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> performance cars should have ICEs

After driving a fast Tesla, stepping into an ICE performance car feels like going back to a steam engine. A very slow, unresponsive steam engine.

When avid petrolheads try a fast EV and feel the instant torque it will be an epiphany for them. Only the most stubborn will stick with fossil cars.
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I can't feel that this stance will could soon evolve into "it is completely insane how any random individual ... can access the source code".

Open source was built on the spirit of openness. Rather than closing it, I think solutions should be proposed to improve it (thinking of it, it's a good place for using LLM-s - you don't need perfection for checking a bug report makes some sense and filtering people a bit).
Considering how early we get rid of cars that are still usable. I wonder how well the cost of ownership actually holds over when a battery change can overshadow many years of maintenance of an ICE.

I really think as soon as batteries get even cheaper and denser there will be no chance for ICEs to be dominant but right now the balance is still against the change.
Not all ICEs must consume fossil fuels. The tech could bring alternative fuels closer to viability.
Y'all should look at the rest of the site. This is written by a content farm. These kinds of "blogs" serve the purspose of building up authority with google by writing waffer thin but linkable articles (as shown by it appearing on the front page of HN) and then sell backlinks to online casinos for SEO juice.

You've been bamboozeled.
> But today fares are the lowest they've been in the history of aviation,

What planet are you living on ? Clearly a different one to me.

As I said, I speak from direct experience.

Before COVID, I could regularly pick up J-class (business) fares on top-quality airlines for 2–3k a pop.

Post-COVID for J-class you'll be lucky to get much change out of 7–8k unless a specific airline has a sale on.

Prices have gone up. That's a fact. I travel enough for business and pleasure to know that. And its the same with my friends and acquaintances.

Sure, if you're looking at the bottom of the barrel end of the sector where the LCC's operate then prices are still cheap. But tools like ITA Matrix were never useful for bottom of the barrel flights, you always just went directly to the website of whichever horrid cheap and nasty operator.
There is a method to have companies fund public infrastructure work: taxation.
Yeah. It looks pretty cool. There is something satisfying about a complex mechanical mechanism. However, in its current form it is not the future. Combustion engines in general are not going to be the future. Hydrogen is a joke. Not energy dense enough. And expensive to make (energy wise). It also needs a vast network of gas stations.
> Your specific example is a good one: interacting with Postgres is one of those things I said people choose despite it being riddled with security issues due to its age and choice of implementation language.

Ah there is the issue: protocol level bugs are language independent; even memory safe languages have issues. One example in the .net sphere is f* which is used to verify programs. I recommend you look at what the concepts of protocol safety actually look like.

> The security issue stems from a choice to use a legacy protocol, which in turn stems from the use of an old system written in C.

This defect in particular occurs in the c# portion of the stack, not in postgres. This could have occurred in rust if similar programming practices were used.

> If Postgres was a modern RDBMS platform, it would use something like gRPC and there wouldn't be any need to hand-craft the code to perform binary encoding of its packet format.

There is no guarantee a borked client implementation would be defect free.

This is a much harder problem than I think you think it is. Without resorting to a very different paradigm for programming (which, frankly, I don't think you have exposure to based upon your comments) I'm not sure it can be accomplished without rendering most commercial software non-viable.

> Meanwhile, I just saw a video clip of an auditorium full of Linux kernel developers berating the one guy trying to fix their security issues by switching to Rust saying that Rust will be a second class citizen for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, I mean start your own OS in rust from scratch. There is a very real issue that RIIR isn't always an improvement. Rewriting a linux implementation from scratch in rust if it's a "must have right now" fix is probably better.
The benefit was the funding that could be provided by Ellis, no? How are they going to make up for that if they make a new company?
You know why. Price.
That’s right, the product is required in some cases. The plan on how to build relationships with customers is required in all cases. It’s even better if those relationships already exist.
I opened the comments before the website as I was sure this would be another of those sources available clickbait. Why is this kind of disingenuous move not enforced in the title guidelines of HN is beyond me.
I agree with everything, except that I moved to just, which runs fine on win/mac/nix and is a single-file no-dependency task runner made for this use case. It irons over a lot of warts like working directory, loads dotenv files, lets you write multiline scripts, it’s just magic.
> We have a whole freaking energy grid!

You actually don't. Not one fit for that purpose, at least without significant investment, permitting hurdles, delays etc etc.
https://github.com/casey/just

https://just.systems/
Thank you for sharing!
Would love to grab a coffee if you're ever in San Francisco.
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iPhone batteries have been replaced long before Apple provided specialized tools, so you don’t need any of them. They will make your life a lot easier though.
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This affects gamers who want indie games worth playing. So, yeah, why wouldn't we care? They're at least partly responsible for a handful of the best games I've played in the past decade. Their loss can't be understated.
Kubed (Emacs-based Kubernetes interface) user manual, now with pretty images
I’ve never so much as looked at a Php script in my life. I’d have to ask ChatGPT how to even run one.

A build script should work with vanilla out the box Python. No extra modules needed. I mean if you can assume vanilla bash tooling then vanilla Python is perfectly fine.

If there’s some Python library you really want then add it to repo. Easy peasy.
Talk about North Europe winters - all the forever gray (and snow)
Yes and no.

Sure, countermeasures exist, but the issue is that you first need to be aware of what exactly the problem is before you can take these countermeasures.

The reality however is that people just hear "You should do GitHub" and then for some inexplicable reason slowly descend into feeling bad without any clear reason why.
After all, they're following all the "best practices" laid out by people that clearly know what they're doing and surely have their best interest in mind.
You could around 1976. Who's ever going to need make.
Thing is, make is not readily available on windows. It should’ve been in git bash, in my opinion, but just fills the gap in a cross-platform way
You're absolutely right—discussing the CAP theorem is essential for any distributed storage system. We are preparing a detailed blog post to cover the implications of CAP in our system. In brief, our system generally aligns with PC/EC in PACELC terms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem), similar to other fully distributed databases like CockroachDB and TiDB. However, this configuration is flexible. For instance, in high-performance cache applications where durability is less critical, our system can be adjusted to favor PA/EL, akin to many NoSQL systems.

Regarding persistence, our Substrate component manages its own logging system while relies on external storage engines for checkpointing. This means that the system only depends on the performance and capacity of the external storage. Our database does not depend on the external storage engine for consistency. For example, DynamoDB offers virtually unlimited capacity and performance (in terms of QPS) in the cloud, and our Data Substrate is agnostic to whether the data is stored as a B-Tree or an LSM tree.

We are currently preparing the software for Jepsen testing prior to its General Availability (GA) release. More technical details will be shared as we move forward, so please stay tuned.
I’m particularly interested in last three points. Do you mind to share some data?

For instance, where one recycle a Tesla battery, say in Poland?

I do not see to many chargers around and I believe the grid is not very modern here. Why do you think it can easily handle millions EVs? What about peak hours like nights? Do you think it will be env friendly, provided that majority of electricity in Poland is produced on coal plants.

EV initial cost is about 5-10 times more than a slightly used ICE in a perfect condition. Such a car car drive decades and will never reach in total spendings even initial cost of EV. I’m not counting charging that may not be very cheap. As electricity prices went up in recent years and may go up more.

When you stating something, think beyond your household. Your statements are not universal.
Without open source it would be worse. Imagine windows on all phones.
This seems slightly off-topic, describing solely young women and giving off Daily Mail/Richard Littlejohn vibes.

Some people are terrible with money, in a way that bears no resemblance to the way a central bank deals with monetary policy and macroeconomics, so I really don’t understand why you posted this little rant.
Oh, they will be, no worries - doubly so as the fuel they need goes from being a necessary evil of civilization to a niche product for enthusiasts.

There's going to be along tail of ICE vehicles out there, though - say, I have a tractor on my farm (which is not being worked commercially, it is basically an expensive and time-consuming hobby seeing as my wife's family has tilled this plot of land since the dark ages. Literally.)

Anyway, even if diesel prices soar to $25/l (That's $100/gal for the metrically challenged), with our current usage, it will still be cheaper to buy diesel at that cost than to invest in a new, EV tractor. Hence I can't see that tractor going anywhere anytime soon.
Use USB-C to connect a hub with display and mouse, copy data over internet.
why do you need a "command runner"? Have you heard of bash functions? Or... make? The thing is too simple to justify installing another tool, however nifty it is.
Yes he quite possibly unintentionally revealed US spy satellite capabilities with an otherwise purposeful tweet. I say the not out of niceness to give him the benefit of the doubt, but because he's probably too stupid to understand the implications of what he was doing.
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> Slippery slope fallacy out of nowhere

> Throw magic at the problem to further scale resources to sustain a problem instead of actually solving said problem

I can only encourage people to counter bullshit with minimum resource investment. Full-sentence answers should be limited to those statements deserving of them.
They’re already heavily taxed. But why vilified?
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Because large manufacturers are seeing EVs are struggling to take off.

Might as well spread your bets. They are also working heavily on efuel, that works with ICE engines, does not pollute much, but currently would cost 2x at the pump. If they could shave that cost in half we could keep most ICEs (plus an add on catalyst). Distribution networks could be kept. Batteries and their chemicals would not be needed.

So if either pays off, it’s a fortune.
https://www.edie.net/one-in-seven-new-cars-worldwide-is-now-...

> One in seven new car sales worldwide is now electric

> Year-to-date figures show that nearly 10.6 million EVs have been sold globally as of July 2024, marking a 16.3% increase compared to the same period last year.

What constitutes “walking back”?
>On top of that, the commenter is completely ignorant of the rise of saltwater batteries which don't even use lithium.

I'd not call the rise, yet. The Na ones' energy density (and specific energy) is even lower than Li based (LiFePO4 is lower than cobalt ones). They might be okay for grid storage, of course.
Projecting?
The channels with no activity remain grey instead of white. It's important to me that I discover messages when I have some downtime and am interested in so-called discovery, as opposed to having junk interrupt my flow at times when I am not.
You don’t need to “use” anything, browsers have very good CSS support these days.
auth generators are being done for 8.0
Have you ever been to North Europe in the winter?
Someone here showed me this cool technique with `fzf`:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e

context=$(kubectl config get-contexts | awk '{print $2;}' | grep -v NAME | fzf --preview 'kubectl config use-context {} && kubectl get namespaces')
kubectl config use-context $context

You get a two-pane window with the context on the left and the namespaces on the right. That's all I need to find what I'm looking at. It's destructive, though.
Yeah it's overrated, pornhub has more videos and plenty more free users. They don't seem to boast about their engineering.
No I don't, but you certainly do after trying to gaslight like that.

Can't tell if its pathological or malevolent... probably both.
Pray that we never meet.

Thankfully, it is not such a simple thing to discredit when world renowned experts all agree and say a thing, and the longer they have been established the more one should listen.

Saying I need to seek professional help for repeating what's been documented by experts, yeah that is rich.
They provide that with base URL parameter:

--api_base_url: You can use this flag (or the OPENAI_BASE_URL environment variable) to pass a different API URL from the default "https://api.openai.com/v1". This allows you to use other OpenAI-compatible LLM providers like TogetherAI, self-hosted vLLM or Ollama, etc.
An insecure version of secure shell doesn't "work".
Stop spamming the thread with petty tool people don't actually need.
Instant torque is cool, but goddamn it is soulless.
Heheh indeed it was! - What I was saying above though is not just for exploring RDs but more for actually building things out of them!!

It's a rather out-there (non-serious) idea where all the usual 'stuff' of a GUI is actually made out of dynamically-simulated-CA/RD cells interacting with each other.

Let's say for example once one had developed some way to reliably simulate a dynamic but smooth and stable enclosed area with a boundary (like a bag?), well you could call that layer a 'window'-ish-type-thing and constrain the sub-simulations (ie the window-widgets) to only grow inside the window. Window-docking could perhaps have behavior a bit like bubbles-adhering-to-each-other as a natural outcome of the simulated-nature of them and wobbly-windows could be made to be a natural outcome of there being the wave-equation as one of the formulae being used, and other things like that.

It's definitely an out-there idea not really intended for regular-consumption but I think it could be super fun to explore especially for playful in-game-UI use-cases.
Your proposals are a bit contradictory. If you heavily tax something, it becomes a money source for the government; does it then make sense to try to extinguish said activity through artificial social aversion? Also, whatever is vilified by the government, but stays legal or at least feasible, will act as a magnet for the counterculture.

If you really hate something, just propose an outright ban. It would work for Porsches; no one can secretly grow a Porsche in his backyard.
Technical writing is too important to leave to language models
> At this point, I have to wonder what is even the point of missives like this. ...It's all just mindless blather unless you're actually talking about ways that software vendors will be held liable for bugs in their products.

I think that liability for bugs is exactly where she's going with this. I'm not an expert, but it sounds from a few things I've heard on some Lawfare podcasts (e.g,. [1][2]) like the idea of software liability has been discussed for quite a while now in government policy circles. This sort of public statement may be laying the groundwork for building the political will to make it happen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UneL5-Q98E&pp=ygUQbGF3ZmFyZ...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNft-IZm_A&pp=ygUQbGF3ZmFyZ...

EDIT:

> Making truly secure software products is incredibly hard in this day and age, which is one reason why demanding software product liability is so scary.

Loads of companies already are liable for bugs software that runs on their products: this includes cars, airplanes, and I would presume medical devices, and so on. The response has been what's called "safety certification": as an industry, you define a process which, if followed, you can in court say "we were reasonably careful", and then you hire an evaluator to confirm that you have followed that process.

These processes don't prevent all bugs, naturally, but they certainly go a long way towards reducing them. Liability for companies who don't follow appropriate standard processes would essentially prevent cloud companies cutting security to get an edge in time-to-market or cost.
> It superficially sounds like a series of server processes fronting actual database servers, which sounds like another layer of partition vulnerability and points of failure

I agree that introducing a middleware layer on top of databases adds more points of failure. EloqKV avoids this by integrating Compute, Logging, and Storage into a single system. In this setup, storage can be a database like Cassandra, but users will not access it directly; all requests go through EloqKV, which manages ACID transactions. EloqKV is responsible for handling crashes of the TxServer, LogServer, and Storage. You can think of the distributed Storage Engine just as a Disk in traditional DBMS. Obviously its failure will affect the system. But no more than hard disk failure. In fact, in a cloud, all disks (i.e. EBS) are actually distributed storage systems.

This situation is a rethinking of the Redis and MySQL combination, which suffers from similar issues. Both systems can fail independently, resulting in only eventual consistency. EloqKV aims to resolve this problem.
> Get in now before people turn this into man-child story's like the "Hyatt Regency walkway collapse" or the "Citicorp Center engineering crisis" which are fake stories that HN and universities have on repeat.

I find this statement confusing because you can go and see the pictures it's not like someone just made it up.
Just really is great, you should just give just a try. I put all the project-specific incantations in my Justfile and save my teammates lots of typing and copy-pasta.
>ever been to North Europe

No need for personal snark comments. Not everybody lives in the US. The worst part moving there was surviving the lack of sun light during the winter but that was many years back.
Maybe the other people of Tesla should stand up against their company damaging CEO.

Otherwise we can assume consent.
Replaceable which screwed up the company and replaceable and continue same productivity are 2 different thing. The former is real and happened for millenia, the later only exist in CEO's and Wallstreet mind. When I buy stock I look out for changes to their staff (some engineers and mid managers are worth keep track of to indicate companies growth projection). Warren also famously did so. You can investigate Intel and Boeing staff movements over the years...I can guarantee you 300% their talented staff left and hence gameover for them.
Honestly, i can’t get my head around how many folks actually think that it is an either or situation.

There’s zero chance we will be able to electrify all personal mobility let alone the elephants in the room being construction equipment, planes of all sorts and above all marine vessels that ship our goods globally.

EVs are well suited for a couple use cases but far from a monolithic solution.

It is beyond me how a group this large actually thinks that ICEs are facing “death”.

Once line is done going up in that field, i sincerely hope the discussion around this will mature and become less histerical.
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Not the op but in NZ there has been a significant drop in demand due to removal of subsidies and introduction of a distance-based tax (road user charge) for EVs.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/15/car-importers-stuck-with-...

“In 2023 January through August, one in four new light passenger vehicles sold were EVs. Fast forward to 2024 and EVs make up just one in 11 new light passenger vehicles sold”
Just like the presidential candidate Musk endorses.
The Apple provided tools are the ones used at first party Apple stores to perform authorized repairs. At some point, some bean counter tabulated the cost of building X000 machines and shipping them across the globe for a marginal increase in repair quality and deemed it a worthy tradeoff.

If you want to repair phones to the equivalent quality of Apple stores, Apple makes it possible via their "overengineered" machines. There's nothing in Apple's ToS that forces you to make repairs this way, you're welcome to buy the Apple genuine part and use your own heat mats and press and whatever and knowingly make that tradeoff.
Hi, thanks for checking it out and for the feedback. I added some of the most common currencies out there. I'll work on adding more. Re: Sales tax - I got the prices off apple[dot]com. I also saw the sales tax is not consistent across states in the US? I'll read into it again and at least add "excluding sales tax" tag for the US.
I’m not sure what your point is. The comment you’re replying to never argued that this data center is unnecessary. Both prestigious cars and data centers are necessarily evil. Just for different audiences.
Just to clarify: I had to do an analysis on car markets across 10 countries in EU, Mexico and Latin America recently.

If 100% of new vehicles were electric today, it would take 15 to 20 years to renew the whole fleet in those countries. But today the share of new EVs were between 0 to 5%.

While there is a subyacent network effect (when 30% of gas stations close, it will be so hard to refuel that adoption will spike, which in turn will kill more gas stations), it still seems way off. The people I interviewed at car makers seemed to see EV as a new segment more than a new paradigm.

Your mileage might vary.
He as achieved?

Who exactly build the rockets?
Consider:

.PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS)

qux:

foo: qux

bar: foo

Now make bar and make foo bar will disagree on whether foo is phony, which may or may not be what one wants depending on both what foo and qux do, and how bar depends on foo and qux side effects.

It also very much depends on what the intent is, notably such a "autophony" make foo is very different from make -B foo.
I think you should rescale your ideological compass. If you just brush such inventions off the table, something is wrong.

Electric motors will prevail long term, simply for the fact that ICEs can't reach their efficiency. So no need to have this attitude.
I'm sure they said the same when they saw the first photographs and compared them with paintings.
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