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If you followed news about Tesla, they just announced big innovations in the battery sector cutting battery costs down in half over the next 3 years. So by the time the credits are no longer contributing to the revenue, the production costs will have been lowered considerably.
It's incredibly easy for trucks; they're already licensed and weighed. Most trucks in the US already have something in the cab to handle signaling the driver to pull in to the weigh station, implying that adding tracking & billing wouldn't be too hard. We're also starting to see GPS & LTE in the trailers too, to fight theft, so that's an easy integration point.

It's a bit harder with cars, since there's a lot less infrastructure to track usage, and people would rightfully balk at the invasion of privacy.
The difference between Python and YAML is that Python doesn't have a semantically-equivalent, non-indentation-sensitive presentation style. How you choose to view and work with YAML is a choice that doesn't need to have any impact on what you share with others and how they choose to view and work with it.

While I'm not usually fond of “you're holding it wrong” arguments, that's pretty much the proper response to complaints about YAML’s indentation sensitivity, since you can work with YAML in a style which isn't indentation sensitive without anyone you share data with seeing anything different.
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It fits, though. It's like the opposite of subsidizing an industry: saddling it with a crippling debt instead. And yes, Germany has awful telecom infrastructure, and lags behind the likes of Spain or Czechia horribly.

All because telcos here need to recoup the initial "investment" and are not getting to the newest tech while everybody else is.
> There is virtually nothing you can point to in the country and remark that it's a good deal when compared to the prices offered in America or most areas of Europe.

America, I understand. But aren't prices in Canada generally lower than Europe when you include taxes? Sales taxes are 5-15% in Canada. They are generally 20% or higher in EU. Car insurance is perhaps more expensive in Canada, but vehicle registration/taxes are lower than Europe, so the total cost of ownership is lower.

I fell like a lot of the perception of things being more expensive in Canada is that CAD is values lower than EUR/USD/CHF/GBP. So looking at raw numbers, things feel more expensive. If you do the currency conversion, they become more comparable. Do you have any data showing things are generally more expensive in Canada compared to Europe, when accounting for currency conversion?
"what’s the point of downloading a terabyte of data in seconds when it takes your computer minutes to process it into something useful?"

Can you use the server you're connected to to compute some whatsits? Using part of the connection as RAM?
The Expanse gives the illusion of real physics, but the actual physics are pretty fake. None of the orbits of the planets or the space ships follow realistic path. One of the authors mentioned that they didn't calculate the positions of the planets or the trajectories between them. So the Expanse isn't as realistic as 2001 or the Martian where the orbital mechanics play a key role in the story.

This may seem like nitpicking, but if you want to discuss the politics of space, the distance between planets and the travel time between space polities becomes a critical aspect of politics.

The Expanse is in an uncanny valley of hard sci-fi. It's not as realistic as Kerbal Space Program but use technology as a magical way to explore speculative scenarios like Star Trek did.

And a core part of the first arc is a stealth ship which is not hard sci-fi at the Expanse's tech level: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect....
That's what I like about For All Mankind too, though it seems we have to wait for the second season for any real action to occur.
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There is no clean energy. There is only cleaner energy. Using less energy is always better, even if the power comes from wind and solar.
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That seems a bit much, but I do feel bad for anyone named Karen now that it's become a meme. It seems really insensitive to turn a person's name into a pejorative.
I very infrequently use Craigslist, but as a coincidence I just started looking for something as this HN submission came out. I had it in the back of my mind to set up some feeds; I was moments away from finding out first-hand that the feature is not there when I spotted this story on HN.

With this dumb move, Craigslist has become monumentally less usable.

Craigslist was my main use case for RSS. I would set up complex searches, "RSS them", and just watch items drip into the mail-inbox-like UI abstraction of the feed reader. I could browse the items. Mark them read and unread, like e-mails. I could delete unwanted items and thereby make them disappear forever. The items are beautifully condensed in a tight list view.

None of this is possible with the regular Craiglist web UI. Repeat the same search and the same crap is there.

I noticed the e-mail alerts feature next to the search box, so I created an account to try it out.

It works sporadically; the e-mails are not timely. It takes hours and hours to report on a new item. If it's something hard to find and in demand, someone will snag it before you. RSS refresh intervals can be tuned, like once an hour or whatever, and they execute exactly as specified.

It reported a few new items. But now, I just received an e-mail from it which regurgitated sixty old items, which existed long before the time before I created the alert for the very search which found those items.

Pretty useless. Phooey!
> 1) Estate tax - reduce dynastic wealth and recirculate it to even the playing field with good education opportunities in all regions and similar social programs to separate birth to income. Its always going to be there but reducing this should be a goal.

Most of the billionaires are first generation and waiting for the rich to die to spread wealth is not going to help anything economically (estate tax is a drop in the bucket compared to the GDP itself just growing a couple of percent).

> 2) Focusing on small business vs large corporate. Literally making policy that favours smaller companies be it lower regulation, taxes etc. But you have to actively help the up and comers to disrupt the market vs protect large interests.

This will make it very difficult to compete globally in the capital intensive industries. Would this be coupled with nationalistic trade policies as well?
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That is a good feature. I am currently working on Cloudkit support and that way you will be able to see the receipts on any device you install the app.

Can you elaborate more on the OCR? Do you want the app to create an OCR for receipts?
> Consider the propaganda against Japan by the US during the Second World War.

I suggest you familiarize yourself with WW2 history before being an apologist for Japan in that period. Whether it was the Rape of Nanking, or that of Manila, or fatal medical experiments on prisoners, they brought unbelievable horror to civilians.
Since "becoming an adult", I've lived in three cities in two countries, which means that've generally had no idea who my primary care doctor is or was, only that I'd need to find one to give me a referral to get this wart on my foot removed.

F?%k, this is way to relatable. Same as the author I'm an expat which hasn't had a GP check in 5 years, not counting getting a dermatologist procedures. I feel like this is an experience of a lot of expats. Those of us coming from small towns mostly had a GP from when we were 6 all the way until we left the town for good. It's difficult to get that relationship with someone else and I'm afraid that it might be a contributing factor to people getting less checked. Also, in my case all the family members went to him, so he kinda knew the family history. I still mourn for him, he would always greet me at the door of his office with something like "wtf, you again? why are you here?". He was an excellent diagnostician...
Factories aren't in the business of generating electricity. They were already willing to throw that heat away normally, why take a bunch of capital that you could invest in the business and use it to buy equipment unrelated to your business when someone else will install and manage the waste-heat system for you and give you a 10% cut for no risk and no outlay on your end?
Who says you can't take a walk or ride a train just for the fun of it while you WFH? It will be as pointels as before or maybe more fun, who knows.
> They are easy and painless.

That sounds good.

> Waking up from the anesthesia

Hm, that's not something that would happen if they were easy and painless.
Absentee landlords were issues, because they had actual ruling power over the land. Urban centers dont have decision power over rural areas.
I'm working on one for elixir: https://github.com/ityonemo/selectrix
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I found For All Mankind really refreshing and enjoyable. One of my favorites is the fact they didn't shy away from prejudices of the time and they didn't make a series where guys from 60s have fully modern views.
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Yeah, nobody would ever place a bet if the best payout was less than what you put in...
That's unexpected and mysterious! Any reason a question couldn't be fielded in public at HN? :-)
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Physics is realistic, engineering not so much? :)
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I don't think the numbers really have to be "infinite" exactly (well, I suppose it depends what you mean).
Suppose you introduce a data type which consists of an ordered pair of floating point numbers, along with an ordering relation, such that the elements of the data type are ordered lexicographically (i.e. if the first entries differ, then the one with a larger first entry is larger. Otherwise, the one with the larger second entry. If they are equal then they are equal.)

If you have an environment which gives rewards of this type, and you want the model which gets the highest reward, you are likely to have an issue if you try to represent the rewards using a single floating point number. (well, you could just use the first entry, and do decently well, but you would lose out a bit on what could be accomplished on the second number.)
Of course, because there are, in actuality, only finitely many floating point values of a given precision, you can actually give an enumeration of the values of this type in order, and if you use that enumeration for the rewards, then that could work.

However, when we use floating point numbers, we sometimes sorta-pretend that they don't have a finite range of actual-number-values . We sometimes sorta-pretend that they are the actual real numbers (with a little fuzziness and errors tacked on, when we are being careful). We use them in computing "derivatives" and such. And this works pretty well!
But if we wanted to use the enumeration of the pairs of floats, if we just treated them as the (bigint) integer index of the pair, we would lose all the nice interpretation that goes with floating point numbers, and be left with only the ordering. The notion of the relative distances between the different values would be lost. The whole "use the derivative of this function (except we are using floating point numbers)" trick stops being applicable.

While adding together any number of copies of (0.0 , 1.0) would never surpass (1.0 , -5.0) , that's not really a reason to make it so we can't define the preferences we want to represent, uh, unable to handle that situation.
I think it's only meant to pique your interest; it is an ad for his book, and probably not meant to be overly informative.
"By contrast, I was a 1Password customer at the time this change got introduced, and they'd pushed out a fix not long after."
I'm a huge Captain Disillusion fan. For anyone that doesn't know, he does "debunkings" of viral videos featuring something supposedly supernatural.

I don't know if I would categorize hims as the same as Randi, tbh. But if anyone hasn't had the pleasure of seeing his videos, look them up on YouTube! He is one of my favorite content creators, and probably the least well known one. He deserves to be watched by anyone with even a moderate interest in skepticism, visual effects, or science.
I'm describing something that happened in the thread and you flip it around with something that didn't?
This is kind of tangential, but I recently played CoD: Ghosts (2013) for the first time and there was a lot of cool space war in it. I found however that its level of... not realism, but feeling real made me depressed. Space was supposed to be for peaceful exploration and we want to put a bunch of meat head killers or killing tools up there. It made me feel profoundly sad that there is now an official military branch dedicated to this stuff even though it was going on before to various extents.
> In fact, I remember I was making HILARIOUS jokes the entire time. I could not remember them afterwards though.

This is the primary purpose of the "sedative".

I had samples taken from the interior of my stomach via a machine that went down my throat. It was an intensely unpleasant experience; you're trying to vomit for most of the time the cable is there.

Anesthesia was not even recommended, but they really wanted me to take something that would inhibit memory formation. I asked if people who took the drug struggled or retched any less. "No." (I declined to take it.)

This is also how women were drugged for childbirth in the mid-20th century. No anesthesia, but memory inhibitors so they couldn't remember what had happened. That was eventually "discovered" by the press and became a huge scandal. I don't get how the approach persists elsewhere.
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Here we just call them (water) heat pumps.
The thing with software though is that it's untethered to reality. It answers to no physical law. Monstrosities have been built and are still built which should not exist. More complexity != improvement. Also, 15M lines consists of drivers. The core of an OS is way, way smaller.

And actually yes, physicists know all of physics pretty well. Not deep expert level no, but it's not like they don't even know whole fields exist which definitely happens in computing.

There are definitely engineers that know how to build a full car. What makes you think it is impossible? You don't know all the details by heart no, but you know where to look, you can have a pretty deep broad understanding of things.

Let's not kid ourselves into complacency, throwing our hands in the air saying "it's complex".
Indeed. I believe the latest Windows Insiders builds have SMB over QUIC support (via msquic). I think QUIC brings a lot potential to finally run network filesystem protocols on the Internet.
Yes, because decentraleyes have an internal list of problematic URLs and disables itself without the user can see that. The icon is still green. I think this sucks because the user is being deceived.
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There is no evidence that cutting coverage in rural areas will reduce prices elsewhere.

The Canadian situation is bad-to-zero coverage in rural areas and the world's most expensive cell phone service (think of plans that charge $10 CAD per GB of data) in developed regions.

The money that Canada's two cell phone networks didn't spend covering rural areas didn't reduce prices; it disappeared into shareholder pockets.
That case did come to mind when I wrote my previous comment.

> After waiting another 10 days to see if it would start working again, detectives applied for a warrant to search Heuring's home and a nearby property belonging to Heuring's parents. ... Police did find the tracking device.

It sounds like the suspect moved the bug from his car into a house. If you were to move a bug from your living room to your attic (and place a sign at the location of the original bug saying "The bug is now in the attic, feel free to collect it when you find this note") then it might be harder for the police to claim you had stolen it.
If Python & Haskell had this I'd be more inclined to use both of them.
Depends on what you use of course, but mine tastes like oil. Definitely puke-inducing after a few liters.
Policy reasons is all I can say unfortunately.
Manage your glucose levels. It’s not just for diabetics. What you eat (and when) is a large part of it, and cardio is the rest.
People do hope for bad things to happen, there are pessimists and optimists.

You've interpreted this data is bad and you feel others should feel bad about it. Maybe that's not a conclusion most feel they need to agree too?

Don't forget this study isn't completely proven other factors might be at play.
That big industry that you talk about needs to actually switch to clean energy sources as well. It needs to happen for environmental reasons. But the reasons it is actually happening are more related to cost. There are a few aluminium and steel plants coming online running on hydrogen recently. With clean sources for hydrogen coming online as well, that puts us on a track to cleaning up energy in heavy industries. Right now natural gas is still cheaper but that may not last that long as prices for wind and solar continue to trend down and as there are ongoing improvements in cost of producing hydrogen. Geothermal could be part of the solution for that. But the price has to be right and I have a hunch that there are some challenges there long term.

With geothermal the innovation is not necessarily in building huge plants in geologically unstable areas, which in other places indeed requires drilling quite deep, but in using heat pumps to work with small temperature differences you get by digging only a few tens to hundreds meters deep. This is currently quite popular in northern Europe as a way of cheaply heating/cooling houses and reducing cost relative to burning natural gas. The main cost is putting pipes in the ground.

In any case, the main challenge with any energy generation project is cost and amortizing that over its lifetime. There are a few things on the market that have come down in price by orders of magnitude and are on track for more improvements in the next decades. This puts any predictions about cost and profitability at risk. In the case of coal, people came out on the wrong side of the equation and a lot of plants are being shut down ahead of their scheduled end of life. IMHO the same will happen to gas plants in the next decades. That makes investments in large scale geothermal very risky. Which is perhaps why there is far less of it than you would expect given that we've known how to build such plants for a very long time.

The combination of cheap storage and low cost solar panels or super efficient 10-20 MW wind mills is becoming quite hard to compete with and you see this stuff popping up in formerly very fossil fuel friendly places because it makes sense right now from a cost perspective. Even Iceland is investing in offshore wind.
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Can anyone make a tidy article/post that outlines exactly how each protocol differs (v1 vs v2 vs v3) on the network level. Obviously most of us understand the high level differences but what does the mechanisms and payloads look like on lower levels. A side by side comparison would be great. Pro's & con's of each would be great. Would older hardware (say a 10 year old netgear router) be able to use v3 without pain?
Your numbers on Washington State seem off.
I dont think you are including Social Security Taxes (7.65%)
https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#nyI48IDDLI

Also, Washington State is atypical for the US since they dont have a state income tax. In most other states, there is an added state income tax.
Which is a political choice by the US and not about "defending" but influence.

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Lot of callousness in that comment.

> Possibly

Definitely.

> at some point someone had to be the first humans in an area

Yes, and we know who they were. Hundreds of different tribes, spanning from coast to coast.

They came during the last Ice Age, crossing over the Bering Straight which was solid ground at that time.

The way American settlers treated the native peoples is not something that can just be "possibly"-d away.
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misleading in the sense of "doesn't preserve the desired properties of closeness and such."
Social media and mass data analytics are just tips of the iceberg in terms of the impact these types of technology can have on society (for better or worse)

From these beginnings we have seen a rise in mass groups of people organising behaviours in cohesion even despite the rudimentary interface of keyboard, camera and screen, and going out on a bit of a limb viewed from above it operates like a group brain or gestalt entity.

In that view we've seen the birth in recent decades a form of aggregate intelligence that hasn't existed before in history except perhaps crude and 1-way through newspapers and television propaganda.

One can imagine a platform using real time analytics, more deeply integrated into people's thinking and behaviours, that can be set to more productive goals than targeted content, advertising, and disinformation, and that may be driven less by central authority and more by the will of the collective, as weird as that sounds I can't see how it's not a possible future.

Again for better or worse I don't think we've seen the end of what we call "social media" and its ilk, and I think despite efforts to control it, there is a good chance for some upset to the status quo as further iterations of the technologies become more ingrained and capable and exert greater influence on the various forces and tensions in the world.

Or not, who knows, weird times we're living in.
There's an uninformed idea domestically and abroad that Zero Cases In New Zealand is normal, and anything else should be a headline. Zero cases in the country will never be realistic while we have people flying in, goods arriving on airplanes and ships.

We've learned not to freak out about cases that are in managed isolation, where new arrivals into the country are housed for 14 days until any Covid infections reveals itself.

We're slowly learning that we need to be always checking in to businesses so that contract tracing is easy for the inevitable infections that slip through port workers or are late-blooming after quarantine ends. Both these cases have already happened: the headline here refers to a close contact of a port worker, and we had someone come down with Covid after leaving managed isolation. (Miraculously, no wider community infection from the latter)
You could say the same about solar.

Personally, I think residential solar is less preferable than commercial installations where you can benefit from greater centralization, but that said, residential solar seems to have done fine.

Now on the other hand, solar has less moving parts, so the reliability is greater and the distributed nature may be less important.