skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW this person has been driving that car for 5 months now without any issues. Supposedly Tesla's engineering department looked at the details and said the cracks are not a problem. I'm not a licensed engineer that specializes in chassis design nor metallurgy so I can't assess that claim.

Tesla's customer service org still needs improvement. If I were the service manager and assuming engineering really signed off on the structure being OK as-is... I'd just have one of our welders patch up the cracks. Even if it doesn't affect the structure it would give the customer peace of mind.

If you think these kinds of issues are unique to Tesla prepare to be surprised. Traditional dealers deal with this crap on half the new cars they receive. When I bought an Infiniti a few years ago it came with a couple of flaws from the factory (lest you think the Japanese manufacturers are better) - the dealer issued me a "we owe" sheet with a promise to repair the issues which they did once parts arrived.

The lauded BMW sold me an M3 with defective journal bearings that grenaded the engine at 20k miles. At least a missing brake reservoir cap can be easily replaced! The replacement block alone was billed to BMW at $14k excluding other parts and labor. That same M3 ate its differential bearings not long after. The service tech's explanation to me was that "Hans must have come into work hung over that day".

My point is: if you go looking for problems you will find them. With every make and model. You can't point to one person's possible problem and say "ah-ha! That car maker produces garbage!"
> the price point is just not worth it

They mention on the Discord that they're getting close to returning to unlimited searches for $10 per month, so this might improve soon.

> stop using bing

Interestingly, last month Bing was removed from the documentation on search sources[1] and replaced with Mojeek, Yandex, and Marginalia. Running their own crawler at this scale is probably not reasonable.

[1]: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
Apparently (according to a 2023 survey [1]) the median is more like mid-August (14-18) and a couple even start in July :o

(Your point is still right though, <5% had started school when the ChatGPT data was collected)

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/back-to-s...
A Few Words from Your AI-Powered Vibrator
You've got New Zealand using CSAM laws to prosecute people who watched the Christchurch video, Canada using emergency power to freeze protestors' bank accounts, and the UK with ubiquitous video surveillance and butter knife control...

The whole Anglosphere really seems to be in a race to the bottom.
FPV pilots need special training & jamming could interrupt the control link.

A fully autonomous drone is a nightmares inducing option that just does not have these downsides. For extra inhuman points you could have it sleep in a box & launch on trigger or timer.

Like the hunter seeker from Dune, just without a pilot, lightning fast & with a RPG7 round stripped to it.

Oh those rose colored visions of future utopia people had in the past. ;-)
Well, I was being rather absolutist when I said to destroy pager infra.

It should be messages like "Code red to room xyz with patientID #####"

That would remove anything really actionable.

Whereas I was seeing over FLEX: full name, address, room#, child abuser status, why they're there, medicines. It was fucking stupid, like fuck no.
Me? mad? Hmmm.

What about your language? And his?

"Bitching", "baffling", "rage-baiting trolls", "completely wrong", "literally doesn't matter".

My language: "in my experience", "more often than not", "I'd like to be wrong and happened to have came across mostly bad apples."

So, I'm not the one who is "mad" and "bitching" here. You are the one mad at me.

Who is being tricked? Sounds like you are tricking yourself.
The manager would tell people which ServiceNow tickets to work or what project work to do. We went from empowered to micromanaged. Maybe the kinks got worked out eventually, but I didn’t stick around and left after a few months.
Usury was forbidden by all major religions and was banned in most states until the US Supreme Court legalized it and everyone incorporated in deleware.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-supreme-court-ruling-kil...
Am Taiwanese, can confirm that the icon you speak of is rather… unfortunate.
I'm a bit confused why OP says that because two-phase commits are not natively supported by various databases, that it's not a viable strategy. It's possible to implement 'two-phase commits' manually through a simple algorithm. You just need an extra field to keep track of whether or note the record is 'pending' or 'settled' and also some additional fields for creation date and settlement date. The main process just copies over all the records as 'pending' state then you have another parallel process/task which goes over all the pending records in order and changes them to 'settled' if some condition (e.g. some related records in different tables/collections also exist) is met. Records need to be settled in a particular order to protect from failure of the settlement process itself but it's not particularly difficult to implement. Also, you need good indexing for fast/efficient cross-table/collection lookups (you especially need indexing on date fields in order to quickly look up and settle records in the same order as they were inserted starting from the last settled record).

I did something like this a while ago; some operations in my system inserted multiple records into different collections (into a database which did not support atomic transactions) and I needed to guarantee that when a record existed in a particular collection in the 'settled' state that it would guarantee the existence of a matching record in a different collection. It was very reliable. I believe I didn't even end up needing to launch a separate process for the settlement logic since I was using Node.js, I just used an async task scheduled to run on an interval. The front end would just ignore records until they were in the settled state (but you could also show them as pending).

Another thing which really helps is using UUIDs are IDs as it guarantees idempotence so you don't have to worry about double-insertion in case of process failure/restart. You can just re-process some records that you may have already processed with no side effects; you just need to check that the error is an insertion conflict and continue.
This "sitting in front of a computer" career gives me (and many others) the flexibility (and luxury in $$) to have a much nicer life than the majority of the population.
> We recently developed stress test scenarios for rendering complex scenes—like thousands of layers edited by 50 multiplayer users—and took a very deep dive into CPU and GPU profiles.

I don't really know what any of this means. You're running a single-thread graphics API (OpenGL) in a browser (does WASM support background threads?). On any modern PC, that's gonna look like 1 CPU thread doing all the work and the GPU idling 80% of the time waiting for something to happen.
Try that for baldurs gate 3. The trash results that are returned might have what you're looking for, after scrolling past the SEO highschool essay style intro and after closing the mid page JavaScript embedded nag window.
Weird title. Installing is just one of the nine steps.
Any entity that obtains the throne is doomed to fall soon after.

Happened to the Greeks, the Roman Empire, Imperial China, the British Empire, IBM, Intel and AMD back and forth, Toyota, Boeing, Yahoo, Google, MySpace, Facebook...

Also presumably soon to happen for the United States, Nvidia, Mysterious Twitter X, TSMC, and others currently reigning as kings in their respective corners of the world.

Note that falling doesn't mean they will disappear into the history books, but they will all fall sooner or later.

If an entity wants to stick around into perpetuity, never go higher than #2 and maybe never go higher than #3 so when #1 falls you don't end up becoming the new #1 out of nowhere.
I'd understood distributed transactions to be a vendor-specific thing. I'd never have realized I could have IMS/DB, DB2, and MSSQL all in the same txn.
Ask them how they feel about having their names and the names of the people they hire attached to queries of PHI in aggregated health information repositories, and whether those people have had the level of background checks that public service staff who typically do this have had. Then ask them whether they will bear any accountability for losing the data they are entrusted with, have their REB decisions subject to freedom of information, or be subject to consent directives by patients, and why they engage big-N consulting firms to misrepresent system design on their behalf. Then ask them whether the research is restricted to clinicial and biological research, or if their "research" includes providing data people in the social sciences.

Technically, they are building models to publish or perish, establish data feifs in their institutions for attracting grant money, and to support policy objectives for the revolving door between gov and academia and some troubling third party NGOs, with "care," being a distant abstraction.

The academics I encountered doing privacy work for PHI data sets seemed to be interested in everything except responsibility and stewardship. My care indeed.
average ice car life-cycle is 12 years. EV lifespan is comparable.

It's a weird attack angle for the anti-EV rhetoric. People talk about the longevity of an EV and somehow either don't realize or acknowledge its comparable to an ICE vehicle and then put this worried look on their face.
https://insideevs.com/news/586646/how-tesla-wins-on-epa-esti...

There are two test formats. Tesla chooses the 5-cycle one which is more favorable due to including and weighting more low speed tests. Other companies use the 2-cycle which weights highway driving more (which is what you do when going long range). Turns out the 2-cycle is more representative of driving where range matters.
What's wrong with that? If America was for some reason invaded by Chinese infantry, I would certainly prefer that the soldiers were properly trained to avoid civilian casualties.
Google is degrading for sure but DDG is much, much, much worse.
Yes. But we saw how quickly censorship went from Alex Jones being banned from having a Twitter,Reddit, Twitch, Mailchimp, Shopify, YouTube/Google, Facebook/Instagram account, and being banned from all those platforms simultaneously. To having Donald Trump the Republican Nominee and at the time sitting duck President having his Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Mailchimp, Shopify, YouTube/Google, Facebook/Instagram account being banned simultaneously. Starting off with "we want to stop Nazi propaganda" turning into banning Republicans is like saying "We want to stop Communist Propaganda" and Blacklisting Liberals
Such a weird “belief” to hold, although admittedly I held it until my late twenties. The one objective fact of the universe is it exists and it existing at all is freaking weird. What is the uncaused cause and why are we here to experience it? Saying it’s an accident holds zero logical weight and human logic being “made up” isnt an argument but further proof of this. The truth is your nihilist belief has been taken down by so many philosophers and thinkers across so many different cultures it seems criminal none of these arguments in favor of meaning are taught in schools. Then we wonder why everyone’s so depressed.
Apple has had a similar feature with their "Hide my email" feature which I use everywhere. Many products that deal with passwords (Firefox, iCloud) already check the haveibeenpwned database on a regular basis to determine if passwords have leaked, hopefully we'll start to see a similar policy for other credentials that can be used to determine how easily you can correlate other pieces of information based on a small set of data points.
The ordinance is controlled, and without that the system loses a lot of potency. Not to mention that without decent onboard AI, jamming is a pretty good countermeasure since target selection and much of the control input isn't actually done onboard the vehicle.

Those seem like pretty large hurdles imo.

Edit: and, as others mentioned, goods even tangentially related to defense are routinely controlled. In the extreme case, countries like the US would onshore manufacturing of certain components, acquisition would require licensing, and competing products from overseas would simply be banned.
> The idea that Search is somehow worsening doesn't make any sense.

Search is worsening. We've all seen it with our own eyes. I don't care how much analytics Google is gathering, that's irrelevant.

Just take on example: try googling for the release date of an upcoming video game or movie which you know for a fact hasn't had an announced date. Then view the top 5-10 results and let me know if you consider them to be of a high quality.
The story notes that the coins and medal were in the "sediment", then goes on:

> “We are not certain if it’s soil or mud or dust,” Paul Hudson, a West Point archaeologist, said at the time. “It may not be anything.”

Sounds to me like the time capsule originally contained a bunch of paper or other organic items...along with too much moisture, or a cracked or too-weak seam (to let moisture in). So, over ~2 centuries, the organic stuff moldered away to dust.
any thoughts on evs as a missallocation of battery capacity when it should go to houses with solar arrays instead?
Strangely, if you use an alt keyboard layout, dropping most of the vowels actually makes it a little less comfortable to type. Coleman and (particularly) Dvorak both put a lot of effort into making common words either alternate hands or roll off your fingers, as well as making the most common letters and vowels very accessible to your fingers. Since this method of typing makes those convenient letters less common, it seems to actually make tpng lk ths a ltl + uncmftbl.
Wow I like this idea at least for many conversation based podcasts. I try to download mine at home but data isn't as expensive for the times I don't. Still there are reasons to use this.

I need to look into how the mirroring works, for some time I have wanted a way to subscribe to a podcast with a timeshifted start. Say from the beginning up to the date I start, or a range between 2 dates. For podcasts that have existed for a long time I find it hard to work through the back catalog in any consistent way.
I know very little about the caste system, but it does strike me as odd that only 1 in 180 professors is from a group representing 50% of the population. It becomes even more suspicious if there's a quota for admissions as you say. At some point between admission and tenure, there seems to be a great filter.

How do you explain that, if not for discrimination?
All those companies were at best tolerated, never loved at the scale Google was.
Looks like the Japanese forum is going offline too:

https://keisan.casio.jp/keisan/user_forum/
No this would simply require Nvidia to push more of their actual implementation into their shim code (which is required to be open sourced).

So at worst it will force more complicated workaround solutions for Nvidia driver devs which could in turn cause more bugs for users.
I find this a little hilarious and probably sorely needed as someone who was handed what the instructor literally referred to as the "art of the clides" (the heading "Chart of the Nuclides" having been cut off via photocopier margins), in what turned out to practically be a graduate-level physics course at a nominally undergraduate institution.
Fukushima waste water release: how mainland China and Hong Kong got it wrong
2019 mp3. EPA is 290 wh/mi [1]. I currently have:

- 278 wh/mi for 28K mi total. 104% of EPA.
- 259 wh/mi for the last 6K mi. 112% of EPA.

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=41191
Yep. I've used that example in presentations. If you really want to de-anonymize a medical record, it's pretty easy to do so on the basis of other data which is arguably public for good reasons (and/or as a matter of law).
I first heard "Google" more than 10 years before the search engine, when my uncle (who later worked for IBM) was explaining my grandmother about this huge number. Then a decade later I got the joke at the bottom of the result pages that said "gooooooooogle" and each of the o's was a result page link. I've been on the Internet for that long and now I do ChatGPT queries before anything else. They lost the SEO wars long ago, but more important they lost to their own perverse incentives. Same will happen to LLMs as public knowledge engines. Just enjoy while it last.
I'll take a lower salary for fully remote because I can live in a lower COL area and save on commute (plus my quality of life/commute time isn't worth nothing). If you want me physically in an office, you better be 30%+ more than the WFH alternative. Problem is companies are arrogant enough to think they can 1:1 fully remote and win, and they cannot.
Huge fan of these cookers myself, and they’re definitely iconic - undoubtedly so in Taiwan.

This recent “discovery” of sorts reminds me of how not long ago, social media started blowing up the awesomeness of using scissors in a kitchen / culinary setting - something that’s been a staple with Korean households and restaurants.
At 19:37 https://youtu.be/ZJOfyMCEzjQ?si=cHgDdtSIutz-dWrZ&t=1177

"So now, why are automakers suddenly itching to make this switch? Well, there's a pretty simple answer: the CCS charging networks available here in the US all kinda suck."

Now, is that judgement based on his "personal experience?" I don't know. But that's what he says. He does say about Electrify America that while he's never "been stranded" by it, (18:37), he describes having problems with using the app to use the chargers. He describes more than half the stations having broken NFC readers. He says "It wasn't great and that experience is happening to far too many owners of new EVs." "Meanwhile, the Tesla supercharger network largely just works." He implies that redundancy at EA stations is insufficient (20:42). At 21:07 says that activating the charger is harder than it needs to be...

At 21:30: "The main problems with CCS networks are poor maintenance, horrible up-time, largely terrible apps which are often the only way to start charging, ..." He then says: "Let me go through those one-by-one." And the he does.

Through 26:56 (this section is labeled "The Many Reasons We're Switching"), he describes issues with non-Tesla charging networks. (You're right that he doesn't blame CCS for the problems, and neither do I.)

I didn't watch your video because I conceded your characterization of it. You don't agree with my characterization of this video, but I think you missed this section.

I don't think it's reasonable to characterize his take on non-Tesla CCS charging networks in this video as anything other than quite negative.
Ah, that's a fair point.
A simulation doesn’t necessarily need to be remotely physically accurate to be useful, as long as the simulated behaviour is qualitatively similar to the real thing. For sailing a small boat, I’d imagine the important things would be the shape of the sail and the heel of the boat for a given apparent wind, presented to whatever sensors your sailbot is using. For the water’s surface, random semi-regular perturbation (sum of sine waves) would be fine, and something similar (or maybe a random walk) for wind direction and strength.

For this kind of real-world robotics, you can’t optimise in any academic sense so you just have to go for effective and robust.
I think people loved their products but hated their monopolistic pricing.
>you just have to warm it up to get it out

Yeah, and this isn’t free. You also have to constantly heat the battery even when the vehicle isn’t being operated, which leads to vampire drain and/or runaway electric bills in cold garages.

Had a family member sell his Model 3 purely due to vampire drain in his unheated garage. His electric bill was getting run up $100-$200 a month in excess of normal just to keep the Model 3 alive.

Question: did you just vacation with an EV for a few days at your ski destination? Or have you actually lived (not vacationed) in a cold climate with an EV in an unheated garage? This issue is pretty significant for people actually living up north.
> 2. Buy devices for kids that support a parental-lock feature, which when enabled causes the device to always send metadata outwards, such as HTTP headers. These would encode "I'm a minor in Jurisdiction X" or even "I am approximately Y months old in jurisdiction X."

I like the concept, but I can see bad actors abusing the heck out of these headers in so many ways.
When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical. A terminal disease or an accident could be right around the corner. It seems a bit delusional to have a countable number of days "left". That only the best case scenario.

Besides, it's terribly self-centered. If you're taking care of an elderly parent or someone with a terminal disease, then it can be macabre to be so focused on your own mortality.

I don't see how it can be motivating. But perhaps I'm missing a key insight.
Why are you staying overnight in a hospital if you're healthy? The few times I've stayed overnight in a hospital, it was for surgical recovery and I definitely slept. I was on so many painkillers, I barely remember the experience. My wife did a four-day stint in the ICU when her liver failed years back, and from what I remember, she was barely conscious the first few days. I don't know if I'd call either of those experiences comfortable, but she's alive and I now have a working spine, and neither of those would have been true otherwise. So thanks hospitals.
Apple is so user hostile in so many ways. I don’t understand what people see in it.
> Context gives any OS function necessary, ...
That way, apps could be freestanding, and compatible on multiple OS

Really cool idea!
Damn, this is interesting - instantly reminded me of courtroom stenography in a way
There was their attempt at the Great Firewall of Australia, while mostly censorship was not just censorship.

But honestly there were so many things, it sounds funny but I can't even think of particular examples right now.

Oh, smoking is a good example. Doing their best to push adults out of being able to smoke. You can argue it's as justified as you like, but it's still nannying.

There's a lot the country restricts because it thinks it knows what's best for its citizens.
let it be known this is biden's FCC
Kiwifarms, now banned, official twitter page said their goal was “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. ( Source: https://archive.is/jYp5p ).

I think Kiwifarms is (borderline) criminal. Null, the admin of the site, outright said he was ok with users posting stolen financial information, such as Social Security Numbers and Credit cards. Source: https://archive.is/0fOcS . There are many examples of private financial information being posted on the site.

I would describe them as operating with a paper thin layer of "plausible" deniability. Officially you aren't allowed to harass or interact with the targets. But posting their home address, stolen passwords, phone numbers, and information about relatives is all allowed.

But even the rule against interacting with "lolcows" (called "cowtipping") is haphazardly enforced. For example, one user had sex with a "lolcow" and posted photos. The admin explicitly said they would allow the content to remain up: https://archive.is/zYnpK#35%
Rethinking SIMD Vectorization for In-Memory Databases (2015) [pdf]