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That's not how sleep works at all. Your sleep goes through many different phases and your brain is continually monitoring its surroundings for danger[0]. The reason why you feel like your mind is shut down is because, on a normal night of sleeping in your comfy home, nothing extraordinary happens. Try sleeping in the wild, it will be a whole different experience.

[0] https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2022/01/06/JNEUROSCI...

It's a false equivalency, air conditioning units are expensive, require extra lines, a bigger belt... Besides, it comes as standard on all models.. unlike heated seats. The radio would be a software update so I can't see how that would add any weight?

This is a cheap, weightless feature that is regularly retrofitted. Don't like the concept? Buy the heated seats outright when you spec the car, it'll get coded into your VO and you'll be able to use that feature right up until we run out of petrol.

It already exists. All their part documentation, all the dealer software, software to unlock ECUs, remove engine restrictions to get an additional 50bhp, Android apps to unlock features.. it's all widely available on dedicated websites and they've done nothing to stop it. The only thing they have ever stopped being shared is their TIS manuals which are incredibly expensive service manuals that they sell to dealers. But even in that case, they agreed to look the other way as long as the providers of the TIS manuals only let them be accessed by existing users.

BMW have bundled features you can't access for a long term, and modders have been enabling them for a long time. Just look up the 328i to 330i tuning software for an example, you can use free software (bimmerlabs.com) to derestrict your engine to same power as the next model (it's the same engine, just restricted).

That's not how it currently works. The car's spec is stored on a central database and set in the specific modules when the car is first produced. You only lose the customised VO codes when you update a module (not a common thing to do, even for car modders) but even then you can often convince a dealer to add your retrofit's VO code to the central database. I strongly suspect that the subscription will piggy-back off of this infrastructure and the subscription will set/unset the VO codes.

BMW are fantastic with parts and supporting older car maintenance. Even now I can order 20 year old parts (including electronic modules) new from BMW.

You can already unlock spec features (called VO codes) in BMWs with a $20 dongle, some pirated dealer software and a simple YouTube video. Maybe they will introduce stronger protections but enabling features you didn't spec in a BMW is already a very common and easy thing to do. The only difference is now you don't need to scavenge the hardware from a breaker's yard.

The heated seat hardware isn't expensive, the blocks can be bought for about $15/chair second hand on their e90 range. I highly doubt it costs BMW any more than a couple of months of the rental cost and I strongly suspect over the life of a car they will get at least a couple of months rent and justify the cost.

I, for one, welcome this change. BMW makes retrofit kits for everything because they know people want features that aren't in their spec and they're very expensive. I buy old, second hand cars and I'm at the mercy of the original buyer when it comes to features included. This way, not only do I get the option of a feature that was never bought, but I can enable it only for the couple of months I'd actually need it. Or better yet, I'll do what I do with everything I own and hack it, unlocking everything I can.

I've switched out my seats for heated ones and the difference is an extra block on the seat loom and some metallic slivers in the upholstery. I have noticed absolutely no difference in my fuel economy and, being a nerd, I data log everything.

It's mentioned in the article. Any money he would earn in prison would go towards paying off his debt, so this allows him to earn whilst in there and make his life marginally more comfortable.

The banks do. Payment providers do. Advertisers do. There's plenty of reasons for a business to be low-key about providing accessories to break Federal laws.

There are no sanctions on selling goods to general consumers, most companies have just chosen not to do so.

The problem I always found with guided meditation was that I would wake up once the guided meditation stopped and I would have slept so well in the 60 minutes during the meditation that I wouldn't be even remotely capable of falling asleep again.

Maybe the solution is a shorter one like you mentioned, so it only helps me get into that sleepy phase. I completely agree in its effectiveness though, I often violate almost every rule of good sleep hygiene and a guided medication will still do the job of getting me to sleep if I'm desperate.

I work on the ML field so my understanding of the product is not based on naivety. It's an NLP model so all it's doing is learning what "words" (or in this case syntax, function calls etc.) go together well. It has zero understanding of what each function call does and hence is incapable of doing anything beyond a glorified, contextually aware, copy & paste. It certainly wouldn't be able to create new IP without heavy influence from the developer. Writing the actual code is the least difficult part of software development to anyone above entry level.

My knee jerk reaction is outrage, but the more I think about it, the more I realise the only realistic audience for a tool like this is those who are learning or just not very competent yet. If I'm happy to waste my time answering people on Stack overflow, then why does it outrage me so much when a machine takes my knowledge and uses it to help beginners on my behalf? If co-pilot was a human that read the entirety of github and then helped people code for $10/month I wouldn't have any qualms, I'd probably commend them. The reality is copilot isn't capable of creating any real IP, it's just building off the very same foundations of open-source that I have also built my career off. I'm conflicted.

That said, I do believe it's outrageous there is no way to opt-out. I know that's very unpractical given the resources required to train the model, but presumably at some point it will be re-trained and there should be the ability to opt-out of future training cycles.

It's laid out quiet clearly in the article:

"She was unhappy with her barrister and was told he would not be able to continue representing her after she expressed her dissatisfaction.

However, due to industrial action, no other barrister can accept the case. With no replacement found, Judge Peter Rook QC has told Anderson, 40, that she must represent herself."

They're on strike. They will still represent clients but they will not pick up clients of another barrister, presumably because the original barrister will get no or less pay if that happens.

Crypto still has value, but bitcoin itself has shown little value in any of the things it's supposed to be a solution for. It's not really that decentralised (in as far as most people trade through exchanges, and the miners have pooled their power to elicit control), the transaction fees are too high to be good for commerce, it's too volatile to be a store of money, and it's not anonymous enough to be used on illicit markets (the majority of them have moved to Monero). In my opinion, for crypto to flourish bitcoin needs to die.

That said, I also don't believe it will go to zero because there's one thing it's great at.. speculation. It's an ingenious bit of technology that the general public doesn't really understand and so the greater fool theory will continue to prove true.

Can you elaborate on your last point, for those of us with puny vacuums? I'm intrigued as to why a more powerful vacuum would be worse for carpet, I assumed it would be better. What type of surface would need a 2kW, if not a carpet?

Not if you consider the fact that the USA has 10x the rate of counterfeit notes: 1/4,000[0] Vs 1/40,000[1]. Obviously there are other factors too but this is likely one of the reasons for deprecating old notes like this.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_United_States_cu...

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/banknote

Can you provide any sources for that claim? Full fact does a breakdown that concludes this is not true - https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-finances-whisky-tax/

It doesn't mention if it includes Northern Sea oil as part of that, but the Governments research goes into more detail and does include oil: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...

Of course numbers can be manipulated either way but it doesn't appear to be as clear cut as "Scotland is heavily subsidising England".

Wow what a journey the homebrew section of that article was. As someone who grew up heavily involved in the evolving Xbox homebrew scene, I dipped out of consoles before the 360 was truly cracked. I remember the sadness in realising the DVD drive exploit had effectively killed off any interest in trying to run homebrew, but I'm thoroughly glad to learn that the community not only persisted, but became incredibly inventive.

You can find notes on the podcast here: https://podcastnotes.org/all-in-podcast/e69-elon-musk-on-twi...

You're exhibiting the exact behaviour that you're chastising by negatively focusing on points the article didn't even make. The article promotes genuine positivity and human emotion whilst considering the circumstances of those around you.

Please take a second to read the HN guidelines if you genuinely want to make HN (and the world) a more positive and constructive place: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but in the UK neither vehicle duty nor fuel duty are used specifically for anything road related so theoretically they shouldn't need to tax it at all (beyond the standard VAT).

Ernie Chan's books are a great starting point. If you plan on getting into the ML side of things then Stefan Jansen and Marcos De Prado's books are a must have.

Some advice: Read lots of books, stay away from Reddit, be prepared to get lamented by other algo traders, expect every idea you read about to have lost all it's alpha, get ready for several misguided "I've done it, I'm rich" moments, and most of all have fun. It's a long and arduous journey with very little hope, but if you like impossible challenges then there's nothing quite like it.

It is overwhelmingly used for heating, followed by boiling water and cooking. Please spend 5 minutes googling before throwing out baseless claims.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

That's a very naive statement. In machine learning, for example, there's a lot of scenarios where performance isn't critical but due to the huge quantities of data you may need to process (especially during feature engineering or selection), micro optimisations like this can result in huge improvements over millions of iterations.

Not to mention Python has Cython and numba's JIT which can provide great performance when needed.

"How many countries have dictators invaded?"

Stalin? Mussolini? Hitler? Read a history book before making such outrageous claims and false analogies.

If the international value of the Ruble falls below it's fair value then buyers of Russian produce and exports would start buying more Russian stuff (since it's now cheaper than the competitors) and demand for the Ruble would increase back to its fair value.

Read the the agreement again. It only mandates that the countries that signed the agreement wouldn't be the ones to attack Ukraine - it didn't include any obligation to defend them.

Probably because it's largely irrelevant to the matter at hand - Belarus is not the country getting invaded, and Ukraine is not the one that violated the agreement so there's zero justification for an invasion from either Russia or Belarus.

If anything, highlighting Belarus's involvement in the invasion serves to demonstrate that Russia's meddling in Belarus's elections was to install a puppet government and is a violation of their independence (and subsequently the memorandum).