skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how much this adds to the conversation, but I have a 1990 VW Golf which is possibly the easiest piece of technology I've ever worked on. Has satisfying buttons that button. Has an actual windshield wiper handle. Diagnosing and replacing parts is incredibly easy due to the wealth of knowledge out there, and readily available parts that can be ordered. The most complicated thing is tracing electrical gremlins, which, given the 30+ years of collective knowledge out there on forums, is really not so bad anymore. I'm not always nostalgic for old stuff, just saying that if you have an engineering mindset, tinkering with an older car is very satisfying.
It's all JIT'd based on the specific driver/GPU, but the intermediate assembly language is sufficient to inspect things like branches and loop unrolling.
With regard to "Un*x", the Wikipedia text is... imprecise[0].

The asterisk character in this context/usage is not used as a wildcard/glob but as a censoring device[3], in a manner similar to: "Don't censor f*ck on HN."

In the case of "Un*x" the motivation is not one of propriety but of proprietary--it was motivated by matters of legality (real or imagined) in relation to trademarks.

AIUI at the time UNIX(TM) was a trademark and it was thought by some that in order to avoid potential legal issues it was required to always include the TM superscript in order to avoid the wrath of the trademark owners for trademark infringement/generic-ism.

But as "Un*x" is not "UNIX"[4], the reasoning went, no trademark attribution was required.

Anyway, that's why when referring to "***/L*nux" I’ve (very) recently taken to calling it "***/L*nux", not wanting to infringe on Linus's trademark and all...

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[0] The Wikipedia text doesn't really fully represent/match the text of the cited reference[1][2]:

"Used to refer to the Unix operating system [...] in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly ™ typography [...] lawyers now say that the requirement for the trademark postfix has no legal force [...]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like#cite_note-jargonfile...

[2] http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UN-asterisk-X.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk#Censorship

[4] Coincidentally, GNU is also Not Unix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#Name
Much worse. I am really sick of British people (those who have not lived abroad or had really experience of other countries) thinking the UK is uniquely bad. Its in fact better than than most places in most ways. Why do you think people want to immigrate here (including lots of highly skilled people who can pick where they live, and lots of people from other rich countries)? Why do you think so many of us with dual nationality who can just go somewhere else as a right live (ship our stuff and get on plane, whenever we like) here?

We have not had anything on the scale of what the GP describes of a city going billions into debt - even Birmingham is orders of magnitude less bad.

The government sold assets, but not at fire sale prices. I do not think selling utilities was a great idea, but its not as bad as either what GP describes, nor the "small town in Michigan" example at the top of this thread (when did you last experience a blackout in the UK?).
>>(XC40 T8 EV).

Such model doesn't exist. Do you mean XC60? And if so then it's not an EV, it's a PHEV.

Anyway, Volvo made a collosal mistake of going with the Android Automotive operating system. It looks good but it's genuienly a pile of steaming crap. When Volvo had Sensus(their own OS) yeah it wasn't pretty but it was stable and it worked day in day out. I have a 2020 XC60 T8 with sensus and I literally have had zero issues with this car. But the new AOSS models? Oh boy, the main advice on facebook Volvo groups is to just start your drive by hard resetting the system to avoid freezes during operation(!!!!!). If you don't have GSM signal you don't get maps since the car doesn't store them locally anymore. The cars randomly lose cameras, sound stops working until full reboot, and whenever there is an OS upgrade(which is often) you have to roll the dice on what else it's going to break today.

>>I just want a luxury car that is grand, silent, feels nice, is nice to drive, and doesn't blast my eyes with screens.

Honestly find the same car but with Sensus instead, you will find the experience a lot more like what you're looking for.
This is my biggest bugbear with VW (and related) cars. The "it's below 4ºc" message has the same warning tone as messages about tyre pressures, engine malfunctions, etc.
Same difference. They're all Belgians anyway.
The "Deep State" as I got to learn about it in the earlier phase of online conspiratorial forums and sites referred to two pretty distinct things:

1) The CIA et al, official parts of the government that work secretely and control the world through illegal and shadowy actions. They assassinate people going against them (eg. JFK), faked the moon landing and poison the water supply to keep the population weak willed aso.

2) Neo-feudalistic elites, a mix of billionaires, politicians and the previously mentioned security services. They meet at Bilderberg to perform satanic rituals, work together in the trilateral commission, and might all be lizard people.

Now both of those obviously contain a kernel of truth, both the unaccountability of intelligence agencies, on more than one occasion used even against the american population, as well as these neo-feudal, elitist structures are anti-democratic. But that's a whole other topic, the interesting bit. is that over the last 10 years or so, also with the rise of QAnon, the idea of the "deep state" has been reframed to basically mean "professional bureaucracy".

What was once the topic of cynical comedy in "Yes minister", is now phrased as an existential threat to democracy - ironically and cynically by people who openly admit to wanting to create a fully neo-feudal society.
I believe Andrej Karpathy runs a discord, which is linked on his website [1]. I haven't participated personally, but from what I've seen, it's very active.

[1]: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
Funny how this happens in a country which has GDPR as part of their law. At least you get the popups, though, those really keep you safe.

The US should sanction and embargo the UK for this, some illegitimate despotic regime that is in full economic and social collapse should not be able to access everyone's data.
Just use a flat C-style function API instead of a Singleton object. Singletons are only really needed in languages that enforce the 'everything is an object' folly.
> So, to answer your question - any computation based on shader inputs (vertices, computer shader indices and what not) cannot and won't branch.

It can do an actual branch if the condition ends up the same for the entire workgroup - or to be even more pedantic, for the part of the workgroup that is still alive.

You can also check that explicitly to e.g. take a faster special case branch if possible for the entire workgroup and otherwise a slower general case branch but also for the entire workgroup instead of doing both and then selecting.
Apple cares about profits, and only about users to the extent that it can profit from them. The touted security and privacy aspects of their service are useful for marketing, but they are not primarily why people buy Apple devices.

They already operate in China, allowing the Chinese government to access all "Chinese" user data. Non-Chinese Apple accounts also work perfectly well in China, which leads me to believe that the extent of data sharing is greater than has been disclosed (or dissidents could just use a foreign phone to avoid surveillance). I strongly suspect the CIA/FBI/DHS has similar access.

(Microsoft stuff also works fine in China, Google stuff does not. Draw your own conclusions.)

I think it's somewhat likely they'll just backdoor it and not tell the public, they can see this is just the way the world is headed.

If you want to message someone secretly, use an audited open source solution - don't rely on a megacorp to look out for your interests.
He doesn't have sentry mode on. What would be the point with no camera? Plus, multiple times he says sentry isn't on, he even breaks down how much power sentry mode uses... Which I guess math and Tesla says would be MORE than 8 percent per 24hrs
>Ford (US) and Volvo (China)

Isn't Volvo Swedish?
Not a repo but I remember a book titled something like "architecture in 500 lines or less" that had really pretty explanations and diagrams
I think it is unnecessary to say "Putting aside the ethics". This is a very personal thing, for you it would (presumably) take putting aside your ethics, and maybe it would for me. But that is not the case for everyone.

I for one don't like it when people online, with every statement, signal their personal ethics. It gets to be very tiresome and degrades my HN experience. Actually it is degrading my whole internet browsing experience nowadays. There is too much "btw, you should feel bad when you do X". It's divisive, the US could use less divisiveness or anti-divisiveness.

And in come the downvotes, for speaking up against divisiveness. Doesn't that make you feel.. something?
The BMW G20 3-series before and after the facelift[1] perfectly exemplifies this issue.

[1]: https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bmw-3-ser...

EDIT: top is after, bottom is before.
I'm afraid a lot of the tech is either necessary by law or necessary to get a decent safety rating these days, so you can't make the simple cars from yesteryear.

Now, screens aren't required by law or safety ratings, but there's no getting around having a lot of software in there, and thus a screen to configure all that stuff.
>We need the EV revolution to save the climate but we were also promised that EVs would have less defects and be more maintainable than traditional ICE cars.

That was absolutely a lie. And the "we need the EV revolution" was pretty bogus too.
I spent 2 * 1 hours in a 'fresh' car some time ago, it was a nasty experience. It had all these 'backseat driver' functions, like trying to figure out and then misjudging somehow what the speed limit currently was or trying to influence where on the road I place the car, as if it could know better than I do what would be appropriate.

The 'lane assist' was just absurdly awful, it only figured out where the car was sometimes, when it could 'see' the line on the edge of the road clearly enough for long enough, and then pushed away from it under the assumption that I don't have a precision of a few centimeters in relation to it. So once it suddenly pushed the car closer to a heavy truck during an overtaking. And it's not needed, since the edge lines are rumble strips or you feel the tire slip off the asphalt into gravel.

It was also obvious that the screen in the middle section ('infotainment'? idk.) was designed by a junior on a huge monitor sitting right in front of them, because the clock was really small and in the upper right corner. Took me a minute to figure out how to make it stop incessantly send out visual noise about what was on some radio channel even though I had stopped the playback from it. It's for good reason many cars has dark orange LCD and not bright off-white on light blue gradients, for one it's a nuisance when the light outdoors is dusky or misty.

This was an Opel, don't remember which one. Next time I hand in my friendly relatively low-tech car from 2006 for repairs I'll bring a friend to drive me instead of borrowing another one of these disgusting Scrum cars.
XC40 was renamed to EX40 in 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_XC40.
> The safest bet in EVs is to buy one from the Korean manufacturers - they have the tech figured out (and have had it for a few years)

Not an EV, but I have a 2022 Kia Sorento with a fair number of weird software bugs-e.g. the sound from the navigation system randomly stops working and I have to restart the car to make it work again; the car tries to read speed limit signs using machine vision but its capabilities are too basic so it reads them incorrectly (in particular, conditional speed limits which only apply under a certain condition, such as at certain times of day, for heavy vehicles only, it will treat as absolutes)

Is their EV software better? Outside of cars, my experience with South Korean software hasn’t impressed me
Germany is Europe's prime target for ATM bombings (2024)
Yeah honestly that's a completely insane part. I'm from a country that also didn't have an official Tesla presence until very recently and only extremely rich people bought Teslas, basically with the assumption that anything goes wrong you put it on a trailer and take it back to Germany where there is official Tesla support network, you have 5 other cars to drive to it's not a big deal.

For someone who is "not a car guy" and for whom this is their only car....that's insane.
I agree that was imprudent, but the rest of the story is shocking nonetheless.
A lot of the comments here are about blogging to nobody (which I do) but I wanted to share how much I love reading people's personal blogs.

I follow a bunch of developers (surprise surprise) and read mostly technical blogs, I've found a lot of developers mix writing blog posts about their personal and family life alongside technical posts. As I've been reading I've found those are some of my favourite posts, as someone who balancing professional and open source development with parenting, I really love hearing about other people's experiences doing the same. It's not a side that I read much about elsewhere outside of personal blogs.

That's a long way of me saying, keep on blogging strangers, someone might be reading!
> Every bootstrap site looks the same no matter how you customize it.

How would you recognize a bootstrap site if this is false though? Sounds like confirmation bias, that is, "all sites that I can recognize as using Bootstrap use Bootstrap"
We should get rid of the Nickle as well.

It also costs 3x it's face value to produce, and is also effectively worthless. Many other countries have 10c or 20c as their smallest denomination.
UX Castrator - i love it :) I'll try to give myself that role
$12 is a small price to pay compared to the opportunity cost of having a bricked car in one's garage for months on end, multiplied by however many individuals they may have saved from the same pain.
What's "china insurance data"? New sales only? Including resale? Renewals?
I wonder if Google has received the same request. If not then why not?
Because ADA is maintained by big actors who think ADA is for "mission critical" stuff and not our lowly web apps.

Problem is, web is the new BASIC and many devs will start there and they will see rust first. And where's that ADA game engine ?

ADA can definitely claim tons of successes and very powerful constructs, but mindhsare is clearly not one of its selling points.
Bloomberg article <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-10/germany-i...>, republished through Times of India.

I had thought that the republished copy was complete but it is not, so archive.is link: <https://archive.is/20240810063939/https://www.bloomberg.com/...>
I think Renault in general are doing well right now. I'm very happy with the new Scenic EV.
The XC40 T8 EV does exist. I know, because I owned one. It was a 2022 model I think, got it late 2021. The renamed it a few times after that. I basically had one of the first XC40 EVs on the local market. I ordered it before they were in the showrooms.

EDIT: I looked up the invoice; they called it a "XC40 Recharge Level III P8 BEV AWD AT". I think it had a P8 TE badge ("Twin Engine"). So it wasn't T8. I got it Sep 2021. It was also the first model with the Android system.
The "Use feature ABC? Yes/Not now" dialog that shows up day by day until users click "Yes" increased usage of ABC by a significant amount!
Apple's 1 billion+ users across the world should protest this ludicrous overreach of power since the UK is essentially declaring digital sovereignty over all of them.

In the meantime maybe consider alternative cloud storage providers.
> Upon returning from China, at the end of 2023, my wife and I went to live in Slovakia, where she is from.

She should then know that "Tesla" stands for "technicky slabé" (technically weak).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_a.s.
We have to train LLMs on something...
Yes, there is additional context that is not explicitly stated in the question. It is clear that you are looking for a job to earn money and live your life and everyone already knows this, so there is no need to talk about. The question is: Why did you apply (here out of all the places you could have applied to)?
Volvo is owned by a Chinese company these days called Zhejiang Geely
>firstly, that's not how the treasury works.

Firstly, that's how the Treasury works. It is literally the Department of the Treasury, headed by the Secretary of the Treasury who serves at the pleasure of the President.

President Trump can be his own Treasury Secretary if he were so inclined, he just doesn't have to.

>who's gonna stop them from touching social security?

Literally President Trump whom Elon Musk answers to and serves at the pleasure of. Trump made safeguarding Social Security, et al. a campaign promise and he is, by and large, a man of his word to a far greater degree than any other politician.

>He passed 100 EO's day one and couldn't add in a price control for eggs

If circumstances like the bird flu get too severe he might have to play hard ball, but in the interests of the free(er) market it probably is better to be less conspicuous.

Regardless, it's not even 1 month into a 4 year term. If Trump thinks that cleaning the government out is a more pressing matter than lowering grocery prices, I can't say I disagree, I voted for that policy too.

>can't take the time to make sure DOGE is appointed as usual?

He doesn't need to ask for Senate confirmations because the law doesn't say so.

>He could give a half a trillion grant to AI but also wants to "reduce spending"?

That $500 billion is private money coming from the companies who signed on to Project Stargate. I'm going to assume this was just simple naivety and wasn't deliberate mischaracterization.

>Well I'm glad you're accepting of World War 3.

Biden's policies brought us closer to World War 3 than ever before. Contrasting that to the only President in my lifetime who has not started a war of his own, I'll take this any day of the century over the prior status quo.

>I live on the West Coast

Me too. As a Japanese-American I share your sentiment that China is an enemy to be appropriately feared and respected.

I personally suspect Pax Sino is coming some time this century regardless of anything we do at this point, though. The ship already sailed out.

>The way our geography is basically means we need to defend all of North America at the bare minimum. defending a continent isn't cheap.

Our defense budget pays for significantly far more than just the United States of America, let alone the North American continent (this should be an equally shared responsibility between the US, Mexico, and Canada.)

Our defense budget pays for defending the entirety of NATO and all our other allies; we effectively defend the better part of the entire fucking globe. And yet our "allies" continue to whine, especially NATO. I'm tired of it, I'm sick of sending our servicemen to serve in other countries who don't even want them and seeing our tax dollars spent on countries who don't appreciate it.

Obama already declared we aren't the world police anymore, the world can fend for itself while we figure out our god damn finances. If that means accelerating Pax Sino, well, "I don't really care, Margaret."[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7rk8djJek
The modern (2023-2025) KIAs (is that what you’re referring to?) have been horrifically crashy in terms of suspension and ride compared to the Germans in my experience. Definitely wouldn’t be for me. We’ve got a 2024 Skoda Octavia VRS and had a 2021 V60, both of which seem to be a much more sensible ride than the (both e and non e)-Niro and the Stonic. The sportage was a whole other level of rolly, and we don’t really get non SUVish-but-not-really models in the UK. Even my 2010 325i was a whole other level of comfort compared to what is being produced by the eastern markets today.
I have the same car and the thing I like most about it is that it doesn't have a giant screen and looks more like a traditional car. I can't say I've had the same issues (or any issues besides the slow infotainment system). I do agree that the amount of notifications are excessive but that seems to be the case with all newer cars.
> Non-Chinese Apple accounts also work perfectly well in China, which leads me to believe that the extent of data sharing is greater than has been disclosed

Yes because people just use VPNs to access overseas e.g. US iCloud servers.

That has nothing to do with whether Apple is sharing data with Chinese authorities or not.
It's pretty useful to remind people that buying a tesla is supporting Musk.
It's amazing how everything is a debate in America, even blantantly obvious things like getting rid of the penny. The Nickle should also go.
It was an metaphor for the typical cherry picking that religions do.

Edit: no, it wasn't a hyperbole , it was a metaphor
You would certainly hope that selling 3kW heaters was an indication of that, and that's what I used to think, but what I've read about EV charging makes me think that it isn't.
A 20 year old Clio costs €6,600? Seems somewhat steep - I'd expect nearer to €660!

I'm not sure why he's got problems returning, I'd expect Dutch consumer protection laws to make this an open and shut case.
they bought 2 domains in fact: https://laexperienciatesla.com/
`?` is a glob for one character so it would work only if you:

a) use bash-like behaviour of an unmatched glob turning into a bare word, e.g with zsh have `setopt NULL_GLOB`.

AND

b) don't have a file named, say, `-a` in the current working directory.

Try this:

touch ./-l
ls -?

The common denominator for getting help would be man(1).
You take the CEO to a dank isolated cell for a few days and publicly flog them.
1) Write to get it out of your head? Instead of therapy, it works.
2) Write to see if others share your opinions? Sometimes they do, sometimes not.
3) To make money. If you have the connections, advertising will come, even with low audience. Look, my readers are top 100 CEOs. How many have time to read? A few. Ads for Porsche will come.
4) To get work. A good blog will draw job offers or will convince your interviewer to hire you.
And probably other reasons.
If you blame people who've been taken advantage of, remember that others will blame you when you've been taken advantage of, too. This is not wise, especially in consumer rights.

Almost every popular company is infamous for bad customer service and quality issues, it's just a matter of luck. You're probably reading this comment on either a smartphone of a brand already known for quality issues and bad customer support, or on a PC built with parts from brands known for quality issues and bad customer support.

And anyways, "you have only yourself to blame" is not true. You have the seller to blame usually. And by law, not just in some vague moral sense.
not OP. I have a competing product with an ad-hoc algorithm that I 100% believe is better than FSRS (tested it for months or real practice)

But what you ask is not feasible, neither I nor OP have 700 millions of reviews to stack up against FSRS.

I have my own experience and a bunch of simulations, and if FSRS were better I would have switched to it.

The reason in my case btw is that FSRS is generic, mine is tailor made for languages - big difference.
>Teslas, in principle, are great cars.

What principle? Aside from mouth gaping nerdy admiration early on ("oh EV! oh, sportcars! Oh, it can ~kill y~ drive itself! Oh, shiny panels"), they'd been nothing but trouble for a decade now. And let's not get started on the Cybertruck either.