skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soybean car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean_car

US2269452A (1940. Ford) :
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2269452A/en :

> The object of our invention is to provide an automobile chassis construction of simple, durable and inexpensive construction

Motive Kestrel (2010) https://www.google.com/search?q=motive+kestrel+hemp+car

HempEarth: "Producing World’s First 100% HEMP Aviation Composites" (2023) ; 10x stronger than steel:
https://hempearth.ca/2023/02/01/hempearth-producing-worlds-f...

There a hemp 3d printing filaments;

Can sufficient biocomposites be high-pressure injection molded?

Are replaceable parts better than a corrosion-resistant unibody?

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Sodium ion battery recycling

Lithium ion quick release binder

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Ultracapacitor and supercapacitor anodes can be made from already-branching organic bast fiber

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Taraxagum (Dandelion) Rubber
Not working your soul away is dereliction of duty.
I appreciate a good hack more than most, but this is the kind of cleverness which makes life hell for anyone else who needs to understand what the fuck is happening and why.

At least with TFAs shebang at the top of the file, it kind of gives a clue. Upon reflection, I don't feel great about either way, haha. Even if it makes sense to me, it'll be a little too sneaky for most.
It's time to move away from Paypal and use a credit card when buying online. Fraud protection with credit cards is much stronger. Paypal has proven itself bad for consumers again and again.
oh god, don't go there! the payment area is not the same as Eurozone. Because no two things around here uses the same list of countries.

"There are 36 countries in the SEPA area."
https://www.revenue.ie/en/starting-a-business/documents/guid...
This is a fine example of how misguided measuring for the sake of measuring really is.
I know others have had good success with FB Marketplace, but man I only see scams. I've posted stuff there and on Nextdoor and CL, and I get 10x the number of scam buyers on FB. I stopped even trying to post stuff there, since it was all chaff and no wheat. Kind of surprising, considering I live in SV, just a few miles from FB HQ. I'd think there would be plenty of legit users here!
Somewhat related: nix-shell supports an additional shebang, allowing summoning of any combination of packages, to be made available inside a script. An example from the docs[1]:

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#![allow()] /*
#!nix-shell -i bash -p rustc
rsfile="$(readlink -f $0)"
binfile="/tmp/$(basename "$rsfile").bin"
rustc "$rsfile" -o "$binfile" --edition=2021 && exec "$binfile" $@ || exit $?
*/
fn main() {
for argument in std::env::args().skip(1) {
println!("{}", argument);
};
println!("{}", std::env::var("HOME").expect(""));
}

and another:

#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
#! nix-shell -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (p: with p; [turtle])" -i runghc

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Turtle

main = echo "Hello world!"

1. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix-shell_shebang
I don’t know about advertising. But I would be willing to bet money that Steve Jobs chose that day for the Nano to do exactly what Zander thought: screw them over.

They (whoever ‘they’ is) caused the phone to be terrible even though it had the iTunes name on it. So Jobs got revenge, as he always did if he could.
The Apple Watch was 2 years behind other smartwatches? How so?
> Fusion power plants are fixed large-scale facilities.

Large scale facilities really are not all that interesting. They concentrate cost, danger and impose lots of logistical limitations.
> a while back TSMC finally understood that building a factory in the US is just not feasible

Why would that be? There are plenty of fabs in the US.
> The main goal is a normal looking pair of glasses capable of true AR/MR

You can't consume media e.g watch sports, movies etc or do any real work with those glasses which is a huge part of why Apple built Vision Pro in the first place.

And the battery technology doesn't exist for them to last anything longer than a few minutes in such a form factor unless you have it tethered.
To me, the most interesting aspect is the Unison language, specifically how it does away with code-as-text, and instead uses a structured database, so one is dealing directly with the AST: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/

(It is not the only language to do so - see old.reddit.com/r/nosyntax)

I hope this catches on, because parsing strings of text is a monumental waste of complexity.
Compiling rust code is slow and cpu bound. I have a fast cpu in part to improve compile times while I’m programming.
In my experience, writing small but critical shell-script-style mini-programs in rust can actually be a really good idea. The biggest drawback is, IMO, all the overhead of setting up an entire crate just to compile a tiny script, so I'm really happy to see projects like this (and other tools [1]) for this workflow.

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3424-cargo-script.html#prio...
What's old is new again, for better or worse
The Ballerina programming language
I still think of https://xkcd.com/325/ often (bobcat) as especially when dealing with companies/individuals.

You could outright scam one in twenty and be 95% perfect/good.
> a lot of people who are really into fusion research

Do you mean researchers and other experts, or people who follow it? And does that include you? Are you a researcher?
Japan not gonna go to war for you when China invades, bros
I'm assuming paypal customer service just needs name, address, and phone number to fully authenticate a caller and perform all actions.
Several battery factories that were planned in Norway have scaled down their plans or have been cancelled due to the much better incentives in the IRA.
Japan still not gonna go to war for you when China invades, bros
I would love to know more about what challenges led to this decision instead of pivoting given that it seems like there was some product market fit.
I'm not entirely sure about the point you're intending to make but I have an assumption. Perhaps your intention is to say that credit cards were faster than blockchains at processing transactions in 2008 (they still are today.) In which case, yes, I believe credit cards have been a thing since the 1950s, so they benefit a lot from the age of the technology. Credit cards are also just kind of a concept that goes almost as far back as banks and bankers do, where banks would loan out money for you to spend and pay back. Credit cards just abstracted a concept that always existed with some additional systems that were built around them over time like maintaining a trust record for individuals (credit scores) and online payment processing that benefits from the simplicity of going through a single trusted party that goes virtually unchecked for accuracy (I can't make an audit of financial transactions that VISA handled today and say "Bob had a 0 balance but they spent $6000 today somehow," for example.) Blockchain has none of that historical advantage, and has essentially only existed since 2008, and has not benefited much from mass adoption mostly because it's extremely easy for rational consumers to dismiss it as slow, or "only scammers use it," which would be even less true if legitimate users dismissed it less easily. That's not to say I think blockchain is ready for general consumers, in my opinion it's still an incubating technology.
Since 2020 I stopped buying things used. I do not trust online anymore, not even Amazon brand new. If I need something expensive I will get it shipped to the store and open it there.
But the entire selling point of Toyota to most people is that it WONT break, at least for 150k miles.
Making Godot Viable on iPadOS: Development Loop
In a weird way, it's what JDSL wanted to be https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
> Hence pushes into Vietnam & India for manufacturing.

Doesn't help Taiwanese companies long term.

They had an advantage in Mainland China being Chinese speaking. Already in India, Tata is becoming the Indian version of Foxconn for most manufacturers and VinGroup or Korean Chaebols like Lotte (SK has a FTA with Vietnam) the Vietnamese version of Foxconn in Vietnam.

While South Korean and Japanese companies were actively de-risking in China by returning to ASEAN+India in the early-mid 2010s, Taiwanese companies only began doing this in the late 2010s after the 2015-16 recession.
Nix-shell shebang: run any script with arbitrary packages, self-contained
I was wondering how the manufacturers address the potential culture conflicts. Obama's documentary American Factory revealed two notable contentions. One is that American workers think that the management is too tough on them while the management think that the workers are too unreasonable. The other is that Chinese workers are 30% (or 2X?) more efficient than American workers. I have no judgement on the first contention, but the second worries me. American labors were known to be the best in the world many years ago, and a strong argument against offshoring manufacturing was that Chinese workers were much worse than Americans. Yet the tide has turned.
Isn't that only for laptop packages?

I can find lots of current motherboards with a chipset on them, even specifically calling it a PCH.
why do these have to be estimated? I get that Tesla might not be releasing the numbers, but these cars have to be registered, right? The registration numbers seems like it should more accurate as actual owners.
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS
How my community wants to operate is not beholden to your standards if my instance wants to block the stormfront mastodon instance it's going to and nothing you say is going to make anyone on my instance change their minds about that.

I have not seen any evidence of any major instance ban another instance because it refuses to ban yet another instance. There would be no reason for that. Messages from the controversial instance still won't make it to the instance that demands the 'virtual signaling' even through my instance.. unless some user on my instance essentailly quotes whole posts.
>Hyundai EV9 despite not being expensive

It starts at €70k. In what world is this not expensive? Maybe in Bay Area Fang wages.
I do astrophotography and stacking images is the only time I notice CPU performance. It can take close to an hour depending on how much data, so I just go do something else.
They do have quite a few open source projects, I don't think they would open source something like LLama, but something on this scale makes sense
Nice benchmark with amazing results! Congrats!
Me and many others have beaten this completely, give it a shot! https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
The US trade deficit shrank 18.7% in 2023 as exports grew to a record high

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-trade-deficit-widens-s...
This is exactly the reason - and perhaps they finally can do it because "Apple showed the way" with the M-series.

They obviously could have done it from a technical standpoint, as they had done it for consoles, but those are not general purpose from the viewpoint of who is laying out the motherboard design.
Or maybe US workers are worth their high salary, and that is why the high US salaries are sustained.
The earliest Windows I used was Windows 95, I remember the "Ski Free" game or whatever it was called, been posted about it on HN a few times. It wasn't until Windows Millenium Me that I really started using a computer daily though, which was an awful OS.

Aside:

You reminded me of my first time using Linux, it was Slackware and I had to type "startx" after logging on to get to the GUI.
Your 2004 Prius has a lead acid battery, hows that for "low lifespan" battery?
I'll maintain a libertarian indifference to whatever people are legally getting up to.

But wisdom is joy over time, and I kinda don't see the wisdom in any of these "modern" variations on the theme of XXXY marriage.

As I raise my children, I'll point out the folly on offer and ask them to think critically over whether any of this amounts to much.
Can I ask what this was for? I'm struggling to think what you'd be doing in the middle of a field with a crate full of mostly-GPU compute. Something with machine vision?
There's another red flag I've seen: buyers ask to pre-pay on the spot without having seen the item. They usually want to use Zelle or Venmo, and say they're going to have a relative come pickup the item.
my feeds seem to all be: `<title>.libsyn.com/...`, `anchor.fm/.../rss`, `feeds.feedburner.com/<title>`, `feeds.megaphone.fm/<title>`, `feeds.simplecast.com/<title>`, `omny.fm/show/<title>`, `rss.acast.com/<title>`, `rss.art19.com/<title>`, and then a bunch of `<showname>.com/rss` for shows which host their own website and link a feed from there.

i recognize art19 as an amazon thing, and megaphone as a Spotify thing (or a thing which Spotify acquired?). i have no idea what any of the others are associated with. is one of those websites run by Apple?
Let's say you just eliminate the requirement altogether. What percentage of non-phone number signups are going to be "thoughtful people" compared to bots?

Sure you'll get people who refuse to sign up with a real phone number, that's a given. Some percentage of those people will be "thoughtful." You'll also eliminate a huge number of bots, automated signups, etc.

It's hard to argue letting all those bots on will not decrease system quality.
I remember checking out pongo2 briefly before deciding on templ, but my lack of familiarity with its syntax kept me away. I guess the calculus is much different if you have prior experience, but for me it was attractive that templ uses Go syntax in its templates (with some exceptions).

Yeah, passing data if for some reason you can't use templ's `script` block can be annoying, if that's what you meant! I think they should make sure that the `script` block works in every situation and then it's going to be way less awkward.
The problem with these systems is third party dependencies and IDE support. You really want to be able to use third party dependencies, and have IDEs know about them.

The only systems I know of that do that properly are Deno and I believe F#, though I haven't tried the latter.

Unfortunately Deno has a stupid issue where `deno run` will check for updates and print a "new version of Deno is available" message which rather sours the otherwise great experience of using it for shell scripting.
Back to focus on the dot that flattens on the edges.
Already a thing! At least for tourists.

https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2023/07/16/pix-tipo-ex...

But there have been some noises in the direction of expanding regular service through Latin America. India's UPI also seems to be internationalizing. And there's FedNow in the US that is probably going to get automatically popular just for being from the US. Wonder if we're going to end up with a bunch of incompatible systems around the world or what.
Seems like you can just increase the period arbitrarily large and then shift it in time such that the graph is entirely occupied by the values of the sinusoid less than zero.
It's possible that is happening under the hood, but none of the feeds I'm subscribed to are on a URL clearly owned by apple.
Look at this graph: % women in the top-X chess players
Are we supposed to syncing breathing with the pulsing? Or are we just assuming that based on similar apps for breathing?
Correct. Toyota's bet is simple: what makes rational economic, environmental, and good-policy sense for most locales is not an EV. It's a hybrid.

And it's a bet that's working well so far: https://fortune.com/asia/2023/12/28/toyota-hybrid-cars-sales...
Google and Apple are just a bunch of scrappy teams trying to work together on insanely massive and bloated code bases.
Numbers of bugs scale with lines of code.

Small scrappy team writing simple and consice code from scratch is likely to produce fewer bugs than enterprisey monstrosities.
So you end up with an component framework.
In this case, but we aren't aware as to whether this got investigated later. I imagine any issues where they lose money they will follow up on.
Take a moment to consider what you just said. It’s just that - a story you are getting from the media. If these stories change from source to source maybe they’re not an authority you should appeal to.
Putin's folks have been doing this for decades; I'm surprised China waited for so long.
Ha. I was bracing for a jump scare also.
Yes, we should seek remedy for those that do cause harm. Unfortunately, state law is not actually properly protecting these people from the noise levels, as the fine for violating the law in this case is laughably low, and the mining company just writes it down as a (very minor) cost of doing business.

Another poster here (who lives there) says the local government also offered this company a tax break when they moved in. Sounds like the government doesn't actually have the best interests of its citizens in mind.

So, to be clear: I do agree with you that we shouldn't just "ban Bitcoin mining". We should require, however, that miners -- especially large-scale ones like this -- are paying for the externalities of their business. Too much noise? They need to spend a bunch of money on proper noise isolation. They should be paying their fair share of taxes, and not getting tax breaks. They should be paying for the environmental impact of their added electricity usage, if any. If their electricity usage requires building new power plants and/or fortifying existing grid connections or transmission lines, they should bear the cost of that work, alone. Residents should not be seeing higher electricity costs because of companies like this, but the article claims they are.

If paying for these externalities makes mining unprofitable to the point that they shut down, so be it.

> what right does anyone have to enforce that I should not be supplied electricity because they deem that I use it inefficiently?

You keep bringing this up, but seem to have no idea how society works: governments and citizens have that right. That's how laws work. People like something, so they write a law to encourage it. People don't like something, so they write a law to ban it. There's no natural right to use electricity any way you want. (In fact there's no such thing as "natural rights": our rights are defined by humans and enumerated by legal documents, and there are governments that are willing to enforce them.)

Again, I'm not saying we should legally ban Bitcoin mining; I think there are better ways to deal with the problem, as I outlined above. But governments and citizens absolutely have the right to write laws that restrict what people do with electricity. That's just basic civics.
I've read that the US military has looked into small fission generators. They expect logistics to be very difficult near the front if there is a war with a 'near-peer' (China or maybe Russia) and hope to reduce fuel logistics.

I've never heard of them looking into similar fusion reactors. Why would they? Nobody expects to build any kind of production fusion reactor for decades, much less one that could be operated by infantry soldiers and in very difficult conditions - e.g., explosions and people shooting at the reactor.
USB-C makes zero sense on the headset which is why it's on the replaceable battery.

You need a connector that can tightly lock and be capable of withstanding significant angular loads on the cable ends.

Twist locks have been proven to work well.
The basic legal principle is that you sue whoever has the most money. Suing a random blogger who used ChatGPT doesn't accomplish much. Suing ChatGPT under a novel legal theory might.
looks interesting nice share thx
In the video the prompt asks the Copilot to "generate a logo for my fantasy football team" then it goes and generates a typical "cute cat with football helmet" image, heh.
We can't do that as Python is the programming language that meets business needs the best and they pay the bills.
> The potential of the display

... will never be manifested, because Apple won't let you have it. Use your imagination to tease you, but you won't ever get it. Lock'n'lol. iPad paperweight. Maybe next time, tiger.
Not really seeing a "stagnation" using a graph, in the last 6 years

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/taiwan/annual-househol...

13k in 2017, 17k in 2022, 30% increase. and 22k in 2023, 30% increase.

the stagnation from 2011 to 2017 is due to the pro-China president from 2008 to 2016, which fueled market and investment losses going to China. That reversed in 2016 with the Pro-Taiwan president.
> Besides, -fwrapv was basically the default in most C compilers (and probably C++ as well) before the last 10 years or so.

It seems like people were complaining as early as 2007. Richard Biener (who's linked in the thread link below) said that GCC 2.95.3, which came in 2001, optimized away signed overflow checks as well.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475

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> signed type overflow is undefined by the C standard, use unsigned int for the

> addition or use -fwrapv

You have GOT to be kidding?

All kinds of security issues are caused by integer wraps, and you are just telling me that with gcc 4.1 and up I cannot test for them for signed data types any more?!

You are missing the point here. There HAS to be a way to get around this. Existing software uses signed int and I can't just change it to unsigned int, but I still must be able to check for a wrap! There does not appear to be a work around I could do in the source code either! Do you expect me to cast it to unsigned, shift right by one, and then add or what?!

PLEASE REVERT THIS CHANGE. This will create MAJOR SECURITY ISSUES in ALL MANNER OF CODE. I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.

I found this because one check to prevent people from getting hacked failed.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. FIX THIS! NOW!
They certainly can under one of the permissible purposes enumerated in the DPPA.
Well, I'm an engineer myself, albeit with a lot of sidecar management experience, so I like to (perhaps naively) think that I'm somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. I believe everyone is naive in certain respects; there are so many hours in the day and no one can be an expert in everything.

But your larger point is fair: it's a very tricky and problematic area.

I do think that it can help to see how people's worldview was shaped rather than just trying to get a one-shot sense of someone's worldview based on your static impression of them at this moment in time, though.

It's analogous to asking someone to describe their prior technical work experience rather than just explaining what they know in this precise moment, and akin to someone showing their work when completing a math problem. It makes it easier to tell whether someone actually knows what they purport to know, or believes what they purport to believe, if they can show how that experience was derived.

I feel this is especially true in the case mentioned in the original article, where you as the employer are essentially taking a minor leap of faith in hiring someone. You can't rely as much on their prior work experience as a "web of trust" evidence point that they know how to conduct themselves. You need to reach for other data points.
Yes, it is! Of course there's other technologies involved but the core services for our compute fabric and storage layer are pure Unison[1]. A number of open source libraries in the Unison ecosystem were developed via us eating our own dogfood while developing Unison Cloud. Same with evolution of the language and tooling, which we've continued improving.

We have a few things still in Haskell which we'll probably move into Unison eventually.

[1]: Just to clarify, our storage layer wraps DynamoDB in an interesting way to provide the transactional API we wanted - we didn't literally implement our own cloud database on top of just the file system and some VMs. :)