed not a spoiler. I referred to the cinematic trailer.
And countries which relies on renewables have pretty cheap electricity(Nordics).
I wonder what their Mozilla logo would have been
> My opinion is that the German triad (BMW, VW (and subsidiaries, including Porsche), Merc-Benz) may have lost some ground to Tesla when it comes to EVs and self-driving cars, but they have an immense mind- and market-share and will quickly recover lost ground. They have a pretty good engineering-first mentality, too.

Americans, SV and HN especially, are also oblivious to this.

The current VW CEO was just sent packing.

Why?

Software quality.

They know it's do or die and the level of investment into it is huge, they've been hiring software devs like crazy, in Germany.
Same, I don't see it happening unless most cars in the road have the capabality of intercommunication to perform sensor fusion with other cars. This implies that everyone gets on board using the same protocol.

As for smart roads, what would these imply? Bear in mind maintenance costs and the fact that asphalt is 100% recycled and reusable.
Why did my comment get downvoted? I'm sharing something that I learned back when I was doing serious research about entrepreneurship, and I'm pointing out that it applies to Elon Musk, an observation which should be relevant to the conversation.
Snowfall is already available in the historical weather API. Because the resolution is fairly limited for long term weather reanalysis data, snow analysis for single mountains slopes/peaks may not be that accurate.

If you only want to analyse the weeks to get the date of last snowfall and how much power might be there, use the forecast API and the "past_days" parameter to get a continuous time-series of past high-resolution weather forecasts.
Considering the switch is at the end of its lifespan, I’d say that’s pretty old. It’s like saying 7 years into the PS3 lifespan that the PS1 isn’t old. It’s old
Agreed. However, Google has a similar problem with SEO and sponsored results. I cant be sure anymore that I actually get what I was looking for. In a sense, thats the same problem.
Amazing work! Also, thank you for making that feed on the main page, been laughing for a while here :D
That marketing copy ugh.

"New! Powerful!" It's neither

"Standard JS so it works where HTML works" says a lot about your experts
You can say that as much as you want. Sounds completely reasonable, but good people are still going to feel like this guy. Good management should recognize this, and well, manage it, rather than have people grind themselves down, even if it is because of their own stupid pathology. I think it's just classed as being empathetic.
Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools
API revenue so far (somebody has to be upstream provider to all the UIs to make AI marketing spam), gives them an advantage over AWS, although I’m sceptical they’ll keep it for long.
https://www.pinta-project.com/

if you're more interested in painting/drawing, krita
Tether histeria is pretty much irrelevant since it’s has been a known unknown since 2015 and anyone with half a brain is using USDC.
If that's the case, then I think Mercedes chose the best option. It's when doing long drives on highways it's really useful to be able to read a book, work, play a board game with the passengers, talking in a focused way, nap etc.

It's most likely also much easier to make a car drive autonomously on highways versus on smaller roads, city roads, dirt roads etc.
good to finally see that someone's first instinct during the difficult times, are not to fire immediately but maybe slow a bit and think about how we can work with what we have + don't hire the excessive number of ppl when the money is good only to later let them go
Intel’s new Wi-Fi chip promises a better way to tether your Quest VR headset
Why can’t it go from USDT to USDC directly?
What generation of Xbox did you test that on? A later one? Maybe the original flash chip was somewhat slower...
I'll probably adress that in a future newsletter, but you may want to read the paper linked in the article above that contains a very detailed answer:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

The answer is a mix of demand side management, sector coupling and power-to-x technologies.
> faster than the bikeshedding commissars from goog and aapl can agree on whether "open" or "closed" should be the default for attaching a shadow DOM

Because very few of the people developing web standards are web developers. And of those who are very few have done anything of note in the past 20 years or more.

They do love working on standards though.
> That't why Microsoft used Freebsd TCP/IP utilities in Windows.

And for a time the actual TCP/IP stack!
This may work for a single house, I don't think it's easy to scale to a whole city or a factory.
It would be a better user experience if it was possible to display the reason no cable could be found. All searches I tried came up with no result so I left feeling frustrated, but then I flicked through this comment section and saw that because I had set "fast charging" and "USB-A", this was an impossibility!

If there were other explanations like that that could be easily mapped and displayed, it would improve the UX imo.
Exactly what the cloud is best used for imho. You can focus on your core problems and still shift to a different solution later on when that becomes more effective cost wise.

But still, when I first started in AWS we had lift and shift'ed most of our platform onto AWS and when it came to adding new features I first looked at Lambda instead of building out on the existing platform. The speed at which I could setup the feature and start measuring and iterating on it was so much better compared to doing it on our existing platform. Even though that was pretty ironed out and fully automated.
Incorrect. Before crrypto a censorship resistant asset never existed. It’s the only asset that can bypass censorship.
Maybe they are not dumb. But my next GPU will be nVidia because of their decision.
Hence I am disappointed at not having a competitive rival.

I may not know better. But I know what I like.
> legacy car company

Let's drop the BS, please.

Mercedes is a car company. They are not legacy anything. They're the inventor of the car and a myriad other innovations.

They're making a ton of EVs and will sell a ton more next year and the year after that.

They have AR navigation and now are close to L3 self driving.
It's also cheaper if you don't. It's by far cheaper if you do.
> thanks to an amazing technology called a battery.

How many kwh was it when you bought it and how many kwh can it still store today? How old is it? How much did it cost you?
FYI;

Linus Carl Pauling FRS (1901 – 1994),

An American Chemist, Biochemist, Chemical Engineer, Peace Activist, Author, and Educator : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
Market cap does not equate to cash on hand. Let's say I give you a banana for $1. You bring that banana to a marathon where someone will pay you $5 for it. That does not mean I now have $5.

Tesla could dilute their stock and sell more, but that is quite the dilution. Further, the sell price might not be just the market cap value, particularly for a profitable company. Though, exactly those kind of take overs do happen (and with tesla's numbers, not too hard to imagine)
> or example, if at a given moment you need 100 MW of solar at €10, 100 MW of wind at €12, and 1 MW of gas at €150, consumers will be billed €150 for each and every MW they consume.

Since the power is exactly the same, people don't buy a MW of solar or wind, they just buy a MW, regardless of the source.
If you were (owning) a generator, why would you sell your electricity for €12/unit when people are willing to buy it at €150/unit? And since it's a free market, otherwise a middleman will come swooping in to rake in the difference.

Market dynamics dictate that when people/businesses are no longer willing to buy a MW for €150, the demand drops, the most expensive generators are not needed anymore and the overall price drops to the new equilibrium price.

Also: my fixed contract price per kWh is about €0.81 always, which is, uh, a lot. A friend of mine recently switched to a dynamic tariff and payed about €0.30-0.40 when I last asked him about it. Pondering...
Not the parent, but I don’t think they are arguing against tracking weights when weight lifting so much as they are arguing against “traditional” weight lifting routines in general.

I have not tried gmb.io, but looks like progression in that program involves moving onto more difficult movements rather than increasing weight.
Depends on the state, sort of like the quality of private companies vary and if you’ve ever lived in a part of you’re own country where the grocery stores are crap and later you move and their very competitive and a comparative delight. However, one has to experience the difference themselves to understand this fact I believe. There are a huge multitude of factors at play.

Many of us (me included for most of my life, hell maybe I’m doing it now), tend to over extrapolate how much our own experience is the experience everywhere and that what we see must be fitting some logical rule or trend. Reality is annoyingly more complex than we like.
A few years ago, the “Try before you buy” strategy was an efficient customer engagement method in outfit stores. Now, this strategy exists in the form of virtual fitting rooms. The goal of this article is to describe how these systems work from the inside.
Utterly irrelevant. That they or anyone should have any more of a say at planetary geo engineering over the one habitable planet our species reside on. Unless you believe in some sort of intellectual tyranny. What if the “smart” credentialed people were ones you didn’t agree with and proposed eugenics as a viable solution to over coming climate change would you be so quick then. I doubt it. Not trying to call you out here but this line of reasoning that they are an expert so get to do this is bonkers. Sure propose all you like but my lord no action.
A trilobite. Hey, it could even kind of fit in a circle.
Nordic’s also have a lot of nuclear (well Sweden and Finland does)
Very inventive. Admittedly when I read the first few paragraphs, I was thinking “he’s got to have $40K of iPhones doing image processing” but you made a good point about being able to use iPhones with screen and other damage.

What was your average price per iPhone, if you don’t mind disclosing?
Both Norway and Sweden has had some 5-10X price hikes in 2022 and 2023. I used to pay the equivalent of 15 cents, now that same amount of electricity is 1-4 dollars.
Doesn't need to be easy. It's being worked on by many many people.
As I've said previously, this is just a marketing trick. It's not a technology breakthrough. It's a basic traffic jam assistant, which can be labeled as 'level 3', if Mercedes assumes liability. The conditions are limited to very low risk situations (low speed, straight highway, clear weather), which makes the expected cost of liability low.
It's really interesting to see that pretty much everybody in the industry agrees that wind and solar are the future after having read https://www.lynalden.com/energy-problems/. That piece seems to argue that wind & solar are some of the least efficient energy generation sources.
Nice approach. However, my main take-away from the article is that they have 40 recruiters for a company of 800, which seems high. I know a company expecting growth is going to need more recruiters, but still 20:1 feels excessive. Is there a widley-known ratio which is sufficient to make regular turnover of staff manageable?
> Better yet, I don’t even want to use them as phones, so even iPhones that are IMEI banned or are locked to unpopular networks are perfectly fine for my use.

Fences worldwide will be overjoyed to hear of this novel application.
> If you are responsible for two tons of metal flying down the road at 70 mph

The Mercedes system has a top speed of 40 mph.

> We can handle being passengers and we can handle being drivers but we can't switch in a split second.

That's why there is a 10 second handover. If the human fails to take control of the vehicle during the handover, the vehicle will slow to a stop.
It’s because even $5/month shared hosting plan has it. Simply put - PHP is everywhere!

Most CMS are installed via auto-installers (e.g on cpanel) and are also managed by mostly nontechnical users using shared hosting! So… if your CMS is written in Perl or Python with tones of modules required then you’re out of luck when it comes to adoption.
People are so blase about these prototypes roaming free - do people really think the trolley problem is directly applicable to these technologies or is just greed like everything else?
From the horse's mouth:

> A Google executive the Times spoke to but didn't name said AI chatbots like ChatGPT could upend the search giant's business, which relies heavily on ads and e-commerce found in Google Search. In a memo and audio recording obtained by the Times, the publication says CEO Sundar Pichai has been in meetings to "define Google's AI strategy" and has "upended the work of numerous groups inside the company to respond to the threat that ChatGPT poses."

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/chatgpt-caus...
Chiming in with everyone else - RPi is way too complex.

But another suggestion if you want a modern alternative to understand - RISC-V has an open boot ecosystem. You can just try it in QEmu and maybe buy a board if you get more advanced?
I'm wary of 'turning points' analysis in history. Roman society was exceedingly violent by modern standards. For a long while that violence could be channeled towards conquest. The power military leaders derived from this process and the diminishing returns after most prosperous neighboring polities had been absorbed contributed to erode the internal social order of the Republic. But those are centuries long processes, and it didn't 'turn' on this or that remarkable event we have records of.

We shouldn't prognosticate American politics based on the History of Ancient Rome, that is folly. One thing is to observe parallels and patterns in behavior. But entirely different systems and contexts cannot be used to analyze one another by cherry picking.
I guess he hadn’t watched Dr Who ;)

People don’t give animals enough credit. Cows are considered stupid animals but spend some time with them and you’ll find they have personalities, moods, preferences, friendships (certain cows like to be near each other), foes (certain cows do not like to be near each other), if they expect to be fed at a certain time of day they get fidgety and vocal if your late, etc.

Crows can use tools, solve problems, and have altruistic behaviors.
Yet no other automaker wanted to assume liability so far. If it's only a good "marketing trick" I'd think others would have taken that opportunity?
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People who aren't exposed to battery tech don't think it exists. Because they never see it in the media they consume and it isn't integrated into their lives in any meaningful way. It is difficult for them to imagine what they can't see.
Starting with a higher-res scan and then resizing to a smaller resolution might still result in better quality.

I'm not sure if this is a fair comparison, but years ago a DVD review site took the Blu-Ray release of Lord of the Rings, ripped and processed it to DVD size, and compared the output to the original DVDs (which used to be considered one of the best quality DVD releases when they came out). The quality difference was huge.
> Market dynamics dictate that when people/businesses are no longer willing to buy a MW for €150, the demand drops, the most expensive generators are not needed anymore and the overall price drops to the new equilibrium price.

Not an economist, but “inelastic market / supply” answers that, I think.
They claim that their new release improves the accuracy issues => https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-..., presumably future releases will continue advancing in this regard.

I haven't seen anything backing this claim though, https://www.searchenginejournal.com/openai-chatgpt-update/47... ran tests with no improvement.
It doesn’t seem impossible to extend these AIs to do maths correctly.

It would be a simple classification problem to detect whether a prompt requires a more classic maths model. It’s it’s maths, use something like wolfram alpha, it’s it’s finance show random numbers, otherwise use a language model.

Add some relevant links on top of that and you are good to go.

Of course they also need to fix the confidence level and find a solution these AIs to say that they don’t know.
It's hilarious how you phrased "Fortunately I had an S-Corporation that lived in a binder on a shelf (and so can you for about $125 and a few mouse clicks)".

It's the weirdest thing to me this is how it can be but it's so real.
The four times I've been seconded over the last 20 years it has always been to "act up" and come with a temporary pay bump. Usually because I'm taking over a manager's job while they're on maternity leave / until a new one can be found because they've quit, or because a team could do with one of my weird skills for a few months. In my experience people either stay at the same pay or their pay goes up while on secondment. Secondment is generally supposed to be temporary so "overpaying" someone for a few months is generally worth it, especially when you consider the costs of onboarding a new employee.
His full statement was that he's doing house renovation later in the day instead of work.

Another situation: we were estimating tasks and I challenged the estimate for a task he was supposed to do.

His reply: "ok, if I'm going to reduce my estimate then you reduce one of yours"

Normally I wouldn't care about such things, but my work depended on his and it was hard to make him follow through on his promises.
I've always liked the fan theory that Fight Club is the sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I can see Cameron growing up to live in a "neat" apartment, working as an insurance adjustment claims officer. But this time, the alter ego that surfaces is Tyler Durden, not Ferris, and it goes beyond destroying Ferraris.
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Also from my experience: Arriving at a charger, have last 30km left and charger refuse to charge my car. No explanation given by a charger and car telling me to find some other charger. Both CCS.

That is something what can really screw your day and made my opinion on electric cars even more entrenched in "worthless piece of s..."

If somebody would like to know: Freshmile network north of Troyes, France. Was forced to go 50km/h down to Troyes to Ionity charger, network which always worked, but is bloody expensive. Wasted 4 hours on something what was supposed to be 1 hour charging stop.
> Mercedes’ Level 3 conditionally automated driving assistant can, on suitable highway sections and where traffic density is high, offer to take over the driving, leaving the driver free to do something else, like watch a movie or participate in a meeting.

Objectively speaking, the article IS complete horseshit, if it resorts to suggesting "watching a movie" or "participating in a meeting".

Which has got nothing to do with the technology itself, though.
https://www.cefc.com.au/where-we-invest/case-studies/sa-big-...
heavyosity seems to me to fit Ferris Bueller better than gravity.
Ask HN: How do I encourage people to giving feedback on new things?
I've recently built a funny website.
3 days ago I submitted it on Show HN and got some feedback.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34292473

But it was insufficient.
I want to know are people like it or not to make a decision: Should I continue developing?
So, I would appreciate any tips, if you know how to encourage online users to try new things.
First, lower your status intentionally. Quit your job, burn your house.

Then, with the skills you have rise up again! You’ll end up in a better place.
Thanks for saying it. Industrial energy storage hardly strikes the intuition as less tractable than a skyscraper in the desert or a tunnel under the ocean
I suspect because you did not relate your comment back to the article, it seems off topic to an article about Mercedes getting level3 self driving approved for nevada highways.

It is somewhat predictable that eventually responses would in particular start to focus on the elephant in the room.. fundamentally a parent comment should be about the article
The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120k a year
This is utterly fantastic and you are to be commended for your Crazy Mad Scientist genius!
Maybe it's possible to patch the dependency? For example, for Node.js / npm, there are automated ways to do this, like [patch-package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package). Does Python / pip have something similar?
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Teaching recursion doesn't mean teaching to do everything with recursion, though. Normally with a language like Python (or, back in my school days, Pascal), you learn stuff like loops first. Recursion is demonstrated on use cases that are not easily done by a loop - e.g. drawing a snowflake.
Nice project, I wanted to build meme search engine myself one day, but figured Tesseract will fail at most of the memes because of how stylized those have become. So I tuned down my meme source to only /r/bertstrips as those contain sane looking text and it's working quite alright - project has no frontend yet, I search from cli and click links.

> Initial testing with the Postgres Full Text Search indexing functionality proved unusably slow at the scale of anything over a million images, even when allocated the appropriate hardware resources.

I can guarantee you that correctly setup PostgreSQL text search will be faster than ES with much, much less hardware resources needed, it's just a matter of correctly creating tsvector column and creating GIN index on it (and ofc asking right queries so it's actually used). I can help you out setting postgres schema up and debugging queries if you are interested, for testing purposes at least.
And cucumbers
Isn't the answer simply that the cost of producing something and the price that customers pay for it are different things?
Efficient in what sense? Compared to how much energy it costs to get energy out over the lifetime of the mechanical device, or simply turning the fuel into energy?
I've observed something similar, and agree with so many other citing COVID as one of the reasons. I just have to think on things for a lot longer than before when I'd get solutions much quicker. This started happening after covid. I don't have any other obvious 'long covid' symptoms, but I can feel the mental ability decline.