skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many massive, complex, institutional problems with the auto industry that I am not sure "not as many more people are wanting new EVs as we thought" is the problem the article, and the executives it quotes, think it is. It feels like the industry is blaming consumers for not wanting what they're willing to make and support. It should be other way around.

We don't have a usable national charging network. EVs still don't have the range of gas-powered cars. Many EVs are much more expensive than similar gas-powered cars. Few mechanics and dealers fully understand how to work on EVs. Conspiracy theories are rampant - somebody told me they thought the tires on EVs would give them cancer; another person told me he thought all EVs were just explosions waiting to happen (as though an IC engine is better!).

Chevy recently attempted to discontinue its small, affordable Chevy Bolt in favor of larger, bulkier, more expensive vehicles built on a new platform. It did this during a year where the Bolt sold record numbers and was widely hailed as one of the best and most economical EVs around. The Bolt converted people - myself included - who could not or would not have otherwise bought an EV, and Chevy tried to discontinue it (and later relented and said they'd offer a new version of it in the face of popular demand).

But sure, it's the consumer's fault. How dare people not buy new cars.
I used to feel more triggered by these practices, until I mentally decoupled art and creativity from whatever this is ("content" I guess). This is just its own world of gaming "engagement" and getting paid for churning out "content". The incentives are aligned and even encourage the practices described in the article. In that environment it's an expected course of action, not necessarily shady.
> I meant any character I could type

Here’s how to type “†”:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger_(mark)&old...>
Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf]
Holy shit, the title undersells that. The 300 baud limitation made digital radio basically useless for anything other than old geezers trying to fill their logbook with DXs.

This is fucking great, and I hope it goes through.
Have you ever met a truly wealthy person that wasn’t a cheapskate? How do you think they got rich in the first place?
> Toyota is also about to go heavy into EV, and with it a trusted customer base.

I had been under the impression that Toyota's leadership was (IMO rightly) highly skeptical of the EV market. Source?
Being friends with a higher-up didn't get them the job. Being talented and diligent enough that the higher-up is willing to put their reputation on the line by recommending them got them the job.
The Fall of Data Moats
>The problem is working for foreign company which pays a salary that is way above what your peers live with, it creates insane inequalities.

Those inequalities are present regardless. It's just a matter of out of sight, out of mind.

Check out this global inequality calculator, you might be surprised to learn that you're in the global 1%: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i
All it does is filtering political biased content.

The example available here [1]; line one being "Kejriwal and Liberals whining that he was penalized for demanding PM’s Degree". I'll preface: I got no beef with these factions, don't even know them. It is just if I see someone attempting journalism and calling one side 'whining' I'm quite simply put not interesting.

If it were to block all political content, that'd be BS since anything can be deduced to politics or (vaguely) related to. Wikipedia English defines politics as: "Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status." [2]

Also, there's a difference between biased and opinionated.

[1] https://gooey.ai/compare-large-language-models/?example_id=e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
I really wish I could turn down the play/pause beep on my aftershokz. It's perfect in a loud shop with earplugs in. Sitting in a quiet office with my music down low to concentrate, it's uncomfortable and startling. I don't understand why the system sounds don't respond to the volume level.
I am not so sure "a farm-free future with food primarily manufactured via precision fermentation and other scientific processes" is going to feed the hungry masses.
import behavior
from afterlife import Heaven, Hell, Limbo

try:
behavior.good()
return Heaven()
except behavior.MoralsError as sin:
return Hell(sin)
else:
return Limbo()
This is just another way of saying everyone who doesn't like your "content" is a "hater".
https://support.google.com/keep/answer/3187168

> You can set reminders to go off at a certain time or place
Move fast and break culture.
Retinol, aka Vitamin A1, is found in high concentrations in such foods as cow and chicken livers, butter, cheese and eggs, and cod liver oil. You can get enough by eating certain cooked vegetables, like carrots and spinach (it's hard to digest the Vitamin A found in most raw vegetables, and many vegetables are poor sources of retinol), but you can only really overdose by taking supplements or eating organ meat.

All that has very little to do with autoimmune conditions, and I'm not aware of any effect on intestinal permeability. What are you on about?
Yeah, I can see how this can be confusing.
And within those communities there will be assholes who are better than you too who are gatekeeping the sublevels.

I have long since traded my license for a better life of being a decadent man of international mystery, but I do remember as a very casual CW operator getting mauled by people semi-regularly for violations of people's waterfall displays with my drifty ass analogue transceiver and newbie hand.
How does it store media? Is there a standalone Google Photos style app or does it coupled to Facebook?
Ask HN: How does HN choose which "hiring" posts to show?
I feel like I always see the post about Skio hiring. Why do I see theirs far more often than other companies?
That car park was built in 2018, so hopefully it was built taking into account the weight of modern vehicles.

But they built it very cheaply:

> Hopkinson said there were no sprinklers in the car park and firefighters were advising the airport to ensure they were fitted. “Sprinklers may have made a positive impact on this incident,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/10/huge-fire-br...
Why would you think that anyone who is profiting from having a limited supply housing would want more housing built?
Wouldn’t it be amazing, since e signatures have been around for ages, that governments just published the requirements for legally binding digital signatures rather than ask each maker to go talk to them and get some obscure license or blessing?
I live in Ecuador so I can't really say too much about other countries. However, a luxury rental in Ecuador isn't really a luxury rental at all. There is no noise proofing, random holes in the walls, and the house isn't vented properly. The people that built it just had no idea what they were doing.

I don't really think you can compare third world accommodations to first world. It's not comparable. The quality isn't there.
You describe a lot of processes that aren't fully conscious or intentional, whereas an average person would have control over that piece of consciousness.

Your world sounds chaotic. Making sense of chaos is never easy. Your strongly held beliefs may be a reflection of this: without them, there would be even more chaos. With them, you can eliminate extra conflict by avoiding people with different values.

This doesn't look like psychopathy. You're coping with extraordinary circumstances. How other people interpret what your body is doing is a choice they make. You're not lying if your body doesn't match social expectations of meaning. It's just doing what it wants regardless of your intention.

Also, be wary of mistaking coping mechanisms with a pathology.
Amateur radio is mostly lots of pointing stuff at things and waiting.
They don’t. The company would buy or reimburse their plane ticket.
More interesting link (found in article) that discusses the issue with facts, numbers & references:

"Frugal computing" by Wim Vanderbauwhede

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computin...
Someone in the Erlang community named our processes “nanoservices” as a joke. I thought that was pretty apt though, a gen_server is pretty close. And you can have 3M of those on one node!
@lastdong

Of course. By a portuguese company, you say it yourself. The company pays half of the social security.

And 42% only sounds low because that‘s that final tax rate in this example after all deductions. Like in most countries that is often 5-7% lower than the nominal tax rate that we think about and compare.
in other words, writing the book is only 30% of the work of publishing the book.
This is why I think locking GenAI models down is fundamentally bullshit - it simply enables greater censorship and centralizes power.
A similar sentiment with a different tone is in another comment:

> It is hard to differentiate "a nice compassionate living situation" from "a mechanism for abusers to build tiny empires".

OP could have invested more energy in writing out their reasoning, I agree.
They began when Digital signatures were not understood well even by legal professionals. Somewhere fear might have came in picture. Today, its easier to digest the fact that digital signatures are just cryptographic functions that guarantee the authenticity and integrity of documents and various actions on those docs. Plus the legal framework around it is better defined now. I am confident that we will be able to change the perception and make this the de-facto digital signing solution. The movement has just began, there is a long way ahead.
I think the apartment/city dweller problem is a major limiting factor that does not have an obvious or quick solution. Owning an electric car if you can charge it at home is a pretty big experience upgrade over a gasoline powered vehicle since it is considerably cheaper to fuel and it happens with very little effort while you sleep. For those people, the less convenient experience of on-the-go electric charging might be worse than stopping at a gas station, but it happens rarely enough that it's not necessarily a major consideration.

If you can't easily charge at home though, electric cars kind of suck and offer a noticeably worse experience. Sure, you could probably make it work by exclusively charging at public fast chargers similar to how you fill up a gasoline car now, but those are much harder to find and inconveniently slow enough to be annoying to use on a regular basis. I know people who do this because they like the idea of a electric car enough to put up with it, but that's not going to ever be most prospective car buyers.

Trying to make non-home electric charging competitive with gas stations is going to take a long time and faces a catch-22 if EV purchase rates slow down. And upgrading every condo/apartment building and city with street parking to have sufficient overnight charging capacity is not a quick answer either.

Anecdotally, I would absolutely buy an electric car if I didn't live in a condo with no charging facilities, but no way I'd do it without being able to charge at home. However, also worth noting that while I wouldn't move just so I could charge my car, I probably also wouldn't move to a new home without EV charging options unless I was forced to for some reason. So I'm guessing market pressure will make it happen eventually, not it's not right around the corner.
> I've seen very few chargers with prominent signage, visible from a major road

Is there a point to such signage when the cars' built-in navigation knows where the chargers are and automatically routes you to the most optimal one on trips where you need one?
While the maximum energy efficiency for cooking is obtained with modern equipment, like microwave ovens, cooking equipment does not necessarily have to be modern and expensive.

I am pretty certain that the kitchen stove used by my grandparents had a much better energy efficiency than the kitchen stoves that burn natural gas and which are still very widespread now.

That old kitchen stove was a wood-burning kitchen stove, but only a small quantity of wood had to be burned, because it had a huge thermal inertia and after becoming hot enough food could be cooked for hours with minimal wood consumption. The heat transfer from the large hot iron stove (but with a temperature close to that needed for food, i.e. much lower than the temperature of a gas flame) was much better than from a gas burner, which resulted in much less lost heat.

The efficiency of such a wood-burning kitchen stove is likely to have been similar with the efficiency of an induction electric stove.
> I want to commend Apple if they did the right thing and built a database mapping (model,volume_setting)->physical_volume

Even if they did, it would be out of date the moment it shipped.

But no, there's no reason to believe they'd do anything like that. It would be interesting if headphone manufacturers reported the dB range when connecting with Bluetooth to enable something like that, but I've never heard of such a thing. (That is an area where Bluetooth could enable something like that, in a way that the 3.5mm jack couldn't.)
You are hilarious. Most of what you say makes no sense and has little relation to what is observable in the real world.
But the funniest thing is about how women supposedly work together, when everyone knows and experience that men make teams while women create clicks. If you have ever done sports or any collaborative activity, you know very much you do not want to be the guy left alone with too many women. Even if they have similar capabilities; there is no way their ego won't go in the way.
Women do not work together at all; they gossip to gain knowledge on current affairs that they will potentially translate to power. They will cheer for their enemy that they secretly hate and all kinds of duplicitous behavior. This is something that is extremely well represented in literature, movies and TV shows.
But I guess the authors are hallucinating or living in a complete parallel world where women are much worse than they are in reality?
I mean, come on...
> The only person this really benefits is new users to the system that haven't figured out how to get a transit card yet.

In many transit systems, that's millions of people per year: Tourists, occasional riders that would just forget the pass at home if they're not using it regularly etc.

> This system really sucks because you can't just slide your wallet over the reader. It'll pick up your cc before your transit pass.

There's theoretically ways to preferentially pick a given type of card, but it's quite hard and unreliable to implement, so I guess that rather than promising something they can't reliably deliver (and slowing things down in the process), transit systems just pick the first card.

It is slightly inconvenient for transit-pass-only users, but I do also see the huge benefits for the transit system and its users in aggregate.
Why not? We already do a lot of processing even just to turn wheat into bread, all beer is fermented, and “other scientific processes” is what let us feed more than 790 million people worldwide. Feeding the masses this way seems at least plausible to me, even if it might turn out too expensive to bother.

(Of course, for something this important it makes a lot of sense to be slow to change so you can spot any mistakes before they’re important; doing it fast and only then finding out you made a huge mistake will make all the pandemic deaths seem like “the good old days” in comparison).
Sadly not - but TikTok stats are visible so you can see how popular things get and it's way more than tens of thousands of views for anything successful.
Right. All statements about anything are completely biased. As Nietzsche points out, the preference for being alive is a bias. All of life is predicated on this bias, without which animals would simply stop eating or moving or breathing. It's all bias all the time, everywhere. And as you point out, even a statement of pure fact demonstrates bias as it was bias that led to it being expressed at all rather than merely standing mute.
Combustible, yes. Not explosive unless Poorly Engineered.
Except it's all effectively a self-referential loop of fake, empty content that pretends to be of high quality, but exists and is invested in only to promote other such fake, empty content. They pump energy into the loop to grow it - which incidentally displaces all topically adjacent but authentic and useful works - and grow it until it becomes self-sustaining. The only reason this is done, the only way this actually benefits the people involved in this scheme, the only reason they do this, is because companies pay for getting themselves attached to the content in the loop. It's all just a more concealed form of advertising. Any value the content in question has is entirely incidental, and quickly optimized away.
Yeah, I wondered if it was accessibility, or maybe a limitation to support text browsers.

To take the opposite view, there's not much we can't wrap in an <a> since HTML5 (eg <a href=""><div></div></a> is valid, and makes the div clickable). How do accessible browsers support that today?
Right. But as a nomad you cannot just give up your own health insurance and you cannot just stop paying into a foreign retirement fund yourself.
Portugal won‘t allow you to deduce that, of course, and it‘s another 1500-2000 per month to subtract in case of private insurance for example.

Leaving around < 2000 net. And as I said that‘s without the mandatory social security problem on foreign income.
I also develop Elixir professionally and I find the tooling to be excellent. I've seen some transient language server crashes[1] - but I wouldn't call it common? I personally dislike Credo, but it's very customizable, and you can simply remove the "alias order" readability check[2].

[1] https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-ls-error-undefinedfunctione...

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/credo/Credo.Check.Readability.AliasOrder....
Boredom is the poor vision of the mind's eye. When an average mind looks at a tree, the mental image in it is a blurry caricature of that tree, it lacks details and is completely uninteresting to look at, so the mind lazily wanders to another distraction, in hope to see more details there, but the new mental image appears just as blurry. Smartphones "solve" this by feeding a high contrast image into the visual memory: this gives the mind the details it's been yearning for, but does nothing to improve its ability to construct such images. It's a lot like going to gym to have a trainer move your limbs, creating the appearance of exercise.

For comparison, when a scientist or an artist looks at a tree, his mind creates a highly detailed image, and the more he peers into it, the more finer details his mind discovers. So his mind is never bored, rather it can be hypnotized by the amount of details it sees. He develops this skill by immersion into whatever he sees: rather than letting himself get distracted, he makes his attention inspect the object of interest as closely as possible; this improves clarity of his mind's vision, which lets him see even more details. This means when he looks at a tree, all his attention explores this tree, and when he thinks about a tree, all his attention explores the mental image of the tree. In average minds, their attention is always split between many things, so they never see anything clearly.

Immersion is what makes all the difference.
I look forward to these getting increasingly esoteric. Mid-2024: Musk decrees that from now on, Twitter will primarily be a replacement for Ravelry.
Reminiscent of the Activision game, Hacker, which I bought for the ZX Spectrum. It shipped with no instructions, you had accidentally got access to a computer system and needed to work things out from there.

For a kid with no modem, it was revolutionary.
Sure. I live there and talked to plenty of local accountants.
That's a really bad way of looking at it. From a theoretical perspective yes but it's more useful if you think of it is a language. If you do it for a bit you'll get it and you tend to pick it up like another conversation method with different sounds that's all. It's not dots and dashes, it's musical phrases that you learn. And from that, like conversation, you fill in gaps and recognise words automatically.

I mean the most basic CQ is dah dit dah dit - dah dah dit dah. You don't heard the dots or the dashes, you hear the rhythm. You don't see the CQ either, you know the concept from the rhythm as part of the conversation.
> In that environment it's an expected course of action, not necessarily shady.

It isn't shady to the participants, in the same way that the activities of an organized fraud group aren't particularly shady to the members of that fraud group. They are to their victims, though.
What, you've never used an atomic butterfly package before?
Using a network or community of people to promote each other is not a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme would be if he took profits from those new people to somehow pay the old people. This is actually the opposite of that, where he's getting time and effort from established people to boost new people.

It's functionally no different than having a friend in an industry that gives you a shout out when you start a new venture, except you're opting into a group of people all doing this to help each other. It's nothing new, and nothing problematic IMO, and it's been going on for hundreds of years at least, and possibly thousands.
Actual is going open-source (2022)
> This would also make internet relay possible and legal in uhf.

That's exactly the reason why encryption is banned. The authorities, as well as amateur radio representatives don't want ham radio to become yet another internet channel, with all the commercial activity that happens there.

There are many ways of sending secure messages, but few truly public spaces.
elon is a massive problem. people need to know.
Ask HN: We need a new Turing-Test
It wasn't long ago that the best attempt to pass the Turing-Test was a chatbot that "was portrayed as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy to induce forgiveness in those with whom it interacts for its grammatical errors and lack of general knowledge." [0]. But then ChatGPT came along and blew the test out of the water.

There are other, more well defined intelligence tests such as the "Winograd Schema" [1] which asks grammatical questions that require real-world knowledge and common-sense in order to answer such as:

"In the sentence 'The trophy would not fit in the suitcase because it was too big/small.' what does big/small refer to?"

But even these type of questions which were considered to be "The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can" as late as 2020 [2] seem to be easy for LLMs to answer with GPT4 topping the list with almost human level accuracy [3].

So assuming ChatGPT isn't an AGI (yet), how can we prove it to ourselves? What linguistic tasks are humans qualitatively better than LLMs in?

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goostman
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_schema_challenge
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vIEKWrP9Q
[3] https://paperswithcode.com/sota/common-sense-reasoning-on-winogrande
Non-plugin hybrids solve a different problem. They're more efficient, but they're not really a solution if you want a car powered by electricity. Plug-ins are interesting because a lot of people could use pure electric power for commuting and the gas engine for longer trips. But they're really only useful if you can charge at home and at this point I wonder how many potential plug-in customers just bought a pure EV, which has an attractive simplicity to it rather than having all the problems of both types of power trains.