Put it this way, from engineering and technology perpective vape is equivalent to generalization of smoking tools (cigarette, pipe, etc). Naturally it's a very complex as a system and no small feat because you are going to generalize relativity and AI, for examples general relativity and AGI, respectively.
Yes, it's a just link to an excellent book on virtual communication.
I highly recommend this book for all the remote workers, office workers, and the rest of us for professional virtual communication authored by a well-known researcher in the field that spent decades on the topic. Fun facts, he even interviewed and include quotations from David Heinemeier Hansson of the RoR fame, regarding open source movement where according to him virtual communication has been the default since the very beginning.
Are you serious, a car with Lidar sensor that's not even available in Bugatti Tourbillon that cost 500x more?
Joking aside, this BYD Seagull, or Atto 1 in Australia (AUD$24K) and Dolphin Surf in Europe (￡18K in the UK), is one the cheapest EV cars in the world and selling at around ￡6K in China. It's priced double in Australia and triple in the UK compared to its original price in China. It's also one of China best selling EV cars with 60K unit sold per month on average.
Most of the countries scrambling to block its sales to protect their own car industry or increase the tariff considerably.
It's a game changing car and it really deserve the place in EV car world Hall of Fame, as one of the legendary cars similar Austin 7, the father of modern ICE car including BMW Dixi and Datsun Type 11.
I agree with every word about the BYD, in fact I just recently helped a family member buy one. But how would you pick the Austin 7 over the Model T as your example revolutionary car? Serious question, you're obviously knowledgeable if you mentioned that vehicle.
You can check the video on the early generation cars reviewed by the famous Top Gear team members [1].
Austin 7 and its derivatives (notably Dixi that kickstarted the highly successful BMW car business), dictated and popularized the modern car architecture, interfaces and controls stereotype as we know today. In order to drive old cars prior to Austin 7, we probably need a manual before we can drive them except the Cadillac Type 53 car, the original car that heavily inspired the Austin 7.
Austin 7 is the lightest car and cheapest proper car of its generation, and even by today's standard and inflation. As crazy as it sounds you can even drive it now in the UK road without any modification [2].
It become the template of modern cars, made popular in the UK, Germany and Japan, and then the rest of the world since these three countries are major manufacturers of modern cars.
The lighweight and low cost price of the baby Seagull (smallest BYD), is very similar to Baby Austin (popular name for Austin 7 in the UK) innovation criteria.
[1] Jeremy Clarkson and James May Find the First Car [video]:
Jaguar only started using a synchromesh gearbox in the E-Type in '65 or '66 (Series II) - that's forty years after the Austin. I have no idea why the British love to abuse themselves.
Last week I saw some old Rolls Royce that I absolutely could not guess even the decade of. The carriage looked 1930s but the interior looked 1950s - until I noticed what might have been spark advance levers on the steering wheel. It's a super luxury vehicle with super conservative styling, so I really don't know if it had a luxury interior for it's time or a classic exterior for it's time.
The graph has this group which includes mostly Eastern car manufacturer:
> No demonstration of alignment (0-22 points)
What does "no demonstration of alignment" mean in this context?
Eastern companies often don't proactively demonstrate compliance beyond what's legally required, especially to Western NGOs. Does this lack of demonstration actually prove they're violating human rights?
It's a mind boggling that overwhelming majority (more than 98%) of the visible universe's mass are only from the two most lightweight of chemical elements namely Hydrogen and Helium.
We just into new year and already we have one of the contenders of HN article of the year. I know HN does not has this ranking but this article is impressive.
I agree most of the points in the article except the point according to the article that local-first app must be free and open source.
Arguably one of the best app I've been using is the original Napster. At that time TIME magazine did not has the breakthrough of the year award, otherwise the Napster surely the breaktrough of the year when it was released back in 1999.
Napster single-handedly introduced and popularized p2p concept, and listening to song need not to be cumbersome and expensive. The latter facts were vindicated with the iTunes and iPod success. It also fit the very definition of local-first app defined in the original Kleppmann's article.
I was probably 16 or 17 at the time when napster (himself) was hanging out on efnet/irc and working on the program that became Napster. It was wild to see that period play out like it did with a front row seat. That 98ish-2000 and early 2001 era felt like we were on the cusp of so many things with just cool computer technologies that were coming of age. And then 9/11 happened, and everybody's mood soured for quite awhile.
>Those have failed by being impossible to program.
I think you spoke too soon about their failure, sooner they will be much easier to program [1].
Interestingly, Nvidia GPU now is also moving to tile-based GPU programming model that targets portability for NVIDIA Tensor Cores [2]. Recently there're discussions on the topic at HN [3].
[1] Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine [pdf]:
The amd npu and versal ML tiles (same underlying architecture) have been an complete failure. Dynamic programming models like cu tile do not work on them at all, be cause they require an entirely static graph to function. AMD is going to walk away from their NPU architecture and unify around their GPU IP on inference products in the future.
US even mastermind amd helped overthrowned Iranian elected government and then only recently admitted and apologized to that but the damaged already done [2].
>How he did manage to avoid lawsuits from Microsoft is beyond me.
MS probably chose not to shut down that effort on the basis that it was enabling the MS stack in Linux.
I wish I could dig up an internal presentation that was prepared in the 90s for Bill Gates at the time, which evaluated the threat posed by Linux to Microsoft. I think they were probably happy that Linux now had a reason to talk to Windows machines.
At first, MS didn’t mind as long as SAMBA only implemented the outdated older protocols.
Then they realized interoperability could make them more money, and they invited him and his team to Redmond for a week of working with MS engineers to understand the latest protocol versions.
Oh wait, no, it was because the EU forced them. https://www.theregister.com/2007/12/21/samba_microsoft_agree...
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