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Everyone being like - we don't care about cars that small. It's the equivalent at looking at LLMs two years ago and being - it can't perform anything. It's an entry point and they will get bigger and better and more attractive - to the benefit of consumers upping the competition.

Kia was written off when it first came to town. US domestics should be concerned - they wrote off Tesla as well.
I mean, not from the domestic makers who want as much margin as possible, but when I was a kid, the Japanese imports had already gone from being seen as junk to praised as the most reliable cars you could buy, and Korean cars were just starting to come in.
Agreed, 100%

I'm definitely not defending it, just saying the red tape in some orgs can be nearly impossible to defeat.

This problem should have escalated as high as needed though to bypass the red tape and fix the security issue immediately.

Probably a failure of weak middle management not having the guts to communicate the problem up.
1) Twitter wasn't a marvel of engineering pre-Elon
2) It's worse post-Elon (bot issues, paid blue checks at the top, increase in hateful posts, etc)
> Affordable small cars have never been a thing in the US

Why not? Just a cultural thing? Times are tough in America and people are interested in EVs because of gas prices. I see a $10k EV selling like wildfire - small, entry-level and not as big a commitment as a F-150 Lightning.
I am attempting to import the Seagull currently (experience the pain, see if and how to scale, how to avoid tariff mechanisms, etc), intend to report back with findings.

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/importing-car
Yeah, it may fit their current workload perfectly, but it doesn't seem very future proof with the limited bandwidth. Given how fast ML is evolving these days I question if it makes sense to design and deploy a chip like this. I guess they do have a very large workload that will benefit immediately.
He really likes X. He even named one of his kids that (well X Æ A-12, with the spaces). The A-12 is indeed a reference to the plane that came out of the oxcart project. Æ Musk pronounces "Ash" which is apparently an accepted name for the character, which was (among other things) used as a latinization of the futhorc rune[1] that means "ash tree"

1: HN won't let me paste the rune, not sure if it's limited to BMP on purpose but you can see it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansuz_(rune)
> However, as a provider I can totally see a situation where I (proverbially, I'm not in this business) sue you for disclosing what amounts to a trade secret (depending on what's in the fine print) and compel you to give up all documents so I can go after my loose-lipped client too.

I don't see this holding in court aside from the company needing to remove that info from the site.

You are not beholden to NDA you have not signed, and it woudld be employee that shared it breaking any agreements, not the company that then shared it.
Speaking of history, I learned that the word "control" comes from contra rotulus -- roughly "checking against the wheel", which was apparently from an early medieval device for keeping tallies. The second meaning of "domination" came later.
> And how about food? I can understand a book having a resale value I keep in my books, but once I've eaten the hot-dog I bought it is gone forever.

Perishable and consumable food wouldn't be counted as an asset in the first place. You spend the money - it's credited to your asset account (reducing the value of your cash-in-hand) and then debited from your expense account (reducing the value of your equity - or, in more layperson's lingo, increasing the total sum of the expenses you incurred during that period).
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Public...

Is an EU commissioned study. According to Bloomberg, it says BVD got billions of euros: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/byd-got-3...
They are allowed, but the US has a 27.5% tarrif on Chinese EVs.
The good news in that area is that WasmGC (shipping in Chrome and Firefox today) has allowed very good Wasm support to be shipped for many more languages, including Java, Kotlin, Dart, Scheme, OCaml, and more.
That's an interesting thought. What do you think will replace it?
US protectionism would like a word with you.
Imports have to satisfy all the US regulations.

To quote from a link someone else posted:

> Most Chinese cars haven’t been engineered with US safety regulations in mind; just going through those protocols is an expensive and elaborate process.
ALT+255 also made the directories inaccessible in Win9x. Couldn't open them in explorer, for instance, without renaming to remove the special character.
Clearly he means that it's shitty for people who relied on the exploit, but without monetizing it. When Beeper started monetizing it, obviously Apple had to close it, and hobbyists suffered.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-22/why-can-t...
TBH, if china wants to subsidize the production of green tech, more power too them. Maybe it'll start a green trade war with every country putting more and more money behind green tech. When it becomes ubiquitous, then we can start worrying about fairness.

US automakers had ample opportunity to be leaders in this space and completely neglected it. Now they face the consequences of that decision.
It's Twitter.

It's not "X".

Not sure specifically why Mr. Musk lost the thread but very little involving Twitter has demonstrated whatever qualities were involved in the "positive" reputation he'd earned via Tesla and SpaceX.

The one thing for which I am thankful is that his various decisions have completely removed Twitter from my life, but that doesn't seem like the sort of outcome one wants for the platform.
I interpret it as - A developer who can work with pre-packaged ML/LLM models that are offered by cloud companies
> under 50k cars aren’t sufficiently profitable to be worth making. So very little R&D happens at the low end

The fact that both new entrants and legacy manufacturers are struggling with that production cost implies there is a structural cause for those high prices. I’m sceptical BYD can sell a car in America for $10k. I’m less sceptical that anyone else cares about the mandates that make American cars expensive.
but theres so many execs without guards all over the world even bigger than Mark

who and what is Mark so afraid of that he needs a platoon of special forces soldiers guarding him?
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I mean, long-term would want to be soon, or the company will go out of business. From the article, and I do realise that it is considered most improper to actually read them on this website:

> Onego Bio plans to sell Bioalbumen to companies that would then create the food products.

The processed food industry is very cost-sensitive and both industrial egg albumen and various substitutes are already available; if they're not price competitive they'll die quickly.

It doesn't seem at all unlikely that they'lll get to being price competitive quickly. They're producing a single protein with a fungus. There's another well-known example of this; quorn. Quorn's actually a bit more complex in that, once they've produced their protein they need to add stuff to make it palatable, and their processed output still comes in at about the same cost as processed chicken, and generally a bit cheaper than other processed meat. These people seem to be literally just producing albumen, so it's close to an ideal case.
> The price of EVs in the US market is ludicrously overinflated

Maybe so, but the labor unions and general cost of doing business is higher in the US. But I think the major cost here is the batteries and charging tech. BYD is ahead on both these things - they were a battery company first, car manufacturer second. Their CEO is also very astute.
By your definition, almost nobody with any influence on governmental policy in any country believes in free-market capitalism.
You're right, it's even python 3.6, and you have also the OrderedDict https://realpython.com/python-ordereddict/
Software isn’t black and white. You weigh the impact of both options.
Google is officially making Gemini open to the public
That's fine for the internet which is understood to be just for fun anyway, but with 'Redditization' taking over the world, you see that behaviour escape out into places where things actually matter and where walking away can be truly impactful to one's life in a negative way. That's the problem.

Especially for people who run in youthful circles. Older people at least have the benefit of generally being around people who learned human compassion before the social internet became prevalent.
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He was using sarcasm
dangit, I've got things I should be doing. Posting interesting stories during business hours continues grumbling incoherently
Pretty sure if the article was titled "The $10k BYD Seagull EV is scaring Tesla" the person you are responding to wouldn't have commented, but the US auto industry is definitely not scared by small affordable cars seeing as that market is already dominated by South Korean and Japanese manufacturers in the US.
After 40 years of marketing for pickup trucks (that let manufacturers skirt emission regulations)?
Regular… servers?

Wasm is currently an alternative nobody asked for.
You are not wrong, but it solves another really hard business problem: Hiring and retaining good engineers.
I’ve been testing a lot of LLMs on my MacBook and I would say that all of them are far away from being as good as GPT-4, at any time. Many are as good as GPT-3 though. There are also a lot of models that are fine tuned for specific tasks.

Language support is one big thing that is missing from open models. I’ve only found one model that can do anything useful with Norwegian, which has never been an issue GPT-4.
I think I grok bzip2 fairly well, but I can’t figure out what your descriptive commands would actually do :S
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Essentially, yes. And you need to register before use in Go too since reflection is far more limited in Go - often this is done at init time, so you just import the package that does the registration [somehow], but ultimately you just have to do it before you use something: https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql#Register

The "data source name" string when connecting is... basically a JDBC connection string, and some adapters use exactly that iirc, but it's fundamentally an unstructured string that just serves the same purpose. Plugins can use anything they like, and style varies.
Two posts per hour and deep comments that turn into word salad under close examination? Could be a gpt-bot as well
The advantage is that it avoids an extra function pointer indirection when the function you are trying to swap out is already an exported library function. For purely internal functions like in this case the only advantage is that it allows this exploit.
The article cites the Alliance for American Manufacturing, for one, as warning that if these Chinese-state-subsidized vehicles are permitted for import without trade adjustments correcting for the distortionary effect of the subsidies, then unsubsidized non-Chinese manufacturers will be unable to compete and have to fold.

As the article quotes Elon Musk in his capacity as Tesla guy:

> “The Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world,” Musk said during the call. “So, I think they will have significant success outside of China depending on what kind of tariffs or trade barriers are established.”

> “Frankly, I think, if there are not trade barriers established, they will pretty much demolish most other companies in the world.”
I think we'll be seeing a lot more of this. It's a massive brand liability to have an association with Israel and there's an unknown potential for future damage.
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"The Chinese government wants to wipe out American automakers by introducing competitively priced cars" is a PR scare tactic.

It's exactly what I would say if I were a PR person trying to figure out how to protect my company's interests.

Cars are imported from all over the world, and so long as they meet American safety standards, I think they should be.

Also if I could buy a safe, new EV for $10,000, no matter how small, I would do it tomorrow. Just because Americans have never purchased small, affordable cars _en masse_ before doesn't mean they won't in the future.
Yeah, in a way I was being tongue in cheek about it.

The truth is that internally they probably don't like using their own solution for key management.

I usually opt for environment variables for secrets, which I know isn't awesome, but keeps them out of code at least.

Regardless, secrets should never ever be committed, even in a private repo (or one you think is private).
Driving a small car on US highways is like being a deer in the middle of a herd of elephants.
> Kia was written off when it first came to town.

Hyundai/Kia were smart in that they introduced their cars with really long warranties to dispel quality concerns. However, they lost a lot of credibility recently with their cars being famous for being easy to steal via YouTube tutorials and tiktok challenges.
They're already looking to enter the Mexican market. Publicly they say this is to supply the Mexican market, and not export to the USA. It will be interesting to see if/when that changes.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chines...
Not just teenagers. A lot of adults are severely affected too. A good percentage of those billions of DAUs got their lives destroyed by FB/Instagram/Youtube/Twitter algorithms I bet.
The scary thing for US car manufacturers isn't necessarily Chinese imports in the US, which import tariffs should prevent, but the notion of BYD partnering with or acquiring existing US manufacturers and then starting to produce very cheap cars inside the US. This is what the Japanese did and later other manufacturers. Fiat bought Chrysler at some point and now Stellantis (which Fiat/Chrysler merged into) is producing lots of traditional US car brands in the US.

The notion that EVs are now feasible at low cost is what is making car manufacturers nervous. Because these Chinese cars are 1) very good 2) much cheaper than other manufacturers would be able to deliver.

There's a lot being said about subsidies. That's no excuse. The US has a 1 trillion $ IRA package. And a history of repeatedly bailing out bankrupt car manufacturers. They have and have had plenty of government support over the years. The lack of support is not the issue.

In the end government support is a means to an end: figuring out how to build lots of cheap electrical vehicles. The Chinese seem to be doing quite well on that front.
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> It’s about trying hurt Dorsey’s pride.

Dorsey was not part of the lawsuit and in fact rolled over his Twitter shares with the acquisition instead of taking the payout, so again the "Revenge for being forced to honor his word at buying Twitter" theory makes no sense.
Scaring them for good, how’s that a bad thing?! It derives innovation, competition, etc. and still at an affordable prices to the consumers.
A customer can misappropriate a vendor’s trade secret and price lists can be trade secrets. As a general matter these propositions easily fall within the relevant laws (UTSA, DTSA, NY common law) and there are plenty of cases around the country supporting that. If you have a different opinion, all I can say is that I believe you’d find out in court that you’re wrong.
During the pandemic car shortage, a lot of car makers started over-producing their higher-end models. With the entry-level market being underserved and facing high interest rates, this might find a market. Not that people wouldn't rather upgrade, but it's a lot cheaper than a Mazda 2.
fr tho, I'm as tired of medium as anyone and am happy to encourage people publish elsewhere. Basically anywhere else, actually.
>Maybe so, but the labor unions and general cost of doing business is higher in the US.

Sure, and that's understandable - but I'm making a comparison to ICE vehicles. That doesn't provide an appreciable difference there.
> To me, the logical step is for Chinese vehicles to build factories in Mexico and then ship vehicles into the country so they qualify as NAFTA vehicles. No way will it be $10k, but it certainly won't be $40k like other electric vehicles.

I wouldn't be so sure it won't be $10k. The cost of labor in China has been going up for a while now. China's strength in the EV market comes from their near monopoly on the supply chain. What a lot of Chinese companies have been doing is to do most of the manufacturing in China and ship the major components off for final assembly in other countries like Vietnam and Philippines. I don't see why the same thing can't happen in Mexico. In fact, a lot of manufacturing in Mexico is precisely of the final assembly sort to take advantage of NAFTA.
> And if I hear some flavor of "compile-time checks are tests/but Python doesn't check types" argument, that person shouldn't be involved in software development.

Have you ever even used a powerfull type system? I dont think so
> That's where social media has been most damaging. You can't share your thoughts anymore. The 'Redditization' of the world means that sharing thoughts is met with hostility. No longer can you just throw something out there, no matter how stupid. These days you have carry an entire encyclopedia with you in order to back up every last thing you say and if you utter anything that isn't deemed 100% perfect by those listening, the social scorn will fall upon you.

I understand this fear when posting on reddit (or other social media) itself, but I am absolutely confused where this idea that this applies to reality comes from.
So how does the government pay for rural infrastructure if literally the taxes are waived for both residents and corporations?

The military is already subsidizing rural areas. Over the past few decades, pretty much all major defense manufacturing got moved from upscale locations like Long Island and parts to California, to bumfuck nowhere parts of the country so that the MIC can save on taxes and labor.

Anyway the real problem now is we are in a death spiral that cannot be fixed. Our economy is moving towards serfdom. Cut property taxes and even more landlords will just pay up rural housing. They now will keep jacking rents and manufacturing jobs in rural areas will be unable to keep up with wage increases.

The real solution in my opinion is mass building of even more homes in suburban ban and denser housing. Flood the country with inventory to drop home prices. Then people in rural areas gain an avenue to escape because often they simply can't afford it currently.
The accounting equation is the right thing to think about. People want debit and credit to mean something more than they need to.

My 100-level accounting instructor said it pretty succinctly: Debit means an entry in the left column. Credit means an entry in the right column. What a transaction means for the business depends on the accounts.
You mean in the same way that these imported cars are currently piling up in ports in Europe without anyone buying them? Chinese producers rushed to buy up cargo ships since they couldn't get the shipping volume they wanted, but now that they have their ships it looks like the demand isn't really there.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/496f3bfa-9f0c-4145-9024-188572a28...
They'd probably need to do some design work to US/European standards. The current price is highly competitive even after tariffs and taxes though. The highest import tariffs I'm aware of anywhere in the world hover around 100% in places like Singapore. $20k plus an additional $5k in pure margin is still over $1k below the MSRP of the cheapest American EV (Chevy bolt). If we assume much more reasonable 25-50% tariffs, nobody else even comes close.
But Blazor seems to do a fine job replacing JS with C#?

If you really want go to all-native JS because it has advantages, sure you can do. But what I see are bloated SPAs written in a language not designed for large software, based on an environment that likes to change and break things. It's abstractions upon abstractions get a hold of this mess.

I don't see why WASM couldn't compete.
Price point is a major factor in EV adoption. If the United States is truly looking for increased market share of EV’s then we need a lower end market.

The US market is geared too much towards “luxury” and “rent” based features and subscriptions. All which maximize profit for manufactures. If the US is serious about EV adoption then we need to compete and offer better range of prices. My two cents .
> the Don't Repeat Yourself principle

I think this is meant mostly to apply to code. For data, redundancy is a very common strategy for assuring accuracy and durability.

> If you say the same thing in two different places, one of them is always going to be wrong.

Yes! This is the exact point. The mismatch flags that there is an error that needs to be investigated and added to the ledger as a correcting transaction.
Isn't Twitter valuation down like 60% from that purchase price? That's a tough hedge.
Yes it's a cultural thing. The highest selling vehicles in the US every year are SUVs and pickup trucks, even in the middle of dense cities. The small 2-4 door cars you see all over Europe and Asia aren't sold here at all. Mazda 3, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic etc. are considered "compact" cars, and that size is the smallest people will even consider.
Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100
It's the Soviet Lada all over again. It turned out, however, that Americans didn't want to just buy the cheapest car. Other things factored into what car Americans preferred such as style, status symbol, etc.
I recently found out that helmets do nothing to prevent concussion regardless of the sport.

On another topic here is a really great video on concussion in MMA https://youtu.be/EU4AhFFSlLg?si=iaHawCdigvVuKkPe
Not fair to Michael Jackson. He had talent and defined multiple cross cultural trends/memes (not memes as in internet memes).

He was deeply troubled, but he still had a huge, lasting impact
Protip. Eat less, eat healthy, exercise more, and ignore any news on diet, metabolism, or age. The human body hasn't changed drastically in the past century, our habits have.
> Just like how we chose to consume healthy food and avoid consuming too much alcohol we must be more deliberate in our choice of media.

You can't leave everything up to individual decision making or the results are collectively irrational. Notably, dieting and alcoholism are major problems we haven't had much success in addressing on a cultural level. Smoking is probably a better guide given how much rates have dropped in the last century.
I'm going to address you because you sound like a parent as well and I want to seriously discuss the alternatives.

For three hours in the evening 5 days a week plus ~12 hours on weekends at least half of watching kids is almost as engaging as staring at a wall. Keeping them fed, entertained, alive, and healthy can be fun and engaging like rolling around or story time or singing songs, or if she wants help learning about a toy. But the rest of the time I'm just around while she plays semi-independently to make sure nothing dangerous happens and give her validation when she shows me something she did.

Are we just supposed to sit there and stare at the wall for 20 hours a week? When you try to go phone-free what do you... do?