skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking a car also has value for finding it after losing it in a parking garage, determining whether it's been towed or stolen, rescue help in case it's in a more remote area during a blizzard, etc. There's more legitimate use cases here than illegitimate ones, and its odd to to ignore all of them and presume this tech is almost exclusively for stalking like this article is implying.

Auto theft in a lot of places in the United States has spiked so much since COVID that being able to track your car is critical infrastructure at this point*, particular if you drive the cars that are easy to steal right now (I have a friend that had his car stolen 3 times). I think being able to steal a car with a USB cable is a much worse problem for car manufacturers to deal with right now and I really hope we don't hand criminals yet another theft tool (on top of their unlimited supply of dangerous weapons) by eliminating car trackers by law or self immolation.

* https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/car-thefts-2023-kia-hyundai...
Not GP, but navigating to an unrelated scammy site just having a link to the actual site is a terrible and unethical job by Google. Imagine if you search "youtube" and the top result is not YouTube but some scammy site just having a link to YouTube. It's not about click counts, if the youtube downloader has bad UX and requires extra clicks, it's a bit inconvenient but ok.
does C# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/linq/get-sta... count?
A failure while driving is very different from a recall. Especially if the brand in question knows about the issues for years!

Edit:

From your own links:

>> Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs Recalled Because Suspension Parts Might Fall Off

Might =|= did fall off, pro-active =|= waitimg for four years until being forced to do a recall

>> Honda is recalling nearly 564,000 of its older model CR-V sport utility vehicles because road salt can cause the frame to rust and rear suspension parts to come loose.

Emphasis on older, rust and can cause -> recalled before suspension parts broke, and definitely not on brand new cars

>> Subaru is recalling nearly 875,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. because the engines can stall or a rear suspension part can fall off.

Again, can, and not did fall off.

Sometimes it seems reading comprehension, or the lack thereof is directly linked to technical understanding, or again lack thereof.
Beat Saber does work on Linux if you can deal with VR on Linux’s quirks.
Maybe AP an Reuters should invest in one of those Gorgon Stare surveillance drones. Lift this fog of war.
It's "I have nothing to hide" until suddenly you do. But by then it's too late to do anything about it.
If you want a reason, go look at the Gitea project. They use Go templates, which are a lot like PHP. Depending on your definition, it could be "just fine." But also, you get a lot of issues that remain unsolved, such as the 77 comments in [1]. User interfaces are not meant to be handled on the backend in my opinion. When you try to do that, you get issues unless it's a system that's designed for doing the exact same computations on the frontend too (isomorphic like NextJS).

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/5937
Most laptop in category over 1K$ have decent track-pads nowadays.

> hardware is just leaps and bounds better from Apple.

Dollar for dollar comparison? Not my experience.
This is a nothingburger story. The legal owner of a car as far as Mercedes is concerned has access to it. This is really a story about the courts being inept at "declaring" that the woman in question owns the car but not actually transferring the title and loan into her name.

"Your phone may be tracking you (when you don't actually own it and you're on your abusive partner's iCloud account)."
ECMAScript continues to evolve and I suspect that there would have been an effort to make the spread operator into a sort of cons in JavaScript. It could have worked for both arrays and objects. However, after seeing that the entry-level bar of proper tail calls couldn’t make it out the door for Chrome and V8, they might have decided not to push it and risk further divergence from a major implementation.
Despite this hit peice they still make some of the best BEVs when you consider range, price, charging speed/network and software. These are things customers care the most about. Every brand has reliability and quality issues and tesla is in the middle of the pack statistically.

You might want to study the issues with the non-tesla fast chargers in the United States to see what customers really care about.
Okay, worked now thanks!
Well, there's always the Münchaussen trilemma, by which no reasoning is airtight.
I am not sure there are many significant science breakthroughs that aren't basically built on a 'full communist' (publicly funded) model.

There is a very significant tension between making all works that are produced on the back of giants all the way down free (practically speaking, everything, unless there are significant works developed by feral people), vs keeping individuals fed and happy, vs giving corporations so much power they only serve themselves.

I think the benefits of saying any significant development must at least publish its information metadata including descriptions has too many benefits from any perspective to not be supported, and I'm not sure it'd be that expensive if its incorporated in existing systems. It would create its own network effects.
Does this exist for DDG?
In contexts where there's a good chance of standardisation, I believe it is. Both OCP [0] and Open19 [1] have liquid cooling as part of the standard.

[0]: https://www.opencompute.org/projects/cooling-environments

[1]: https://gitlab.com/open19/v2-specification/-/blob/main/syste...
Somewhat in the same space, I saw an interesting stackoverflow post[1] about how to generically retrieve a single file from git. Apparently since git version 1.7.9.5, you can do this:

git archive --remote=ssh://host/pathto/repo.git HEAD README.md | tar xO

Though apparently support depends on how you're running git, and potentially some enabled server side options.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125476/retrieve-a-singl...
Consumer Reports ranks Tesla reliability right in the middle of the pack, close to brands like Nissan and Cadillac.

On the one hand I don’t doubt Reuter’s reporting at all. I’m sure there are defective vehicles and Tesla has a history of passing their mistakes down to customers and being evasive.

On the other hand, critics of Tesla seem to get a little hysterical, too. It’s like people are offended that Tesla dares to sell a Nissan Sentra-like vehicle with leather seats, an electric motor, and some tech toys for boys.

People buy shitty vehicles like Jeep Wranglers all the time and they’re satisfied because that’s what they want. They could spend less time in the shop if they bought a Toyota Camry but that’s not what they wanted.
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As someone learning a second language as an adult, AI is an extremely interesting subject when it comes to this topic. We now have pretty good proof that LLMs are really good at having plausible conversations. The grammar is usually correct even if the content of the sentence is completely false. As a learner, this is great! I have an unlimited amount of access to novel stories and conversations with just a few prompts.

When your business is focused on generating these interesting learning materials though, it’s completely against the interests of the employees currently creating this content. Duolingo does not need super articulate, Shakespearean levels of storytelling. Even today, go to any language learning subreddit, and goin back years, the sentences and stories on duolingo are sometimes comedically bad in terms of real world use and grammatical efficacy.

It’s tough. I feel for the employees at these companies, but at the same time, to learn effectively, you need an insane amount of material at a very specific skill level. Generating this content is not easy for humans, but it’s almost effortless for an LLM. “Here’s a list of 2k words; write a story at an A2 level about this topic using past, present, and future tenses.” This is what this technology was designed to do.

Interesting times!
Userland exec was a very interesting read when I came across it some years ago; thanks for publishing it!

The technique still mostly works, but on recent glibc+Linux, you also have to unregister the rseq area before cleaning out the address space (which requires computing the address first, which is a little cumbersome). Otherwise, if the rseq area is registered but unmapped, the kernel will forcefully stop the program.

(That said, nowadays memfd_create + fexecve is likely a more robust alternative in many cases.)
People really need to actually ask the users about this. I hear lots of frustration all the time and see end users with stacks of shit that barely work but it never gets upstream because the users think that's the status quo or are so burned out that they don't care any more.

Of course various client telemetry frameworks say it sucks but if no one is complaining then of course it doesn't make business sense to optimise them and carry on making it slightly worse until someone finally does moan about it.

But everything being crap is not an excuse to keep delivering more crap.
Why aren't you saying that the DRM software is the unwelcoming party?

That user would happily play that game, but the game publisher doesn't want them.

Incredible.
That every IM service is an island of its own is the primary reason why I don't use any of them. I'm not about to install and keep track of multiple IM service apps. It's just better and easier for me to avoid them all.
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They said 1000 engineers. Surely a company consists of roles other than software engineers, right?
That is crazy, thanks for sharing!
This was an incredible read, thank you for sharing.
That is poor argument.

You can make privacy respecting emergency notification system which uses data only for that service or even if you share it only for individuals as well.

But manufacturers want all this data and sell it too.
Wow. Very sad -- in theory a nurse would know that tap water is not sterile, unless she or he is hitting some hard substances?
Yes, agreed. Part of my point is that, public or private, it was not driven by facts.
Yeah, they’ll even let you drive if you don’t have your seatbelt on, how dare they allow the owner to have any control at all /s
> Crime in a lot of places in the United States is so bad right now

Citation needed. Crime rates have been falling for decades. [1]

I have no doubt there are individual areas with high crime, and for those isolated pockets, people could opt-in to buying and installing tracking devices on their vehicles.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
The world’s largest car manufacturer is German… but the world’s third-largest is Dutch (Stellantis, who own all the “wait, they still make those?!” brands). In practice they were put together from a bunch of manufacturers from around Europe, mostly not German.
By saying they have great principles, cool technology and high pay. They don't really offer any evidence to dispute the rate of failures and quality issues brought up in the article.
It's a broad brush to paint with on a site dedicated to startups.

Is Tesla even still a startup? They're 20 years old, the world's most valuable automaker, publicly traded and part of the S&P. Seems like a cheap jab they needed to add something to the Reuters article.
Basing it on the previous male PM the UK had, we aren’t sure.
Hello!

hodo.graphics is a viewer for meteorological data, designed to be mobile friendly.

I started this project out of a hobbyist interest in meteorology and severe weather. There are many other websites that allow you to view this data (most of it is free from NOAA), but most are a train wreck on a mobile device.

One of the big differences with hodo.graphics vs. a site like weather.cod.edu is non of the graphics are baked in. They are delivered to the client as either a GeoTiff or GeoJSON, allowing the client to define rendering.

This means the data can be recolored, displayed in different ways, zoomed and panned, etc.

Currently hodo.graphics includes outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center, and HRRR and GFS forecast models.

On demand skew t / log p charts and hodographs can be generated at any point, currently just for HRRR but soon for GFS.

Additional models will come if I can get any users :)

Would love feedback and I’m happy to answer any questions.

FYI: no severe weather today so the default SPC view won’t show anything. Open up the HRRR model to see some data.
Even with Hyundai's idiocy, vehicle thefts last year were lower than they were in 2008[1] and lower than at any time in the 90s or 80s. Decades where being able to track your car with GPS was a sci-fi fantasy.

A lot of the recent fear of crime feels like it's being driven by sensationalist reporting and overstating of the facts. E.g. "crime has doubled" has a very different meaning when you realize we were at record low crime rates just a few years ago.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191216/reported-motor-ve...
You're right. If I got into politics the world would be ash in 30 minutes.
I mean, they’re claiming that they’re such a startup that dealing with _water_ is beyond them, so…

(Strictly speaking a random employee rather than the company itself, but “cars from [non-Tesla manufacturer] are only non-horribly-broken because they’re 100 years old” seems to be an _extremely_ common line taken.)
Not OP, but I read their words as neither of the options you suggest.

Claiming "I was provoked" as justification means some arbitrary line was crossed. That line will be different for you and me, and as such it's not an objective measure. Ergo, it is disconnected from the objective reality of the situation, and much more connected to the subjective interpretation of the situation.
They can based on user tracking and profiling, but that's murky waters I personally don't want to dip into.
Brexit does help. If anything what we've seen is that democracy in the UK is for show, not real...

It is actually tragic that voters are the butt of the jokes here when, really this is quite serious.
> Once AR/VR gains broader adoption

That's a really huge "if" right there.
That link says no to anywhere, looks like USDA zone 7 is the minimum for outdoor growing:

Peanuts have a long growing season and require 100 to 130 depending on the variety of frost-free days to reach maturity. USDA Zone 7 and above should plan on starting seeds for peanuts indoors 4-5 weeks before the last anticipated frost date. Zones 8 and above can start inside to get a head start, or sow directly into your garden beds after your last frost date.
>just not for their own workers

The shoemaker's children always go barefoot
My abusive ex partner used to poll me to work out where I was. I divorced her. You can do that with your car too if it's prone to abusing you by proxy (get something that doesn't have any intelligence in it at all).
You are correct. The minimum needed to generate dynamic HTML is a string builder, not a fancy framework.

Frameworks exist for Software at Scale (TM). Big Corp has a revolving door of developers and they need cookie cutter tools that isolate the damage a "bad" developer can cause. If you're a solo developer or a small company, then this digital bureaucracy is unnecessary.
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Is the Vegas Sphere the largest hemispherical object?
1690s, and I would assume so
It prevented you from learning anything? You really would have been better playing Candy Crush?

Like other comments say, there's a lot of misguided hate towards Duolingo. The lack of original criticism is almost a meme.

Duolingo is fun and addicting, and it 100% helps you learn vocab and grammar. You can argue that it's not sufficient to fully learn a language, but no single tool is. You need to mix it with other media, podcasts, music, immersion, and personal lessons. But it's a great starting point. You can argue that there's more efficient, non-gamified ways to learn the basic vocab and grammar, but for a lot of people that's too much effort or not as fun because it's not gamified.
> The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone.

I have the sense that Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling were unaware of this document, or if they were, disagreed with it. It’s a shame they looked more to Simula for inspiration.

Back in the day, programming in Java, I always had the distinct feeling that the compiler was more important than me. Too much of my time was not spent creating. It was spent making the compiler happy. I’ve wondered what would have happened if Sun had Gosling build the JVM and someone else design the language (Bill Joy?). Would we have gotten a language that was designed for humans?
I have to agree. If anything, it's the anti-Musk people who are sliding in extremism and foolishness. Twitter seems to be doing just fine. I miss some of the people who've left out of some political agenda, but the rest is fine. There's a great mix of people and it's much less curated than it used to be. (It's not completely unmoderated-- and that's why I'm happy that other options like Mastadon are doing fine.)
it's pretty common that the first iteration of a piece of hardware is big.
> Many corporate systems will reject emails from "untrusted" domains

And by untrusted you mean everyone's work email that uses a bespoke domain?
One of many articles on the topic https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/car-thefts-2023-kia-hyundai...
Duolingo is pretty obviously gamified, and meant to be fun way to learn something in your down time.

It's competing with TikTok and Candy Crush, not with comprehensive, focused study methods.
> the ENGLISH language defines the word

Hehehe Huh?? English doesn’t define itself, people define words by how they’re used. Okay so if you want to make the case for the English definition, let’s see…

Digital
1. of, relating to, or utilizing devices constructed or working by the methods or principles of electronics : ELECTRONIC
digital devices/technology
also : characterized by electronic and especially computerized technology
the digital age

3: providing a readout in numerical digits
a digital voltmeter
a digital watch/clock

6: of or relating to the fingers or toes

Okay, got it, anything electronic or anything with fingers & toes. Sounds like all analog electronic circuitry passes for digital according to the English language. :) I mean that’s actually true, most people do use “digital” as synonymous with “electronic”. That is why this definition is the first one: it’s the most used and de-facto the most correct, because that’s how the English language works, but you obviously know that already. Also sounds like the THAT computer in the article is defined as digital, because it has a digital readout, bonus! You should write to the IEEE and Anabrid corporation to have them correct their titles.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digital

I wasn’t really intending to talk about how to define the word digital, even though I see that’s what the sentence literally suggests out of context. I was trying to repeat the same thing I said earlier with slightly different words. I was talking about where you draw the line between analog and digital in order to summarize any given device as being one or the other, when in fact many devices are mixed. I’m not contradicting what you’re saying about digital (conversely, you’re not contradicting me either).

Here’s an example of research into purely analog computation with parallel data lines for the purpose of increasing precision, exactly what I was talking about and it has at least one name: residue number system.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09481

If you slowed down a little instead of making so many assumptions and attacking, we could have a productive conversation. You’re misunderstanding me and stating things in binary terms it comes to analog or digital, and still not acknowledging or understanding that there is a lot of space between fully analog and fully digital, and a spectrum of cross-over points and hybrids.
You have a "save location" knob in the settings of the camera app in Android. It will add your location to your picture metadata.
That's a tool, it still leaves open the question "Who will be the authority to determine what changes to allow to the blockchain?", the problem was not solved by introducing blockchain, you just changed the question slightly whilst adding a dependency that wasn't required originally.
If you read into these recalls all of them obviously affected safety of cars on the road which is why the recall was initiated.

Carmakers often know of issues for years prior to a formal recall. This is standard.
Right? How long was it until they figured out that one triceratops was a juvenile rather than a separate species?

Though if they still have dna from that specimen it should be pretty easy to tell
I think you need to get your eyes checked.
Interesting! If I understand this correctly the panels used the thermoelectric effect [1],[2].

60W per panel of that size (see [1], PDF p.5, subtitle of image) would of course be rather low for today's standards.

I guess one could build something like the mentioned panels with lots of peltier elements but I'd imagine that it would be quite a bit more expensive per generated power nowadays (otherwise someone would probably already do this). (As far as I know the thermoelectric effect is mostly used in RTGs for producing electricity.)

[1] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Modern-Electrics/M..., PDF pages 5,6 & 34 (content pages 243, 244 & 272)

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/G._H._CO...
Appreciate you sharing this; I've been searching for something similar for quite some time.
Because issues with other cars are not given wide media attention like Teslas. And HN is far worse in that regard.

> According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford issued 55 safety recalls in 2023, down from 67 last year. The repair campaigns affected 5.9 million vehicles, down from 8.6 million in 2022, which put the automaker in second place for the total number of vehicles recalled. Honda’s 19 recalls affected 6.3 million cars.

> Chrysler issued the second-highest number of recalls, at 45. Kia came in third for the total number of recalled cars, with more than 3 million affected by its 20 repair campaigns.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/in-2023-ford-again-led-nation-i...

How many of those did you see reported on HN?

And many of Tesla's recalls are OTA updates, and even software update recalls show up on HN.
the person i was talking to seemed to be saying the opposite: that vb6 uis adapted better to window size changes than html. i'd like to understand what they meant

css has gotten pretty complex, but html isn't inherently complex
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Well don't get me wrong, this is Hacker News, you'd be hard pressed to find people who don't love tech here. I agree with your main idea, but the lack of informed consent just bothers me. The mere fact that most people don't realize their cars could (not saying that is the norm, at least not just yet), track their every move by default, sending their data to an unknown server to do unknown things and you have to opt out of that is just frightening. GM can't even do a simple entertainment center that doesn't lag out like a $20 tablet, so what are they making with my live location and how well are they taking care of it?
"Connected" car services are complete shit and I never opt in to them.

That being said, this also seems like the basic legal system needs to catch up in some of these cases.

For example, in the first one, the wife had been granted sole use of the car but the husband's name was on the title? That doesn't even seem legally consistent to me, leaving aside all technology matters.
Cars are too expensive to mess with if you’re rights to do so are not protected and risk warranties