skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given an innovation of this sort,
there is not a single area of application, extending the range of electric cars.
You could also make lighter weight electric cars. Which would have their merits.

Think of the whole spectrum of EVs, lighter weight e-bikes, scooters, skateboards, or long range e-bikes. Electric aircraft start to become feasible.

Much more flight time out of your toy drone, multi-day battery life for your phone or laptop.

Energy storage in off grid setups becomes simpler, or more capacity in the same space.

Etc. etc.

All that provided this new design could function as a more or less slot in replacement, or better, for current lithium batteries in terms of manufacturing, cost, and what not.
Most inbound travel to India and China is from the diaspora (both nations have some of the largest diasporas in the world).

With China the process is a bit wonky because a lot of Chinese diaspora members won't renounce Chinese citizenship when they acquire a 2nd citizenship (even though this is technically illegal in China).

Diaspora members want to continue to have the ability to buy property and investments within China as well as have a streamlined way to return to meet extended family so they keep the Chinese passport, but this means you have to keep renewing it every couple years.

When Zero COVID kicked in from late 2019 to January 2023, the renewal process and visa process basically shut down, and because of discontent in late 2022, the entire reopening process was super haphazard and rushed to meet the Jan 23 commitment, you now had millions of (on-paper) Chinese nationals trying renew their Passports, multiple foreign nationals of Chinese origin renouncing Chinese nationality because of headaches, and plenty of foreign national Chinese diaspora memberd applying for visas to visit family or do business in China.

The MFA was unable to scale up and so the backlog is crazy, especially because it's done by the Chinese govt itself.

In India's case, the entire visa, passport, and OCI renewal, creation, and renounciation process is outsourced to 2 Indian companies called VFS Global and BLS International which does the same process for a bunch of other countries like the UK, Spain, Cyprus, Afghanistan, and Portugal.

Honestly, I'm surprised the Chinese govt hasn't gotten around to streamlining the whole process or at least making some form of a Diaspora PR like India did with the OCI. That would solve a lot of the travel related headaches.

I you can use a registered agent, but it seems kind of wonky compared with having a single corporation doing everything from an efficiency standpoint.
#archaism
The additional capacity might be wanted in cold climates. The massive range drop when running the cabin heater plus slow charging in cold environments definitely makes me pause when considering an EV.
I did the same on a Mazda CX5 a few years back, but it was a software only hack to get root first. I suspect the actual physical hardware modification line is the one that most users are going to be unwilling to cross unless they are in the "Download a Car" crowd.
What is the actual failure? The macros are written with and by processing the built-in data structures.
> I think that depends on how it's implemented and how their account recovery process is done. If they give SMS special status and use it with few or no other data to recover accounts when you're locked out, then adding SMS 2FA might actually significantly decrease your security for that account by allowing someone to gain access with just the SMS capability.

Very true and very dangerous. Do account recovery procedures technically count as a authentication factor? I've always though about them as a separate thing. For example alterative email addresses, physically visiting a building, etc can be used to recovery an account but may never part of the actual login process.
Actually, when demand for EVs goes up, lithium mining won't be able to keep up, so in the next decade or so we'll see steep increase in battery prices.
For a Leaf the dealers response to ‘where do I go to get it serviced?’ was ‘don’t bother, nothing to service.

That’s a slight exaggeration but not by much (diff oil needs changing and the tyres need rotating).

It’s amazing.
Semi related question I suppose. Do the Teslas simply use GPS for their location information? If so, couldn't one spoof the GPS using a hackRF or similar?
>Perhaps China feels self-sufficient enough now that they are willing to go the isolationism route?

China is the world’s biggest importer of meat, dairy, soybeans and corn. China is roughly the same size as the US in terms of land mass. Only 10% of Chinese soil is arable, for a population of 1.4B people. For comparison, around 17% of US land is arable, for a population of 332m.

Isolationism also doesn't make sense in the context of the Belt and Road initiative, which exists to solve the exact problem of food shortages (and the need to dump steel, etc created by hyper-financialization) .
I was surprised to learn, in the wake of online discussion after the release of OPPENHEIMER, that the weapons on hand now in the US (and assumed in the former USSR) are actually much SMALLER in yield than what was on deck from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s.

The Nagasaki bomb was ~ 22kt.

We (the US) built a 500kt fission-only bomb (the Mk. 18), so 20x that power; that was thought of as the functional ceiling for a simple atomic bomb.

But then came Teller-Ulam and the mk 17 thermonuclear bomb (no, I don't know why it's a lower number; maybe they started over with the thermonuclear devices?), which came in at 15,000 kt. A linear-scale graph showing Trinity, the Mk 18, and this bomb is hilariously inadequate; it's an object lesson in how warping it is to consider enormous numbers.

But with more precise delivery, and a large shift to multi-warhead ICBMs, the actual individual device yield shifted downward. There wasn't a need to fudge your margins with huge bombs if you could be reasonably certain of hitting a given target. Further, hitting anything with 15,000 kt would be absurd overkill unless your whole point was to wipe out an entire population center.

The biggest active US bomb is the B83, at about 1250 kt, or an order of magnitude less than the Mk 17. It's a gravity bomb, ie, requires a bomber. The bulk of the arsenal is, I believe, still tied to ICBM delivery, and hover under 500 kt per warhead (W88 in the Trident II; W78 and W87 in the Minuteman).

At first blush, the idea that we aren't arming ourselves with 15,000 kt weapons anymore SOUNDS good -- except analysts worry that less terrifying yields makes them more likely to use.

I'm paraphrasing from an excellent Twitter thread from nuclear weapons policy & history analyst Andrew Facini at

https://twitter.com/andrewfacini/status/1683549901353787395
Alexandria Rubalcaba is not an exorbitantly rich actor.
Ah, yes, Black Mirror, otherwise known as "Business Plan of the Week."
I wonder what's different about our searches and expectations. I've been using Brave as a default for 1y+ and I still get consistently bad results compared to Google. The only reason it's remotely competitive is how much Google itself has declined in quality.

A recent example from my search history, "doors of stone release date". The author has announced a new novella releasing Nov. 2023, but not the actual book Doors of Stone. The google infobox gets this wrong, but the first result is correct. Brave accidentally gets it right that there's no release date for the book, but misses the novella announcement and all but one of the results are blogspam.
Much appreciated! I just got a new mic so the audio won't be so bad.

What kinds of videos would you like? We can make anything, the two repos we use the most are Sweep itself and our landing page
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A bit pedantic I guess, but that still uses some syntactic sugar (optional brackets and keyword syntax). Removing all syntactic sugar would look like this:

defmodule(Foo, [{:do, def(:bar, [{:do, "baz"}])}])

Even aliases (like Foo) are also a kind of syntactic sugar for a specific type of atom (Foo is actually the atom :"Elixir.Foo")
"Long term projections" meaning, projecting a language's popularity in a decade or so?

The SO developer survey and others [0] [1] [2] have been around long enough to notice trends, but projection - whether in economics, sports, or the weather - is of course about much more than trends.

Personally I would seek out the advice of as many trusted greybeards as I had access to; experience counts more than math and statistics. Also, if your research is for the purpose of guiding current decisions (you didn't say this explicitly but I picked up an implicit need) be aware of black swan events [3].

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/

[1] https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2...

[2] https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/top-programming-languages

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
Just people who go on road trips with 2 or more mountain bikes need this. This is not theoretical, a Model Y has its range ruined with 2 or more mountain bikes attached to the exterior. Like ~140 miles max on our trip with 4 mountain bikes. And then you tend to go to more remote areas so that makes it even worse.

So yes, our family is eagerly awaiting a 500 mile range ev
Is it rent seeking/overreach?

I make a video game and charge $50 for it. Later I make a DLC and charge $25 for it.

Is your claim that if I keep them as separate purchasable downloads, I'm not rent seeking?

But if instead combine the game and dlc into a single executable (to simplify build and distribution) and put the dlc behind a software lock, somehow that is now rent seeking/overreach and I deserve to have hackers unlock it for everyone for free?
Christopher Nolan is a notable hold out who never uses CGI though, so this is a pretty extreme & rare example.
We need to implement UBI in this country.

I don't think laws requiring that extras in films be real humans is a very effective social safety net.
OpenDNS when I left was running I think 12 locations with ~4 machines each for approximately a million queries a second. But we did a lot more work than Cloudflare (loading each users preferences into memory, making a decision of how to answer based on them, logging stats for the user, etc) and had plenty of overhead.

DNS isn't hard to serve at that scale compute or bandwidth wise, your problems are more administrative and maintaining enough overhead for misbehaving clients to accidently DoS you.
It's not even optional, it's wrong. One believes in people, causes, dogmas, etc; one believes propositions.
I use a mix of Google (built in Android search left in default configuration) and Brave Search (actual browser initiated search). Secondary phone uses Bing across the board. Each has its strengths those strengths are quite subtle and I really only prefer one to the other after hundreds of searches and getting a 'feel' for each. Bing and Brave seem to perform quite similarly in terms of results served yet I feel the design of Brave is more responsive. I'm rather impressed Brave built something as quick as they did as I have been using Bing for years and it took a long, long time before I felt it was good enough to ditch Google search entirely.
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There's a BBC series where they look at living conditions at different times, but the Tudor England one was most memorable. They didn't come right out and say it but the implication was clear, that by the time of Henry VIII's reign, the Church and the Royal Family each owned about 1/3 of England and the Church controlled more and more land every time someone had a deathbed conversion.

The American version of British History is that Henry broke with the church so he could marry more people and have an heir. I think he knew damn well that the Church was consuming England whole and he may be one of the last monarchs that still had the power to stop it.
OT, but it took me an embarrassing amount of time before I realized that '5.5.1' != '5.5.10'. Maybe it's the fact that there isn't a leading zero, like .01, or something, but it was a moment of "wait...did I know that? Is that right?"
If they could coat, or layer it, in a reactant or catalyst that made the hydrogen sulphide has less harmful or toxic it may work, so if the battery is damaged some of the toxic gas will be reduced to something less harmful.

Maybe a chemist would know if this is possible
Correct, this is what they do. Google requires hardware manufacturers who want to use Play etc to get their stuff signed with their root certificate, which the TPM then verifies. See https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-key...

In particular:

"""

If the root certificate doesn't contain the public key on this page, there are two likely reasons:

[It is from an old version of Android, or]

The other likely reason is that the device isn't a Google Play device. In that case, the device maker is free to create their own root and to make whatever claims they like about what the attestation means. Refer to the device maker's documentation. Note that as of this writing Google isn't aware of any device makers who have done this.

"""

In other words, to get into the Google attestation party you have to get your device Google Play certified. Obviously device manufacturers are strongly incentivised to do this.

Edit: If this were to be applied to desktops as well, the obvious approach would be to partner with Microsoft and make use of their trust root, because Microsoft's keys are installed in ~every TPM.
> where the quality of the land and feed for the cattle is marginal

Might be because they deforested those lands and have been grazing those cows there for god knows how long now.

EDIT:

It seems I somehow managed to overlook we're talking about the outback, not the eastern Australia.

https://wwf.org.au/news/2021/australia-remains-the-only-deve...

AUSTRALIA REMAINS THE ONLY DEVELOPED NATION ON THE LIST OF GLOBAL DEFORESTATION FRONTS

In the 13 years from 2004 to 2017, an area of forest six times the size of Tasmania, more than 43 million hectares, was lost in the 24 deforestation fronts.

The report says “cattle ranching” (the destruction of trees to create pasture for cattle) was “by far the most significant driver” of forest loss or degradation in eastern Australia.
Even if it was grammatically incorrect, you understood what they meant, right? With such a vast field of knowledge as tech, should one strive to become a masterful writer on top of their technical studies? Maybe just being able to get an intelligible point across to the masses is good enough.

Not necessarily focusing my comment at you, either. I've seen this sentiment around a lot, and my reaction each time is "what am I, a software engineer or the one monkey that managed to type the complete works of William Shakespeare on a typewriter?"
Phoenix is popular partly because people like its API and its convenience macros. It won out over Jose's own framework, Dynamo which he scrapped in favor of becoming a core contributor to Phoenix. Its easy to make yourself sound wise by complaining about macros, but this largely boils down to personal preferences, and a lot of people have different ones from you.

For most of the people who actually use Phoenix, the DSL makes intuitive sense and so there isn't much learning curve, and it is such an important library to applications that use it that its worth taking the time to really learn it, whereas it might not be the case for other libraries that are macro heavy. Most libraries don't go that route though.
Regulators are toothless in this country. I'm not buying the "scared of regulation" angle.
I think this is a huge point! Surprised no one asked it sooner. Where does all the code go which you tokenise?
> an electric car is 2x-4x cheaper to drive than an ICE car

It hugely depends on the cost of electricity. Last year some European countries (Netherlands IIRC) had those so high, that it was actually more expensive to drive EV than ICE.
Companies literally made this calculus decades ago during the boom years of Moore's law when it came to purchasing computer hardware.

> Electric cars are cheaper to operate that gas RIGHT NOW, with less maintenance.

My timeline for owning a vehicle is 15+ years. I'm not going to buy something that is instantly obsolete. I'm also not going to buy all this vendor lock-in nonsense all these EVs come with. If they were basic rides with an electric drivetrain, sure, but they try to make everything the millennium falcon.

You should look up how much fun it is getting service and parts on a new vehicle nowadays. You're rolling the dice that you won't burn down your home and/or have a lawn ornament because you can't get parts.
> Why is that a problem for your use case?

Because if the Google DNS servers were configured with a low rate limit, the DNS requests of the other clients of the hotel would cause my DNS requests to fail, as they would all appear to be coming from the same IP address from Google's perspective.

Fortunately, Google has a high DNS rate limit so this is not usually a problem.

But the whole point of this thread is that Cloudflare DNS limits requests to only 10 queries per second, which is way too low for this scenario.

> I expect you to run a dns cache/resolver at that scale and not freeload. You have plenty of customers/employees and must be making enough money.

Yeah, me too. But as a customer, I also expect DNS servers not to censor results, not to hijack results, to properly resolve DNSSEC queries, to be available over DNS-over-TLS, to resolve queries reliably and to not be down frequently.

Unfortunately these expectations are almost always broken and as a user, there's nothing I can do to change that, except to complain to the provider (which almost always does nothing useful, especially when I'm traveling) or to just use Cloudflare DNS or Google DNS myself.
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Bayes theorem for laymen? I read an AI book and it talked about how you can predict the cause from the effects given certain probabilities.
Dogmas are propositions.
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But how much time until the hardware is changed? And all the current models?
If it comes to that, Federal law won't be enough. The producers will just go offshore to search for talent they can exploit.

You can't fix this problem with guns.
I always bought into this "meme", in part because just about every EV review I've seen mentions having to compensate for the extra weight which makes those cars less performant at times, so decided to look it up based on your quoted vehicles here, and figured I'd save anyone else the same search:

A 2023 Rav 4 has a curb weight of between 3615 and 3775 lb [1]

A 2023 Ioniq 5 has a curb weight of between 3968 and 4663 lb [2]

So a difference of between 193 and 1048 pounds between the two. That's actually a lot less than I expected, at least on the low end. 193 pounds is basically equivalent to just having one extra person in the car.

As noted in replies, though, these _do_ take into account different drive trains, so the comparison is not not great from the start.

[1] https://www.toyota.com/rav4/2023/features/mpg_other_price/44...

[2] https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/ioniq-5/compare-sp...
[edit] added date to title
As someone who loves Elixir and knows it, this is one thing that really makes it hard to learn Phoenix for me personally. I have struggled learning Phoenix because it is so heavy with macro upon macro that it feels like learning another language.
Am I the only one who thinks it's incredibly irresponsible to disclose this without going through proper channels first? They claim this hack unlocks a host of other features. Seems like a great way to get a bunch of people messing with their cars which could lead to all kinds of catastrophic consequences.
Wow, that sounds exhausting on your end and makes me feel like I must be missing some kind of additional context (or you've just had the bad luck of working for an org whose culture promotes awful people).
> Farming life is better than city life.

Why would they stop farming and move then? Because they are looking for a worse life?
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Hah? I'm missing a step here. Why would they ship like that?
That's kind of awesome!

Although it would be sad if this meant that, for example, one couldn't name a company after a programming language keyword (!?).
There's going to be a market for "verifiably produced by humans".
Theater is already a semi-luxury, not easily replaced by A.I. It's interesting to see theaters survive when movies in many ways produce a better experience. It's my belief that will see something similar for other types of content, we will have the generic A.I. powered entertainment and news and then we'll have a smaller, more expensive, "made by humans" segment of movies, books, news and theater.

A.I. content is for the masses, not upper echelons of society and the hippies.
Ha, ya I meant remove the `do` sugar.
Not just hunting. You can camp / live on it for free as long as you follow some restrictions like moving every X many days.

Edit: "The Crown" really is just the state in Canada. When you commit a crime, it's The Crown that prosecutes you. Obviously that's not literally referring to living royalty..