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Is there anything fundamentally wrong with Chinese cars as opposed to Western cars?

I mean, non-western brands such as Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Tata, Mahindra, Proton etc exist, so what's the big deal with Chinese cars?

And by the way, I sincerely hope this new subscription-heavy Audi A3 flops.
nvtop supposedly builds for macOS, but https://lib.rs/crates/pumas is similar.
It's the meat growing industry lobby, even though lab grown meat is the best of both worlds when it comes to making people eventually reduce their carbon emissions from traditional meat consumption.
In almost all the meetings I attend, I'm always the note-taker by choice unless I have earmarked someone to take notes. My notes usually ends up being the go-to and shared document after the meetings.

I'm still learning, and I love taking pictorial/visual notes. Try it; it is fun. If one is interested, I suggest the books by Dan Roam[1]. They are quick to read/browse, and I keep re-reading them. If you are starting with just one book, start with “Draw to Win”.

https://www.danroam.com
So I know intuit is an easy and guilty party in this whole situation, but let’s not pretend it’s all their fault. Plenty of politicians benefit from this mess.

This isn’t meant to pick sides in politics, but if you’re a politician and you’re running a “lower taxes and less government bureaucracy” re-election campaign, it’s in your best interest to make paying your taxes as noticeable and painful as possible. It’s in politicians best interests to make the government as unfriendly and time consuming as possible.

Filing a tax return manually should only be necessary for a small percentage of people with complex situations. Most people’s entire income is a single W2, and their payroll provider should be able to deduct the exact amount down to the penny. No-op for the individual. Everyone else can keep their existing process applying for deductions and breaking out their income streams. Anything else is theater to make you hate taxes.
Vinegar has a similar pH to a Coke Cola. I would hazard a wild guess that the population drinks significantly more Coke than vinegar.
It has made a huge difference. Loss rates and survivability of western hardware in Ukraine are vastly better than the Soviet equipment, and the Ukrainians will say as much.

There are caveats, like: a tank that hits a mine is going to be disabled one way or another, and a disabled tank won't survive too long if it's anywhere near the front.

The problem isn't the quantity of equipment, it's the quantity of munitions. For example, Ukraine has only 30 or so HIMARS units but that's more than enough to fully consume every GMLRS munition we can provide them.
Sarcasm is definitely a mistake, it only obscures.

I did look to try to find out if the tariffs can explain the full difference in cost, but I haven't found the latest tariff rates...

There may well be additional effects too.
Not really. Legal limitations to free speech as well as ethical standards are geo-divided and are often mutually incompatible. There are little that can be spoken without offending someone.
Yes it is a broad thing, and yes government and private censorship are not the same, but they are both censorship, at least according to the wikipedia and ACLU definitions [1,2].

And given the volume of posts censored and users banned by social media, where most public debate happens these days, most censorship is now by private companies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

[2] https://www.aclu.org/documents/what-censorship
I became frustrated with Windows 98 blue screens. Been using Linux ever since.
> It's faster.

It's marginally faster than 20 years ago. There's a 10x raw transfer rate speed up, but I've needed that 5 times for less than 30 in the past week. And even then it was 20% of the the max. I don't want 1Gbit/sec of crap.

> It's always on.

It was always on for me in 2004.

> I can host at home, I don't need to host on someone's else server.

Which I was doing in 2004.

> The web part more secure - most everything is over HTTPS now.

Everything is encrypted now, which better protects randos from looking at it, yes.

> I can buy almost anything I want online.

I though this was great, but was recently reacquainted with how much less work I need to do to see if I liked using something when I played with it in the manner I wanted to use it for.

I don't know where I stand on it.

> I can easily find information on just about anything.

I'd actually say this has gotten a LOT harder than 20 years ago because people keep wanting to sell me things when I'm not looking to buy something. I don't need storefronts when I am looking up how to use something I already own.

> I can easily find videos showing me just about anything. I can (formally or informally) learn about any topics, to whatever depth I like.

I read faster than I can listen to someone. And if I'm searching for something, I want to find it and then get on with my life.

> I can correspond with people all over the world, in real-time. I can work remotely from home. I can do remote support by seeing people's screens and see what they are doing.
> [...] I can monitor the health of hardware remotely.

These were all things I was doing 20 years ago. Yes, I can now do it from the passenger seat of a car, but those are improvements in infrastructure unrelated to any of the major players on the internet.

> But if a few web sites selling stuff is your main objection to the whole internet, then, I suggest you're letting imperfection get in the way of magnificent.

Its not just "a few web sites selling stuff", its the fact that "a few web sites selling stuff" have caused everything else to die on the vine.
Once you support delegating your killfile to other people it no longer functions the same as each user having their own. And FWIW, as an example, here on Hacker News, many of us have showdead turned on all the time and so while I am aware of the moderation put in place by the site, I actually see everything.

Also: frankly, if there were someone willing to put a lot of effort into moderating stuff Hacker News doesn't--stuff like people asking questions you can answer in the article or via Google--I would opt into that as I find it wastes my time to see that stuff.

And with delegation of moderation, I think it will start to feel like people voting for rulesets more than a bunch of eclectic chaos; if a lot of people agree about some rule that should exist, you will have to decide when you make a post how many people you are willing to lose in your potential audience.
i would model it in compliance to typescript and sql.

undefined if property does not exist on an object.

null if property exists but value is unset.
There’s a wonderful book on the subject by Raymond Smullyan, of knights and knaves recreational math puzzle fame which helped make it click for me.

https://lib.undercaffeinated.xyz/get/pdf/5823
Do you know the amount she was consuming and the brand? Total Dosage, dilution and the per unit strength of the ACV brand can really matter, like anything else we might consume.

The paper does do a good job of describing this pretty important detail:
"Groups 1, 2 and 3 consumed 5, 10 and 15 mL, respectively, of ACV (containing 5% of acetic acid) diluted in 250 mL of water daily".

I can almost guarantee if that amount went up to 30-50ML and without any kind of dilution, effects can be pretty adverse.

I've been consuming it by diluting a tablespoon of ACV heavily with some warm water that I can barely taste it. It's really helped fix my acid reflux while all the prescription drugs from my PCP didn't seem to do anything.
The moment you develop the game... "you create games."

Companies that create games must buy seats and pay a royalty after they make their first $1 million (not an annual thing, either from what I could tell). So you cross that threshold and you're on the hook for $50K + the cost of seats.
A few months ago, I was able to witness my aura from the very beginning. I was trying to fall asleep, and I suddenly realized there was a very faint tiny dot a bit below the center of my vision. It looked like a dead pixel on an LCD screen, but super tiny. It was very faint, almost black, at first. But it quickly became brighter. I focused on it, and I noticed that it wasn't a solid dot. Instead, it looked like it had the shape of a rectangle that was sort of morphing into another rectangle that was rotated by 45 degrees. A bit like a wireframe of a rectangle, actually. Then, the bright rectangle started pulsating and changing rapidly between very bright white and a dimmed white. That's when I realized that it must be an aura starting. It then followed the usual pattern of getting bigger and slowly moving out of my vision.

It was quite fascinating to observe it from the very beginning. But now I freak out every time I see any kind of white dot in my vision when I close my eyes at night. And actually, when you really focus, you will realize that there are many tiny white dots and weird shapes popping out when you close your eyes at night. We just never pay attention to that, but the "idle" activity in our brain and nerves generates some artifacts when we close our eyes.
I assume you're referring to the fact that many other Chinese products are just that --- products, often with some surprisingly useful features, and not subscriptions? That's been my experience with a lot of no-name/obscure-brand stuff from Ali, but unfortunately a lot of the big prominent Chinese brands have started to go down the enshittification/cloud/subscription route too. Recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115837
I’ve bought some apple cider vinegar at my local farmers market and it can be made to taste petty good actually! Not cheap though.
I wonder if the same procedure will have to be repeated a hundred years later. After all the soil under the leaning part of the tower will continue to be softer than the soil on the opposite side....
Makes total sense. You can find Sea Salt & Vinegar chips in most grocery stores. I love it. So why not bread?
In context of creating hyper useful applications low code means 5 things.

1
Process manager, where you think in terms of users. Each step is a state machine. Ex: Anonymous visit has signup and contact. Registered user has update profile, upload video. To understand what process management means read up on the Mechnical Turk that played chess, and understand that a self checkout machine occasionally backed by a cashier is the same thing. Then realize you can email people asking them to do a task. And now you are programming not just with a CPU, but AI, and Humans in the circuit as well.

2
Drag and Drop Web page designer, here each of the states above, are expressed as web pages, that can shift state via UI interaction. ex. Clicking update profile, or upload video buttons. Think HyperCard, and look at the modern Bento Box Web Page Builders.

3
Visual Relational Database Builder, here you define tables, and their relationships, the form designer below will use those to help you make forms. See File Maker.

4
Form designer, just think of the form as a complex UI component. But, the button here, does not immediately shift state. So signup, must not shift state to registered until checks are made. Here a drag and drop visual programming language comes in to picture.

5
Drag and Drop Visual Programming Language, the click of a button is interpreted as a source of an object stream. Think packet oriented programming, of reactive functional programming, or RxJs, or Node-RED.

To answer your question: you evaluate a low-code builder by the ease with which it can generate entire website applications. And by generate, I mean code generation as well, because you want these programs to emit beautiful code that is indistinguishable from hand made code. For code generation see yeoman, especially AST parsing and that nifty var function: https://yeoman.io/

And of course any one of the 5 above is a good test, but all 5 in harmony are better.

As to non-visual/tui tools, its bash. shells are low code tools take a look:

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

See here maybe as well:
https://github.com/topics/visual-programming
"as good for your teeth as Coca Cola" is a low bar.
> Why would would Agents need multiple turns

Because it's better. This was the insight behind AlphaGo, AlphaCode and AlphaGeometry. In Go, trying to get the entire solution in one forward pass required a 1000x larger neural net to achieve the same performance according to Noam Brown.

Intelligence requires iteration, introspection, planning, sub-task breakdown, and trial and error with feedback from reality (error messages, print statements). These meta reasoning structures (whether hard-coded or, ideally, learned) will move LLMs closer to how humans reason.
Another way to compete with the big tech incumbents is instead of hardware, try maths and software hacks to level the playing field! Training models is still black magic, so making it faster on the software side can solve the capital cost issue somewhat!
> but now you'll have to pay an in-car subscription fee for basic features like high-beam assist, dual-zone climate control, adaptive cruise control, and smartphone integration

My 2019 fully paid-for-life ford fusion has all these features without any subscription. Thanks Audi for making me feel good about my purchase today.
I second weather dot gov mapclick. This makes me want to finally fix my PWA that used the Dark Sky API that quit working in 2023. This PWA also had a feature to click an icon and feed the long/lat into the mapclick URL which is the feature I used most often. I had a bookmark for a free replacement API for Dark Sky (that I got from HN) but have since re-formatted my computer. I know slightly off topic, but does anyone have a recommendation for a good free (couple users a day) weather API? Any suggestions would be appreciated as this has given me the motivation to hook it back up. Cheers.
Omg someone else who used TiddlyWiki! I used it for a while, and even rolled my own server because I didn’t like theirs. I’ve also moved on, but I never hear about others using it.
DBOS: A Database Alternative to Kubernetes
A few decades ago the Japanese were learning to make cars and there were some quality problems until they figured it out. I think China has gone through a similar thing.
No doubt, but an occasional bolus of vinegar seems less harsh than what many people routinely consume.
Adam Fuhrer's art generators
I think it's mostly new rockets. KAIROS was a new rocket and this was its first launch.

Old rockets that haven't been changed in decades like the Soyuz stopped exploding long ago.

As another example, Toyota Tacoma trucks are known to be reliable... because they have barely changed for years but now are kind of dated. Ford, on the other hand, keeps changing the F-150 so you get a lot of modern comforts, but there "bad model years" and "good model years."

New stuff just doesn't have the kinks worked out, especially when you have budgets and deadlines. Just how engineering goes.
So I guess when Bluesky gets a take down from the Indian government the plan is just for you guys not to go to India anymore?
Which ones? The ones that do are almost all prototypes (for instance SpaceX Starship) that have new technology innovations. Unless they are manned the safest thing to do if they are operating outside limits is to use the FTS (flight termination system) to make a large fast object into much smaller pieces. Unlikely most other vehicles, rockets can't just coast or glide to a stop if they go wrong.
I haven't really had to engage the friction brakes on my EV in the past 30,000mi, other than intentionally having a few hard stops to scrape rust off the rotors from not using them for so long.
The only IQ score I’d be comfortable knowing for myself is it it’s 100. Perfectly average straight down the middle. I want to feel like my fate isn’t enhanced or hindered by my intelligence
NYT commenters describe how the business model is at odds with what consumers want (to be paired off and no longer need the app).

It would be interesting if there were a equity crowdfunded platform designed to be aligned with consumers' interests. Like several of the NYT commenters, I met my spouse on OKC back when it had lots of questions to answer (it's now apparently swipe-based, like everything else).

I would have happily invested in the old OKC to help keep it the way it was.
And a decade from now, the CEOs of the western car companies will blame us for being disloyal as they ask for another taxpayer funded bail-out.
Ask HN: Is this the right time to pursue a PhD in Machine Learning?
Hi all, I have an offer to pursue a PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning) from a top-4 CS school (Stanford/CMU/MIT/Berkeley) starting this Fall. My research interests lie in interpretability, adversarial robustness, privacy and fairness in machine learning. My eventual goal is to have a long-term career in industry research in machine learning as a research engineer/scientist.

While I love research, I do have a fear of missing out on how hot the AI/ML in industry is right now with excitement in all areas - robotics, web agents, coding assistants etc. I'm looking for advice on choosing between the two options

1. *Ditch PhD*. Is the right time to jump on the industry bandwagon (ditch PhD) ? I'm considering joining an early stage startup in AI/ML as a founding engineer.

2. *Go for PhD* Is continuing for a PhD the better option for the long term ?
No doubt division is exaggerated by the media and politicians for self-serving ends, but there absolutely is plenty of division on many topics.
Nonsense. Republicans were given everything they asked for on the border as a stand alone offer and refused it. It has nothing to do with some sort of genuine political position over riders on bills, and a simple examination of literally anything republicans have sponsored in the last 30 years will demonstrate that starkly. The point is obstructionism instead of governance.
They're fresh designs, just like how if 10 people reimplement the same 100 page specification, they'll have a stage of fixing crashes unique to their implementation, fresh rocket designs need a few rounds of iteration to sort out all the kinks, and after a point you're just better off doing a test flight, especially as a private company. You just don't really hear about similar issues for things like cars because you don't get large fireballs and air closures indicative of testing.

Once you get the issues sorted out though, they can be almost airplane like in terms of operations. See SpaceX's crazy launch cadence and reliability streak with Falcon 9 for an example.
> Results Our findings showed that daily consumption of the three doses of ACV…

> Groups 1, 2 and 3 consumed 5, 10 and 15 mL, respectively, of ACV (containing 5% of acetic acid) diluted in 250 mL of water daily, in the morning on an empty stomach, for 12 weeks.

So, which is it? Daily consumption of 3 doses OR once in the morning on an empty stomach?

Did I miss something?
Time-travel movies rated by scientific logic and entertainment value
Right, I wanted you to spell it out because I was expecting you to write that exact sort of nonsense. Your first three examples aren't even web standards they're experimental features in Chrome that not even Firefox supports. The fourth actually is supported by Safari/iOS. What missing standards are stopping you from writing Progressive WEB Apps? Be exact please.

And.... even if you wanted to build a serial-port enabled "Works only in Chrome" PWA today (lol, we both know you're not) there's no tooling jankiness stopping you from doing so, checking for `if ("serial" in navigator) { ... }` requires no tooling at all it's just plain javascript, you'd just choose to show an error message for browsers like Safari and Firefox that don't support it.

I'm not convinced you're even arguing in good faith here. Well, I never was because PWA whiners never are, but you've proven you're not.
radeontop is the same sort of thing if you live in amdgpu-ville and want something easy to compile. I was able to use it to show that with kernel 5.x admgpu vulkan when a process is pushed out of vram into gtt it'll never reload and get stuck in a 'slow' state.
The U.S. has fresh food at some gas stations as well. Wawa is probably the model. But, just like any sub shop, they make one sandwich at a time, not 200 all at once.
Chinese cars apparently still lack good reputation in terms of durability, repairability or reliability. As far as I know they also are full of needles software stuff prone to fail and to spy on you because the Asians are more prone to welcome digital "progress" and surveillance in their lives. For the westerners mindless consumerism is just a norm so more of them can take it critical, for the Asians who got out of poverty way later it is heaven finally on Earth so they just cheer more and more of it. Japanese Nissan is infamous for the craziest user privacy policy ever and I doubt any Chinese carmaker is better (I would imagine they have no privacy policy at all, just take whatever data imaginable and stream it in plain-text).
Salt + vinegar is/was a popular combo growing up in Australia. You’d put them on hot chips (fries) etc. Basically anything involving fried potato.
Immediately after posting this, I started wondering what is the composition of a kombucha. Turns out the fermentation process creates acetic acid, so basically the same thing (but at a nifty inflated price).

Ergo, a bolus of vinegar, probably not all that bad, because I will chug down the occasional 200-500 mL kombucha without issue.
I don't think there's any problem with the cars themselves (my parents just bought a BYD Dolphin, and my partner and I are about to buy a LDV eDeliver9), but I think the critical question is - can you get qualified servicing, and spare parts when something goes wrong?
Because they are essentially bombs
Thoughts on subscription for data connection?
My understanding the "three doses" is referring to the 5, 10, 15 mL amounts not 3 doses a day. Later on it says that the amount itself didn't seem to have as much of an effect as dose + time did.
I don't think the post was trying to prove that fact, just explaining a personal choice. I don't think every Rust project should have to include benchmarks to prove that Rust was the right choice.
Our name for this mix at school was 'savegar'.
To those who suffer headaches after the aura, not many people realize there is an interesting trick. When you notice the first signs of your aura, try to close your eyes and either go to a dark room or cover your closed eyes with your hand (to make it as dark as possible). In many cases, this will result in a less visible aura and less intense headache.

I read about it on some obscure forum that I'm unable to find right now. Many people commented that it works for them. I tried it, and it definitely lowered the intensity of my ensuing headache. I used to use the time during and right after aura to do the most important things I had to do for the day before the headache took me out of commission for the next 6 hours. But now, on the first sign of aura, I try to close my eyes and go to a dark room. This makes my headaches much more bearable and shorter.

A few people claimed this allows them to stop the aura from spreading (it slowly fades for them as it moves and completely disappears before reaching the edge of their vision) and they don't have the headache at all. I wasn't able to do that, but it makes me wonder if the visual inputs coming from our eyes somehow intensify the wave that is spreading in our brains. And maybe closing our eyes and stopping the inputs from our eyes deprives it of some stimuli that it needs to progress?
Their astronomers and engineers at NAOJ are wonderful. They built (and paid for) the Atacama Compact Array, which forms the center of the ALMA radio-telescope and is part of the Event Horizon Telescope.

https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/alma/