skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern software for cars is like that for phones. You are not in control of it, you can't roll back, you can't usually pick a particular software version to install. In a decently designed modern car, you have a drivetrain computer system separate from the infotainment (the big console with a map in a tesla, for instance). This is frustrating for me as a software engineer. You have to trust the software maintenance and we all know software can go bad.

In cars the general rule is legacy auto companies are terrible, although there are some companies doing okay.

Tesla has done a great job, with apparent good boundaries between the UI/infotainment and drivetrain. You can reboot the screens while driving even (which is worrying but they seem to be well divided). They pay people for security attacks on the cars. Tesla has faster update paths for the main UI, and seem to update the drivetrain less frequently, but they do add and remove some features over time. They have "recalls" that are just software updates. A few other companies have done a good job designing and executing on frequent software updates, Rivian is one that has done a good job. Notably though, Rivian did push a bad update this year that messed up people's cars, had to install a new update a few days later. Before that I would say rivian was equal to tesla in quality. Other than they they are but that is a big difference.

VW is kind of in the middle. Wants to have good software and updates, but it has been a very painful sequence. They had updates that took too long, they were afraid they'd run out the 12v battery during big updates, possibly bricking a car, so you had to bring them to the dealer. Lately I think I read they had a successful over the air update. Oh yeah, tesla and rivian do all their updates over the air. Park you car for an hour, pick "go". Don't do this on a trip ;0)

Then all other legacy cars are terrible. Maybe the worst ever is the GM Lyriq which had a stop sale order it was so bad. Basically unusually, reboot the ui frequently and it keeps getting stuck on people. Hardly believable that they had those problems, apparently no related to a software update bug.

There's android auto and apple carplay. A lot of people like them, I think they are very decent. Legacy auto has almost given up on writing their own UIs, they are mostly bad, but some companies are coming back and trying to stop using them so they can control the experince, and maybe charge people for new features eventually. Tesla and Rivian never charged for their main software. Tesla continues to sell FSD for outrageous prices and it is not done, drives like a scared and maybe drunk beginning teenage driver.
I was watching a video the other day where some welder was skimming over settings on the welding machine and assumed I knew or cared what a vague statement "some mild grade steel" meant when he could have been marketing his cool looking product called "example welds".

I guess you'd call him a "a welder so huffed up on his own farts that he'd forgotten that the stuff he welds might also do something useful in addition to beind made of the metal and tools du jour".

The rest of us would realize it's not targetted at consumers of welded goods, but as a discussion or example for other welders. It's not something to be mad about, it's perfectly reasonable that welders talk to each other about welding, and sometimes weld things for fun or practice or to show off to each other.

In the world of programmers, we like to do the same thing. Most of us work either on something targetted at people who want marketing and handholding about how to use the product or on something so niche and that it's really only useful to other devs (and mostly the only devs its useful for are a small subset from the first group that work at the same company) - and we often charge for that kind of work. When something's on github, there's a high likelihood it was made by a programmer wanting other programmers to see it for one reason or another.

> I get that this is probably some kind of personal project, but I see so much of this nowadays and it really boils my biscuits.

This has been common since the late 90s when I started paying attention to programming things, and people weren't calling it a new trend then...
I'm not familiar with that, but I'm curious how it can be simpler than what I described using the regular file manager you've probably already got installed. For me, using the defaults of Debian with Cinnamon, the steps are

0. get ssh working

1. type into the location bar of the file browser: sftp:// and then whatever the ssh command would use, e.g.: sftp://root@samsung-0bd2c41

2. there is no step two, you've already got a mounted filesystem

Of course, there's some details hidden in step zero, but if KDE Connect uses sshfs as well, I'm not sure how it gets simpler than this to "expose" (this means mount, right?) the filesystem. Does KDE Connect do it bidirectionally or so? (I wouldn't actually want that, as my laptop is the trusted device of the pair)
Yeah, this has come up before on HN. But being able to take down that relic of the 50's will be totally worth it.
Both countries were previously led by extremists totally incapable of any such moral epiphany. Sound familiar?
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I'm sure that you have legitimate reasons to feel the way you do, but you're posting to this thread in a way that is against the intended spirit, as I tried to explain it in the pinned comment at the top. Please don't do that. If you can't post in the intended spirit, that's understandable, but in that case please don't post until you can.

(Exactly the same thing, of course, goes for the commenters you're in disagreement with - for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151611)
I can't help but imagine what it'll feel like if you find a job that uses Slack.
Watch the closing remarks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrJd2aWF-Y it is short.

And then the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FryDCvI7YLo

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125185410/https://www.irish...
Having worked with a number of Gen Z, I find a growing number of them wholly incapable, extremely entitled, and totally devoid of the 'hacker ethos'. Trying not to paint with a broad brush but how many times can I have a bad experience with a group of people before I start to wonder if it's a common trait. Many of them struggle with the basics yet they want to be CEO in a day.
Serious question, with respect. What is your profession? I think that some acronyms, like NASA, need no explanation. In Vanity Fair I would expect IEEE to be explained, but not on HN. For what it's worth I don't work with hardware or electronics now am I an engineer nor do I live in the US. The IEEE is still a very well known acronym among my peers.
That's a common misunderstanding of HN's guidelines; what they say is that most stories about politics are off-topic, and of course most != all. This has been the case for a long time—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426 for example, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 for tons of other examples.

The question of how/where to draw the line is tough, but it's also one that we arrived at a relatively stable answer to a long time ago. I've written about this a bunch: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I'm not saying we always make the right call—we don't, and anyhow people always disagree about what the right call is. But the underlying principles are at least pretty clear.
This is awesome! Did you hand select all 1000? I wanted to hand select for the categories to get some better starting recommendations but it was taking too long so I was a bit lazy and just scripted it…
Theres no reason democracies cant be theocracies. You can come up with a pained definition to make it so, but if everyone votes for the religious party I think most would agree that thats a theocracy.
Landing Page ≠ Good Product
i'm noticing a lot of good looking websites where the founders raise a lot of money to put on design + landing page to end up with crappy website that do the same things as other competitors and yet they spend a lot of money for marketing + months to build their product, Vcs should rethink where to put their money
Well they are not not indigenous.

But calling them "the indigenous" is not correct. DNA studies done by Israeli scientists on Palestinian subjects show that they descend from indigenous groups including Judea.
I think so. For instance, you can get “fake books” that are charts of chord progressions of hundreds of songs. Someone could sit down with this and a fake book and imitate a lot of songs well enough for a sing-along evening. It would take an awful lot more piano practice to go from zero to that level of playing.

That’s setting aside the quality question. A good pianist in the right setting’s going to sound way better than a newbie with an Omnichord. However, the newb and their Omnichord would probably be a lot more fun at a house party than not having live music at all.
>> Wouldn't it need additional data, such as actual proof, to become an allegation or even a claim or charge?

What the computer surfaces as an accusation becomes fact by the users of the computer.

Even when the consequences are serious, this happens, an example from yesterday: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-says-ai-facial-reco...

Why should we assume this would go any differently when the consequences are not as serious?
> I've been hearing about the death of broadcast TV for 20 years now. It's not happening…

OTA has been steady and even increased a bit, but broadcast overall has plummeted over the last 20 years. Cable has gone from 70% to about 30%, for example. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/media/cable-broadcast-tv-decl...
Thank you!
Quick feedback - lmsys will introduce bias because it lacks rendering support for things like [ x_2 = \frac{1}{2} \left( 1.5 + \frac{2}{1.5} \right) = \frac{1}{2} \left( 1.5 + \frac{4}{3} \right) = \frac{1}{2} \left( \frac{9}{6} + \frac{8}{6} \right) = \frac{17}{12} \approx 1.4166666666666667 ]
> The Palestinian people can oust Hamas

How? They lack the organization and military capability to do so.

And while Hamas hasn't done them any favors, with the way Israel has been behaving, I'm not surprised your average Palestinian in Gaza isn't feeling like helping the Israeli objective, even if it likely would be in their long-term interests as well.
Does killing over 25000 Palestinians in 3 months and starving the rest not involve deaths of Palestinians civilians?
> The sovereign tech fund (from Germany) is a good idea.

Isn't it a non-idea? I'm seeing articles saying they spend order of magnitude single digit million dollars [0]. That doesn't sound like it'd be enough to cover the costs of much. Just look at the list of maintainers of the linux kernel, for example [1].

Germany would be doing much better if they had a few big software corporations, they tend to contribute more money voluntarily. They should focus on cutting back red tape and fostering some entrepreneurship.

> It was good and accelerated literally everything.

This position doesn't make sense, look at the the AI industry appearing out of nearly nowhere and is moving so fast even the people in the market can't keep up. And is mostly open source. We might be approaching the limit of what is physically possible.

No changes to the situation are needed if we want things to move faster. Maybe winding down IP protections to maintain the speed, once the lawyers get involved that'll kill some of the momentum.

[0] https://sciencebusiness.net/news/cybersecurity/germany-launc...

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.h...
This is completely wrong: an ICE has 20-25% of the energy of petrol to use to do all those things. The rest is lost as heat.
at 3500 for this damn thing with its horrendous fashion look which is odd became apple is the company that has been essentially turning Tech into a fashion statement for a long time and infected the marketplace with Designer thinking rather than developer thinking and enshrined the idea that end consumers want our devices to look beautiful rather than to be fucking functional. this is hardly surprising.

I have no use for a MacBook, or an iPhone anymore, Only want to hack my way into iMessage because of it's dating implications.

Its tech is functionally useless for me. For the primary reason that I'm not really all that keen on being a content creator for VIDEO platforms. I might OCCASIONALLY broadcast, but I'm not looking at it as a job or career prospect and because of that Final Cut pro has essentially no use or function for me. Anything mac does in the multimedia space is useless to me or has better replacements on Windows, and Windows is binary compatible with a whole range of software That Apple is not and likely never will be.

I mean this company might like port one triple A game a year, but that's assuming I even want to play the Triple A games, I'm hot a "mainstream gamer" I am a role-playing game enthusiast who prefers turn based games like Octopath Traveller 2 and might watch an anime virtual novel every so often.

I do run a Gentoo Linux box in the other room for you, fellow hackers. I'm definitely interested in upskilling towards pentesting and such.

And I love the Gentoo Linux Design philosophy. but I administer multiple boxes to be able to maintain binary compatibility with BOTH Linux AND windows.

So if I wanted to sacrifice all that binary compatibility because Microsofts software or hardware sucked like, ARM has much better battery life, or because Fuck windows amiright? I'd just go over to Linux. To me there's only really one operating system that is compettiive with Windows and it isn't MAcOS, it's Gnu/Linux.
It has an American on it, but the United States no longer accepts its jurisdiction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice

>
For example, the United States had previously accepted the court's compulsory jurisdiction upon its creation in 1946 but in 1984, after Nicaragua v. United States, withdrew its acceptance following the court's judgment that called on the US to "cease and to refrain" from the "unlawful use of force" against the government of Nicaragua. The court ruled (with only the American judge dissenting) that the United States was "in breach of its obligation under the Treaty of Friendship with Nicaragua not to use force against Nicaragua" and ordered the United States to pay war reparations.[21]
They are doing it strategically to spread out the effect of uptick in new subscribers. Don't want to shoot their wad in one single action. Better to let the effects of the crackdown roll out over a few years.
https://archive.is/m7p85
All metaphors are wrong, some metaphors are useful. The word "burn" applies to both first and third degree burns.

Characteristics of apartheid can exist even if it is not at the severity experienced by black south Africans. The analogy here has utility, and racism towards Palestinians is unfortunately a huge problem in Israeli society.
From my point of view, you're wrong. They work fine for me for this purpose

I don't think you can put a binary label on this (right or wrong): reliability is a number, such as MTBF or write cycles, not a boolean
There might be a market for ripping that crap out, though.

The car has to continue working without ambient data, because it won't always have ambient data. So just metaphorically (or literally) rip out all its antennae.
This is a frankly antisemitic argument. "Dual loyalties" is practically the kernel of all antisemitism.
Well that music video lyrics work is a very unexpected pleasant surprise! :)

Thanks for catching that! Will fix that!
I think you are reading mmuch more into that reply than is warranted.

It’s simple fact more people have now died due to Israel’s actions.

That doesn’t mean they necessarily need to be punished for it. The international community doesn’t really need to.

If this is anything like the other 10 times Israel did one of their “Let’s provision some extra terrorists” exercises, they’ve already guaranteed that they’ll deal with two or three more decades of the palestinian population hating their guts.
You'll be disappointed by that power.

Apparently, millions of young men have simply checked out. They're not in school and missing from the work force. Another statistic I came across: 45% of young men (18-24) have never approached a girl in their life.

They're isolating themselves. They're not bettering themselves, or competing. They're out.
Personally, I think any inherent security advantage (assuming it has great dependency management) would be very small. This "Oasis" project doesn't seem to call it out at all, even though they are making a fair amount of effort to track dependencies per binary.

They cite the main benefits being this: "Compared to dynamic linking, this is a simpler mechanism which eliminates problems with upgrading libraries, and results in completely self-contained binaries that can easily be copied to other systems".

Even that "easily be copied to other systems" sort of cites one of the security downsides. Is the system you're copying it to going to make any effort to keep the transient statically linked stuff in it up to date?
I’m against the policy itself. If I’m running a flea market, I don’t want it full of hot dog stands. That’s because there is only so much physical space. If I search the App Store for hot dog stands, the space is unlimited. There’s so much they could do there (a/b testing similar apps to find the “best ones” like YouTube, comes to mind). Since there’s no competition, they don’t innovate nor do they see that the old rules don’t and shouldn’t apply. Their search is so bad, it’s a miracle people don’t install malware.
Arguably Canada is worse about it than the US but I didnt feel like it was germane to the specific context of the current conversation. Regardless, the brutality and militant nature of the numerous blockade-busting and protest crushing actions undertaken by the RCMP and other groups in Canada cannot be understated.
Why are they evil? And if someone wants to do good for the World, why not join an evil corp to inflict change from within?
Germany uncovers Russian disinformation campaign on X
We discussed earlier a hypothesis about the true but unknown amount of compromised data conditional on the known data breaches; these things should be perhaps approached similarly.
I have spent days researching the history of this. The problem in its entirety is Zionism. The only way for Zionism to remain, is for Israel to be permanently at war. Research Likud, read about Netanyahu, Zionism is the contagion and a Forever War is their answer.

Should the Palestinians have agency and self determination?
The rear would be a virtual or simulated diff then? Do we know this to be the case or can the driver only lock the mechanical real diff? I can "lock" the center diff in my car but there are two still two other diffs. Do they mean lock in the absolute sense as in a 4x4 or fake lock as in my AWD?
Instead of asking for stricter regulations, Spotify would do well to ask themselves why most (all?) the gatekeepers are in the US and not the EU.
If you just need high availability, then you don't need to scale horizontally, you just need redundant systems.
> Germany and Japan were conquered and unconditionally surrendered

Israel has already done that to Palestine, many decades ago, but they failed to do anything like the Marshall Plan to invest in the occupied lands and create a lasting peace.

If we hope to learn from WW2, we should consider the postwar history of Eastern Europe. Like Israel, the Soviets also failed to invest in the lands they occupied, instead trying to suppress rebellions with violence. Now all of those nations are Russia's enemies.
HN is the wrong crowd to ask, because they’re behind the curve on a lot of things.

Hop on FinTwit or CryptoTwit.

Derivatives (options/futures) are your best bang:buck. But crypto is where the real speculation is.

Read up on a practical trading book (hypothesis building, backtesting without bias, and risk management via Kelly etc.) and then start testing strategies.

Backtesting you can build yourself with any broker that has an API, but not all are made equal. It’s dead simple.

Look into [redacted]
You seem to be insisting that such a feature can be mandated without collateral damage for a lot of phone users, including people who never use a phone while driving or even don't drive at all.
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Yes, that was my point. An x86 box has lots of built-in (and power-efficient) IO capabilities that are not part of the Raspberry Pi. When adding a bunch of IO-expanding peripherals to a Pi-based system, you should properly attribute the power consumption instead of making it sound like the Pi itself has a serious idle power problem.
I got a TE EP-133 sampler this week. The only portable MIDI keyboard I have is USB only, meaning there’s no way I can connect it to the sampler without involving a computer, or a standalone connector that’s way more expensive than just buying a different keyboard.

5-pin MIDI always works, and works without anything more complex than a little adapter cable.
I'd say drawing a line in the sand where you don't need to is not about the coat or the slippery slope it doesn't cause if you don't do it.. It is about needing to be a helicopter parent because you have lost their respect.
I agree, any solution that is unpopular to Israelis will be opposed by their democratically elected government that happens to have the military power to prevent it. Even if people elsewhere don't like it
Germany and japan returned to their pre war borders after the war. Gaza does not have the land or resources to sustain its population. It literally needs to expand to have any amount of stability.
Novel snake-like robot 3D prints its own body to grow longer
You could hire a virtual assistant (Just like a secretary). For your questions regarding trust, there are people who do that as a full time job they will be able to answer you and give guarantees
Why? They do the same things in the same ways. One is just more likely to introduce a security vulnerability to your web server.
I assume Meta has a referral program where you receive a bonus if your referee gets hired.
The Internet is a disinformation campaign fueled by a bunch of different entities... getting worst day by day
Disagree. As do many professional pitmasters

https://amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/grill-and...
I didn't own one, but in Russia at the time it was fairly common knowledge among techies that these things existed, so mostly word of mouth.
I doubt it's free literally anywhere, you'd pay it through taxes if not more directly, but you probably mean that, where you live, it's included (with a fair use policy) with every subscription you can possibly get? That's not the case in any country I've been to, especially if you want a flat EU rate you pay a crapton of money (probably this is easier if you don't have friends and family 20 minutes driving over a border, but also within NL and DE I know many people that pay per minute because they hardly ever call or SMS anyway; probably a majority in fact)
Yeah. Briquettes are basically bottom of the barrel coal powder, sawdust and other additives mixed with a binder.
What about steer and heifer, which I've read of in English and Western novels?

Their origin, I mean. I can google, but it's more fun to hear what others have to say. And argue, and put them down and up - or try to :)

Attitude frowned on by HN, I know, only they don't (seem to) know they are doing it themselves, via the voting mechanism, i.e. upvotes and downvotes.

Also, it's interesting that there are so many words for horses in English and Western (cowboy slang, I just made up the word :)
> ... because Apple is still providing some security guarantees and the ability to revoke malware.

HAHA! That was their choice to do it that way!