skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one lies about EPA range.

What you didn't include are the details of your commute and why it might be atypical.
"Wow look the US is getting attacked by everyone" - "lets make everyone pay for a black budget 5 trillion dollars cyber defence project".

Same old military industrial complex scheme with theater pretexts.
These all seem like great reasons to use sqlite, not avoid it. All of that complexity, all of those bugs, security bugs, will now be your custom code to save and store data?
from the article:

"Unfortunately, the police caught up with her misdeeds and arrested her..."

:)
There's plenty of data and test results out there. But range is very subjective. It varies hugely depending on driving style, speed, road surface, traffic, weather, temperature, tires, vehicles configuration/settings, etc.
7 of 9 justices voted with their respective liberal/conservative blocs and you say my point (that the public perceives the justices as having ideological biases) is invalidated?

Invalidated by the fact that 2 of 9 justices broke ranks in this one particular case? The fact that there are so-called liberal/conservative blocs away from which the justices occasionally break means that yes, there is a common perception that the justices allow their ideological biases to influence their opinions.
I get intermittent connectivity issues with Facebook's built in Messenger implementation all the time. After a few refreshes, it comes back.
I’ve driven 30k miles in my Model S (pre Raven 330 mile range 100kw dual motor) since 2018, back and forth across the US (West coast, East coast, Deep South and the Midwest), using the Supercharger network. Would stopping for a 20 minute charge on a 300 mile road trip really be a deal breaker? I find it to be just the right amount of time to hit the bathroom, grab a Monster energy drink or a coffee, and to walk a little bit to keep away the DVT. 40-50 minute range charges to 100% are rare, and I’ll time those to be when we’re leaving someplace we charged overnight (hotel with destination chargers) or at a Supercharger where I can combine the stop with a meal.
The Bay Area H2 shortage was fun, as in schedule your refueling between 1 and 5 am to have any chance of getting a half tank, or wait an hour in line by day.
Bare Metal is cheaper and more effective than running your startup on fumes just to offload your expenses on unsuspecting VCs.
dBase III+ came with a bit of an embedded programming language, the logical extension of which was the Clipper programming language (from CA, by the time I came along). It never got me to do Windows programming, I suppose the later versions must have eventually caught up, but/so I moved on. But it was a great combo for making database-based applications, for me as an aspiring programmer. I was a teenager, and probably the best feature of the dBase/Clipper combo was that I had a great mentor in my neighborhood. Never left programming, and gave up other passionate hobbies for it.
Hills shouldn't make much of a difference. The car has regenerative braking so hilly or flat, it should have similar range.
Academic paper has been like these for years. And yeah, I don't enjoy reading paper on mobile.
Yes, any significant regen will light up the brake lights.
WebM videos on the web can be done in under 300KB thanks to VP9 encoding
The thing is, distance is meaningless. The energy needed to travel for A to B depends on way more than the "distance". Elevation changes, weather, wind, driving style, etc all matter. I can show you roads near me where my energy consumption is negative (yes, driving down the mountain).
Hmm I am currently testing out node-forge for encrypting/decrypting AES-256.

Would you say that libsodium.js is better?
36"

As long as you can find a unicycle shop, you should be fine :)
It is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to spend an extra hour detouring to the charging station, possibly waiting in line, and then getting only enough of a charge to complete my journey. I would rather do all of my charging in one of my garages.
Exactly, what do those services have to do with US cellular networks? Nothing.

Hence why nobody is talking about them in this thread.
I'm sure that's intended; Dilbert is smart but dumb. Or dumb but smart.
My FreeNAS has been running for years on an older ProLiant, off a USB stick, in an Ikea desk cupboard with poor ventilation (some gaps around the front door, and a 4 inch circle drilled in the back). The only failure so far was the old USB stick, once I reinstalled and put a new stick on I could see my ZFS data again.

I should probably update the software, but I already broke it once trying that, so for now it's sitting happy as a dumping ground for files.
Quite possible though is a significant disruption of one of the many services like LNP which are implemented via SS7 and shared by all carriers - there is indeed a complex set of inter-dependencies between carriers that are all somewhat generically referred to as part of the SS7 system, several of which are required to successfully set up a call or deliver a text message.
Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs?
I tend to prefer to read PDF files on a regular monitor, but moving up and down a page is wonky and most readers don't save your place on the document. Also, sometimes the font is too small when you fit to page and fit to width suffers from paging up and down that doesn't take into account the last visible line.

I'd like to hear what you do to read long PDF files, like one of the Springer textbooks. Do you use any readers that support bookmarking and/or note taking and sane pagination? I'm wondering if there is a reader that offers an experience comparable to the experience of reading an ebook on a device like a kindle.
LA to Vegas.
> Oh, my other advice is: Avoid Seagate drives ... I've found Hitachi to be the most reliable ... but I've pretty much had universally bad luck with Seagate.

Don't take this personally but this advice is fairly useless.

For every person like you, who has "found Hitachi to be the most reliable" and "had universally bad luck with Seagate", there's someone else who has the exact opposite advice.

Our opinions are shaped by our own experiences, of course, and (most of the tine) it's hard to change our minds or convince us otherwise.

The (unfortunate) truth is that there's no one brand of HDDs that really is "the best" -- especially for all use cases! If there were, well, we'd all be using them by now and all of the other manufacturers would have already went out of business.
Wait... this didn't happen like 5 years ago?
Consumer Reports was able to get 355 miles in the Model S Long Range at 65mph. They were able to get 418 miles at 55mph. I would expect the Long Range Plus to be about 10% better based on all of the CR data.

I am not sure where you got that information from Tesla but I trust that CR wasn’t just making shit up.
I'm not sure which part drives you mad. That retail is not profitable?

Does people donating to charities drive you mad? That's not even remotely profitable!
I thought Tesla was using a Stingray IMSI Catcher to intercept personal cellular communications of its "employees" in a small radius of the factory.

I thought it was becoming common knowledge this is the case in many Silicon Valley campuses...

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-tesla-employee-claims-the...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/3/16408724/waymo-uber-lewan...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-nuvia-lawsuit/apple...

I am pretty sure none of these people used their corporate issued cell phones...

It wouldn't take much to get a nice Stingray and plant it at HQ...
Yes. Even in non-one-pedal ( eg standard regen braking) you get the brake lights on if the deacceleration is high enough.
Would it be a better (even marginally) play to use AI to detect if they are passing off the work to underlings?
I find in my model 3 that unless I put it on cruise control I can never get close to the rating. Cruise control gets almost right on the money and cuts down the urge pass people for fun.
I tried logging in to a couple financial sites that should have sent me text codes, but they did not even try. They just accepted my name/password and went to my account page.

I tried from a Firefox private window, my work Firefox profile (which has never went to those sites), a Chrome incognito window, and a Chrome instance being run under Selenium, so make sure I had no cookies from a previous visit to allow bypassing the text code.

So now I'm a bit confused. I hope the sites aren't doing something stupid, like associating successful text code verification with the IP address, and caching that on their end.

Maybe they've temporarily turned off requiring text codes to avoid locking people out during this outage?
US army maps of Tokyo, 1945
Is there any truth to the advice that this is mitigated by buying drives from different retailers and aiming for different batches and average failure time?
Materialize sounds like it has reinvented Michael Stonebraker's StreamSQL [1] and SAP's Continuous Computation Language (CCL) [2] which was created as part of a StreamSQL competitor named Coral8 and lives on in an enterprise product now named SAP HANA Smart Data Streaming. This space has gone by many names, Streaming SQL, Complex Event Processing (CEP), and Event Streaming.

I think the Continuous Computation Language (CCL) name captures the essence of these systems: data flows through the computation/query.

These systems have always had promise but none have found anything but niche adoption. The two most popular use cases seem to be ETL-like dataflows and OLAP style Window queries incrementally updated with streaming data (e.g. computations over stock tick data joined with multiple data sources).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreamSQL

[2] https://help.sap.com/doc/PRODUCTION/e1b391d2a3f3439fbab27ed8...
What's up with the networks that went down a few hours staggered from the rest?

Frontier Networks, Playstation Network, and Spectrum all went down early this morning; and I mean actually down. I had a Fingbox at my parents house tattle on Frontier Networks as soon as the connection got less spotty, and then the network dropped again.

The ISP/data failures are more interesting to me, to be honest, than the cell networks. I wonder if they're related. The cell networks all seem to share a lot of cascading failures, historically. It's intriguing that something is happening to affect the rest of the world.

The cynic in me says that someone just re-routed the internet through whatever new DPI-esque system is now in place, but I hope the reason for this mess is more innocent.
Open source headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform – ultra-fast, dynamic
Wouldn't the regenerative braking system recharge the batteries on the down slopes? I realize it's probably not 100% efficient, but if the system were reasonably efficient, it shouldn't matter how hilly or flat the trip could be.
It’s speculative to say that “Amazon can start turning on major retail profits at any time it chooses.” Amazon has not done it yet, so there’s really no proof that it would be so easy, or even possible.

I know the party line, which is that Amazon chooses not to take retail profits because they would rather invest in growth.

But invert that statement to understand it a different way: it implies that when they choose to take retail profits, their growth will slow. (If they could take profits and keep growing they would already be doing that.) How will investors like an Amazon that’s not growing anymore?

Personally I think that the way Amazon’s retail side runs today is the only way it knows how to run, and is how it will always run. The expectation of massive retail profits will always dangle out there in the future like a carrot for investors to chase.
Ask HN: 2FA Contingency During Phone Service Outage
Several sites use text message as 2nd Factor Authentication. Given the ongoing service outages (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/15/t-mobile-calling-outage/) what other alternatives do we have when phone service is down? I was unable to access my bank account today because I never received the 2FA code via text. Although I had no critical tasks this seems ripe for havoc.
Kubernetes – How to setup the Masters using kubeadm bootstrap
So many comments and noooobody knows how to search. I spotted it a few hours back, zayo fiber cut: https://tranzact.zayo.com/#!/networkStatus

Edit: Lol at all this nonsense 'Anonymous DDOS', BGP fat-fingering, NSA speculation. I got karma to burn from those butthurt at me being right about the fiber cut. Look at the timestamp and region! Look at this: https://bgp.he.net/AS393494#_graph4
Who you think AS6461 is?

EDIT2: Someone else might have been partially right about merger upgrades being a factor, perhaps removed some redundancy. Before I found the Zayo cut I saw that Crown Castle was looking weird overnight (they are #1 or #2 largest cell tower company with their own acquired fiber network, Lightower): https://map.internetintel.oracle.com/?root=traffic&country=U...
> However, when Adobe did finally get Flash working on Android (barely) it required 1GB of RAM and a 1Ghz processor. The original iPhone had 128Mb RAM and a 400Mhz processor. It wasn’t until five years later that the first iPhone had those specks.

OTOH, the Wii's web browser supported Flash and it had only 88 MB of RAM, so I'm not sure what was going on with Android.
I loved the idea and interface etc. so I registered and downloaded the app. But upon launching, my corporate (ge.com) proxy blocked it:

Not allowed to browse Newly Registered Domains category
URL: https://app.squawk.to/

This is perhaps because your whois records are bare minimum!

$ whois squawk.to
Tonic whoisd V1.1
squawk noah.ns.cloudflare.com
squawk kim.ns.cloudflare.com

You might want to look into that.

Also, to increase adoption, perhaps give the users a link to directly use the app.squawk.to URL to use as well. I tried that on my personal device and it works as advertised.
That would be fantastic! I hope it’s on their long term roadmap :). They probably have the biggest corpus of LaTex source in the world, that’d be pretty useful to the project maintainers.
I find that efficiency is bad on short trips, but on trips over 20 minutes long efficiency improves a lot. Not sure if the battery just needs to warm up or what. I rarely drive that long so my lifetime efficiency is 20% worse than the EPA rating.

There's also self-discharge and other consumption when not driving, which may be an even worse problem for EV efficiency. I wonder what percentage of total EV electricity consumption is wasted while the car is off.
Same, not impressed at all.

I tried sending a couple of photos to my Hey account and it rejected the email at around 20MB in attachments.

They claim 100GB of storage space, but what use is that if a 20MB attachment can't even make it through.
Quantum Bit and Bloch Sphere
You can't be serious when comparing BigQuery to DynamoDB. BigQuery is an OLAP database, you can't use it for OLTP workloads. And BigQuery has no equivalents to DAX(very low read latencies), Global Tables(millisecond access to data globally). If you are using BigQuery as an OLTP database with reads and writes going in simultaneously, more power to you.
> The continued use of the word black to mean "evil" in the workplace and white to mean "good" while those terms both also apply to people's race is the history of the past few decades.

Humongous strawman. Blacklists aren't inherently 'bad', but you've applied that label to it. You could just as easily argue that blacklists are good, i.e. prevent DoS attacks or spam. Conversely you can argue that whitelists are good.

> A simple search will help you educate yourself about the specific PoC who have complained in various formats including scholarly articles, presentations at public meetings, as well as editorials, and blogs.

No, the onus is on you if you want to change language. It is not something people will just do without being convinced.
Same here. Just read about this outage, confirmed I could not place calls. Restarted my iPhone, and now I can place calls.
There is no job description that legitimizes illegal activity. There's a host of specific regulations that dictate the job of a C-level in a publicly traded firm is _explicitly_ not to behave this way. It's weird you think there's a corporate way to handwave this.
Have you reached out to Tesla service about this? The range being that far below what is advertised is not normal unless you are operating in some cold environments, you are blasting the AC, you are a maniac when accelerating, or you leave the car in sentry mode for extended periods of time. You might have a lemon.
Cops aren't gunning people down in my country, so no, I think things are fine here.
Interesting. They stopped using /dev/urandom as the default random file in version 7.3, which created the insecure default situation. Later, in version 8.6, they updated to use a default nonce from /dev/urandom. It's odd that the documentation has not be updated. Perhaps it's because the latest version will still default to an insecure nonce if there is no /dev/urandom?
I'm not sure if this helps or hurts Tim's assertions (not mentioned in this piece, but from context he wants AWS to be spun off into a separate company). if AWS' share is so high, would AMZN shareholders approve a spinoff? does it matter since they get ownership of new-AWS anyway? unclear

whatever it is I think Tim has a research agenda here and we shouldn't be surprised to see him come up with a more forceful blogpost on the topic soon.
Charge to 95% from home so you'd only have to stop for a few minutes. That is highly recommended for your safety anyway.
The BMW i3 has had the perfect electric car design for the last 7+ years - a battery pack good for ~50-120 miles (increased with model revisions) and a gasoline generator "range extender" with a small tank for indefinite length journeys hopping between standard gas stations - which are abundant.

It improves on hybrid-car designs: the engine isn't connected to the drive train, so it's a lot less complex, and the engine is not as large because it doesn't need to power the entire car for 100k+ miles and it can use the battery for short bursts of power (acceleration, hill climbs) while charging on flats and downhills. As it's smaller and less heavily used, it only needs servicing every two years.

Given the top concerns about electric cars are range anxiety, charging time, and availability of charging points, and this design addresses all of them, why don't more electric car makers offer something like this?
Tesla directed me to their trip planning application: https://www.tesla.com/trips.
I just ran it again with the "Model S Long Range" selected, and my 295 mile trip requires a 20 minute charge in Baker, CA.
I was offered hotel, rebooking, and spending money to give up my seat on a flight from Schipol to NYC once; it was about 15 years ago though.
Statistics I've seen say there are about 15M monthly users, but not all are in the US (it started in Japan about 7 years ago). Mercari says it has about 45M downloads in the US.

https://www.mercari.com/about/

eBay has about 10x that number of "active" users

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242235/number-of-ebays-t...
Doesn't that thing get like 50-something MPGe? The Teslas are more than twice as efficient.
I think that sounds a bit like asking for interoperation between Latex and Microsoft Word: technically kind of possible, but only in limited unidirectional ways that won't get much use in practice.
Stripe for payments, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for hosting/deployments.

Wish there was an even dumber alternative to Beanstalk. I've been tempted to build my own thing to get closer to my ideal of uploading a jar and forgetting about it.

(Raw javascript / vertx / postgres for actual development, but these aren't SaaS)
That's nice, thank you!
I mean, you could say the same thing about the CIA, FBI, etc. I agree with you it seems crazy, but it's not cult-like. It's just human-like. People identify with an in-group and demonize an out-group. They sometimes do crazy things in order to reinforce this distinction.

It's just who we are.
Internet Archive's NEL, Part 2
>How about a whole system of neutron stars, in orbit around each other

that's a neat idea. the orbital mechanics involved are pretty mind-boggling, but I guess a civilization that could create a system of neutron stars could probably deal with the math ;).
InsideEVs:
https://insideevs.com/news/407807/eletric-car-real-world-ran...

Car & Driver: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a30874032/porsche-tayca...

There's a number of other tests that show that Tesla almost never lives up to its EPA range.
edit: I was wrong. My apologies.
An unknown amount of otherwise unwanted land is being leased by Craig for what is, at this point, an unknown reason? Neat.
> only available for sale in CA

No, you can buy it in Korea and Europe as well. Europe and China are the most important markets for EVs. Hyundai isn't making many Nexos yet though.
I think cars of all eras have had a mix of heavy and light designs. With modern materials, it's possible to make safer, lighter cars but modern cars are also required to have more safety features.

A Model S is about 4500 to 5000 pounds. I used to drive around in a 1981 Mazda GLC, which is about 1800 pounds. The White Zombie, a famous electric conversion with a 0-60 time of about 1.8 seconds is based on a 70's Datsun which I believe was about 1700 pounds (after adding a couple series-wound DC motors and a trunk full of batteries it's around 2000 pounds).

If you asked some engineers to make a car under 200 pounds, they'd construct the thing using similar materials and techniques as a modern bicycle, and it might even be fast and safe at highway speeds, as long as it didn't collide with a modern car that weighs as much as five or six large pianos. So, in a sense modern cars are on average very heavy because they have to share the road with other cars that are very heavy.
Teslas have done that since day one w their regen/braking iirc.
Some things are just not fun online. Not everything is about efficiency, sometimes people just want to be around other people who are interested in similar things :)

For example, nobody says hm, I wonder how we solve night clubs, but online.

Although it could be that type of unusual thought that leads to something interesting :)
Most evidence shows that for Tesla, they end up overestimating the EPA range, not being conservative.
That was Flash Lite.
Twilio for international SMS and more GSM related stuff.
There are a million variables that go into range. I could drive the same route and get 25mpg on my old Prius, or I could get 65mpg.

https://teslike.com/

This site has been linked on this thread a few times and I’ve had it bookmarked for some time. TLDR = drive more slowly and lay off the brakes.
Ummm they lost... I was actually in France that year. France advanced then lost the final to Portugal.
I've heard numbers quoted that it's only about 50% efficient, and it would only capture the potential energy from the weight of the car. You still lose a very significant amount of energy overcoming air/rolling resistance.
I have done some work on parallelism in PostgreSQL, and I was fascinated to discover Wei Hong's work in this area from more than a quarter century ago:

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1992/ERL-92-3.p...

The POSTGRES 4.2 tarball includes a bunch of his parallel query work, which you can find wrapped in #ifdef sequent. I assume that this was a precursor to XPRS, and it was ripped out of regular POSTGRES after that. I wonder if anyone knows what happened to the XPRS sources...
As long as the upfront costs for ACH remain as high as they are (I’m looking at you, Plaid), no, people will not switch.

Consumers definitely don’t give a crap. Until people offer cash vs credit discounts, no one will move away from credit cards.

Just like Visa/MC/Amex planned.