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> I’ve been wondering why we don’t concentrate on sodium batteries instead of lithium for EVs. They’re heavier but is that really a problem?

Sodium batteries suitable for EVs don't really exist yet.

> Today’s cars are heavy as hell, there must be ways to make lighter vehicles that balance the weight of sodium, no?

You can make them slower, smaller, and shorter range. You can add lightness with things like aluminum and composites, but those are rather expensive. No you really can't remove enough weight and maintain the same form factor and user experience.

Batteries have been consistently coming down in price. This is the one thing that capitalism is good at, I feel quite sure that batteries will continue to come down in price. There are still huge advances being made every day in the lab; wait 5 years or so and those upgrades will be in commercial production.

If a sodium chemistry can prove itself to be the best, it will be used. Research institutions and industry are trying multiple parallel tracks
You don’t even need 200 amp service for the 50 amp chargers that most EVs come with
The canonical example of automotive vaporware. All promises, no deliveries.
I deleted my account when they removed my 2 factor auth. Ive been hacked before on Twitter and don't really use twitter anyway.

Maybe this is good for business. I'm not coming up with better ways to make money out of it besides increasing the amount ads.
> Nissan arguably excepted

Why arguably? The Leaf is awesome. Nissan blazed the trail with bidirectional charging.
My Corolla had one service in 10 years. Terrible behaviour from me, but I’m not sure I was wrong as it lasted the distance.

However the benefits of EV are subtle but great. Before buying I worried about range.

That’s not an issue. I never have to go to petrol stations, it’s quick to get to speed, it’s quiet, it’s fun.

100% love it. Would increase that rating if the charging interface allowed ‘charge to 80%’ without nasty hacks, and if it had a dog mode.

It wasn’t the cheaper option, and our fuel costs a lot more than it does in the US.
One question, are any of the prompts shared with OpenAI?
Yeah, I just drove a brand-new (16km on the odometer) Peugeot 308 for a trip in France. It was a complete piece of shit that I spent the entire trip yelling at. Always-online via 4G cellular (prompting for a system update on every shutdown and prompting me to go through their tutorial on every startup), glossy touch screens (zero analogue/physical gauges of any sort), constantly forcibly steering me back if I go near the painted line (such as when I'm trying to make extra space as I go around a driver who can't seem to stay in their own lane) which I was not able to turn off, beeping incessantly every single time I park because I am vaguely close to a curb or a random plant or small object (another thing I couldn't turn off), all controls on said touch screen with a horribly-designed UI... Oh the fuel gauge stopped working the night I was taking the car back to the rental company, gotta love that. They charged me for refilling 1/4 of the tank even though I completely refilled it - the gauge is simply faulty. I'm sure the charge will be reversed once we're done dealing with that, but you don't expect something as fundamental as the fuel level gauge to fail within ~4000km of driving. The steering wheel isn't even round, and of course because it's all "drive-by-wire" software-driven it literally feels like driving one of those arcade racing simulators, including the pedals. I don't know if new US/JP vehicles are like this but driving Peugeot and Renault rentals in EU has taught me that new cars appear to be total trash. I still can't believe people pay some tens of thousands of dollars for such atrocious computers on wheels.
The web client has some minor limitations.
The ones regarding screen sharing forced me to install the native client.

A feature comparison table can be found over here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360027397692-Zoom-...
The position of the US copyright office is based in large part on prior case law (from your first link).
However, Range Rover is constantly working on improving and developing its developed cars to obtain an attractive Range Rover 2024 appearance, and it is expected that it will release new models in the future, possibly including 2024. It is also possible that existing cars will be updated and developed to meet the requirements of the market and consumers. .
For a customer advocate, the pervasiveness of the artificial low rates seems to be an interesting opening.

You should be able to go back to the hospital and say - based on the hospital public fee schedule , total FFS for CPT should be (very low number) . Therefore, my deductible payment is overstated, please reduce my bill dramatically.

A lawsuit would follow, which would make it very interesting. Chief argument:

The customer can clearly say its fraud - he/she looked at the public rate schedule and believed the charges would be based off the public rate schedule.

Ultimately, the disconnect between published rates and the EOB is going to come back to bite hospitals, once people shop around using the data.
> If people want Twitter to die (note it's 2023 and AOL is still around so it might take a while)

Like AOL, Twitter will be dead in every way that really matters long before the corporate entity is shut down.
That still sounds steep to me. 10 years old beta technology in a category where technology has been progressing very fast so that new (<<$100k) models are far superior vehicles, not to mention the "beware the third owner hellkat" issue.

I could get a brand spanking new Prius for that.
That would be a Chevy Bolt. Small but not unusably tiny, hatchback utility, good specs, inexpensive.
The US is "the ship of Theseus"'ing itself, replacing parts that have worked in the past, but are no longer serving the ruling class to their satisfaction, with parts (policies) plagiarised from China that do better serve the ruling class.

Carefully selected to keep the ship distinctly itself, but still ever so slightly different each time.

(I just like the irony of plagiarising policy from China as a parallel to their plagiarising IP from the US - and likely elsewhere).
> But that's just fucking it, the US is not going to abandon its interests so now China is also interested in compromising your safety and liberty.

What safety and liberty do I have if the US government can kill or imprison me on a whim? If I'm supposed to shut up and fall into line either way then it doesn't make any difference whose flag is on the flagpole.

I think the US has better values and principles than that, on the whole. But if you decide that to fight China you've got to turn into China, and that's the direction that laws like this are going, why would anyone support you?

> Even right now most US corps bow to china's governments demands left and right. Because of Chinese influence. They have spies running out of think thanks and confucius centers in US colleges left and right.

Again, fewer, less active, and with less backing, than the NSA equivalent.
and your anecdote and anecdotal evidence proves nothing. everyone i know took loans out, bought a computer, got jobs and still have a hard time paying back $10s of thousands
Spoken like someone who's forgotten about Comes the Inquisitor, which, in addition to better exploring the same theme by not having the villain be doing what they're doing for the sake of an ideology so tissue-thin and blatantly hypocritical that a child of five could poke holes in it, offers the special pleasure of Wayne Alexander in a perfectly fitting role.
Religion has had that role of support and counsel for millennia. Therapy is a newcomer on the scene, with generally little evidence for its efficacy above and beyond what talking to a religious leader would provide; so much so that there is a growing movement for "evidence-based therapy", whose existence might imply that the other kind is evidence-free.
Related:

Check out a petition for a moratorium to pause training of AI models more powerful than GPT-4 signed by Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner based on his deep learning research), Stuart Russell (AAAI fellow and author of the most widely used AI textbook), Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and many others.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348353
Since margin is notoriously low on vehicles, OEMs strive to shave pennies in cost. While I'm also skeptical that we'll have a no-frills EV in the future, too, I suspect it's because monetizing transportation data will outweigh the benefits of reduced cost.
I haven't been speaking prose all my life
With apologies to Molière. I spent several hours today Google/Bing/SOing how to beat the column types from the result of a Postgres query using libpq. Oid-vey! There is no mapping from the result of `PQftype` to C data types in the client-side header files. The only "added value" from XYZ-GPT du jour was some interstitial prose of the same results. Maybe people who haven't put in the effort to learn how computers actually work assuage themself with happy stories. Good luck sifting wheat from the chaff.
My favorite Molière quote is "Les arbres tardifs sont ceux qui portent les meilleurs fruits." But maybe that is just a happy story old geezers tell themselves.
> I didn't know what data (types) were passed around when looking at parts of the code, so I had to look were the data structures were created, adapted and passed along to actually know more (or just debug it)

It's even better when all those data structures are just dicts, because it's too cumbersome to make serializable classes, so good luck figuring out what fields are in which.
If they real purpose of both manufactures and consumers of EVs was to combate climate change, then a much easier, cheaper, and better solution would be for everyone to discourage driving and promote public transportation and telecommuting. That would not only reduce emissions much more effectively, but the money saved in maintaining expensive and unnecessary infrastructure like thousands of miles of highways and bridges could be invested in maintaining and expanding public transportation and in bringing, fast, reliable and inexpensive internet access to every household so more people can telecommute to work/school. But cars look nice and they are fun to drive.
what about Twin Peaks? That was two seasons of episodes that were highly dependent on each other, with a large cast, and lots of plot lines.
What for?
Genuine question, did something break?
What? Why/where are backup cameras mandatory? If you can't drive/park without assistive cameras you shouldn't have a drivers license, period.
2013: don't pipe random internet commands to your shell

2023: give GPT-4 root access with a REPL
I had this and I could either summon Task Manager through Ctrl-Shift-Esc or Alt-Tab out of it.
Battery replacements shouldn't be hard. A lot less work than an engine, for sure. I had the battery replaced in my Bolt a couple months ago and it was about 6 hours from when I dropped it off to when I picked it up. I think the actual job is like 3 hours or something.
Do you need a charger? Just a normal power point is fine for my Leaf usage.

It also has a setting to change slower if wanted.

Probably depends on your daily milage.
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I've got a 125A panel and am just using L1 charging. I thought it was going to be an issue but it turns out I drive less than 40 miles a day so it isn't a big deal.
Microsoft's 'Security Copilot' Unleashes ChatGPT on Breaches
Thou shalt not create a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
I use their APIs, so yes. There's no way around it right now, but hopefully in the future I can move away from relying on them
Twitter has lost half its valuation since Musk bought it.

You don't need internet thinkpieces to divine the direction of that arrow.
Once there's a legitimate mainstream alternative that gathers a user base and is easy to use, Twitter might significantly decrease its userbase. For example, Meta launching its Twitter alternative and acquiring Instagram users onto it.
This is a very efficient post - the TL;DR is accurately summed up with the first three words!
Earlier threads:

"The next Patriot Act, but so much worse: Bill S.686, the RESTRICT Act" (6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35336366

"The Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for censorship and surveillance" (156 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35334851

Tiktok hired ex-gov people, how did they try to address natsec concerns? https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tikto...

> the threat to completely shut down its platform, subsided only after TikTok began appointing Western officials to important positions within its organization, thereby giving the state considerable influence over the content and direction of the app.

On the perennial topic of poorly conceived legislation, let's not forget US (CA, UT) and UK laws which mandate age-verification, https://www.techdirt.com/tag/ab-2273/ and
"Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access" (600+ comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35307647 and UK Online Safety Bill, https://www.techradar.com/features/uk-online-safety-bill
I don't know what spoiled your day but corporations are going to do what they need to do to make profits, lower the costs to stay competitive. I thought, before reading your comment, this is basic knowledge. Apple and the rest made big sacrifice to move/hire offshore so you can still buy that iPhone for sub 1000 usd, the story will be completely different otherwise. A 4k iPhone would be something that a few Americans will buy and no non-american will buy, just so they can pay 6 digits salary to engineers and 8 to CEOs of the 100% US workforce.
See also the idea of the "luxury belief" regarding your point that exclusivity is indeed the entire point.
I think the transition to EVs has far more upside than downside, but weight (to your comment about "5-ton asphalt tanks") is a real and significant downside. Batteries aren't light!
If we don't spy on you, we won't be sure they aren't spying on you?!
Cooling systems for regular ICE cars need to dissipate around 1/3 of the nominal engine power. So if you have a modest 150hp car (112kW), the cooling system needs to be able to dissipate around 40kW of power. In reality it's even more, because you need to have some safety margin.

The cooling system in an EV are much, much smaller. You're looking at maybe about 20kW for a Tesla Model 3 with 450hp motors, and this includes heat rejection from the air conditioner.

(on the other hand, the air conditioner on EVs is a _critical_ component, because the main battery can't tolerate being heated to more than +90C like regular ICE engines)
> $26,500?

Minus $7500 for the tax credit, minus another $7500 in some states with rebates.

And even if you did pay $26.5K, saving 75% or more on fueling cost also helps a bunch with TCO.
I'm excited by the idea, but repelled by Facebook's vision of it. An open-standards metaverse would be interesting, especially with the prospect of infinite AI-generated content.
Gaggiuino: A Gaggia Classic control project using microcontrollers
This document discusses Barney Frank's claims that the NYDFS closed Signature because of crypto . . . without pointing out that Barney Frank was a director of Signature Bank.

edit: Never mind, I can't read. That said, no one should listen to Frank about why he's not responsible for his bank blowing up.
Absolutely incorrect. This is the literal purpose of OAuth.
Roddenberry was a showrunner for the first two, and weakest, seasons of TNG. By all I've read and heard of the man in the decades since, this was no coincidence.
In addition to what others have said, C and C++ rely on a textual macro preprocessor and text-based #include, which can lead to a lot of annoying code-breakage when refactoring. Automated tools can't parse C/C++ unless they're effectively built on top of a full compiler; even building a complete C preprocessor is an extremely non-trivial task.

(Many newer C++ code-bases discourage relying on the preprocessor, but that only goes so far.)
Similar to a new engine, with a similar lifespan expectation.
(,: I'm sorry! I'll put it up at the top soon hopefully (I'm hoping to go back to just coding on the app! Spent all day on the landing page today (,: )
I think the problem exists: the externalities of the approach to laptops you're describing are very bad. Framework is trying to promote the three R's to help combat this. Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
> malware (designed to mistreat the user)

Anything can be "malware" if you get to make up your own definition for the word.

I've checked the normal places for definitions of malware, and none of them are as broad and simplistic as this.
It's an interesting question though on whether that allowing everyone to upload as much as they like is a sufficient benefit for society at large though, to change the equation where the argument that it's too big to moderate properly makes sense and is a valid defense.

(I personally come down on the side of "it is valid").
The central point is that when presented with the factual realities of the Smith-Mundt Act being repealed, it's crucial to reevaluate one's opinions to ensure they are not influenced by tainted information. By not acknowledging the impact of the Smith-Mundt Act, it's unclear whether the opinions being expressed are free from propagandistic influences.

I urge you to consider the implications of the Smith-Mundt Act and its repeal in the context of your viewpoints. Engaging with this crucial aspect of the conversation allowing for a more informed and nuanced understanding of the issue at hand, and to help ascertain whether opinions are genuinely untainted by external manipulation.
That is pretty fun!
I’d rather have my money backed by someone with nukes and a printing press than held over collateralized by one party.
OpenAI explicitly disclaims ownership interest in the model outputs. A user who both generates outputs from OpenAI AND uses it to train a “foundational” model that competes with OpenAI could owe contract damages. Other parties? I simply don’t see it.
The upside of this is that it just created a business opportunity for Faraday paint :)
When you think about the production schedules are serial television of the time, it was also kind of insane: i.e. TNG was producing 26 episodes a season. They were basically scheduled to have to kick out an episode every 2 weeks for the run of the show. A lot of the rougher scripts of the era definitely make more sense when you realize the kind of crunch the production actually was under.
> know how stable, streamlined, and more functional systems were before it

That is so far from my own experience that it's foreign to me.

I've been using various Unices for over three decades, mostly a sysadmin / SRE. I profoundly hated and distrusted most of the old init systems.
> Yes, they are nowhere near $11k

Except in Oregon! $7500 federal, $7500 state.
The other way is saying there is a gold rush coming
I posted about it 3 weeks earlier here:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35093327

> The source[0] has a more clear description about what is being currently exploited:
In the end, the Internet vendor used the above-mentioned series of concealed hacking techniques to achieve:

Concealed installation, increase installed capacity
Counterfeit boost DAU/MAU
Users cannot uninstall
Attacking Competitor Apps
Steal user privacy data
Evasion of privacy compliance regulations
and other suspected illegal purposes.

[0] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/P_EYQxOEupqdU0BJMRqWsw
Article neglects Homicide: Life in the Street doing the multi-episode story arc, plus having top notch acting.
If you travel at all for work, you find that some cities have a second airport miles outside the city, or there are lots of cities with two names. The airport codes for different cities then start to become synonyms for the cities because that's what you type when you're going there.

Other people have different reasons for doing things, everything is weird when you think about it, and when you think about it a little more you realize that means that nothing is weird, just different.
> Also, it's just been introduced and might not go anywhere.

The way to prevent it from going somewhere is by raising the alarm loudly. Possibly also by lobbying for legislation that enshrines existing rights.
When they can't compete on a level playing field, they tilt the playing field in their favour.

The only way this ends: They keep tipping until they fall off.
I repurposed my original 11th gen board as a home server running a NAS and NVR, among other things. [1]

These boards are going to kick ass for a long time because of the IO. USB 3.2 can handle 10Gbps, enough for a SATA drive array. Thunderbolt 4 goes up to 40Gbps. All current Intel Framework boards come with four TB4 ports.

It is frankly a challenge to make use of all of the bandwidth on my mid-tier original board. Hopefully 10Gbe adapters will go down in price.

As Framework owners upgrade, the price of these boards will continue to drop, and a lot of interesting projects will be within reach.

[1] https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/109385742918733517
I have several old laptops that I use as home servers. I replaced the HDD with SSD and pulled out the dead batteries so they only run on wall power. They're less powerful than my current laptop but you don't need that much power to run most things when it's only serving a handful of users.