skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The motor-pump units are powered by the 400-volt battery used in Panamera E-Hybrid models and can put 2,248 pounds of force into each corner of the car

That'll put some spring in your step! Nice. I wonder what the motion range is, and whether there's other limitations that affect acceleration.

Bose (the sound people) were trying to get in on the game & had a variety of test-bed cars, for a long while. But weight was huge, the computer processing sucked, and the linear motors were expensive as heck. https://incompliancemag.com/bose-electromagnetic-car-suspens... https://www.extremetech.com/cars/259042-bose-sells-off-revol...

Now that we have 400V systems in our vehicles, and now that we make utterly kick ass electric motors, and now that computers quake, it's no shock this comes back. The main challenge seems like it'd be knowing what you want the car to do when you have active ride control.

The only demoes we've seen of Porsche Active Ride are ride stabilizing over bumps, which to be fair is probably the most useful thing for most people. But I'm very curious to see what happens when people start racing with active ride control, to see how cars can start taking performance advantage of these systems. This isn't like what Bose did, with electromagnetic control: the electric motor runs an air pump that drives an air spring. That sounds very practical, but it returns me to wondering about factors like acceleration and jerk/reaction speed (changes in acceleration).
On facebook it is possible to target a specific invidual. [2014]

https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...

and more recent [2024]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540738
I didn’t know about ISO 15408, but as I understand from what you say, that isn’t broad or comprehensive enough to be widely used.
>which seems inconsistent with your claim that widespread car ownership is the product of onerous regulation.

how is this inconsistent? Insurance raises have to be approved at the state level, again this is not a free market, and for political reasons many states have kept insurance rates at decades old price levels. Insurers actually lose money in most places because they cannot raise prices. (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/01/18/why-car-i...) and as a result often health insurance and other institutions have to cover the cost, which is to say the public pays.

Just to see how absurd this is. Minimum liability in a lot of states is 50k. In Germany and much of Europe minimum liability is seven million.

It's the governments job to take externalities into account and design urban environments rationally, not to coddle car obsessed consumers and have everyone else pay for the cost they impose on others and the environment.
Correct. If I had access to a reasonably priced 1000Hz monitor, I would use it, for exactly this reason. It's not just this one thing in isolation, it's the whole tool chain, and latency is cumulative. So, for a simplified example, if I have a bluetooth keyboard in the mix, and it adds 50ms, then with your numbers, I'd have 52ms total, which is indeed better than 55ms. It all adds up, and with enough links in the chain adding their own little bit, it can easily add up to be perceptible and meaningful.

I wish I could link you to byuu's deep dive on emulator latency so you could see where I'm coming from, but their site is now offline and has been excluded from the Wayback Machine. This is the old link, in case anyone knows of a mirror: byuu.org/articles/latency/

Edit: found a mirror: https://github.com/higan-emu/emulation-articles/tree/master/...
Have you considered that those are the cities (or in Portland's case after passing a law, state) not enforcing it?

This isn't some random phenomenon. Warm weather is only a part of it. DC, Philly, and NYC are all seeing large amounts of it and the only major change is basic street enforcement and judicial consequences.

All 4 of your examples are notorious for not enforcing it at the local level and Seattle decided to blame simple drug possession again after it got out of control, but without heart by the city we'll see the same outcomes. It's more than what's written in the laws.
The arrangement of the solar system -> birth month -> time of the year your mother was gestating you -> different conditions for different people during key growth phases (summer abundance vs harsher winters)

Only way I could see it.
> Nice try, assh0le! You're going to find out where I live and burn my house down

Something of value truly was lost when /. jumped the laser shark. There was a lot more bad nonsense than on hm,but more good nonsense too.
The philosophy of mind has been debating this for decades. Google "Mary's Room" and "p-zombies". There are people out there who truly think these thought experiments prove the existence of non-physical facts, and that our subjective experience is a direct perception of this reality.
For life sciences need grad students / postdocs to do the grunt work of pipetting, dissected, plating etc. And whatever the equivalent is in chemistry (titration/GC/mass transfer I guess)?

But those tools created by engineers are pretty darn important, and allow plenty of experiments/observations to be performed that were previously out of reach.
> There’s no need to limit land value taxes based on density as that’s what’s giving land its value.

That can't be the case; density is an amenity and is, by definition, not part of the value of the land.
Cunningham's law. someone has to be the fool to get someone else to give the right answer. if that person has to be me, I'll make that sacrifice.
I love the old International Harvesters, known for their durability. VV seems the exact wrong company to embody that image or usecase. They are constantly the most fragile disposible cars on the road.
Datadog has had a number of "come to jesus" moments in the past couple years where they've had to embrace OTel, but yeah, I indeed confess to a inner fear telling me that the Vector acquisition is to prevent tech as much as it is to develop it.
How is FP fundamentally different than integers? I've done FPGA programming and it just seems like the programmer has to decide where/when to do the shifting based on the expected range of the data. I'm not sure how this is "natively supported" in hardware.
> The government also benefits from sales taxes, licenses, permitting fees, etc.

They won't be getting much in the way of sales tax if the business is low-value, by definition.
You arent wrong. But people like to have some hope that the auto market is not the dumpster fire that it is.
What I'm drawing from this, is that we'll become secretaries for the computers. before we were digital plumbers, gluing one data spigot, transforming it, and gluing it to another. and now we’re just secretaries for them. Wonderful.
Most internet-based VoIP services (read: full telephone providers, not just chat providers) use the same exact G.711 codecs used in the digital portions of traditional telephone lines for normal calls.

In theory you can run anything over this that could run over a long distance PSTN link.

In practice most modem technologies do not handle jitter and packet loss well at all, and quirks which a human would not even notice will trip up a data call. It still works, I have clients running credit card machines on VoIP lines all day, but the longer the call and the higher the bandwidth the more likely something is to go wrong. A short 9600bps data exchange from a card machine is a lot easier than a 30 page 33.6k fax which is a lot easier than a 56k modem on a PC.

There's a special method called T.38 that allows VoIP providers with compatible endpoints to convert digital fax calls back to a data stream instead of audio which makes it a lot more tolerant of delay and jitter as well as slightly more tolerant of loss. Something similar could hypothetically be done for data modems but I haven't seen it.
Radicle – Sovereign Code Infrastructure
The value of the land is not solely based on the "raw land." As they say in real estate, it's all about location, location, location! A half-acre beachfront plot in Malibu is worth orders of magnitude more than a half-acre of grassland in Montana. A lot of the value comes from the beachfront itself, yes, but a lot more of the value comes from all the development around it.

This is the whole basis for the business model behind golf course development. Developers acquire a large plot of land in a nice area and build a golf course on part of it. The rest of the land (surrounding the golf course) is divided up into plots and used to build luxury housing. The existence of the golf course (and all of the landscaping in the area in general) dramatically increases the desirability (and hence property value) of the houses.

If you didn't build the golf course at all you could fit more houses on the land overall. The problem with that is that without the golf course the houses are less desirable and worth less -- and also more capital intensive to build than a golf course -- so the overall profit is lower.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but your comment reminded me of this tax loophole, which fills me with rage everytime I see a new self-storage style business being "constructed."

https://boxwell.co/section-179-tax-benefit-for-relocatable-s...

>Relocatable storage units are portable and moveable. Therefore, they can be classified as equipment instead of as a building or permanent structure. Not only does this help self-storage operators bypass the lengthy process of permitting and zoning. But it’s also a great tax advantage when classifying these convenient storage units as equipment. In most cases, the units are eligible for 100% deduction after just one year.

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My understanding of what the parent wrote is the phone line would be disconnected in the normal case - can't break out if it's physically disconnected.
I’m still pissed about advection!
Vector is great. Using it for log shipping and it was always performed wonderfully, and replaced a logstash setup that was not really doing what we needed it to. I also feel like I'm only scratching the surface of Vector and would love to use it more.

What are some use cases people have had with it besides log shipping?
Yes and no. To some degree with the US this is true, but the US also produces enough small arms to keep several small scale wars going, just ask Mexico and South America.

Europe on the other hand unilaterally disarmed after the Berlin Wall fell because they couldn’t anticipate a world where Russia reverted to historical form and the US wasn’t carrying NATO on its back.

Now they’ve got Putin on one side, potentially Trump pulling out of NATO on the other, oops.
Step by Step: Thinking through and beyond the repair manual
Pressure Doesn't Have to Turn into Stress
It’s a very common word in many technical domains. Not like it’s a guy’s name or something.
Not only on windows. You can use it on Edge for Mac.
Indeed, but then your original question about AIs being conscious is still a sensible one that needs answering, even if we won't be able to answer it for some time.
> This is how small businesses like local cafes, delis, bookstores, and "mom and pop" stores are able to survive in cities.

Nonsense. Those aren't the businesses that take up masses of land - hell, a lot of the best of those are run by people who live above the store, meaning the extra land use is zero. The businesses that benefit from a lack of land value tax are parking lots, drive thrus, distribution centres, that sort of thing.
There’s been a string of these attacks for a decade now. One of the various neonazi/Patriot movements (Idaho flavor iirc) espouses infrastructure attacks and disruption as being the kickoff for their RaHoWa, and they keep trying to pop off every couple years.

There hasn’t been a ton of coverage about it because of a desire to avoid copycats and avoid publicizing or popularizing the ideology in general. But like, occupying that nature preserve didn’t come out of nowhere, just there’s not a lot of benefit for centrists/sympathizers in pushing this particular culture war, with how many Americans are touchy about guns etc.

https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look...

https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo...

(afaik the Facebook lady idea has been essentially discarded, she seems to be a moron but not involved. And then there’s this other guy with ties to a patriot group who supposedly started and then aborted plans for a similar attack… or perhaps not aborted after all?)

(also, the patriot/militia movement is heavily involved with RNC and Russian funding in general… Maria Butina was attached to the NRA after all etc. The leader of one of these groups (literally “The Base”) has a Russian wife and lived in Russia etc. Generally speaking these groups are one of the tools Russia uses to inflame local tensions - whatever is most disruptive etc.)

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-...
Cloud cares about performance per watt (when you are effectively running a small powerplant). Threadripper absolutely dominate in this space.

https://youtu.be/yDEUOoWTzGw?si=RoA5HLGRSPzrsamX&t=6m
I don’t know - I can’t help but think the number of people who remember the Scout brand is even smaller than the people that think reviving Pontiac as a “performance brand” is the key to solving all of GM’s problems.
As someone who works in embedded/digital design, I don't quite get this post. Can someone explain if I'm missing something obvious here?

- There's a huge range of great lab supplies between random $50 bulk regulator and a 10k supply from R&S/Keithley/Keysight which have OVP, OCP, SCPI, and other monitoring.

- The preface would probably be better posed if it were comparing a low/medium cost lab supply with load, against a higher end supply.

- There was no discussion on performance or capability of this approach, i.e. the load isn't going to be responsive enough to help reject any CM/DM noise, and would likely add some of it's own.

- If you really need to monitor the DUT, then the integrated monitoring in these kinds of supplies/loads are not going to be up to the task, and again, low-cost 'correct' tools will massively outperform this 'hack'.

- One feature that low-cost loads do hold over similarly priced lab PSU's is the ability to program relatively high speed transient tests, but this wasn't discussed. The obvious follow-on would then be trying to justify the lack of waveform control over using a cheap sig-gen.

- What class of security/reverse engineering tasks call for 4-quadrant SMU?

Also, if you're doing this for 'precision at low cost', shouldn't you be putting the sense leads on the DUT rather than the supply?
Yeah with shifts you can guarantee no overflow, but you have to decide under what circumstances is avoiding overflow/clipping worth the loss of precision.

Fixed point typically requires alot more programming, but sometimes its worth it if you know what the data ranges are.
If only the versions had voting...
I don't use self checkout, because I prefer human interaction to menial labor, even if it costs more. The number of edge cases handled by 'skilled human is present' is staggering.
Reminds me of Germany in WW2 where citizens would get locked up or worse for listening to the BBC to get non-government approved news.
Given the meat industry’s reputation in the US, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Isn't this exactly what austrian business cycle theory predicts?

>According to the theory, the business cycle unfolds in the following way: low interest rates tend to stimulate borrowing, which lead to an increase in capital spending funded by newly issued bank credit. Proponents hold that a credit-sourced boom results in widespread malinvestment. A correction or credit crunch, commonly called a "recession" or "bust", occurs when the credit creation has run its course. The money supply then contracts (or its growth slows), causing a curative recession and eventually allowing resources to be reallocated back towards their former uses.
Yeah, I gave it a try and timings seems to be very wrong. I'll fix that soon.

I haven't tried benchmarking SPIR-V shaders on macOS. Since they're translated into Metal shaders anyways, it should be possible theoretically.

Also, for the command line viewer in the new version, I've only tested make or ninja. I'll take a look at xcode when I get a chance.

Update:
I just gave Instruments a try and it seems like the Metal compiler grouped all of the compute and copy operations together and just left the timestamp operations to run back to back. Since MoltenVK isn't a conformant implementation, I'm guessing the synchronization dependencies weren't respected.

However, I'm still getting 200ms frame times on the Garden scene at 4K with M1 Pro. The lego scene shouldn't be too bad even on an Intel Mackbook.
Self control, I the master of my own domain - I could choose to not visit this website for 20 days and it would be no issue.

Strengthen your weak mind
I start with questions like -
- What are the engineering and business benefits of refactoring the current code base?
- What is the cost of not refactoring code base? Does it affect user experience, performance of the app?
- Does it significantly improves onboarding time for new engineers?
- Does it enable the team to incorporate future updates or feature development?
etc.
Any engineering tech-debt has to be justified with outcomes, and needs to be weighed against current priorities. Else it will be a waste of critical resource.
Will it really be like the coffee market? I don't think so.
Gen Z has the least intent to buy properties, buy cars, how will cars washes sustain in the future?
I don't get the hostility to car washes. I've owned cars for 40 years and I'm pretty sure I've never hand washed one once. Life's too short. I like and need car washes.
I don't agree. Average consumer application these days should be parallelized like any other. So more cores should be better. It's not last century anymore.
Thanks! Yeah that's roughly inline with our calculations / how we priced things.

If we want to get the final price lower we need to switch to more basic components or tighter integration with suppliers. But we've been avoiding that under our premise having a system that can be purchased with a company credit card (say 5k or 10k limit) is the main requirement. Would love more feedback on how important that is for people's purchasing decisions. And even then if we lowered the cost of the chassis we might instead use that to improve the optics/camera following the "credit card purchase" philosophy.
why not just use pouchdb? the most powerful part of pouch/couch is syncing, you may consider integrate with it
it can make it a much worse place too. It's why we can find versions of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" dating back to the book of Sirach in the second century BC (it was probably being said before then, that's just he first written record of a similar proverb).
Yikes, and the big issue cruisers/liveaboards raise as the rationale to electrify w/induction cooktops is getting rid of the source for heavier-than-air propane.

Are you sure about that story not being about propane filling the bilge+cabin? It's apparently a common failure mode.
Just read the first couple of posts in the series and it's excellent so far. The author really nailed something that I have struggled to express for years. To paraphrase heavily, purported "low-code" solutions really just mean "our code". If the consumer is 100% fine with out of the box (or "supported" solutions), then the vendor's software really is worth it.

But businesses rarely just want what's "out-of-the-box", because no business decision maker gets promoted by using off-the-shelf tools, exactly like they are designed. They have to add their "thumbprint" to the software, which usually means inventing some ridiculous feature that their company "must" have, and which typically breaks the high-level abstraction provided by the software.

So now some poor schmuck entry-level dev is tasked with breaking an abstraction that was never designed to be broken, in a ways that no one has ever encountered (and is unlikely to be able to help with). Ask me how I know...
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The loss of sandlot baseball in the US is more about the rise of basketball, football, and soccer, than helicopter parents. Lots and lots of kids play unsupervised basketball or soccer, or variations on flag football. All of those have simpler and more engaging scoring and participatory dynamics for kids than baseball variations.
I was not thinking of J2K as being problematic for archiving but these new neural codecs. My point being that performance is only one of the criteria used to evaluate a codec.
We have! And a few larger group buys / enterprise customers in the pipeline. We started out selling more expensive Mitutoyo systems (quality but expensive Japanese optics) and sold a few of those. But feedback from customers was that if we could do 80% of what that system does and get it on a credit card it would be very interesting to them (greatly simplifies purchasing flow). But at the same time distributors don't want to carry them because they loose margin over selling $30-200k comps which means we need to adapt more of a "DTC" approach than we were originally planning. So working on upping our sales / marketing game.
One trick anyone can use to discourage doomscrolling is to set your smartphone to black and white mode, which makes all those silly videos less appealing.
Great, thanks! Yes, those "little problems" are, in my experience, the most important to document.

Great writeup, thank you.
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Thanks for the feedback, the idea is to take the 'addiction' part of UIs like tiktok,IG reels etc. and use it for long form content, making people read more.
The entire "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" notion should be considered harmful. That one idea has completely destroyed the end user experience.
We launched LHC@home 2.0 at CERN around the time LHC itself was getting launched https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/. The project is still going and there are thousands of people from all over contributing.
I share your sense of wonder at everyday objects. The essay “I,Pencil” captures this rather poignantly.

https://cdn.mises.org/I%20Pencil.pdf
UI's intention is to let you 'drop' reading anywhere and comeback to that point whenever you feel like.
Extra Space Storage will buy your self-storage outfit for cash, or give you “ operating partnership units in Extra Space Storage’s REIT [Real Estate Investment Trust].”

$5B in closed transactions in the last 5 years.

https://www.extraspace.com/acquisition/
Got it, great. Much appreciated!
the pine time is one of the greatest electronics purchases I've ever made. it cost me $20 the battery lasts forever and it is the perfect minimalist smartwatch.

I think these guys are on the right track aiming for simple hardware. I will be first on the list for their bone conducting headphones
"It wasn’t until 1841 that Joseph Whitworth managed to find a solution. After years of research collecting sample screws from many British workshops, he suggested standardizing the size of the screw threads in Britain so that, for example, someone could make a bolt in England and someone in Glasgow could make the nut and they would both fit together. His proposal was that the angle of the thread flanks was standardized at 55 degrees, and the number of threads per inch, should be defined for various diameters. While this issue was being addressed in Britain, the Americans were trying to do likewise and initially started using the Whitworth thread. "

It hasn't even been 200 years since invention & usage of standardized parts. We've come a long way.

https://www.nord-lock.com/insights/knowledge/2017/the-histor...