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I'm all for more EVs, but anyone who's followed the EV space for the past decade knows that most of these models are DOA.

Take the Audi e-tron for instance: the director of the Paris showroom (the only place in Europe where the car was displayed in public) himself told me late last year that they don't intend to sell the car in volume, that it can't compete with the competition, and that EV sales are mostly PR for a company like Audi (at least until ICE don't make most of the company's profits).

NB: this is not a regular dealership, but a fully owned and controlled store by Audi. Good luck with that!
Couldn't agree more. It was why my transition from Javascript (Node) to Go was very freeing - I had been so used to being constantly paranoid about my data types from Python and Javascript that even the most modest types of Go made a huge relief.

Likewise, with Rust it is a relief after Go. In Go interfaces are a massive part of the language and they can only be pointers, which means much of your programming experience holds mental overhead needed to frequently answer "is this variable safe? Can I access it, or might it be nil?".

There's definitely overhead in learning how to use the borrow checker, but I feel that's the same as any basic language features in any language. Once learned, I largely don't think of them, and I don't fear using variables or what is concurrently safe anymore.
If he did, he’s still qualified for governor.
The timing of this is interesting as just about a ~month ago there was a mini protest because Reddit accepted significant investment from the Chinese company Tencent and users began pushing Tienanmen Square Massacre images to the front page.
I'd like to think so, but when I look at the disparity between how society treats the mistakes of one class of people ("He was no angel, he stole a cigar"), and another class of people ("Standard freshman behaviour, and besides, what is 'consent' anyways?")...

My fear is that more transparency will simply widen the disparity in treatment, because there will be more ammunition to use against the weak, while the strong are protected from accountability no matter what is dug up from their past.

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Major edit: This is why I am an advocate for privacy, rather than radical transparency. I think a level playing field is a prerequisite for transparency.
The 30 pin connector has certainly been available on devices in the past 10 years.

The Magsafe connector has, too.

As has MagSafe 2...
Snowden left the US in mid 2013... that was a much different world. There was much less open antagonism between the US and Russia(and China). And it's this great power antagonism that explains why things have gone backwards.
The fact that their agents aren't forcing them to delete everything from before they were adults or even making a brand new account is malpractice at this point IMO.
>The Porsche Taycan will charge faster than any Tesla

Where?
IANAL, but I don't see anything like that here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce.... So, decent chance it's protected speech.
You have the right not to release information unless legally compelled to. But you generally have no right to compel someone else _not_ to reveal (true) information no matter what level of secrecy you assign to it.

I think the answer is that blackmail should be illegal, but it requires a deeper answer than just the "right to keep secrets". The article does a fairly good job of breaking down the problem, but it's not easy to summarize.
Why is that? Because existing services don’t cover these patients or scenarios?
how much per ride goes in taxes?
Gas turbines with CCS are still probably much cheaper than nuclear. The president of Exelon (a US corporation that operates 23 nuclear reactors) has stated that CO2 taxes in the US would have to be $300-400/tonne for nuclear to compete with natural gas. CCS could be done for less than that. Hell, direct air capture of CO2 could likely be done for less than that!
> Compared to all other forms of energy, including solar and wind, nuclear produces by far the least amount of waste to the envoirment. In fact, nothing escapes into the environment, everything is captured and can be handled appropriately.

Sorry if I'm missing something, but which waste escapes to the environment for solar or wind during operation? I can only think of reflected light and heat for solar, and turbulence for wind.

Unless you're thinking also of the waste produced during bulding and dismantling, but then you'd have to compare with bulding and dismantling the whole nuclear plant, not just its fuel.
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>it's trying to make things sound more nefarious than they were, and it's playing the guilt by association card

Are we reading the same article? If anything this article seems like a submarine PR puff piece to me, made to increase the image of Beto by making him seem "cool" and "hip" by associating him with the typically-seen-as-sexy "hacker" scene. This article is very similar to the pro-Beto stuff that was all over Texas during his senate campaign.
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You can find youths leaving everything to play 'this' game everywhere.
It is not just the usual fun thing. I too play games, but I've not seen such thing; it is addiction.
I strongly disagree. Look at the flatearth communities.
I'm guessing people working at Apple are not idiots. Probably they couldn't find any other way of keeping the small profile and since everyone was expecting a redesign they had to go with it.

I imagine Apple is working on a complete redesign of their laptop line, but that takes time. Specially when the Mac is only 10% of your business.
That censorship isn’t real. His defense is all over social media.

You, similarly, are just providing cover for these terrorists.
bingo. The BND and NSA work very closely together even if they aren't in FVEY. This is quite well known, but it makes a lot of sense in the face of Russian/NK/Chinese aggressions. As much as our president wants you to not believe, we are stronger together.
I dunno...I have kind of the opposite feeling about them. I enjoy playing nes games more often these days because I find them easier to get into. I turn it on press start and within about 10-30 seconds i'm playing a game. With AAA games replace the seconds with minutes.

Which oddly, is more like classical music to me. Modern music tends to be around 3 minutes, there's no long intros or different sections. It's just press play, bam music. With classical music, it's broken into movements, with long introductions, or interludes with single instruments or some such a thing.

I know that wasn't quite the point of the comparison, it was just an odd thought that came to mind.
There's a wonderful glamorization of hackers and so forth. It's so appealing to think of some folks fighting the man from their keyboards and doing good things.

So much so we have seen tech enthusiasts fawn over hacking groups from time to time and ignore less desirable behavior ... until we realize in the end they're just not what we want them / imagine them to be.

I still like to think of there being some idealistic hackers one day that will change the world for the better, but I recognize they're still going to be just, people.
This topic is addressed nicely in section 1.6 of "How I wish I'd taught maths", by Craig Barton, a famous maths teacher in the UK.

His book covers what he used to think and do in his earlier years as a (successful) teacher, what he has learned since then from academic studies and other teachers, and how applying these principles and techniques has improved his students' learning.

"How children fail" is another excellent book on how not to teach maths.
Exactly there is the huge problem that if you look at how humans learn, you will quickly come to the conclusion that 99.9% of human behavior is copying others' behavior.

That means it is very responsible to:

1) partly cloud or obscure methods/reasons for suicice

2) partly cloud or obscure motives for serious crimes

This does NOT mean to lie about the events. Or even make that information to truly not be available. Just hide it ... just a bit so it doesn't pass through everyone's mind who just reads some news.

There have been incidents in the past where news messages lead to copycats in both cases.

The fact of the matter is that crime is not illogical or "evil". Crimes are committed for a specific purpose. Making people realize that "hey you can do this", or making people think about what a crime would accomplish vs what not doing a crime would accomplish will inevitably lead some to conclude the crime is the preferable option, and thus damage others.
On a traditional model (ie building a datacenter or colocating in a datacenter) then I think what you are saying is 100% accurate. You would have fixed costs and variable costs which make it difficult to break overall costs into a "per-ride" expense. This is because, as you mentioned, some fixed costs in their current state may be able to handle higher volume than they are currently utilized on. Thus, as rides go up, not all costs would go up linearly.

However, in the case of AWS and other cloud service providers, virtually all products and services are charged on a per-usage basis. Meaning that if the average Lyft ride requires 60 database api calls (say a 10 minute ride with location updates every 10 seconds = 60 location updates/db writes) then AWS charges you for 60 api calls. If the average ride takes 11 minutes, then it would take 66 api calls and so forth. In this case, this cost is a variable cost and maps directly to a specific ride. If that ride had not existed, then that cost would not have been incurred.

Take a look at AWS pricing pages and you will see that all prices are broken down into very specific per-usage costs. Some services break this up very deeply, on ingress usage, egress usage, storage usage, api usage, etc all together calculate the cost that the service uses.

Looking at the Lyft Case Study that AWS published (you can view here: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/lyft/), it appears they primarily use Redshift, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and EC2/ECR services. All of these are heavily usage based. The least usage-based service they use would be their EC2 servers. Since a server is rarely running at max-capacity it means that one extra lyft ride doesn't necessarily mean another server. So the EC2 costs for that ride would be the same if it had or had not existed. But it looks like they are heavily reliant on using ECR to auto-scale their servers up and down based on usage. So they are probably running many clusters of smaller servers that move up and down as rides increase. This means that even their EC2 servers are fairly closely mapped to actual usage of their platform. During a slow period they will be running far fewer EC2 servers than during a peak period. So even in this case their costs are relatively variable.

All in all, I would say that you actually could extrapolate the total cost of AWS on a per-ride basis, because that is the variable that effects their costs. If they had 1 less ride this month, their bill would ACTUALLY be 14 cents lower (or somewhat close to it). They do incur a direct cost with each individual ride. If there are fixed AWS costs in there, it probably accounts for less than 1 penny of that 14 cents. For example there are a few fixed costs if they are using AWS DirectConnect or AWS Private Link to connect to AWS Datacenters. But this accounts for probably a few thousand dollars a month at most and in total would have minimal effect on thier per-ride cost at the current scale that Lyft is at.

edit: spelling
He shares the most important thought of any candidate that is running. That guy of a certain color is unethical.
My understanding of aquifers is that many of them take many years to fully replenish depending on their size and the makeup of the substrate. I remember a few years ago during the severe droughts there was much worry over aquifer depletion and land subsidence[1]. The primary concern was that certain soil types would compact permanently then no longer be able to hold water ever again. I doubt one season of heavy rainfall and snow melts solves that issue.

[1]: https://ca.water.usgs.gov/land_subsidence/
At every 350 kW charger:

https://insideevs.com/first-ionity-350-kw-chargers-denmark/

When will Tesla introduce 350 kW charging?
I'm saying they are too much outliers that it doesn't make so much sense to listen to their "reasons" to annoy or suspect people with same sensibilities
The Covington Kids story shows how social media amplified both sides of an issue. It’s the opposite of group think with multiple narratives showing up.

What you’re describing “group consensus” is a systemic bias. A historical example of say US WWII propaganda qualifies as essentially all US news is shifted in the same direction.

Waves of news with story X being updated to story Y over time is a different thing. That’s a question of which organizations get involved over time. You can find examples that support any narrative based on timing. But, bias would mean the story did not evolve.
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How does one visit an aquifer? A shaft?
hackers generally dont like rules, as a start. the ethos for most is not really in line with positions of authority
To think that in the response letter from Apple one could find anything but reasonable statements would be very naive. That letter has been drafted/reviewed by high skilled lawyers and, as much as one does or does not agree with the points they make, it still makes some clearly outlined arguments.
So what I find most interesting is what it's not there. They do not mention once the fact that their own streaming app can compete on better terms since they do not have to give away 30-15% of the subscriptions.
You want unbiased journalism. I hate to tell you, but there is no such thing.
I'm not labeling his actions astroturfing because he's biased, I'm doing so because his bias is paid for and undisclosed. That's a textbook definition of both astroturfing and acting in bad faith. How is this different in any way from e.g. a company paying for reviews on Amazon, or a journalist writing a glowing article about a company without disclosing that they own stock in that company?
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Yes, except possibly when containing classified information.
and people wonder why voter turnout is low when we have candidates that don’t seem to actually believe in anything...
"I know this first hand" implies they do know something about their infrastructure.

Given that they work for "one of few >10b unicorns" per their comment history, I have a suspicion you may be telling a Lyft employee they don't know anything about Lyft.
An argument that easily breaks an encyclopedia or anything intending to be an authoritative source. Or even a worthy source. It's why you frequently bump into articles that go against memory of anyone living in that phase of history, at the company etc. Or entirely misses out the once famous controversy as evidenced by some 15 year old personal or blogspot site. Yet Wikipedia does it when there's no choice, because all sources are really old books and offline.

Case in point. A story cropped up on HN a month or two back about S Wolfram being obsessional about recording something. No surprises there, but I happened to wander to Wikipedia and there is not the briefest mention of his suing + screwing everyone who worked or collaborated with him making Mathematica. Apparently that didn't happen. At all.

Sure it wasn't quite SCO vs IBM, but it was well known enough in N England during the 90s that it will forever be my association if someone mentions him, and there was occasional office banter off the back of it. "Wolfram? Who's he suing now, the office cat?" That's because it was in Computer Weekly, PCW, or the hundreds of other paper sources every other issue. On Wikipedia it has been whitewashed from existence, or perhaps never made it in the first place.
What an entertaining read. I tried it and then gave up on home automation a long time ago. The reason why home automation can't be made 'smart' is because it lacks the ability to create precise situational awareness. Ie, so much of the 'automation' relies on human input. I started on a side project that would use cameras and facial recognition to provide 'eyes' to the home automation system. I planned to use Home Assistant, that way I can keep everything running without an internet connection, but the software was simply not ready. Lots of missing documentation and constant change deterred me. I'm hoping Home Assistant has gotten better over the years.
Encryption on the internet is now more or less the norm in the form of https connections and end to end encrypted IM clients.

The problem was not solved in a political way so as as result it is being solved in a technical way instead. Much more progress needs to be made but progress is occurring.
I feel like there should be idea updates and people can follow idea(s) over time.
I don't want say anything bad about mass transit for large cities where it makes sense. But you have to reach a certain economy of scale before trains become more efficient than cars. A train with just a couple of people uses far more power than a car does.

We can do a lot to encourage people to live closer together by ending subsidies, removing zoning laws, etc. But in the end we still need farmers and other professions living spread out across the country. We can't achieve perfect urbanization. And given that electric cars are going to be a necessary part of getting to zero emissions.
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5) A charging service (a truck with a big ass battery) that your car or you calls for and uses the car's gps to find and charge it.

6) Your car auto drives itself to the charging station and drives back during off hours.

7) All this is moot, electric and self driving technology will so absolutely revolutionize transportation that these problems will not be applicable.
> As Spotify points out, that revenue share is 30 percent for the first year of an annual subscription — but they left out that it drops to 15 percent in the years after.

okay wake me up when it is more like 5 or 6%

This whole back and forth is so petty

> Underneath the rhetoric, Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work.

My sides!

> Just this week, Spotify sued music creators after a decision by the US Copyright Royalty Board required Spotify to increase its royalty payments. This isn’t just wrong, it represents a real, meaningful and damaging step backwards for the music industry.

AHAHAHA

In most cold wars, it turns out later that both sides have valid claims, they are just unrelated to each other and lobbing those claims as rebuttals never address the underlying issue.
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Sanders was the frontrunner last time and they kneecapped him.
Common decency and respect for the victims and their families?
It's thought provoking because there really is a gray line between where payments to keep information secret is a legitimate private transaction and where they cross into criminality. And there are situations on either side of that line where I have trouble articulating why exactly one feels OK and the other doesn't.
Why? More likely, nuclear will just become museumware.
Isn’t this a reskin of Stephen Diehl’s earlier set of blog posts? Or is this a common PL example? http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/004_type_systems.html
The Intercept is nowhere near left-libertarian. Left-libertarianism is a strand of socialism (you'll find left libertarians spanning from anarchists and communists/libertarian Marxists to more moderate socialists), and the origin of libertarianism.

Here is the first left-libertarian, and anarch-communist criticising Proudhon for being just a moderate anarcist and liberal, rather than libertarian, and segueing into a rant against property rights:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joseph-dejacque-on-t...
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>* Leveraging their OS dominance to get dominance in other markets such as linking OS licensing with licenses for other software.

Such as leveraging their preferred status to get dominance for Apple Music (by being able to charge less since they aren't subject to a 30% Apple Store 'fee')?
There really hasn't been such a significant amount of rainfall here in years, I just worry about the fire danger coming in the fall because of all of the new growth.
The review put Super Cruise higher than Tesla Autopilot because of better driver monitoring and geofencing. It doesn't speak much to how far ahead each company is on self-driving technology. Both Super Cruise and Autopilot are bad representations of where GM/Cruise and Tesla's cutting edge is at.
> It's fairly clear what the cause of a mosque shooting is: Islamophobia

Very sloppy thinking. Islamophobia is a phenomenon, but it is not a philosophy (Or if it is, it is an extremely sloppy one). Nevertheless, it seems wild to claim that Islamophobes of the west (typically, white, pagan/atheist, alt-righters, etc) share much common ground with Islamophobes of Asia (for example, the Chinese government, or radical Hindus).

If you want to understand why all these groups turn out Islamophobic, it's worth studying their motivations, and they are different. For example, China's motivation is a general antagonism towards all religions and a distrust of religions such as Islam and Christianity that purport a higher power to which the state is subject. On the other hand, the neo-Nazi motivation is simply that Islam is not their religion, thus Muslims are evil. Conflating the two and attempting to construct intervention programs based on the other's motivations is an exercise in futility.

EDIT: For example, after reading the manifesto, this shooter is islamophobic because he thinks overpopulation is killing the planet and muslims have more babies than white people. That certainly requires different de-radicalization than someone who thinks Allah is a false god that ought to be replaced with the Christian one.
There are more people involved in farming than farmers. I imagine that number does not include farm hands or laborers, who probably significantly outnumber their employers.
The laundry list of drama, infighting, bullying, sexual assaults, forcing people to take drugs, stealing research, etc., probably wouldn't have any context to an outsider.

And most of what happens to people in this community occurs behind their backs.
The guy behind The Daily Stormer, Andrew Auernheimer?
Says who tho
Well, actually...

In the Internet sense of the word, the trolls in question live under bridges and spring out to surprise those who would cross with unpleasant demands and behaviour. Not cave-dwellers at all.

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Hey, this is Hacker News, if we can't bikeshed the etymology of "troll," what use is this medium?
According to Wikipedia[1] the legal status of the book has been challenged or been brought up by politicians over the years but that it is still readily available from online retailers like Amazon.

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It looks like the difference of two beta distributions based on the visualization.

So, assuming a uniform prior and updating with 39/3000 and 28/3000 conversions the difference between the two distributions is greater than zero 91% of the time. It's only guaranteed to be above zero at about the 80% credible interval, and since we started with an uninformed prior that'd be about p=.2?

I'm open to correction here.
Does the Homebrew Computer Club not count?
From the article:

Still, it’s unclear whether the United States is ready for a presidential contender who, as a teenager, stole long-distance phone service for his dial-up modem, wrote a murder fantasy in which the narrator drives over children on the street, and mused about a society without money.

This doesn't read as very pro-Beto to me.
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