skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lets do an example. The battery is a huge part of the cost of a car. If you have to buy this you have to pay a profit on that, not to mention that because all non-Tesla car buyers compete for the same batteries the margins will be huge.

Panasonic is the one who manufacturers Tesla's batteries, that's not a operational advantage for them. Many other car companies have similar deals with other battery manufacturers, like Toyota/Mastushita. Also, I don't get why you think battery margins will be huge? What is the major reason that prevents significant supplier competition?

> Independent evaluation of the Bolt for example are showing that GM is losing money on every single Bolt that is produced.

Yes, it was mainly built for compliance reasons as a compromise vehicle, but it isn't that Tesla has been able to construct a vehicle for less price than Chevy constructs the Bolt.

> So the game that the other manufactures are basically waiting until they can build profitable electric cars while Tesla is hellbent on producing as much battery capability as they and that allows them already to have a cheapish car on the market and to make billions of $ selling it.

What cheapish car? The Model 3 is $49,000 as you can configure it currently?
>recognition that the status quo is people's preference...I'd argue in the scheme of things, it's not really that broken

Continuing the status quo means the people in power stay in power. It therefore isn't surprising that the people in power prefer preserving the status quo. It also isn't surprising that the people who believe the system is broken and are most against the status quo are those that belong to historically oppressed groups. If you really think the system isn't broken, I suggest you look through the Twitter mentions of politically active famous women, POC, or LGBTQ members. The harassment they receive on a regular basis wouldn't be allowed in the physical world. Why do we allow it in the digital world?
The obvious follow-up is: did you have to compromise on other aspects of the job (like tooling, salary, or location) to be able to work on a meaningful project?
I'm thinking that a lot of this perceived difference is that taking a political stance is much more natural on social media than previously in real life. Before you would have to care enough to find some place to set your soap box or buy a printing press. The crazies definitely were there but there were also a large segment of the population that would have gladly espoused whacky beliefs but didn't have the motivation and/or resources to do so. Now, proclaiming that the earth is flat takes about 10 minutes of account setup online. I'm just not convinced that it really matters as much as people think it does.
desal plants cost billions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Desalination_Plant#C...) and produce toxic byproducts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Environmental)
>it is possible to start your own ISP

And where do you suppose ISPs get internet from?
I meant to add to your point, not disagree with it. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.

> every vote can potentially be crucial

I'll also add that every vote is important because the number of votes is important. Winning 70-30 will get much different behavior than winning 50.01-49.99; the latter representative had better pay attention to the 49.99's needs. And that can matter down to the smallest geographical levels - if everyone in your neighborhood votes, politicians will pay much more attention.
TiDB Deployed in Fast-Growing Zhuan Zhuan (100m Users “Recommerce” Marketplace)
Might I remind people that this is the country that the West went literally ballistic over, claiming they were ready and willing to destroy the world at any minute because... communism.

In actual fact, they were a country under siege from a delusional, capitalist world that they could not convince of their desire for peace and prosperity.

After the people of Vietnam, Korea and Afghanistan showed desire to organize like the Soviets did, we got the Korean war, the Vietnam war and the creation of Al Qaeda. The loss of life was tremendous in the U.S. campaign to stop the spread of a united working class.

Now large parts of Russia sit in ruin and we can freely look at Soviet documents to see the threat, at least technologically, was never really there. The real threat was, however.

That threat was a collective working class.
Not as a PM or UI developer but if it were for the kind of thing you'd need distributed systems knowledge for, then yea why not?
That's not going to be a serious obstacle to that 5 million figure, though. It obviously hurts individuals plenty, but in aggregate, enough people own their own homes that adoption can be orders of magnitude greater than it is now before the renter issue is figured out.
> victims of mt gox hack

ok bro, I'm not sure we have the same definition of smart people if yours are people decided to buy a bunch of cryptocurrency and keep it all in a website built in php
I'll suggest again that the solution to this is to charge variable prices to the consumer based on the supply. For example, I pay exactly the same rate, 24/7. Of course this will result in a mismatch of supply and demand.

A lot of electricity demand can be shifted to when the supply is cheapest.

When the supply varies wildly, like solar and wind do, there's a giant impedance mismatch when demand is charged a fixed price.
You have to feel a little sorry for them in the position they currently find themselves in. If they allow journalists this kind of access and power, what’s to prevent bad actors using it as well?

The very thing they are in trouble for is giving third parties (which would be to include journalists) unfettered access. It’s kind of disengeneous Gizmodo didn’t even recognize their own cognitive dissonance in this situation.
> Nobody makes an electric commercial vehicles of the type electricians, plumbers etc. drive.

How about Nissan e-nv200?

https://www.nissan.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/e-nv200.html
On the surface, this looks rather similar to InfluxDB (built in Go, similar HTTP-style API, etc)

What are the pros/cons of M3 compared to InfluxDB?
Encounters with Tech Zealots
It’s one thing to not really care about the product you’re building, and another to feel uncomfortable with what you’re building. I’m in the latter boat at the moment, and after losing some sleep about it I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to get out. I’m looking for new opportunities but I have a family and can’t just walk. In the meantime I’m trying not to let my feelings effect the quality of my work or my relationships with my coworkers. It’s challenging.
Way to go team Nim!

I was dabbling in this community almost a year ago before being distracted by work/life, very fun and supportive.

Still enjoy wearing my Nim t-shirt and look forward to returning to some dabbling in the (hopefully near) future.
This seems like an opportunity for all that currently-useless "smart home" tech that companies are so eager to sell. I don't need smartphone notifications from my internet connected washing machine to tell me when the laundry is done, because i know when i started it. But if i could load the washing machine and tell it to switch on when the cost of electricity dropped below a certain threshold, and it would actually save me money, then suddenly the smart home would actually be providing some value.

unfortunately, as far as i know not only is there no consumer tech that does this, but energy companies don't make real-time pricing available to all but the largest consumers.
My commute today is exactly 8 miles (4 each way). With a 2015 Leaf, I could go for two weeks without even bothering to charge if I'm only commuting. Since I can charge at work for free, I do it every Friday. And it's fantastic.

My previous commute was 50 miles a day. Using only a standard 110v, I would top off every day, and that worked just fine. I could even forget once (but not twice in a row!). It took about 12 hours to charge what I used up during the day.

So yeah. Just grab an extension cord (make sure it is rated for the current), and plug into whatever outlet you can find.
>workflow organized in a particular way that worked for him

Except that it didn't, at all, he'd just become used to it. It still took him 3x-4x as long to use the structure that he had devised as opposed to the "new" one. On top of that, a good majority of the sounds that he was using were already tagged via ID3 tags with descriptors so he wasn't even using tools that were available to him the whole time. I didn't tell him that it was better that way and that he should just accept it, you're assuming that. What I actually did was ask him to just trust me and the designers at Apple for 2 weeks and try using the system as it was intended. If it didn't work for him, I would teach him how to use it the way he was used to using it (the option is always available and it's not like MacOS forces you to do it that way).

It took him 3 days to agree that the library method that MacOS used was far more efficient and better suited to what he had been doing the whole time. Additionally, it opened up even more avenues for him because he could extend those same paradigms to video and actual music files (as opposed to audio/sound effect files).

>I wish they'd actually do that in 2018

I work as a developer in digital media production and I love my Macs because they do actually do exactly that. I literally never have to mess with the OS and can focus exclusively on getting my work done. The only exception to that rule is the rare case where I have to use Adobe tools. Some of them are just unstable, regardless of if you're running them on a Mac or PC.

Also, to stop any further assumptions or insinuations, I'm also a PC gamer and have extensive background in web development so I'm extremely familiar with both Windows and Linux (mostly CentOS and Ubuntu). My Mac is the only machine that actually gets out of the way and lets me work.
I must be living in Silicon Valley too long, because a large number of people I know - amongst the tech crowd at least - do in fact shell out a random $30K they have burning a hole in their pocket.

(Lest I get accused of being way too out of touch, I do know people for whom affording even a $200 car repair is out of reach, and something they'll put up a GoFundMe over. These people do not drive electric cars. If you can afford the ~$5K in interest that financing a car over 6 years will cost you, you can afford the $1K charger. If you can't afford this, you buy a used Ford or Chevy rather than any of the cars we're talking about here.)
> Good. That's a well functioning market economy. Those who make poor investment choices need to feel the sting of losses else the market fails to work correctly.

You say that - up until the day there is a brownout on a cloudy, yet boiling hot day, because there is little sun and no wind, and no one wants to build non-economical power plants.
Wall Street loves free money. The stock was trading at $360 before this proposal was announced, and only moved a third of the way to the purchase price on the news. That's not implying investor confidence that this will happen. Otherwise, plenty of people would be willing to load up on the stock on the assurance it would be bought at $420.
Yeah but it's fairly universal across industries. Being seen to "work hard" is far more important than actually accomplishing anything.
But it is also controlled by communist. A Catholic Church by name or even sanctioned by the pope is not a real church. It just showed how powerful the communist is.

Pleasing Soviet Union never help.
For me i use http://www.ipcop.org/ then use the blacklist on http://www.shallalist.de/
Using this on an old laptop.
I live in San Diego and I pay on average 40 cents per kw after everything. I used under 1000kw this last bill and the electricity portion was around $400, gas was $15, total bill around $432.
Most routers nowadays are plug-and-play. A pre-set SSID and password come printed on the router, so there's no need to configure anything (unless you would like to change settings, of course).
From a blended mixture of peers and transit providers, such that a termination of service from any one peer does not take the network offline.
Maybe it's not using any filesystems on the USB stick. Maybe it just images a filesystem right down to the USB stick without ever mounting anything.
> You have to feel a little sorry for them in the position they currently find themselves in. If they allow journalists this kind of access and power, what’s to prevent bad actors using it as well?

On the same lines, here's another question - what prevents Facebook from turning into a bad actor and using the power it has?
It's a fair point, if overdone.

My current employer has 16 EV chargers and they're all full by 8:45am. Even in just a few months here, I've noticed them becoming occupied more rapidly. People need to start rotating their cars off the charge mid-day to accommodate more cars. The 4 handicapped spots with chargers are often also poached with some regularity. (private garage, but still risky).

At former employers, I saw chargers go from nonexistent, to installed, to saturated, in a matter of 6 or so months. In a given site, so far, construction isn't keeping pace.

I own an EV and charge at home so it's not really an issue for me, but those with shorter range vehicles are more likely to have issues, and it is something that will have to be dealt with.

It's not insurmountable, but it's an issue. The massive increase in electrical demand from EV charging when rates go off-peak but solar generation is nonexistent is definitely something that'll have to be dealt with. My house used to consume maybe 1500w at 9pm. Now, when the charger flips on, bam, 13kW. It's impressive how much more load a neighborhood with even just a few EVs can put on the grid.
I've never had a bagel that was "airy", but I've also never had one that was made without yeast. They're normally pretty chewy, but definitely not unleavened. You boil and then bake them.
When markets get "out of whack" it's almost certainly due to government regulation. In this case, it's the government setting fixed electric rates for consumers.
Nor should you. An OS where every person gets to customize every aspect to their own liking is mostly a recipe for disaster from a support experience standpoint unless you really know what you're doing.

Take Linux for example. You can customize a ton to get your workflow exactly right if you really know exactly what you're doing. If you don't, though (and I'd argue that most people don't), it's a nightmare. One wrong step can take down the entire workflow completely.
China 71.67%

US 13.53%

People's Republic 0%
This rule is a lifesaver.

I’m renting a single family home in San Francisco. I drive a Chevrolet Bolt EV.

Using a little known SF electrical code that allows DIY electrical work in a fully detached house, I installed a 50-Amp 250v NEMA 14-50 outlet in my garage. I did 50A service for room to upgrade the stock EVSE in the future. My landlord is fine as I’m insured, followed all National Electric Code guidelines and laws. It cost me $100 in parts/wire.

I then created a NEMA 14-50P to a NEMA 5-15R adapter to plug the GM stock EVSE in at 250v.

It’s a little known fact about the Chevy Bolt that the included EVSE charger supports 250v - by wiring each blade on the NEMA 5-15 plug to a 125v hot lead; then wiring the ground pin to neutral. I then locked the NEMA 5-15 plug/receptacle extension cord in a lockbox clearly labeled.

While a normal 40A EVSE Gives 7.2kW, this setup- still limited to 12A due to GM/Clipper Creeks firmware - gives me around 3kWh. That’s perfect for my use. I am not tempted to really upgrade this set up a time soon, but can if I want to. It’s also easy enough to take with me.

Total installation of level 2 charging in my San Francisco rental? $150ish.

(Please don’t try this at home if you have no idea what you’re doing when it comes to working with electric. this is only informational, not an endorsement!)
Yes and even if go you are chinese first. Kidnapping foreign national in a foreign land (Thailand not just 1c2s Hk) is done.

You are chinese first even if you have other passport ...
You're thinking of the first amendment and other legal institutions. Free speech is a much broader concept than this. Ask yourself what a right to bodily autonomy would be if the government only promised that its officers wouldn't bring harm to you, but any private citizen could: it would be anarchy. The reason there is no legal commentary limiting censorship is because it is difficult to discern in the general case when censorship is itself a speech act. This does not limit you or I from making this distinction as private citizens in the particular case, as here.
Earlier, phone numbers were listed. Currently, phone numbers and the frequency of interaction between these phone numbers are recorded by Facebook. The situation is not similar to a simple yellow page directory. It's basically a yellow page directory which real time updates - Bob called Alice 5 times and sent 10 messages.
I'd also think another challenge is the issue of timescales. "Green" energy sources like wind and solar can have large fluctuations, on the timescale of minutes. I don't know much about desalination plants, but I'd imagine they cannot be started and stopped just like that.

(This, incidentally, is a reason I've heard power engineers give for preferring natural gas to e.g. coal, aside from cost considerations: generators are faster to start and stop.)
Hey, if those checklists and procedures were in version control we could git blame those heroes, as we should!
I agree with the infeasibility of switching out batteries, but saying it isn't necessary? 30 minutes is a /long/ time. It takes like 2 minutes to go from 0-100 with gas.
I would agree with labeling automated bots but I think stopping anonymous accounts is going too far. What is wrong with anonymity? You can label the account as being intentionally anonymous but I don't think we need to go past that.

If people failed to see past the trolls this past election cycle, hopefully it will be a lesson learned. Most people here probably learned to spot/ignore trolls when they were 14 but a lot of voters are still new arrivals to the digital landscape.

If we need our government to confirm the information we use to make a decision, is it still a democracy? I still think that if you want a population that is responsible, you have to allow them the responsibility of figuring out what is true and what is not on their own.
i can't imagine how unguided shells can be that accurate, especially if you only have one shot. trigonometry helps, but there are way too many unknowns (mainly atmospheric cconditions) for it to work perfectly.
A Spanish fighter jet accidentally launches an air-to-air missile
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OPEC without a doubt decides output and price (with noise). They can hold the economy hostage nearly unilaterally and have for decades - see the 70s supply shock.
Seeing as "boiling the ocean" is the standard business phrase used to dismiss an overly ambitious and likely impossible to execute plan [1], there would be something beautifully ironic about a startup whose explicit goal is to solve a real world problem by literally boiling the ocean.

[1] http://workingwithmckinsey.blogspot.com/2013/11/Avoid-Boilin...
> Consumption and production are both inelastic and storage costs are high.

Consumption is inelastic because the electricity rates are fixed 24/7. Allow variable pricing based on supply, and you'll see very elastic behavior.

For example, people will charge their car batteries when the rates are cheapest. Same for running the electric hot water heater, and the A/C, refrigerator, etc.
Cool, I'll have to look into this more, thanks.
The way I see it that with 0% financing deals aplenty there’s virtually no incentive to pay cash upfront. Might just as well stick that $30k into some high-yield savings account and set up automatic payments from there. Builds credit history, too.
>Why haven't we seen aliens ? Same reason bacteria don't kill us (well, only by accident) ... we're just not worth their attention.

It's also entirely possible that amidst the vastness of space, we have yet to even be noticable, much less noticed. What few traces of our civilization that have been leaking into space for merely a century might be unrecognizable from background noise and impossible to to trace back to us if another civilization just happens to come across it.

Maybe they were listening for millions of years, when there were only dinosaurs here.
and after this decade:

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one person I know, a physicist, said he lost 50 btc in the hack. in hindsight keeping the coins there was stupid but at the time it seemed safe
There's been tons of subtle and not so subtle breaking changes from bumping targetSdkVersion, many that only manifests at runtime. Things like runtime-permission-grants, three iterations of C2DM, GCM, FCM, notification handling, inner classes in activities and fragments, background processing, NDK changes, etc etc. If you have a low-churn legacy but still useful app, coming back every year and between the subtle api changes (which require runtime testing on old and new android devices) combined with an ever-reorganized google api console and play store console and firebase console is quite an effort. But I guess that's the cost of playing in the play store and for progress in the mobile OS landscape.
Smart landlords would hopefully require a standard 50A NEMA 14-50R outlet. Those are compatible with almost all EVSEs.
Very cool! I'll have to dig into this a bit more thanks!
How can you say something like that? Like, how many people have they killed? Less that any of the last 5 US government administrations I suppose...
Well, the folder structure was actually still setup exactly the way it had been, he just didn't see it inside of any of the apps he was using. I offered to show him how to use his folder method if he would just try my (read MacOS's) method of doing it. All the files were already tagged via ID3 or some other metadata as they were either MP3, OGG, or FLAC files.

His big realization was that he didn't actually care about how the files were organized so long as he could find the sounds he was looking for. He cared before because there wasn't any way to efficiently search for them by any meaningful method (finding "metallic" sounding effects, for example) and so he filed things away in folders so that he would only have to browse through a subsection of folders (in that case - materials->metals->metallic). Now he just searches the library for "metallic" and all the sounds come up and he can combine search terms for "loud metallic" or "warped metallic" or "wobbly metallic" and get exactly the sounds he's looking for.
The crazy thing about social media mobs is how few people engage in them.

A few hundred or thousand people angrily tweet about something -- who cares, right? Wrong. Cable media cares. They pick up a few of the most inflamitory examples from Twitter (it's easier to find quotes on Twitter than it is to go outside and report) and they present these tweets as if they represent a mainstream movement involving millions.

And these angry (but tiny) mobs are having an enormous impact on private companies and public policy. The tail is wagging the dog.
InfluxDB High Availability/Scalability (clustering)are not Open Source (https://www.influxdata.com/products/editions/).
M3 seems to include it in open source version.
That's not exactly cheap or feasible for most cars.
How about Arch Linux then? I love it and hate it at the same time. Rolling updates are amazing until they hose your system and you have to roll back updates.
iTerm can display images, but I don't think there's a universal way to do it.
https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
You do not want to force curtailment of clean energy. You either force curtailment of fossil generators (and let those operators deal with the operational complexity of doing so) or incentivize storage.