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Is this specifically because Teslas can only repaired by the dealer? They aren't rare cars and presumably there are many in junkyards that can be stripped for parts.
Rewriting Pierre to be zero-latency
I maintain Neverball, a 3D rolling ball game. It's a spare time project for me. Written in C, ported to the web via WASM and handwritten HTML/CSS/JS (https://play.neverball.org). Been polishing the web app for a while, but looking for critiques that might help me pinpoint where the web app falls short of expectation. Contacts: https://github.com/Neverball/neverball/discussions or HN.
TheOpenPresenter - https://github.com/Vija02/TheOpenPresenter

A presentation software useful for Event Presenting, Digital Signage, Dashboards and more. Basically if you ever need to control a screen, we want to make that process easy. The core system handles all the boring detail like real time communication and media handling. Meanwhile, you can install plugins to handle specific things like playing video, displaying powerpoint, dashboards, etc.

Tech stack: Typescript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, GraphQL.

Need help: Code - The project is just a few months old. There's still a lot of grounds to cover. Main priority is to get one specific use-case to work really well. Then, to get the plugin API robust so that we can start developing more plugins without refactoring repeatedly.

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Regulations are written in blood. This is likely the first time a mass produced car went this far in not caring about the humans inside. I would say that they will be new regulations soon, but given the political climate in the US, I'm unsure if it will actually happen.

We can only hope that Canada and other countries takes the lead and forces the improvements to passenger safety.
If the door won’t open electrically, then very likely the power windows won’t work either.

So to be able to crawl out the window, you’d have to break the glass, which would make the full size of the opening available.
There is no proof that humans are just glorified Turing machines and even as a nonreligious person, I find such a statement to be as lacking in evidence as those that claim humanity has some soul or similar that cannot be replicated.

The actual logic of gggp's statement also doesn't make any sense. We as humans also under and overestimate the soundness of programs.

Sometimes, a perfectly fine solution is massaged to better adhere to best practices because we can't convince ourselves that it's correct. Rust requires that we convince the compiler, and then we know it's correct via the compiler's proofs, instead of requiring us to do the proof all the time.
Interesting point about charging for unsubscribed contacts!

I am building an Open Source email marketing platform (https://www.keila.io) and our current pricing model only considers the amount of emails you send, not the number of contacts/subscribers.

I've been thinking about switching to charging per contacts instead – and I probably wouldn't have considered not including unsubscribed contacts if they're still stored on the platform. But now I will, thanks!
> 1. Learn how the subject matter experts do the work.

This will get harder I think over time as low hanging fruit domains are picked - the barrier will be people not technology. Especially if the moat for that domain/company is the knowledge you are trying to acquire (NOTE: Some industries that's not their moat and using AI to shed more jobs is a win). Most industries that don't have public workings on the internet have a couple of characteristics that will make it extremely difficult to perform Task 1 on your list. The biggest is now every person on the street, through the mainstream news, etc knows that it's not great to be a software engineer right now and most media outlets point straight to "AI". "It's sucks to be them" I've heard people say - what was once a profession of respect is now "how long do you think you have? 5 years? What will you do instead?".

This creates a massive resistance/outright potential lies in providing AI developers information - there is a precedent of what happens if you do and it isn't good for the person/company with the knowledge. Doctors associations, apprenticeship schemes, industry bodies I've worked with are all now starting to care about information security a lot more due to "AI", and proprietary methods of working lest AI accidentally "train on them". Definitely boosted the demand for cyber people again as an example around here.

> You are correct! There's lots of information available publicly about certain things like code, and writing SQL queries. But other specialized domains don't have the same kind of information trained into the heart of the model.

The nightmare of anyone that studied and invested into a skill set according to most people you would meet. I think most practitioners will conscious to ensure that the lack of data to train on stays that way for as long as possible - even if it eventually gets there the slower it happens and the more out of date it is the more useful the human skill/economic value of that person. How many people would of contributed to open source if they knew LLM's were coming for example? Some may have, but I think there would of been less all else being equal. Maybe quite a bit less code to the point that AI would of been delayed further - tbh if Google knew that LLM's could scale to be what they are they wouldn't of let that "attention" paper be released either IMO. Anecdotally even the blue collar workers I know are now hesitant to let anyone near their methods of working and their craft - survival, family, etc come first. In the end after all, work is a means to an end for most people.

Unlike us techies which I find at times to not be "rational economic actors" many non-tech professionals don't see AI as an opportunity - they see it as a threat they they need to counter. At best they think they need to adopt AI, before others have it and make sure no one else has it. People I've chatted to say "no one wants this, but if you don't do it others will and you will be left behind" is a common statement. One person likened it to a nuclear weapons arms race - not a good thing, but if you don't do it you will be under threat later.
He seems like he has a really good attitude about it.
Yes, we clearly live in different universes.

The only time someone says "absolutely no one thinks/says/does X" is when they are politely accusing someone of lying or bullshitting. So yes, very much adversarial. This should all just be so obvious.

>The tumor is benign

You left off the contextualizing clause which just changes the meaning of the sentence. "The tumor is benign/irrelevant to your continued ability to play the piano" has the same meaning with either phrasing.
>Apple only sells high-end hardware, but I wouldn't call it exorbitantly expensive.

$400 for a 2 TB SSD, $1000 for a 4 TB SSD, and $2200 for a 8 TB SSD.
I’m slowly making my way through it a second time and thoroughly enjoying it. The first time through it seemed quite abstract, albeit only because of my completely lack of real world programming. The second time through it a revelation as I now have a strong base of experience through which to understand it (experience which it also, informs!).

I am using Elixir’s Livebook to take notes and complete the exercises. It is very helpful to have a live notebook tool while reading it!
Logica is in the Datalog/Prolog/Logic family of programming languages. It's very familiar to anyone who knows how to read it. None of this has anything to do with OOP at all and you will heavily mislead yourself if you try to map any of that thinking onto it. (Beyond that, and not specific to Logica or SQL in any way -- comparing two 3-line programs to draw conclusions is effectively meaningless. You have to actually write programs bigger than that to see the whole picture.)

Datalog is not really a query language, actually. But it is relational, like SQL, so it lets you express relations between "facts" (the rows) inside tables. But it is more general, because it also lets you express relations between tables themselves (e.g. this "table" is built from the relationship between two smaller tables), and it does so without requiring extra special case semantics like VIEWs.

Because of this, it's easy to write small fragments of Datalog programs, and then stick it together with other fragments, without a lot of planning ahead of time, meaning as a language it is very compositional. This is one of the primary reasons why many people are interested in it as a SQL alternative; aside from your typical weird SQL quirks that are avoided with better language design (which are annoying, but not really the big picture.)
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Maybe for you, but not for most people. Because most people do not behave the way you are describing. Most people express themselves in vague, sometimes incomprehensible ways linked to their cultural and personal background. Their priorities might not be aligned with their best interests at all. Some will even think it clever to hide info from the doc, because they are prejudiced against docs or fear being reported, etc. That's why a skilled clinician is first of all a skilled interrogator, and second an accurate observer. The way you look, behave, walk and talk is very often of more value than lab tests. That's what a good GP is actually: someone good at extracting information from people. An unfortunate consequence of that is that every doc you'll meet will want to hear your story again, which gets old fast for patients.
In some environments, deploying to production has a massive bureaucracy tax. Paperwork, approvals, limited windows in time, can’t do them during normal business hours, etc.
There are keychain sized glass breakers available, maybe a good christmas present for a Tesla owner? Although I don't know if they still carry keys.
I usually understand "dark matter" to be shorthand for the discrepancy between theory and observation. The explanation might indeed be matter that is dark, or it might be solved by entirely unexpected observations and/or changes to theory.
>Blame Inflation :/

N'ah mate, I feel Casio is also quite cheeky with their pricing for what is essentially mass produced budget commodity 80's tech made in China from cheap plastics.

Here in Europe most of their basic watches (excluding the F91W) are over 40+ Euros and all they do is show time/date on a cheap LCD display with poor viewing angles in a plastic resin shell who's paint rubs off after a couple of years.

Meanwhile for that price you can get an Xiaomi smart band with OLED display, gorilla glass, Bluetooth, vibration, heart-rate sensor, and it even tells time. Casio's profits must be crazy good on those watches.

I wish they would sell more models in metal casings like in the 80's and with updated internals with more functionality.
> has anyone written a desktop environment for Linux that uses the Win32 API?

No, but window managers who use Xt, Xaw or Motif are ok.
I love that you point out that bullying is social and its relation to the ordinary enforcement of social norms. And I think this points more broadly to the function of social violence as a whole: much of it is regulatory and follows from repressive logics that exist in less overt forms. In other words can't have a notion like that of sex without also having sexism and gendered violence.
Isn't the scale a bit different though? Surely this event was an order of magnitude more concurrent viewers than some NFL game.
Wait, why do you have the same living room as Bojack Horseman?
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axow7KnBtaM :)
There are more successful predictions than just rotation curves. For example, see:

http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/LCDMmondtesttable.html
Unlock doesn't mean unlatched, right?

The emergency release cable is to unlatch the door.
this is really interesting.

FM-Towns was an always 32-bit approach, really really early and features a port of Strike Commander (1993) that is pretty great.

does anyone have any manuals from the Phar Lap Run/386 dos extender from back in the day? sadly not preserved online as far as i have found.
"Whatever happens, I still hope that social media itself will fade away."

"About the Author

Ian Bogost is a contributing writer at The Atlantic."
Netflix Party launched in March 2020 for that purpose.
Testing Waters with SaaS Idea
I have a vision and have been working on it for a few weeks.

I want there to be a standardized incident reporting app/website that people can use to report incidents in their neighborhood/surroundings. It only notifies someone if they're likely to be impacted.

Also thinking of adding an evacuation module that can help people navigate and get to a safe place if needed.

I think this could be sold to offices, apartments, schools, and hotels as a way to protect their residents and employees.

What do y'all think? I appreciate all the feedback
It feels pretty similar, but more chill. Distances are shorter. The sky doesn't fill with smoke for a week every year. The weather is much more interesting -- honestly I got really bored with Bay Area weather after 15 years. I even like the heat in the summer, in short intervals. There are enough tech people here to be interesting, but not enough that a random person you meet on the street is likely to be in tech.

One thing I appreciate is that there is tons of building happening. Housing prices went up during the pandemic, but there is new housing being built everywhere you look, and as a result the prices are now going down quite a bit! (Which I'm fine with, even as a homeowner, because I wasn't planning to sell anytime soon anyway and I like to see problems getting solved.) The downtown skyline keeps changing -- the tallest tower when I arrived is now hardly notable!

All that said I'm not sure I personally am very affected by where I live. When I moved from Minneapolis to the Bay Area, people asked me if it was a culture shock, but all I really noticed was less snow and more left turn lanes...
> final days of this presidency

She started the job in the middle of 2021 and in 2022 the FTC blocked Nvidia/ARM merger and sued Facebook, Twitter, and Frontier Communications. This information isn't hard to find.
Well put, thanks for sharing! Never saw it phrased in such a clear narrative. As a novice, it seems like there's one big difference between those anecdotes and the current situation, though: sample size. Sure, if we were observing Andromeda spinning too slowly I'd be open to our instruments not capturing some massive objects/clouds, but we're actively observing, what, ~1E5-6 galaxies? In the case of a missing planet there were accidents of history/solar system makeup that led to our otherwise solid frameworks missing a key piece of information. But that clearly couldn't happen millions of times; whatever explains the inconsistencies we're seeing has to be a fundamental misunderstanding.

Once we've arrived at this point, we can compare the two theoretical re-workings on their own terms: one is that we're glossing over some important detail of how gravitational relations in spacetime work, and the other is that we're failing to observe some new class of matter. I mean, right? There's no way this conundrum will be solved by "whoops turns out there was more plain ol' dust than we thought" at this point, right?

In those terms, I feel parsimony clearly favors one possibility over the other. Every hypothesis is worth exploring (I mean, QM and GR are dumb as hell, yet nonetheless turned out to be correct), but when funding is on the line it's also not out of line to favor one explanation explicitly. That's already happening anyway, just in the other direction.

But also I'm just some kid who's awed and grateful to be living in times of such profound mystery and discovery. Could be totally off base -- I barely passed physics I!
But wouldn't the size and age of the universe also imply that someone has looked at just the right moment somewhere somewhen.
Lol, never seen it before, but looking now, yeah it looks kinda similar!
Following their docs and noting any difficulties might be helpful even if you don't get to any actual coding.
Neanderthal aren't around anymore, so I'd say it's Sapien-level social darwinism.
There was some blog post on HN the other day where someone said they don't do chaos monkey anymore... Even then, how do you chaos test a novel event ahead of time?
You are making excuses for a multibillion dollar company that has been in this game for many years. Maybe the first to market in streaming.

This isn’t NFLX’s first rodeo in live streaming. Have seen a handful of events pop up in their apps.

There is no excuse. All of the resources and talent at their disposal, and they looked absolutely amateurish. Poor optics.

I would be amazed if they are able to secure another exclusive contract like this in the future.
I've witnessed how abandoning first principles undermines the evolution of a system. If our mental model of a system is not formalized into first principles (i.e. a high-level specification), then successive generations of engineers will have to re-learn those principles through trial-and-error. They'll introduce mutations and dependencies between the mutations-- and when they leave, the next generation of maintainers will repeat the process. Generations of mutations eventually create a brittle, calcified creature of a system which people fear to touch with a ten foot poll.

I imagine people who were taught SICP would be more respectful, if not inclined, towards a formal articulation of a system's principles.

This philosophy is described in depth in the original 1985 article https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1985-naur.pdf and in more accessible language in https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/. You can also observe engineers opposing/misunderstanding the need for specification in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42114874
TeVeS is definitely interesting, but it still has problems like you said. AFAICT gravitational wave observations are particularly bad for TeVeS theories. TeVeS isn't dead, but if dark matter theories are criticized for being patched up post-hoc, that standard should also apply to modified gravity.
$2.18 / 0.015$/GB*mo comes to 143 GB months of store data.

This would ignore the upload costs and any API costs.
Trump is probably the first politician in history where supporters claim he isn’t going to do what he says he is going to do (“take Trump seriously, not literally!”) while his detractors claim that he is. It’s already a weird spot in history.
Magnetic North Pole moves closer to Russia in way never seen before
Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386
Scale AI is a big one who owns companies who do this as well, such as Outlierai.

There are many other AI trainer job companies though. A lot of it is gig work but the pay is more than the vast majority of gig jobs.
Every car with frameless windows does this without the need for a death-trap electric door release, i work in McLarens and the windows will drop if the battery gets low so you can open the vertical doors with a dead battery.
It may be valid against closed source apps, but I don't see how it can be more secure than build-and-self-host OSS apps for private messaging.
I mean, there is a pretty big difference between how your body language affects your communication and like 'Where is the apple?'.
Just calling out the poor way this (and many) articles write about car accidents. I’m not a Tesla fan at all but blaming Tesla for the crash is incorrect.

(It is correct to blame them for the way the door locks work though and therefore can be blamed for the excess injuries/deaths that result from the design decision.)

From the article:

> Four people were killed in a fire after a Tesla Model Y lost control and hit a pillar in Toronto last month.

> Five people were trapped inside a Tesla Model Y after it crashed and burst into flames
The Tesla didn’t lose control, the human driver lost control of the vehicle.

From a previous article the day after:

> Police said the driver of the Tesla lost control of the vehicle while travelling at a high rate of speed and collided with a guard rail. The vehicle then struck a concrete pillar, they said, before bursting into flames.

If it wasn’t for the irresponsible driving on the part of the human driver, this incident wouldn’t have occurred in the first place. The driver paid for this with their and others’ lives.
Russia lost so many tanks that nation's largest studio donated movie props
The problem is that provisioning vast capacity for peak viewership is expensive and requires long-term commitment. Some providers won't give you more connectivity to their network unless you sign a 12 month deal where you prepay that.

Peak traffic is very expensive to run, because you're building capacity that will be empty/unsused when the event ends. Who'd pay for that? That's why it's tricky and that's why Akamai charges these insane prices for live streaming.

A "public" secret in that network layer is usually not redundant in your datacenter even if it's promised. To have redundant network you'd need to double your investment and it'll seat idle of at 50% max capacity. For 2hr downtime per year when you restart the high-capacity routers it's not cost efficient for most clients.
Any ER would check for a concussion in that circumstance, as I can attest from experience.
> Probably laid off the highly paid engineers and teams that made their shit work.

More likely overpaying a bunch of posers without the chops, a victim of their own arrogance.
Hmm, I don’t think so. Functional programming is definitely based on the “declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects”.
Netflix has 280m subscriber highly doubt half of them tuned in to watch the match, is that 130m figure official?
It’s interesting, SICP and other many other “classic” texts talk about designing programs, but these days I think the much more important skill is designing systems.

I don’t know if distributed systems is consider part of “Computer Science” but it is a much more common problem that I see needs to be solved.

I try to write systems in the simplest way possible and then use observability tools to figure out where the design is deficient and then maybe I will pull out a data structure or some other “computer sciency” thing to solve that problem. It turns out that big O notation and runtime complexity doesn’t matter the majority of the time and you can solve most problems with arrays and fast CPUs. And even when you have runtime problems you should profile the program to find the hot spots.

What computer science doesn’t teach you is how memory caching works in CPUs. Your fancy graph algorithm may have good runtime complexity but it completely hoses the CPU cache and you may have been able to go faster with an array with good cache usage.

The much more common problems I have is how to deal with fault tolerance, correctness in distributed locks and queues, and system scalability.

Maybe I am just biased because I have a computer/electrical engineering background.