skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically he says a large #, not most. But I think its still a problem with the article, as what is a "large #"? And even within that subset, there are interesting variations. Some of the local apartments have "free" charging as part of the lease with quite a few charging locations available. If I were planning an electric car purchase and needed an apartment, it'd be pretty easy for me to self-select one of those, even though they are the minority right now.
Hopefully the rest of the industry follows Tesla and makes paid car DLC and constant updates. /S
I spent a lot of time in Vermont many years ago. I'd been there a little while, blissfully unaware, before someone told me "yeah, they banned billboards here in the sixties - you didn't notice?" I hadn't consciously noticed, no, but I'd spent my time there until that comment driving around stunned at how beautiful the place was. Now I knew the reason for that (well, partial reason - billboards or not, it's a pretty part of the world, especially in summer and fall).

I've thought a lot about that billboard ban ever since, and I'm convinced it enabled a measure of calm in me.

I'm not sure how much I buy the study talked about in the OP's article - spurious correlation strikes me as a possibility - but the intuition about advertising is spot-on, I think. It'd cool if our societies had more ad-free spaces.
They could make the signing APIs available to something like Jetbrains' AppCode. No porting necessary.
I grew up in that part of the world and I can safely say nobody there has $89K laying around to make a purchase of this type (renovations aside, imagine heating the place). The absence of qualified buyers drive prices around there. People who have never been to the rural areas of the midwest simply have no perspective on the economics of that region. Its not impossible that the equity from their San Diego home sale made them the richest people in the county (I don't recall the town being mentioned in the article).
Build your own intellectual oasis – Science of the Spirit – Sott.net
Nobody is disputing that when prices decrease, capacity might also decrease. But the claim was that capacity drops to zero, which I still think is absurd.
Tangentially related, anyone in the PNW who doesn’t already know about McMenamins should check out their hotels. They mostly buy old historic buildings and remodel them as hotels/restaurants/pubs/etc. while maintaining interesting aspects of the building histories.

E.g. we have stayed at the Kennedy School in Portland where our room was a converted class room.

https://www.mcmenamins.com/stay
I'd even go one step further and say most car owners aren't living in apartments and park on the street.
Related from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011358
I don't trust these types of analyses on primarily trading/stock based financial sites. Tesla has had so many short positions on it that it is a little ridiculous and it just makes me mistrust the whole financial community a bit regarding Tesla. The headline is extremely click-baity.

The article doesn't even mention which model 3. Or what features are in the Camry vs. the Tesla. Even the cheapest Tesla has a lot of "luxury" features that are rare or don't exist in other cars, which heightens the silliness of including an outright price comparison and really shows the author's biases.

I would be fine if there were a purely fuel cost vs. electricity cost article looking at the efficiency of the two vehicles since comparing their prices, given that they are different size and segment vehicles is absurd.

Then the author throws out a really expensive price for solar panels, which are proven to basically pay for themselves over the long term at current efficiency rates, so, yes, in fact, for the average solar installation, over 10 years, the energy is 'free'. It is increasingly clear to me that the author did very little research and is trying to extrapolate some general trend for his lifestyle and apply it to the vast majority of use cases which is dumb.

IDK, I have read a lot of overly enthusiastic pieces about Tesla and the Model 3 and I have read a lot of hit pieces. This reads more like the typical hit piece I see. The value proposition of the LE Hybrid is certainly interesting, but if you are trying to save the most money, just by a car that costs 15,000 and your fuel costs over 5 years will never catch up to the price of the Camry anyway.

Also at the end the author states sales were basically flat in 2019 providing a number of units sold at: 192,250 yet Tesla sold 360K plus units (the author is only looking at US figures for some reason...., despite the overall performance of Tesla being that they sold more cars in 2019 than in 2017 and 2018 combined.

(p.s. I read the fine print after writing this post.... "Disclosure: I am/we are short TSLA. "). Okay then.

(Full disclosure: I own a Model 3, and don't own any Tesla stock that I am aware of).
I think that is a different to business model. Game consoles are sold at break even or loss leader. That is why EPIC wasn't against the 30% cut from Games on Consoles.

Although it is likely Apple has started to "subsidise" some of its iPhone margin in 2019 with its Services Revenue. And likely continue to do so in 2020 and onwards.
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Ask HN: Why are there no good file formats for digital forms?
Recently, I have been receiving and returning a lot of forms via email. When I say "forms", I mean the paper-style digital forms bureaucratic organisations seem to love. Typically these are in a PDF format. Overall, filling these forms has been a painful experience. It seems that there are significant issues with the creation and compatibility of popular formats. Filling out these forms digitally is never straightforward. It is almost always easier to print them, fill them out by hand with a pen, and then scan them back in.

By contrast, form-filling on the web is not so bad. Web forms are simple to use, ubiquitous, relatively accessible, and rarely have major compatibility issues. Many forms can even be auto-filled with varying success. Most of us would agree that forms are more-or-less a "solved problem" on the web.

The main barrier to the usage web forms is that they need to be hosted on a website. Large, bureaucratic organisations seem to struggle with building websites and technology in general. These organisations prefer to treat their digital forms as if they are paper forms. You download the form, or receive it via email, and then you return a filled copy. The filled copy is read by human eyes, and the information is entered into "the system" with human fingers.

Why is there no web-technology-based file format for digital forms? The form can be typical HTML, CSS, and maybe even JS. Instead of hitting "Submit" and POSTing the form payload to a server, the user could hit "Save" and the file itself would be altered to contain the form payload. This concept would allow much of the existing web tech we use for forms to be re-used, and would allow organisations to build automation around their forms in a piecemeal fashion.

What do you think?
M-A-C dev here ...

We're actually pretty deep into the work of adding sync to M-A-C. https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/161...

Predictably, synchronizing data is complicated, so it's taking a while and we're trying to do it in a way that doesn't destroy any existing data. So we'll be doing some heavy internal testing on it before we release it.

But it's definitely coming.
It's important to think that the moral critique of video games isn't the only one around; it's possible to think that it's moral to play video games[0] but that they have a much lower aesthetic value (inherently or on average) than other artforms.

[0] The moral status of people who play games involving killing, rape, etc. may seem irrelevant, but there's a paper I read a while ago[1] which argues that under a deontological system, playing such games may be immoral because of their content - a pro tanto wrong. I suppose the argument has less weight as most lay people are consequentialists or moral relativsits.

[1] "This paper is concerned with whether there is a moral difference between simulating wrongdoing and consuming non-simulatory representations of wrongdoing. I argue that simulating wrongdoing is (as such) a pro tanto wrong whose wrongness does not tarnish other cases of consuming representations of wrongdoing. While simulating wrongdoing (as such) constitutes a disrespectful act, consuming representations of wrongdoing (as such) does not." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-018-9463-7
How would that work out in practice? Sounds highly unlikely.
I don't know if mainstream apps are doing that, but I don't see why someone couldn't create a "trojan horse" app that requires the microphone, and starts monitoring and sending back recordings if it detects a conversation, it probably would be eventually spotted though if it gets any populartity.

Or, perhaps microphones in public that try to tie overheard conversations with beacon or location data to find out who it heard.
For fun, here are some of the bad form-filling experiences I have had recently:

1. Received PDF via email. The file was designed to be filled digitally (it had actual fillable fields). However, none of the PDF readers I tried could fill all of the fields. Some of the fields were broken/missing. It is possible the file was created incorrectly, or that my PDF software was not-entirely-compatible with the form. I had to insert a text overlay to fill in the broken fields.

2. Received a PDF file via email. It did not have fillable fields at all - it was like a raw scan. I could only fill it digitally by manually overlaying text, which would have been a pain. I decided to print-fill-scan instead.

3. Received a Microsoft Word document (.doc) file via email. No actual fillable fields - just sections created with underlined space characters. I didn't want to print-and-scan, so I "overtyped" in these sections to replace the space characters with my entries. Where check marks were required, I pasted a check mark character in. One field required me to circle an option, so I had to use a shape overlay.
When you perform an ACH, you are actually sending money to the central bank, waiting for the funds to clear the overnight process, then the funds are sent to the destination bank. This process takes 2-3 days but ensures the sending bank has enough liquidity to cover these debt transfers. If the sending bank fails, you are SOL until the central bank steps in with FDIC/SIPC (usually immediate, but we saw 2008)

With a wire transfer, the sending bank earmarks funds and moves it to a special account. Once the central bank confirms, the destination bank takes money out of their account (this is where the delay occurs, as sometimes the bank must setup a repo with the central bank) and sends it to the recipient. If the sending bank where to fail, the recipient still has their money. Now its up to the sending, central, and destination banks to duke it out for the money.

I am referring to US wires in this case
I don't know if that's the most accurate description of their reasoning, though I agree with your decision.

"Could we perhaps rename the Macintosh platform to simply Mac? It hasn't been branded as Macintosh since 1998, and I'd like to avoid having to "translate" this to Mac for newer users that simply don't know what a Macintosh is."
Are there any papers on this? I can only find references to the consensus algorithm.
They also export clean power to US markets at the border. We thank them!
Sounds interesting. Can you send me the screenshot?
A carport by definition doesn't have a door - it's a zero- to three-wall structure, usually adjacent to a house, that protects a car from rain and snow, but that's it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carport
You can't copyright 0s and 1s, so it's okay to do whatever you want with any binary?
Yes or Linux. Either that or change licensing so people can create Apple VMs and I can spin one up online.
At the time I was looking at this problem (2012) the only viable solution was to buy a piece of Apple hardware and install it in the office and have the auto-build system call back into the office from the cloud to build the package as a particular step in the build.

So I have to worry about power, about the safety, about hardware, about updates, all because I can't use an arbitrary x86 processor to build an executable targeting an x86 processor. It made me so fucking cross.

Let us not forget that other platforms don't have this mandatory requirement.
To be fair, I remember people posting this same thing in 2008... 2010... 2014... etc. So far it HN seems to be able to buck the trend, likely due to its simplicity, the great moderation team, and the community. It's not without fault but it's better than most.
I don't know about the pay differentials between Toronto and Mississippi, but I'm very sure that the cost of living is a lot lower in the latter. Developer salaries in the Toronto area are also lower than the US-centric numbers you see bandied about on HN.
Uber vows to stop airport service after Phoenix raises fees
I agree it won't be anytime soon, but I think there's a decent chance that we see something in 5-7 years.
Deductively, yes.
> But I guess short profit from bigger sale margin will continue to force west to produce in china.

According to the South China Morning Post, your guess is wrong:

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3045141/c...
Even back in the 80s, the console makers “controlled distribution”. Nintendo forced third parties to use their manufacturing facilities and they all force third parties to distribute their haves with a license key.

Console makers have always forced third parties to pay a fee to distribute their games.
CLOS is just as dynamic as Python _and_ fast, at least in SBCL and LispWorks. CLOS is probably the most expressive object system you can find, and if you wanted it fast you would restrict it somewhat to allow for at least some of the dispatch to happen at compile time :)
Pretty useful for design interviews and also a general overview. For a more in depth look would recommend the https://dataintensive.net/ book. It's a great deep dive into modern distributed computing and data architectures.
that's how you know that the advertising is working
Were Kyiv Winters as Snowy as I Remember as a Kid?
I'm just wondering regarding the stethoscope, I was looking at - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stethoscope#Acoustic which mentions there are seem to be two types of acoustic pickup, bell or diaphragm. The Glia one appears to be the bell type I think?

It says that the "bell transmits low frequency sounds, while the diaphragm transmits higher frequency sounds". Is there an advantage of one type over the other, or are they used in different scenarios?
The author of the post is the co-inventor of the Lucid programming language. In an earlier blog posts he describes a Python interpreter for a version of Lucid that he named pyLucid.
>Is this actually happening though? If so, who is doing it and how?

It's possible but a lot of the reports are clearly coincidences. Take this example of someone watching 'Catch Me If You Can' 2 days ago, and then yesterday seeing a HN posting about the main character and finding it hard to accept as coincidental.[0]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22048337
IMO, that's still using the data against our (the driver's) best interests.
reminded me of the quote "software are like cathedrals: first we build them, then we pray"
A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties
>I'm surprised why they haven't already started implementing this.

I would be completely unsurprised if they've run the numbers and determined that penalizing entire zip codes is far more lucrative.
Razer Kishi
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/clever-design-lack-of...
Podcast Preview: Introducing the Joy of X
Sounds a bit pretentious. Pride comes before the fall.
Toronto has a building [1] of a very similar size and internal layout that is used as a concert venue and offices for some IT company with conspicuously generic name. The list of people that performed there looks like Rock-n-Roll Hall of fame and it was one of the most entertaining places to visit during Doors Open Toronto. During the visit I realized that graffiti-style artwork inside was done by someone I know.

[1] https://www.888yonge.com/
The market was disrupted a decade back by cash for clunkers, which took lots of cars off the road. That raised prices and forced banks to write loans for older cars.

At the same time, emissions controls changed the market in that cars are more governed by use not age. I mostly buy Hondas and know the market a bit, and they are all good for about 200,000 miles without significant maintenance.

I sold a 2003 Honda Pilot with 250k miles for $2,500 last year -- really high considering all of the stuff that will break on a car of that vintage. In the 90's, that pricepoint would be for a much younger car. A place like CarMax will sell a 2010 Pilot with low mileage for $15k, which works because the TCO works out -- you won't have lots of maintenance.
>What’s weird to me is that I don’t see more successful founders mentioning that having economically well-off parents being a factor in their success.

It's not just people with rich parents. I've noticed people tend to dismiss parental help they get even when it's just a few hundred every once in a while. They don't connect that vacation they just took, was paid for by that Christmas present they got, or that they're able to save because they're living rent free with parents.

It's like people see money from their parents as non-existent and don't count it in as 'extra' money they've received. Meanwhile, they've never actually had absolutely no money, because their parents never let them reach that state.
Did you mean 300+ DPI? 3,000 seems higher than I imagine anyone could see or any printer could feasibly print at.
No, although Google and/or Alexa will build up a profile of your interests based on things you ask/search for through them - but this is the same as with any search engine.
>Let's talk about the cost of [...] brake pads and rotors.

Your tesla has brakes, I hope.
> California Masonic membership is open to men age 18 or older who meet the qualifications and standards of character and intention, and who believe in a Supreme Being

no one's perfect and I don't believe
Life science jobs at Berkeley give precedence to candidate diversity statements
>Since you can’t possibly experience the timeline in which you are dead

Death is a slow process, of course you experience it from the start to the end.
Snowpack with React: a way to build web applications
Wait, an industry based on manipulating people into spending money regardless of need or value delivered is perhaps not totally ethical? Hold on while I practice my shocked face.
CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT
It will be interesting to see how this collides with California's new CCPA.
>People from the platform contacted me telling me one of the possible reasons was that I didn't have any code on GitHub.

Do places really require a github account with lots of code now to be considered?
> Why are you sure of that?

Because there are about 17 moving parts in a Tesla:

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/model-s-vs-ice-how-man...

Edit: Including the brakes.
It’s a technique to balance the “color” of the glyph. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_color
Negative Self-Talk
> The product I’m building since 15 years evolved from a 32 bit desktop app (with dependencies from the early 90s) into a heavier 64 bit desktop app 10 years (hundreds of man years) later, and further into cloud services that weren’t even a term when development started.

My employer, as well. We have three teams where the main code bases were started ~2001, when the company founded. One of these teams has code that started as Java applets that are now .NET Core. We have another ASP.NET system that they are currently migrating today. The other two teams, building Windows desktop applications, are now invested in web technologies, like browser engines and WebRTC on our A/V side.

I cut my teeth in the embedded industry, and we were supporting at least one product that I recall working on there that had code that had started in the early 90s.

It's incredible to think about. There was a nice thread yesterday that touched on this topic, as well. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042186
Ah, you are right:
"a mindless, aimless, non-rational impulse at the foundation of our instinctual drives, and at the foundational being of everything."

Very much like subatomic particles randomly bumping into each other.

But, also very much unlike music, at least the enjoyable kind of music. Does sound similar to the music of Lovecraftian novels, though.
Who Was Ramanujan? (2016)
Microsoft offers Mac build servers as part of Azure Devops. And there is Mac Mini Colo.

And you want to force a company to release a product for other operating systems?
12 Years in Prison for Using His Cell Phone While in Jail
A fee and dividend system[1] so the price of emission is actually included in the price of products is pretty damn important too. As is, it's only hippies and governments that are helping - with that system all companies and consumers would be incentivized to help cut emissions too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
> Do you also feel that Nintendo, Microsoft (XBox) and Sony should be equally regulated for controlling distribution over their digital stores?

It's not about what they put in their own store. It's about not allowing competing stores. And game consoles shouldn't be allowed to do it either.
If batteries get commoditized then it could be an easy process to replace the battery. It becomes no different than many other repairs you would typically make to make a used car sellable.

However it will likely require legislation to ensure there's no DRM bullshit in the battery packs.
Have you heard of contracting practices in the US? Rather than "highly unlikely", this is the norm for tech companies that want to skirt corporate responsibility.
Yeah, fair - that's definitely a difference between vocational vehicles and personal vehicles. If we tried to do that, our end customers would laugh us out of the room.

However, I believe consumers also have a way to laugh Tesla out of the room, eventually: public policy ideas like the first sale doctrine, or just straight up passing new laws saying that when you buy a car, the manufacturer must provide basic certain basic services (such as allowing the vehicle to run, and warranty for basic components) even if the purchaser elects to deactivate some of the data collection.

In the past few decades, we have really allowed power to accrue to large corporations, but I think that things like the right-to-repair movement show that the pendulum may swing the other direction, at least in some contexts. Regardless of overall political or economic ideology, as soon as a large portion of the population realizes that these OEMs are basically saying "yes, pay me a good chunk of your annual salary, and I'll let you use this vehicle as long as you don't piss me off," I think things will swing very quickly in favor of consumers. The reason it hasn't yet is because most people don't have to deal with vehicles with these restrictions.
You're forgetting the most legitimate monetization option:

If you make something great, people will pay for it.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, and we ban accounts that do that. We have to, because we're trying for something different here—curious conversation—which those things either choke out or destroy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
based on .net core, for what it's worth
A modest proposal to save American democracy
If you have access to the corresponding audio recordings, would you be able to share them?