skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ASP for EVs are dropping slowly over the last few years but it is still higher. But that's not because it's not technically possible to make cheap EVs. Just look at the Chinese market. If it has wheels, you can turn it into an EV for not that many dollars. It's not technically hard to do so. They are looking to enter the European market with EVs priced below 10K even. That would create some issues for ICE manufacturers dependent on selling more expensive ICE vehicles. A high volume market entry could wipe out a lot of cheap ICE cars.

Short term battery supply basically means the market gets squeezed top down. You get better margins putting the same battery in a 30K car than in a 20K car. And since demand is there, you see manufacturers trying to saturate that market before they target cheaper price points.

Some manufacturers that are doing combined ICE/hybrid/EV strategies are essentially pricing their EVs higher because they only produce them in limited volume and customers seem to buy them despite the high price. Also, if they'd price them lower, they'd kill their legacy business and sink that investment. The problem with that strategy is when EV only manufacturers start shipping better & cheaper cars in increasing volume. This is starting to happen and it's a market that looks like it will be doubling every year for some time.
That seems wildly misleading? The rainforests that were there before certainly produce methane and other gases as things rot. Total biomass in a rainforest is generally stable - it is not really a sink over any significant timeframes. Plants take sunlight, use the energy from it to rip the oxygen off co2 releasing oxygen as a byproduct, and carbon to build themselves with.

Unless rainforests have an ever increasing layer of carbon (charcoal/coal) building up under them - which they do not - they stabilize with their total carbon intake being roughly the same as carbon released through other means. In most cases this happens (rate decreasing over time, though total carbon storage quantity slowly increases until a wildfire) in less than 100 years after a complete denudation event, most of it happening much sooner than that.

If you want to lock up carbon, you need to take it from the plants and sequester it somewhere natural forces (rot, weathering) won’t break it back down again - like a house, or in a cave, or in a hypoxic environment.

Methane is definitely a significantly more powerful forcing gas than co2, but also breaks down in the atmosphere in a short period of time into co2. Cow fart composition changes also only have a similar local, short term effect.

Short term effects can be helpful, but this only changes some parts of the (closed) cycle.

You only really change the math if you change how things are getting into or out of the overall cycle, which requires long term bonding of carbon to things such as rocks, or burial.

Converting atmospheric co2 (or methane) into plastic that gets buried in a landfill is net negative carbon balance for instance. Making the plastic out of oil products and then putting it in a landfill - net neutral (minus processing energy costs). Burning it for fuel? Contributes fossil carbon into the atmosphere.
I've had to enable it for Atlassian's login to work.
Where would the land come from to grow all of the grain required to feed 10 billion people Big Macs? Meat ag doesn't scale sustainably. See also: CAFOs.
This guy doesn't understand file formats and competition, it seems.

For my part, I defeat these issues in a couple different ways. First, I stick with Markdown editors wherever possible. By itself, this deals with 90% of the compatibility problems. Customization is only a few CSS rules away.

And they can be imported into Word and GDocs easily and almost 100% intact - setup some global styles and problem solved again :) If other people need to read it, export to PDF.

This likely falls apart a bit when there are custom extensions to MD being used (like for equation display), but it's literally been at least 10 or 15 years since I had the problems described in this Twitter thread.
> Nothing has been rushed here in the sense of cutting clinical corners. The development of these vaccines has gone through the same phases of testing that every other vaccine has.

They were approved for emergency use, which means skipping tests for long-term side-effects, because those usually take around two years. Every other vaccine has been around for a while and gone through this.
Thanks very much for the feedback. It's always a bit of a struggle with landing page copy and positioning. But super useful to hear when something doesn't resonate.
Ask HN: Help, I'm in a pivotal negotiation and I'm not sure what to do
I've been working on a side project for the past two years, on nights and weekends, to build a web application for an online teaching company which I'll call Teaching Company for the rest of this post. I didn't get paid for this work during this time.

After seeing how far the software has come, Teaching Company is happy with the product and wants to go live. We've only made a verbal licensing agreement so far, where we would provide the software for their exclusive use for $5 per customer a month.

Now that Teaching Company is all in on the product, the CEO offered to buy the software. Here is what they offered. Around 90K up front and 4% equity in the Teaching Company.

The CEO expressed that this is a good deal since my software isn't worth that much at the moment and Teaching Company can potentially sell for over 50 - 100 million dollars years down the line. I somewhat changed all the figures mentioned above for the sake of confidentiality.

I never had to build software for a single company. There's way more money to be made by competing in the wider market, although it's significantly harder upfront. I made the decision to build software exclusively for Teaching Company because I believe in their product, and more importantly, I care about my work-life balance and having time to spend with my family. With that said, competing in the market is technically still on the table since we haven't signed any contracts yet, and we've only made verbal agreements so far.
Of course, as the CEO said, the software isn't worth very much at this point since it's still in the beta testing phase—but that doesn't mean we shouldn't consider its future potential worth.

My gut reaction is that this is not a great deal and I'm still thinking through what would be the best counter offer. How would you approach this negotiation? This is my first time going through this sort of thing and could use some advice. Your feedback is very much appreciated!
> Additionally our planet was once host to wild ruminants like Buffalo

Not at anywhere near the density you find in modern agriculture. Domesticated cattle and pigs alone are 15x the biomass of all wild mammals combined. Wild ruminants are somewhat insignificant compared to that.

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
There are certainly folks that argue the language it too big. Here's a great talk arguing that a lot of language features should be eliminated and Scala should be made a functional programming language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IQ-X2HkGE&t=1s&ab_channel=...

I'm personally in the camp of "keep Scala huge and weird and multi-paradigm, but just make less breaking changes and focus all efforts on making the ecosystem more stable".
I think we're all adult enough to tolerate my level of defamation. The example of 1+1=3 implies an honest mistake. If someone is asserting that 1+1=3, calling it a dumb argument is accurate and appropriate. "Inappropriate" would convey that the comment about monetary policy was not good. "Dumb" conveys that it is both inappropriate and belligerent.
Thereby raising harvesting and consumption of seaweed, shifting the burden from one ecosystem to another.
Maybe the best approach is using a language with dynamic types ? (e.g: cloujure)
I agree with what you're saying, but Erdogan has been prime minister for almost 20 years, and that can be properly considered "the long run".

I don't think the same applies to Bolsonaro and Trump, who've only had one term, and while horrible leaders, have not (yet) managed to change the institutions which elected them (Erdogan headed 3 constitutional changes).
Which is fascinating, because I thought seaweeds only helped cattle by adding protease enzymes, which also works with humans: try cooking legumes with kombu/konbu.

But cooking up enzymes outside of seaweed seems a lot more costly than synthesizing solvents, assuming dosing cattle that way doesn't taint the end product.
fentanyl is 50-100x more potent than morphine. Its still the user's fault for overdosing, but overdosing is easier to do with fent.

Pepsi is more potent (sugar) than an apple, easier to get fat. Still the consumer's fault.

My point is the choice of language may require more energy to enforce better code practices. Scala is so feature packed that it makes it easy for a developer to... overdose.
In other words, "I present here a particular interpretation of SOLID, and then demonstrate that this interpretation is problematic".

"Join us next week when I will introduce a new acronym, whose interpretation will be superior to this interpretation of SOLID".
There are many exemplary and inspiring individuals in the open source community. Doubling down on a shitty one doesn't make any sense. But FSF is willing to sabotage its own reason for existence to satisfy his ego.
Universal healthcare in the USA would have a negative cost; that is, today, the US government spends more than Canada does per capita on providing healthcare to the population. And then private individuals spend as much more again. And for all that spending a huge proportion of the population has effectively zero healthcare.

So if the US could implement Canada's system wholesale not only would your health insurance costs and direct payments drop vastly but you'd also get a tax refund.
Obviously an American partner has more facilities in the US.
Just had a quick look at this, and I think a lot of accessibility wins could be made with relatively little work here. This is another thing most of the competition gets wrong, so if you guys are open to it i'd love to work with you to get that at a better state for, for example, screenreader users and people dependent on dictation software.
On the latest Firefox Android with 'Ublock Origin' addon, ther's no pop-up. I have checked some additional blocking in the 'Ublock Origin' settings.
Bear in mind, all of this is still possible, and an issue, on ICE based vehicles. Even my older (pre in dash screen) Mini will throw up fake check engine and engine failure warnings if you don't take it into an authorized dealer for service. All the warnings go away the moment you punch in the service code. Why didn't I take it in for scheduled service? Oh, the engine had to be replaced cause it split open. Figured since I was only 6,000 miles short of my 50k service check before I had the entire engine replaced that I could skip it as the mechanic already checked everything else out...

I should also point out that I can't even replace the CD Player/Stock Radio unit in the car with a more modern aftermarket part because the car's diagnostic system is built into it.

Yes. You read right. Without the stock radio, there is no longer anything to read the sensors.

Worrying about electrical cars being walled gardens is missing the forest for the slightly different trees.
Why is native or not native important from a carbon balance perspective? Alfalfa still pulls carbon from the air when it grows.
lmao. nobody cares this much.
In addition to what the other reply said about going local-only using Zwave/Zigbee, the other key is that home automation should be "in addition to" not "instead of."

Want to control your lights remotely or automate them? Use an in-wall smart switch. They still work as physical switches even if all your automation/smart home stuff is down. Guests don't need to know anything about the smart home, they can just operate them like regular switches. You get smarts "in addition to" the normal light operation that everyone in the world understands.

Smart garage? Hook into a regular, tried and true garage opener using some kind of remotely controllable relay. The button on the wall still works, the opener in your car still works, but you can have smarts in addition to all that.

Replacing regular bulbs with smart bulbs and then requiring a phone or internet connected voice device "instead of" a normal wall switch is insanity.
This is something I'm always on the lookout for, for my growing daughter - relevant, up-to-date and age-appropriate games.

Could you share some more info?
A 75% reduction in transmission is as good as many of the vaccines. It is also below the threshold COVID needs to spread through the population.
The new Turkish lira was simply a redenomination that got rid of six zeros compared to the old Turkish lira that goes back to 1923. It's not really a new currency.
That is where you are today, any Joe on the road could have changed their own brakes, added a turbo to their engine, or made any number of safety modifications to their vehicle.
I think high production value is probably decently correlated to content; after all, people usually won't invest in something they believe to be low-quality. So in that sense it may be good enough a filter for a world awash in crud.
I wasn't aware that fertilizers are commonly produced from fossil fuels. That's definitely a problem!

I'll add some additional caveats myself. In certain areas of the world (South America comes to mind) cattle production is driving deforestation.

Food transportation and farming equipment generally consumes fossil fuels.

I'm sure we can think of more!
https://gist.github.com/obaqueiro/af4de922e9233e084057efcd66...

https://gist.github.com/obaqueiro/4c8e679bb684f966a654f3aa99...

They are pretty handy
Lithium Ion Batteries can practically be recycled indefinitely. This is a quote from JB Straubel, the former CTO of Tesla and Elon's second in command for quite some time.

He recently founded a startup based on recycling used EV batteries named Redwood Materials and have landed a few big contracts as well.

https://chargedevs.com/newswire/jb-straubel-gives-a-tour-of-...

https://autorecyclingworld.com/redwood-materials-signs-batte...
Does anyone know how these things work? Why did he resign the first time? Was he asked to and he accepted for no reason and now regrets it? Or was there a mechanism used to force him?
Apple was not an overnight success. It had its dark days. The reason Apple became a 1T company was because Tim Cook blocked the world and its dog from the supply chain in the early days of the iDevice launches(that is also the reason he became the CEO and not Scott Forstall). If a company has to become 1T then it has to have a very strong moat. It does not matter whether it is from YC or not. Some YC companies do have the advantage of building strong moat. But it all depends on the management of those startups. So will next Apple come from YC, who knows; because it does not depend on YC but on how a startup exploits its moat.
I wonder why. Putting confidential data in the hands of some cloud vendor doesn't seem to be an option for any company I know in my country (which is why Jira will die out here).
Thank you for clarifying.

Does this apply to procedural code as well? Go not implementing TCO makes sense as the language is _very_ Wirthian.
That's what this article is about!
Is that sarcasm? Pretty much the entire midwest was forest before colonization. Now take a look at Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri...they're basically one big farm criscrossed by roads, highways, sprinkled with small spinneys of trees, and dotted with cities. Just load up Google Earth, satellite mode, turn off all labels, and zoom out. It's astonishing.
Great question! Our pricing is definitely something we think about a lot, so feedback like this is super helpful. The free plan usually gives a small team more than a month to try it out since teams tend to larger (and thus fewer) work items than they might in another tool.

We definitely think it’s a huge market and it’s undeniable that products like clubhouse will keep having success. But for us, we’ve set out to build something that changes how teams think about these types of tools. That’s why we’re pushing to get the whole team engaged and really make use of the document-like aspect of Kitemaker (which teams tend to use a bit differently than stories in clubhouse). It’s early days still, but initial feedback has been really positive and quite a few teams are paying us already.
Very soon whoishiring will start a thread for April. I bet you are going to see more Go opportunities than Java.
Nice post. I have strict expenditure constraints so I haven't opted for paid hosting yet. I use Netlify for hosting, so I spend only on the domain name, which too is a relatively cheap one with an obscure-ish TLD.
Nice - help on AWS certs + new Sysops beta cert exam
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"What you have right here and right now is a public relations disaster. Trust in your brand has been damaged. It cannot be repaired by you providing minimal information."

I'm not sure that's true.

There are a number of barely-technical subreddits, typically centered around Plex or some flavor of bittorrent, that consist of an all-day-every-day request for "as much cloud storage as possible for the lowest possible cost and please say it's free".

These are not HN readers. It's as if they attained consciousness two minutes ago and one minute ago they decided they needed cloud storage.

This is the audience these kind of analytical tools are geared toward and I don't think this changes their "engagement" or their "convertibility" or their "lifetime value".

The real information here is that in 2021, and in conjunction with a much more sophisticated product offering (B2), Backblaze is very aggressively pursuing flat-rate, loss-leaders who can be influenced and targeted by facebook.

Draw what conclusions from that you will.
> complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs.

USD $5/hour is what I earned as a teenager working the fields by hand (picking corn, beans, and fruit for sale same-day at the farmers small stands throughout the area) in the early 1990s... That's insane. Is that USD $5 or AD?
So AI is taking over the world, and we should just accept that it has severe limitations of just parroting the training data like a Markov chain? This is the algorithm we think can solve everything?
I would say it’s the other way around. Only minority of use cases (like in your example, what’s the ratio of people using vehicles in environments like that) have a need for combustion engine.

For most people a vehicle that gets from a point A to point B with the distance being 10-50km is enough. And for that EVs even now are more than adequate.

It’s just that there’s always this mythical ”long trip” coming that people use as an excuse for the need of an ICE. vehicle.
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No I understand how it works. But what I’m saying is that the enzymes/bacteria in the wild dont process grass like a cows gut. You need composting to happen vs trampling and burying the grass. But ty!
Unfortunately HIPPA is actually specific in this scenario. I highly doubt file sizes have to do with PHI. However if you can show that they are sending the actual data in the backup, that would be a reportable offense.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, YMMV.
Slightly OT: But what sensor are you using? I've been on the lookout for one for years but always decided they've been too expensive. But now working from home I think it's time to finally get one.
I wonder if this is interesting to look at topologicaly? Flow dynamics picks out the network connectivity/handedness/etc... Maybe I am over thinking it while simultaneously under thinking it. ;)

Paging V. I. Arnold just in case.
I love following quickly-developing stories like this, where the best knowledge available develops day by day.

You can be dead certain that a lot of the people who read the news at an early point in time, will go to their deaths believing that the initial quote was correct. It pays off to have a shifting degree of certainty about things like this.
Aspirin is good!

Aspirin is bad!

Well.. it depends. What do you suffer from?

Turkey suffers from an undemocratic government, in a country where corruption (at ALL levels of government and ALL aspects of life) is the status quo. It looks that Erdogan prefers to have a half-dead country that needs him, than a thriving country without him (yes he is a dictator).
I've been at a Scala shop for just over a year, and it's certainly the case that there's a lot of overlap between language features. Personally I prefer having to make judgement calls as needed, rather than being shoehorned into a one-size-fits-all approach (e.g. like Java's class-based, single-inheritance OOP).

One thing I find encouraging is that Scala features may become deprecated (either explicitly or de facto) if an overlapping feature is added that works 'better'. Examples I've come across are Manifest getting replaced by TypeTag and implicit coercions getting replaced by implicit classes.
Of course things aren’t so simple; Sullivan, like several of the other names on that leaderboard, are, to put it gently, controversial. That he along with other lightning-rod writers ended up on Substack is more a matter of where else would they go?

While Substack is portrayed as being a good move for writers and journalists (and certainly it is, financially), I don't think this is actually good for journalism as a whole. It often will just mean that successful writers are the most celebrity-like ones: writing controversial things because it gets more traffic and therefore more income.

I don't know about you, but I don't want the tactics of Kim Kardashian to be the model of a future journalist.
Referer is an important way to maintain the security of an OAuth flow.

I don't know how commonly it would break that flow, but it certainly could depending on implementation details that are not narrowly prescribed by the OAuth2 spec.
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A very elegant non-political article getting to the core of the issue - that yet again old business models are being disrupted and this pisses people off.

Shame these pissed off people have to get political though.
Tesla originally planned on swappable batteries, and then realized the logistics of it were not a good use of capital or sense. The latest Teslas use rigid battery packs as part of the structure of the vehicle. I suspect swapping those would be impossible quickly.
What mission is this important?
It may be reasonable to think however that some technologies are more conducive to dumpster fires than others.
Do we quietly accept not being listened to by the deaf? Do we quietly accept our visual cues not being correctly interpreted by the blind? Do we quietly accept our grandmothers forgetting our birthdays? Do we quietly accept service animals (well I suppose a lot of people don't)?

But it's okay to treat autistic people as less than human because they are not a politically powerful group. You learn a lot about people from how they treat politically disadvantaged, and we have learned a lot about you.
I wouldn't trust my colleagues with it. I'd dread any tool that allows them to achieve even more over engineering feats.
Gitlab/Mattermost integrations would be nice to see.
Was it the same article mentioning that people are praying for a flood to drown all the mice in the fields?
> Porsche sales are already dominated by their EV sales and growing quite nicely.

Source on this? Because in 2020 the Taycan line sold less than the 718, 911 and Cayenne lines[0].

[0]https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2021/company/porsche-deliver...
All of this just to get some attention from strangers