skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it have a range more than 234? The 2012 Model S had a range of 265 miles.

One of the biggest problems for most people about EV adoption is range. No one really beats Tesla on this datapoint just yet. Not Jaguar, not VW, not Mercedes, and not Porsche. VW's ID.3 should beat that, but it won't even be released in the US and isn't out until the middle to end of this year.
Prices have always been regulated by the U.S. government; in the mid-1800s the price of postage was flattened to be independent of distance, which I infer addressed most of the complaints that led to the creation of the American Letter Mail Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_posta...

Added: this PDF goes into gory details on the turmoil in the 1840s:

http://mars.gmu.edu/bitstream/handle/1920/3477/Appendix%20C....
The table seems broken? It's a 404: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ForEvery100Gi...
Hmm. What about a regular bike which one moves with muscle power? Had a nice ~85 km afternoon loop today. =)
At the risk of... whatever:

Disposable items (properly disposed of, ie landfilled) can be, and often are, more environmentally friendly than reusable items. Especially if you look at actual real life use, as opposed to projected or design use.

Look at a UK LCA of shopping bags:

A cotton tote needs to be reused ~173 times without being washed to break even with the efficiency of a single use HDPE bag. (Edit: other alternatives, like LDPE, paper or woven plastic, are also listed as low as multiplier of 2x vs HDPE. I didn't intend to mislead.)

If you're not doing a whole load of dishes, it can be more efficient to use plastic or paper plates for a meal, and trash them. The cost of just washing something can be relatively and unreasonably high, environmentally speaking.

The green movement has been over reliant on emotional programming (reuse = always good, plastic = always bad, etc) and needs to invest more in actual education. Landfills have gotten an especially unearned negative connotation.

Hopefully the new generation of college graduates are getting proper training in conducting proper Life Cycle Analysis'.

Not saying reuse is always bad or that we shouldn't be analysing these things, just that they need analysis, and not a collective gut reaction.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
That's great, good for you.
> It's funny that this is called "wild west" because it's rather anachronistic for that design.

It's the form of the Central Pacific Jupiter¹, famous for being the western locomotive at the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(locomotive)
Seems pie in the sky to get adoption of e-bikes in places like my home state of Texas. Our city has e-bikes for rent all along the city biking system, very cheap too!

These bikes are available for rent nearly all of the time, except for when we close down a few streets for the spring fair. So, adoption isn't going to happen very fast in places where there is no appetite. We have cheap gas here and A/C in our cars.
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Maybe JScript (Microsoft's proprietary JavaScript) and/or VBScript (VB sometimes shoehorned into a JavaScript-style role) would work for the first one, but to be honest I don't have enough experience with either to know if the "but worse" statement is fair.

Also the "sweet spot" for Lua has some overlap with JavaScript but I don't think the "but worse" complaint is quite fair and I think Lua may actually pre-date JS.

But surely there are a bunch of HTML templating languages that would fit the category of "PHP but worse".
They also don't show up any differently in browsers any more. There's no difference a user can see unless they go through the menus to view the cert itself.
1. Soli style gesture controls will be ubiquitous.

2. Construction will begin on a structure that will be taller than anything we have now and use an active support system.

3. A child will be born that lives to be 234.

4. Andrew Yang will be elected to some office, but it probably won't be president.
Astrophysicist Says He Knows How to Build a Time Machine
Don’t. Disc breaks are highly recommended and a front suspension as well.

I converted an old trek steel frame touring bike and moved the conversion kit to a modern hardtail after a month of commuting. It didn’t feel safe.

That said what you want is a mid drive bafang bbshd. Dead simple conversion for any bike.
You could just feature "latest" products from aws, azure, gcloud, ibm, paperspace, linode, alibaba and other cloud saas and isv's

They change so fast with new offerings all the time. Would be nice to have one central clearinghouse. Minimal interface, sans javascript and marketing cruft

Best of luck ;)
I've used enough graphical programming languages to have come to believe that syntax matters (iff you're constraining your definition of "programming" to "writing strings of ASCII or Unicode by hand that get interpreted into an executable format by an intermediary program" ;) ).
What electric chainsaw do you have? I cut ~3 cords of firewood a year, from logs ~12-20" in diameter, and I'll be happy to buy an electric saw at some point. But I haven't seen one that seems suitable for longer cutting sessions with moderate-sized rounds.
Location: North Carolina

Remote: yes

Relocate? possibly

Tech: lots of mathematics, Julia, Fortran Matlab, Linux, etc

Resume: github.com/chakravala

https://grassmann.crucialflow.com
The original tweet uses "2FA". I read "MFA" here as "Master of Fine Arts" rather than "Multi-Factor Authentication" and was confused.
GraphQL in 10 Minutes [video]
It's already fairly dead except for those who do actual work (or gaming).
The Tesla Model Y and Model X both have 7 seater options. It wouldn't be as big as a minivan, but it does seat 7.
things I were missing while writing my thesis were completely different from things mentioned in the article:

1) A left hand pane with a tree structure of everything, including chapters, headlines, figures and tables. Dragging and dropping should move sections and the tree should understand that chapters are stored in separate files.

2) An autocomplete for referencing the above.

3) An autocomplete for references in my bib file (and no, I shouldn’t have to remember which paper acl2008a is. I should be able to autocomplete on name or author or date and see exactly which paper I’m pointing to)
Scientists show how perovskite solar cells can capture more electricity
> You appear to believe that: [ ] Nobody really needs: [ ] concurrency [ ] a REPL [ ] debugger support [ ] IDE support [ ] I/O [ ] to interact with code not written in your language

This is funny for general purpose languages, but doesn't seem relevant for specialised languages. I wish the checklist clearly stated that it targets general purpose languages.
Yeah it is kind of silly. If you aren't truly anonymous, you blow out some of your deniability just by discussing deniability. You said law enforcement and I straw manned another thing today. Great.
Think of all the poor people who have to struggle without electricity to heat up/cool down, to live a life of moderate amenities. All of that requires energy. Ideally nuclear power would have been able to power, but it is unfortunate we have to go back to rely on coal.
I honestly don’t know anyone who makes that much. But generally that high income comes passively because of lack of expense externalities. This is also generally to higher risk and speculative activity involving proportionally high capital investment.
No new batteries needed: the startups bringing wireless power to devices
why does content marketing get upvoted here? i would wager that 50%-70% of the stuff upvoted is either content marketing or personal brand building.

edit: this account does nothing but submit blog posts from this domain. they work for the consulting firm[1]. isn't there a rule against shilling?

[1]https://gist.github.com/NaeosPsy/155f76a25e0c93eb067a0f4d86d...
I agree with the last part about 9. But I think Messi will move back to Argentina. He is too much of a family man.
> For me the selling point of Chromebooks is that it's a stateless computer, so not much can go wrong.

Do you really think that's the case?

> Also updates are really smooth: done in the background, just have to do a quick reboot and you're done.

How are there updates if it's stateless?
So... that's half an animal per person per day? That seems like... a lot.

Until you look at the article, which suggests that the high number is largely due to huge numbers of tiny krill and anchovies caught in fishing nets.

So while perhaps technically accurate... it's not like half a pig or half a chicken is being killed per person per day.
What if you actually wanted to replace the entire document contents with a new document? Why should that be an error?

The fact that the meaning of the API is commonly misunderstood is not (necessarily) a fault of the API
Someone1234 explicitly alleged that the tweet violated the updated agreement, which was made after the tweet was...

The allegation that it violated the original agreement was tested in court by the SEC, and effectively failed.
I was surprised to discover you're correct. Here's a look at that: https://www.serviceobjects.com/blog/service-not-available-us...
I don't take this so much to be making fun of all people making languages as making fun of people thinking they will upend the existing zeitgeist of languages because though decades (nearly a century) of language designers have come before them, they have the key insight that those minds lacked.

Some day, that may become true. But the safe-money bet is on "no" for the vast majority of languages one will encounter in academia and industry. Most will fail to catch on, a few might be remembered, and the ones that succeed will do so because of forces unrelated to the zen of their design as much as the new ideas (or old ideas done right) they bring to the table.

(They share that in common with startup companies ;) ).
Interesting. From what I read about a while back, these wildfires didn't use to be so bad when there were more resources allocated to controlled burnoffs. Why did the government pull back funding?
Helmets are for sports. Ebikes have a ~50% market share in Belgium where approximately nobody wears a helmet ever. It's really not an issue.
The success of touch phones doesn't necessarily indicate that everything should be touch-based.
Very very true, but my point is that we've done about a dozen road trips now and the initial range anxiety we had has gone away.

Per https://supercharge.info/changes, Tesla opened, on average, 16 new superchargers in America per month. With the new supercharger v3 rollout it just means even more options. Our Model 3 has a range of 310 miles and there aren't a ton of places we'd actually want to go that we can't go thanks to the supercharger network. Other companies who are trying to make decent EVs still haven't solved the charging problem. EVgo is probably the best fast charging EV network outside of Tesla's, but they're only currently in California I believe.
That might not be bad, I haven’t researched it. I had heard at some point that all controls were on the giant tablet.
you expect an order of magnitude reduction in consumption? it won't happen.
I agree.

I recently (6-9 months ago perhaps) got a cheap one - I think it was about 150GBP new. So very cheap, but its CPU is some celeron thing that frankly sucks for modern websites with their heavy javascript payloads. If you tried to open gmail + google calendar + a google doc, it slowed down to an absolute crawl - like 5-10 wall-seconds to change tabs, things visibly redrawing on the screen etc and things slowly loaded in. It becomes incredibly frustrating to do anything web-based except perhaps read one single tab at a time - forget anything interactive. (That said, my wife has one that also has a celeron that she uses almost exclusively for netflix and it seems fine for that)

I think that the cheap celerons that the cheapest chromebooks get just are not good enough - I've had chromebooks for years and years ago those chromebooks with weak CPUs (sometimes obscure ARM ones even) were totally fine and would zip along without issues, but now the weakest celerons just do not seem to be able handle modern web UIs.

So that puts us in the sad situation where if you want to buy a chromebook, you need to consider one with a non-celeron CPU, but those then tend to be really expensive in comparison (e.g. double or triple the price of a celeron one), at which point you might as well just buy a windows one (or even a macbook air or something similar for not much more).

It is a shame - I don't know the bulk trade prices, but I am guessing that the difference between the weakest possible celeron and something less-crap like a base pentium thing is probably only like $10-15, but would make a huge difference to usability, but you just don't seem to be able to buy anything without jumping up to Intel i5s for an extra £500 etc
A while ago, I was seriously considering buying a bike (A regular one, 110 CC). I didn't because there's no way in hell my partner will let me ride it for the main purpose that I wanted to buy it for, take our 6 yo to school (as I wanted to buy it mainly for that, as riding a bike is much faster in the city where I live, Buenos Aires).

I just went to the site where I do all my purchases, and that same bike is at the same price tag as an ebike of medium quality.

I reckon this country is a little particular when it comes to economics, but buying an ebike is far from cheap around here. Until that changes, the bulk of people will use just regular means of transport in this country.

Besides that, I do think that electric vehicles are the best way to move around for distances in the low miles.
Currently the death toll is 19 and dozens are missing. The Black Saturday bushfires were a major learning experience though as you’ll notice authorities have been emphatic that people need to leave immediately.

In terms of sheer destructiveness, the fires have not stopped yet and don’t look to be abating. There are over 500 homes lost.

The area burnt and length of time the fires have been burning has never been matched. So it’s hardly a lie to say what I said.

I live in Sydney and have family and friends who have been in fire zones. Calling this political and a “lie” is insensitive and shows you really don’t know what you are talking about. I am well aware of the Black Saturday fires as I lost a friend Bian Tan in those fires. This time round I hope authorities and people more effectively learn how to save lives and homes. I think a number of factors will help us reduce casualties, but that doesn’t mean this won’t be the most destructive fires in Australian history, just in sheer length of time and area burned.
Link for those interested (as was I): https://www.bafangusadirect.com
Why are ebikes a revolution while mopeds have been around for decades? It seems like they fill the same niche.
BlackBerry was already going downhill by 2010.

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/personal-tech/...
This will be the case in any language that confirms to IEEE 754 (so, hopefully, all of them (because the only thing more confusing than properly implementing IEEE 754 is improperly implementing your own bespoke subset)). This property of NaN is required by the spec (and is, for example, why Rust's default HashMap refuses to accept floating point numbers as keys).
Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush
I'd also argue that there is basically 0 chance that China thinks putting telecommunications infrastructure under a US companies control is in their interest.
It goes without saying that this is very cherry picked. At the same time, it deserves to be seen simply because celebrities/mainstream media are ignorant of, or choose not to report on these kinds of disparities.
I've ridden 5,000 miles on my ebike in two years. The e assist flattens hills and shrinks the city. I can use my bike to get anywhere in Seattle in reasonable time. I regularly beat the bus and I've tied with ride shares more than once.
Cummings has been good at tearing things down, we’ve yet to see him build something. His one attempt at business was a complete failure.

He seems to have drunk the AI koolaid but I’m not convinced he really understands it.

This could all go spectacularly wrong.
Yeah, I guess I used sandbox incorrectly, the apps are still running in a sandbox. What I meant was before Crostini, you had to load xfce in a shell or dual boot into it. Now the Linux apps run inside the Chrome OS. You also don't have to boot into a developer mode, or anything like that.
I believe that's implied. I was looking for clarification on what makes CarPlay a deal breaker since it is a comment that comes up often.
And according to https://www.statista.com/chart/13435/tesla-vehicle-productio... this compares to 86k in Q4 2018, and ~25k in Q4 2017.

As a long term investor, is the exact number all that important compared to the general shape of the curve?

(N.b. I have no position in $TSLA)
@s-macke very cool article, it brings me back. :) Thanks for the write up.

Regarding speeding it up & drawing front-to-back, didn’t some games do a back-to-front with some kind of bounds on how far down they draw? That way you get speed up without needing the y-buffer memory. I remember that in some games you could sometimes see cracks in the terrain, and I’m guessing from my faded memory that it was bounding the vertical draw. Not entirely sure if I’m remembering seeing cracks in sprite-drawn terrain though.

I was also wondering about the “Rotation” animated gif example, some extra mountains show up on the right side in the 360 spin for a couple of frames while the camera is passing the far end of the river, just before the pyramid comes into view. Is that just a bug, or is it something about the algorithm that’s tricky to fix?
I know for a fact based on prior employment that other OEMs have the capability and infrastructure in place to implement OTA updates. I don't know why they don't since as a vendor we weren't privy to those kinds of business decisions and I assume they have their reasons. The infrastructure mostly gets used for telemetry (drive-train related stuff so they can decide what they can and can't skimp on) at present.
Micro Center seems to be going fine. Fully stocked (with the exception of CPU) and always busy. No issues price matching online either.
> Also to refer to China as a "3rd world country" is astonishing

> by China and 3rd world countries

By Mary and the guys (indicating that Mary is not a guy).

> Per capita, it's not the "3rd" world countries that are polluting, but the "1st" worlds

From your own source, the top polluters per capita are Qatar, Trinidad & Tobago and Kuwait. Qatar is wealthy, but probably not "1st world".

> I'm sad to see someone still referring to countries as "1st" and "3rd" world, as that's an incredibly outdated term

The AP standard was updated in 2015. The terms "1st", "2nd" and "3rd" world are still in common parlance even though the AP prefers "Developed" and "Developing".
Proto-SaaS business needs loving home
For personal reasons I need to stop working on my business https://fit2.report but my customers have no viable alternative services. The business is small but with a few loyal customers and has the potential to be very successful if executed correctly. Customers today use the product mostly for teacher payroll but the platform is not limited to that use case, it just needs the work doing. All customers have been on the platform for at least a year some much longer. Any interested parties please send me your email via the private beta signup on the frontpage and I'll get in contact with you.
That is very interesting. I had always thought that price obfuscation was good for both healthcare providers and insurance companies, since any price obfuscation is an advantage for the seller while the buyer is left confused about how much they are paying for what.
10% index funds. 90% everything else (this includes ETFs).
ESP8266 – 1 Year 18650 battery lifetime
Biggest hardware hold back right now is all of the real time lighting and ray tracing stuff. Eventually that will be solved, then it will be something else that hardware hasn't caught up to yet.
Same here, but I drive a leaf.

In a city it all makes sense - the grid has been there for ages, and how many trips are really longer than 200km RT in your average larger city?

I’m never going ICE again, if I can help it.

Companies must milk those R&D costs though... not to mention the oil industry.
Money really is a double-edged sword.
It would be nice if there was an unsupported (but still Google-distributed) "community" channel you could switch to on old hardware. Like how you can change to beta or developer channels if you want to test the new versions. This would be something that prosumers could use, if not the mass public. I feel like having the hardware simply "expire" when it is still functional probably results in a lot of e-waste.

You can install something like Gallium if you have the patience, time, and skill, but not everybody does.
I think e-bikes will be very successful, but you have to get the product into the people's hands. It's hard to know what an e-bike is like until you try it. They are so fun, and getting fresh air will almost certainly make you more happy.

But trying to convince people of that without putting them on an e-bike is kind of hard.
Banning single use plastic bags is more about reducing litter and water contamination than about energy efficiency. Lightweight plastic bags are particularly bad because the wind blows them everywhere and they often end up in oceans or rivers. This causes serious harm to aquatic environments.
This is exactly the opposite advice I would give to anyone starting a company - avoid building software at all costs.
Motor forces are entirely insignificant over what wheels, fork and frame experience when you are hard braking (primarily, of course, through the front brake).

No, the bigger issue with front drive is that the front wheel has less weight over it (so significantly less traction) and that should it ever lose traction, you are more or less guaranteed to crash while the rear wheel slipping is perfectly recoverable. This is exacerbated since a human motor knows not to turn the power on going through a turn in the wet, but e-bike motors don't bring any such intelligence.
The LF hasn't been about tools and software for quite a while. It's disappointing. I wish they'd change the name at this point. At least it would be honest.

> 100% of donations received go towards funding diversity programs.

Ref: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate/
Yes, haskellers will soon be celebrities.
Wow! They were successfully testing plasma rail guns that delivered an equivalent of 5 tons of TNT per hit in 1993 before it went classified!
"The name of your language makes it impossible to find on Google"

--> [ ] Google has made its own language with a name near to yours and has stolen all the search results from you
Why These Birds Carry Flames in Their Beaks
I don't agree. I've implemented GUIs with raw Xlib, Tcl/Tk, Qt, GTK, MFC, SDL, XUL, and DHTML. Of all of these, DHTML is the most productive for me, and by a significant margin. The Tcl/Tk topic in Dercuano goes into those experiences in more detail, if you're interested.
i've always thought it woudl be interesting to do large-scale simulations of knots using a physics engine- generate random topologies, pull both ends, compute some physical parameters such as "force required to pull apart". Then sort of walk around knotspace using genetic algorithms to evolve new knots. THere is probably a much more practical RL approach that doesn't require GA>
Yes and manual transmission or commercial trucks use this to "engine brake".