skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India. A lot of the big Southeast Asia cities. Even places like Paris, Florence, or Rome. I probably wouldn't drive in any of those (although language is part of the issue) and I don't really have a problem driving in New York City even though I don't like doing it.
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in effect, when the ZEV credit rules changed so GM which has a ZEV credit printer in the Bolt no longer needed the Volt and this also coincided with their decision to drop the Cruze and other smaller sedans. From 2018 and onward the credit a PHEV could get is sufficiently lower than before.[1]

GM rushed the Bolt out because also ending in 2017 were two ZEV related credit (CARB credits by another name) traits that were easily exploited, banking them for future use and double dipping by getting credit in a non CARB state for a sale there plus the CARB credit.

The key thing to note about EV sales, how to tell if a manufacturer is serious about selling them. The common figure of twenty to twenty five thousand units is bandied about as where the CARB value falls off after. As in, selling into that maximum allows GM and others to exploit the credit system to the extent it covers all possible sales for their other vehicles. This number will slowly increase but when they say "we cannot sell more because we cannot get batteries" don't believe them

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/california-and-western...
"Droogie contacted the DMV who told him to change his plate. He refused because he didn't do anything wrong. While they wiped the fines off his record, unfortunately for him, they didn't fix the problem in the system so once again, Droogie has accrued another $6,000 in tickets"

So wait, after he knew this was the outcome from using this plate he just decided 'nope, the DMV will definitely rectify this error'? Maybe he has a much higher tolerance for dealing with the DMV than I do, but surely there are far more productive ways to spend your time than constantly battling against invalid tickets. Additionally, I would be concerned about not being able to waive some of these tickets at some point and actually having to pay them,6k isn't exactly an insignificant amount and could also really impact insurance rates.
> 2. I see click-bait titles like "The top 19 nutrition myths of 2019".

It's 2019. EVERYONE does this to get attention from people.

> 3. Reviews by "professionals" that I can't easily verify. "Mike Hart, MD" is an example. Who is he? How do I know he's a real person? If he is a real person and a real doctor, how do I know he actually recommended this site?

They actually cite sources. You really need to look at particular topics on the website.

> 4. The attempts to get me to spend money feels slimy. --This is pretty subjective, I know, but that's how it comes off to me.

As you point out, this is really subjective. And I don't spend money on the website.

You are basically saying that they don't do SEO well, not actually critiquing their work. You would not need a lot of research to decide if their page on any supplement, e.g. [0], is reputable, cause they cite sources.

[0] https://examine.com/supplements/ashwagandha/
Bet they wont pay it tho.
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God I hope never. And I say this as a business owner. Businesses should be required to register as legal entities and carry the right insurances, and be held accountable through the legal system.
Because doing something new shouldn't be illegal by default.
Ah, but VINs aren’t numbers. (Never mind what the N stands for.) 000 would be perfectly valid.
And it fails to be useful without a way to tie it to a brick-and-mortar entity, aka, EV. Which is my point. That was exactly what PKI could bring to the table.
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Ask HN: Board like HN or Indie Hackers in German for posting side projects?
You're missing the point, but you probably know that anyway.
Oh this is perfect! I was worried that it was a podcast or a documentary.
> but you can find a half dozen studies showing people who ignore traumatic events have a faster and healthier recovery than those that don't

Could you share an example of such a study?
I've had a friend do the reverse: parking in illegal spot, and borrowing a ticket from another car that already received one. Upon return some hours later, he returned the ticket to the correct windshield.

Quite brazen, and frankly a bit of an asshole thing to do.
Well, in the case of citizenship I might pick France (it is #1 on the nationality index, after all) due to the EU and freedom of movement in the largest number of desirable places.

https://www.nationalityindex.com/

However, as a place to live it would probably be far less clear for most people.
Found the Tesla owner.
I've never understood these terms. Is there a clear definition for those?

Seed is very little money, angel is more money, but still small enough that a wealthy individual can provide it?

Series A, B and C are pretty much the same, it just so happens that companies usually re-capitalize three times before going bust or IPO?

(The whole space is very perplexing, the idea of diluting earlier investors sounds outright fraud-like to me, but obviously it's well-accepted and probably priced in.)
More like $1B, of which a small portion is likely to have originated from Colombia (not that % of net less makes much sense).

No this isn’t going to hurt Uber but it’s not like there’s a lot of rook to go higher.
Any solution that requires a certain behavior is unnecessarily coupling that behavior to transferring energy into transportation.

In a world where a couple owns two EVs, and only one does the weekly grocery shopping, do they have to swap cars to get them both charged? Do they have to start eating out to charge their car? What if you use Amazon Fresh for food deliveries? Give that up; you need to charge your car.

In other words, there are lots of ideas that might work for some people, but they shouldn't be necessary for EV ownership.
Doesn't the government need warrants in Colombia to search computers?
Great advice! My wife would not shop goodwill until she was helping kids with a play and the amount of funds for costuming made her. Now she loves to 'Pop some tags...'
Is that related to the software that detected whether a user worked for a government agency?
To my understanding, this exports the session keys of an active TLC connection. Those are temporary keys that were created during the handshake of a particular TLS connection and are only valid for this particular connection.

So, if this data is picked up immediately by a network sniffer, it can decrypt the currently active TLS connection. However, the keys will not allow anyone to decrypt any past or future connections.
F**k me: iOS’ Notes app censors handwritten swears
Did You read the article fully, before going ad hominem?
Lampposts is exactly how I charge whilst not having off-street parking, in central London. The council converted all the street lights to LEDs, meaning there is excess electricity delivered. So they put plugs on the posts. Works brilliantly.
https://imgur.com/a/I5AtwJk https://www.ubitricity.com/
this goes back at least as far as the original Unreal Tournament, I even saw a player using it in the fairly obscure Shogo: MAD multiplayer community. Never knew why it was done back then, I assumed it was just to be cute, but it did make it troublesome to mention them in ingame chats.
They've decided to make a landing page that tries to be splashy rather than one that inspires confidence.

But here's the thing, I also did look at the About page, or part of it. The top of the page is a video (blocked by Privacy Badger), and then they're saying that they are funded by selling things.

The New York Times quoted someone from Examine.com, but that was at the very bottom of the article. They do link to a few pages, but I'd definitely not argue that this is a ringing endorsement. The Washington Post article is similar. They don't link to any BBC or The Guardian article, so I don't know how those sites come into play. I'm not familiar with Medpage Today, and Men's Health isn't a source I turn to for hard research. Let's not even go into Forbes.

At that point I gave up on the About page.

Now, more specific pages do a better job, and do cite actual studies. But even then there are confusing areas. Consider the "Human Effect Matrix" - something that should be making things clear as to what their meta analysis has found: I see the section "Magnitude of Effect", and I see values such as "Minor" with a blue arrow pointing up, or "Minor" with a red arrow pointing down. Now, yes, I can read the tool tip at the top of the section and infer that blue probably means increasing effect and red means decreasing effect, but for many people this isn't going to be clear at all. It's also not always clear if these are positive or negative effects without digging much deeper.

So when we get into parts of the site that are more detailed, they're not clear enough for the average person on the internet, and could easily cause confusion. --That's actually a very good reason for Google to not surface them. Which sucks, because I think people are right that they do have good information, they're just not presenting it well.
In older cities there are sometimes still garages that one can rent a bay in. I understand that this was not uncommon at one point: you didn't keep your car at your house. Someone else stored it, maybe even a service station and you rang them up when you wanted to take it out.

Perhaps an arrangement like that will come around again in dense areas.
I remember reading Google's instructions for their manual page quality reviewers. It had two special sections, one on financial info, and one – you guessed it – on medical information.

Within those two categories, called "Your life or your money", reviewers were asked to pay special attention to a site's trustworthiness, with a special focus on "traditional" credentials, such as association with a known, trusted institution.

Edit: Found it: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...
Yes, this is terribly annoying, often there is a minimum length but no mention of maximum length. I see this on many, many websites...
This is where my family is - we're considering an EV but do not have a charger at home. We live in a reasonably dense urban area w/ a dedicated spot in a garage and don't typically drive more than 200 miles a week, so we'll just use public chargers.

This will be a second car though - and I would be slightly wary of this sort of responsibility for a primary vehicle.
Edited for politeness: This comment make no sense to me. Earth is the only planet we have for the foreseeable future (a couple of centuries at least).
That worked out really well in regards to the environment before environmental regulations didn't it?
Well, it's pretty obvious why they do it (more exports, therefore more money, for the US), but I find it extremely hypocritical that they do it... "let's make a free trade deal where we can sell you food that our government extremely subsidizes" well that just doesn't sound very much like a free market, more like a state-subsidized one... then they have the audacity to complain when foreign governments do the same (e.g. with aircraft companies).
Since you mentioned all the cabling everywhere, I'd be concerned about copper thieves stealing the cables.
Besides garage orphans, also those with self standing homes and a garage will have (or become) a problem.

Say that in you street that are 50 single family homes connected to a same cabin/transformer.

The electric infrastructure powering them (lines, transformer, etc.) has been dimensioned to power them at their average current power consumption rate + something to take care of peaks + something more to take care of eceptions (like - say - a constructions site for the renovation of one of the homes).

Now the existing infrastructure will have no issue with your single electric car charging at night, and probably with that of your neighboor on the left and that of your neighbour on the right, but the moment a given number of families will have an electic car, each of them will try to use 5 kW of additional power more or less at the same time.

That is a lot of "juice" and it sums up quickly.

I believe (correct me if you have better data) that in the US the infrastructure is generally dimensioned for something like 6 or 7 kW per unit, so, adding to each house some "constant" 5 kW (even if only at night) is almost using all the capability of the infrastructure.
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Ebike/scoot to transit hub, trains to commercial areas. It’s not rocket science.
My office has installed a couple of free level 2 chargers and I haven’t needed to charge at home or elsewhere since. Charging for a few hours a couple of times a week is enough for my Bolt and my 10 mile commute as well as driving around the metro area on the weekends.
Makes me think about business models differently. There's both the revenue / cost part of a business model and also the human behavior shift that happens. I get why the companies make these choices. They aren't required to think about externalities.
For a long time our culture seemed to produce honest people doing work for an honest wage. They would be reluctant to "charge more than it's worth". There was an element of honor to it, and avoiding the shameful act of gouging your customer. If something takes 2 days to do, and it costs you $30/day to live, then you charge, say $120 - you're not only living, but also you're saving for a rainy day. It's a good thing.

Cynical market manipulation has soaked into real world work at every level both public and private. Sociopaths with the balls to ask 10x or 100x the traditional, cost based price have succeeded totally, and have lured workers with 2x or 5x wages, essentially starving any potentially honest competition. It stuffs all the good workers into a profit-maximizing corporation that now has a lot of other priorities that often conflict with "an honest days work for honest pay".

The city politicians and admins responsible for actually spending the peoples money are often unable and/or unwilling to actually take responsibility for the projects. Partly this is the moral hazard of spending other people's money; but partly it's passing the buck, not wanting to take on any risk associated with real project execution. The public's awareness is dim and short-lived, so the upside of project success isn't worth the risk. So you hire a firm to hire the firm to do the project, and you have plenty of scapegoats if things go sideways.

I don't think successful projects can just happen. You need individuals, visibly, identifiably, running projects, and building reputations. I think it's wrong for a small town's admins to throw money at a big corp to do an infrastructure project, and pay themselves 6-figure salaries to "oversee" it for 10 years, "darn those overruns!" In fact, I think it would be great if infra project competence was second only to running a self-restrained police force as a topic of city elections (the distant third being capability in running other city services well).

But from what I've seen American voters only show up if they have strong emotions, and don't know anything about government or the people running to rule them. So, this is what you get.
It's a job you grow into by not working at the job.

If you can't grow people at your company then no one should work for you. That simple.
Digits, not numbers... I guess a VIN can still be 007, or 054. Right?
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Delimited continuations (I'm talking about one-shot, or non-reentrant continuations, AKA "stackful" coroutines) don't require more memory than async/await, as they capture the exact same state. That's the approach we're taking in Java, but I don't think it's particularly novel.
It's a job you grow into by not working at the job.: Agreed! There are quite a few paths which makes it easy to grow into, such as analyst or data/software engineer. There is however a mismatch of expectation that you can just start as a data-scientist out of school, which represent a steep learning curve and that people are usually not ready for.
> Similar to "responsible disclosure"

Huh? How is "responsible disclosure" related at all?
This is why I used the expression "problematic but fixable". There are issues, sure, but as another commenter pointed out, they're easier to trace, and these are problems that can be fixed. Meanwhile, domain validation is only peripherally better than "no validation at all".

Unfortunately, the only meaningful form of identity confirmation we have is being railroaded away using one-off examples of imperfections that can be fixed fairly trivially, and which have never been effectively used maliciously.
When I visit that page I don't see an EV banner in my Chrome, version 76.0.3809.100. It seems like I'm meant to according to the document?

Edit: I see, it says it was revoked. Well that makes sense:

> Edit (April 29th, 2018): This site no longer uses an EV certificate. Comodo arbitrarily revoked — without any notice — the first certificate, saying this site was made with the intent to mislead. GoDaddy issued us a new one on 04/11/2018, but revoked it later that day, stating that the site was fraudulent.

So OBVIOUSLY the CAs are trying (maybe not as hard as we'd hope) to make sure EV is used responsibly, so why kill EV? Why not just improve the process a little bit more to make it unlikely to give an EV cert that clearly intends to mislead?

> It is notable that neither company believes they mis-issued the certificate.

What? They clearly revoked both and specified the reason, so does that not make the mis-issuance implicit?
I'm not convinced they are suitable as-is in all compilers. Continuation capture can only be done at safe points similar to GC. The compiler and runtime need tight integration, which isn't a property of every compiler in the world. LLVM took a long time to integrate intrinsics to handle GC, for example.
It also looks like some of the hallways at MIT, and I suppose one is less likely to get in trouble for photographing there.
>Of course, just the fact that abstracting over those things is possible doesn’t mean it is useful. In a pure FP language it might be necessary, but why should I bother with weird mathy things in my imperative language that has side effects and global state? You really have to start by explaining why composability is such a nice thing to have, and that gives the motivation for various FP patterns that are, fundamentally, all about composability.

But then you start running into the nasty issue that when you need to compose multiple monads, you find out that monad transformers don't always commute!
Fully Charged did an episode on this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKaEhBjt1ls

However, in many cities the posts are not in the sidewalk, but on people's properties, so as to allow clearer pedestrian paths. This is generally true in Toronto (where the story is written), especially on residential side-streets.
I thought it was illegal to own a car without having a parking spot. I don’t know really, can someone clarify?
I have this problem with my electric moped - I often need to find a charger for it.

Its going to be an app that connects users with each other to help provide charging facilities.

Or else, gas stations will pivot.
All of this is covered by the FCRA (fair credit reporting act).

Yes, if there are mistakes in your credit report and you ask the CRA to correct them through designated channels they are obligated to fix things. However:

1) Whether you have previously seen your credit report or not is not relevant to this obligation. Most people will be better served by staying on top of things and getting errors corrected sooner rather than waiting to run into problems when applying for credit because:

2) Fixing things will take time. The CRAs are not obligated to act overnight, but instead on the order of 30 days or so. And depending on the exact nature of the errors, this can involve several sequential 30 day round trips. If you need a loan to, say, buy a house right now that's gonna be a bummer for you.

3) In the end, if the CRAs don't follow the rules it's not actually a problem of libel for them. They're much more likely to have a problem with their regulator than to be concerned with a private lawsuit. AFAIK no one has ever successfully sued a CRA for libel. People have tried and failed though. Frankly if you threaten to sue for libel you will not be presenting as professional[A] and you will hinder your cause.

A. See https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
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I wonder if atomically pure metal powder (no oxidization) could be poured into a mold under vacuum to cold weld into shape.
Although most people will read this and think, oh more shenanigans from UBER, the reality is (and as a Colombian I know), that the government has failed for years to regulate this industry, which is regarded by all consumers as incredibly positive, and continuously has fought against this platforms in an effort to keep the taxi mafia content.

Yet, taxis in Colombia are incredibly dangerous. As a passenger you are exposed to express kidnappings, drivers that are aggressive, adultered fares systems and drive unsafely in cars that don't meet any security guidelines (a large number of passengers have died on rear-collisions given that the most common Bogota taxi has no rear-reinforcement). For decades the taxi mafia's have provided an unsafe & horrible service, when Uber & other platforms arrived, users flocked, yet by means of aggressive protests where they pretty much block the city, the taxi's have forced some parts of the government to try to curve Uber.

Uber however has fought to continue providing the service that the consumers demand, and has otherwise tried to complied with every law. This fine comes from the industry of commerce regulators, who have tried to convince the technology ministry to shut Uber down, with them refusing. I hope Uber continues to operate in Colombia and use their legal means to fight this regulators who are not operating from a consumer benefit standpoint, but rather a political fight to protect a mafia that needs to be dismantled.
Where do garage orphans plug in their cars? Same place lounge orphans plug in their TVs. They are probably both not bothered since they are watching youtube videos on the underground on the way to the pub.
Times are a changin.
I'm fine with there just being a recognized source with wide consensus that says "we have to stay below x ppm/GTCO2 to stay below 2 degrees, and y to stay below 1.5, and currently we are at z." And, data on emissions rate, but those appear to be more consistent. From that you can calculate how much time we have.

But so far it appears that our "scientific consensus" on those numbers range between "we have fifty years" to "we're already past that point".
Congrats. I owe my career and the opportunity to bring my family to the states thanks to Upwork.

With that level of income I could save for the trip, home, car, the works. It opened up a huge market for me and ultimate gave my everything. Try that platform to find work I'm assuming you are a programmer or something related since you're on HN.

Also, try not to freelance as much, it's too unpredictable for children.
When you think about it though, it's a simple market arbitrage opportunity. If someone was selling £600 shares of stock at £120, with some odd restrictions, they'd be jumping on it. They're lucky someone didn't buy every vacuum cleaner available, mail-merged, printed and mailed letters and re-sold the tickets to customers at a markup. I'd pay £150 for a £600 flight ticket, if it meant I didn't have to figure out what to do with a vacuum cleaner. Why wouldn't a bunch of MBA-types see that?
It would be extremely rare for the cops to finger you as the person that told me.

Seriously, let them sort it out. It's their job. They will likely give them a warning the first time, depending on the department. Mine would.