skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mate, this is textbook FUD. :) It’s anecdotal and there is no connection between the reliability of a vehicle’s electric motor system and the electrical systems that may have troubled your acquaintances.
If you look at only the most rural areas sure, but that isn't where most people outside of cities live.
It's not half and half, it's touchscreen with a physical volume knob which in my opinion is the right way. Having touch controls for volume is a horrible idea (my car has touch control for everything and I despise trying to get the volume adjusted quickly).

https://i.imgur.com/Lw4GgNW.jpeg
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The future of war is bizarre and terrifying
Disgusting and awesome. I hate and love it.

Just a mind bending and creative design all around.
Indeed.

And you get a massive return for investing in dollars, if your own currency has say hyper-inflation.

"I exchange my local currency for a USD and in a year when I want to buy something I can exchange it back for twice as much local of currency"

Not massively different to investing in BTC today, in the hope that you can convert it back for more of your local currency when you want to spend it.
I have no idea if this’ll be lightning or a lead balloon, because a significant amount of pickup truck buyers do it for the machismo.

Which sounds like some city-slicker talking down to the cheap seats, except, I grew up in a town named Farmington. (Go Farmers.) I know pickups. I know the people who drive pickups. My dad sneers at fancy new pickups because he used to shove a good 700 pounds of mink pelts in a pickup, and he thinks all that leather would get stained by the blood nowadays. And pickup truck buyers love their macho trucks. They like the burble of the engines and the swagger and that it’s not some little penalty box of a green car.

An electric pickup? Sure, sounds rational, especially with that torque. But does it trigger the libs enough?

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Something that might help, though: that price.

“but rather its price because the 2022 F-150 Lightning will start at just $39,974 before any government rebates.”

Given the just eye-watering prices of pickups these days: that’s cheap, relatively.
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> 4. Crushed and pounded with a rock by a 10 year old child, then burned in a rudimentary smelter to separate metals from plastics.

I'm certainly no mechanical engineering or robotics expert, but based on watching a bazillion episodes of "How It's Made", "Modern Marvels", and similar shows, I'm 99.9% sure a machine could be designed and built that can do this step cheaper and faster than a 10 year old child can.

The machine would have a higher up front cost than getting a kid from a poor country to do it so might not be economical if the amount of waste is below a certain amount but that's only a temporary situation.
Why is Krugman even still relevant? Was his greatest accomplishment work related or marrying into a very, very wealthy family.

Also, it seems like in the crazy world we now enjoy living in, that Libertarians make at least as much sense as Democrats and Republicans.
Uh we know, it's definitely cheaper. It's the random nature of potency and scoring drugs that contributes to the addiction. If provided cheap high quality heroin an addict will eventually get bored and find a way to transition.
We need this in Europe!
Don't forget that electric vehicles are almost silent.
Yuck! I don't look forward to this in my future lifetime of vehicles. I'll have to wait for "dumb" electric vehicles.
UltraEdit is clunky, the UI is very dated and the fonts are not well rendered.

It's not fast and has a large lack of theme support (there's no solarized theme for it, which is industry standard at this point).

I just didn't like it and would rather use a more modern editor, e.g. sublime. Only took a day or two to write the required plugins to get our language support for it.
That site reminds me of the Lincoln-Kennedy urban legend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln–Kennedy_coincidences_u...

(When I visited the WTF1971? site again just now, banner ad was trying to get me to buy Bitcoin, LOL.)
That assumes there’s some ideal that can be reached or an ideal leader rather than an ever evolving set of solutions.

Competition is vital in politics. What isn’t so good is when nobody can actually win.
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That stance is also known as, "Fuck you, I've got mine."

I personally, despite also being in a number of majority classes, prefer to avoid being an asshole because of an accident of birth.
EVs are heavier by nature (this vehicle’s battery pack alone is ~1800 lbs). Your average driver is not good at driving. The F150 sells very well. Ergo, more risk of more property damage and human harm.

You can’t get around physics. More mass with more force carries more risk.
One of the challenges with CSS is that it has so many ways to do the same thing, and it needs that because there are so many different workflows.

If you are in an environment where you have 0 control over how the HTML is structured I can see where long selectors are helpful, but when you do have full control over the HTML they are a huge anti-pattern.
While you are not shocked that this is the case we should be alarmed that a large percentage of the U.S. population doesn't care. They will not let this fact dissuade them from their ideological servitude to the GOP. That we have come to the point where rampant hypocrisy is the norm and does nothing to get people to question their political affiliations is shocking to me.
Probably quite functional, but it looks like a tumor on top of the screen.
A truck is great to have for all kinds of reasons. I think the issue is that a combination of automaker marketing and various regulatory and tax incentves/loopholes drive people to purchase more trucks than they otherwise would.
It is obviously correct from a scientific perspective. Scientific experts probably wrote it.
Thats true, but you really can't have it both ways. You either want a professional opinion on the quality of the house or you're willing to run the risk. Anyway, the banks aren't doing inspections for the benefit of the buyer. They want to know that should the house be repossessed they are likely to recoup their investment. The fact the buyer might find something out about the house is a happy side effect.
It'll be interesting to see their next paper, where they describe in great depth how to waste 80 developers time for a month and still sneak in vulnerabilities.
You still need spacers in 2021 to add bottom padding to CSS grid:

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/129#issuecomment-...
The bills introduced are watered down with no meaningful enforcement. Texas will forget about it in 2 years and we will have this whole problem happen again.
I think you're being a bit unfair. We all agree that they're useful, but surely in a world win which we need to

a) reduce road and parking space in order to encourage better forms of transportation ,

b) reduce our consumption of natural resources

,maybe we need to discourage individual ownership of 3000kg utility vehicles?
Correct - the homebuyers report on my house cost £300.
Yeah, it's rough. A good thing about VSC is that it's atleast as configurable as ST is, though. You can disable a lot of functionality if you just take the time to read up on the config. You'll never make it as smooth as ST, but it's worth it to reduce the friction. If you're forced to use it, might as well make it as decent as possible.
The purpose of a military is not solely to provide continuity for a currency, it is to provide security for the interests and inhabitants of a nation.

Also, regardless of any morality issues, having a military _creates value_ in a way that Bitcoin cannot. The employees of a military are paid, they spend their wages in the country's economy, they must be supplied with equipment which must be manufactured, those manufacturers & soldiers pay taxes, the enhanced security of a nation makes it less risky for investment and business growth etc etc.
I'd regard the fact no one seemed to notice that Arm has switched to a more modern 64 bit architecture (Aarch64) that has very little in common with its predecessors as being quite impressive.
This is already a reality in the 2020 Mustang Mach E

https://www.google.com/search?q=2020+mustang+mach+e+interior
Seems to be unpopular but I agree.
If Bitcoin “wins” then what will it be denominated in? Will we go to the barter system? I just can’t see it replacing the USD. (Been in crypto since 2012)
The electorate has largely given up or been brainwashed to think this is ok.
I think it's all still touch screen, looks like that new trend, "Smart depth" or whatever it is.
Gold's value, however, is not derived from its industrial and other such uses. If it was, the price of gold would be somewhere in the $200/oz range. Gold is valuable because of its historical role as a monetary metal. So while gold has a sort of industrial "backstop" that would set a price floor, absolutely no one is buying or owning gold with the expectation that it might lose 90% of its value.
This is almost a philosophical question.

My intuition is that creation and innovation is deeply embedded in the nature of our species.

"Because we can"
Also, this pickup is going to be way faster than the IC one.

That helps with the overcompensation buyer.
That joined in too, a reactor had an unplanned shut down as well during the storm.
> researchers could be totally nice and ethical people.

A thorough review of the IRB documents revealed potential problems in the description of the experiments, and concluded that insufficient details about the experimental study were provided to the IRB. [0]

[0]Read the above linked IEEE response latter.
It looks like a great vehicle.

I hope ford's got a plan for making millions of battery packs for these things.

I wonder if "backfeed from the EVSE" is going to be a regular / standardized feature of some vehicle chargers in the future?

Combine this with time-of-use awareness and auto-auction mechanisms to backfeed the grid when power's necessary (and turn off back-feeding to not kill linemen repairing wires) it seems like a pretty good extension to car charging.

Elevator pitch:

Public charging installed on streets; charges 3 prices -- "I need power now", "I need this much power before this time" and "I need this much power by this time and you may draw power out of my battery between now and then so long as I have this much charge by this time".

Then you network interconnect these chargers and make a distributed peaker power plant and also make subscription / power deliver fees.
Very cool, I love it, I hope more automakers figure out clever ways to keep analog controls mixed in with touch.
I just remember Clarkson talking about the hybrid f150 on TG. He said then that Ford had a survey of features that customers wanted added to the truck. A hybrid powertrain, he claimed, was something like number 24 on the list. In other words there are 23 things customers want more then a hybrid. If that is true, then i'm unclear how much of a profit- maker a fully electric f150 will be.
The chip shortage will look like nothing, once the EV ramp increases.

Batteries are always the bottleneck. Ford announced a 60GWh plant partnership, but that will only hold them over for several years of growth and is still a ways away from actually producing cells.
Alcohol does not relax people overall. It provides a brief feeling of relaxation (a mixture of GABA receptor interaction and social/learned habit of associating the act of drinking with relaxing) but then significantly increases physical stress as the body works to remove the toxic substance from the body and repair the damage.

Over the long term, repeated use of alcohol causes the body to have worse 'baseline' stress levels and a worse ability to respond to stress.
I keep reading that Tether is the ponzi in the ponzi-scheme.
American vehicles had a history of poor quality control and reliability but it's improved in the last 20 years. F150 is the #1 selling truck in USA in Canada.

Our 2011 F150 has been very reliable, mechanically, but the audio wiring is broken in interesting ways. My buddy's older F150 has exactly the same issue. Otherwise it's been trouble free.
So why not just list the position for a software engineer, along with 3 different salary bands for 3 different experience levels? Or does that not comply with the law?
People absolutely do use tailwind as an alternative to understanding CSS. Having seen and worked on projects in tailwind, I feel like that's it's primary purpose.

Go on Twitter and look at the Tailwind community - they see CSS as a doomed, awful language and Tailwind as the thing that makes it pleasant. They're not CSS developers. They're people actively trying to avoid being CSS developers.
Take it as what you perceive, that's fine. That said, saying that there is no connection is speculation. The design, implementation, and supply chain of both aspects of the vehicle deal with electronic components. I don't know if they will make the same mistakes with the drivetrain electronics that they do with other aspects of the vehicle's construction.
"And quite frankly, I hope I don’t have to give another live lecture ever again. I’ll tape it; I’ll have them watch it — I know most of them are going to watch it at 1.5 or 2x speed. I’ll sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks, but that’s OK. Then we can spend the time in class actually working on problems or discussing some of the issues that I brought up."

Beside the joke, I find the concept of ingesting content at your pace and then talking about it in class very interesting. No idea if the knowledge will stick in mind as well as classic lectures, but I would definitely have been seduced by this proposition when I was a student.
Check out the Hyundai Santa Cruz. Looks like they took the Honda Ridgeline concept and down-sized it a bit.

I currently own a Ridgeline - it's not quite compact, but rides better than a Taco or Ranger and the trunk under the bed is useful.

If the Hyundai existed earlier this year, I'd probably own it instead.
F150 is the best selling vehicle in America. The price is actually comparable to the gas version. This might be the vehicle that really changes the EV game.
Macho man and their egos like the fastest, toughest trucks with the most torque / power. This is it. It wins.
Wow - so if the grid goes down the Truck will power your house? That is awesome!

ref: https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/ (see bottom)
I really don't see the types of energy as a partisan issue at all anymore, compared to policies that threaten to put the US on a dependence on foreign sources of energy. Nobody wants to burn dirty coal if they can help it, but coal plants in lieu of importing oil as long as there isn't any smog around their homes, most people would take the former.

Granted those families or counties that historically have depended economically on specific forms of energy, it's another story, but they're a relatively small segment of the population.
Thanks for the details. Will definitely go through this tutorial
Monopoly profits are based on dominant market power, not asymmetry of information.
I don't understand why people keep feeling indignation from these kinds of news. Politics have entered the post-truth age wordwide, and thinking that trying to present the facts will amount to any sort of sensible change is either delusional, or an excess of optimism at best. We failed to adapt to the massive cultural changes brought by mass media first and social media later, and these are the results.

People do now believe in what they want to believe in, no matter what the news or expert say.
Needless to say, what they want very often ("coincidentally" of course) happens to match perfectly with the economic and policy interests of a few powerful people or corporations.

It's a waste of time and effort trying to rebut these people, because they deliberately try to stray away from logic (where they know they would often lose) and always attempt to move debate to a plane of emotions and feelings, where any kind of confrontation becomes basically impossible.
Whether or not you use a graph DB under the hood, having access to a GraphQL API (https://graphql.org/) is much more elegant than having to join together a bunch of separate REST calls or SQL queries. It automatically traverses relationships for you based on the fields you need, and returns only the fields you ask for. So you get exactly what you need, no more and no less. Most GraphQL servers have a GUI explorer query builder too so you just click on the fields you need and it'll construct the query for you.

GraphQL can also run on traditional SQL databases, but I think at some point they hit complexity limits and performance issues because JOINs are hard for them, especially if the columns aren't indexed. In a proper graph database, relationships are first-class parts of any data model and there are no "tables" to speak of, just nodes and the arbitrary, complex relationships between them. It makes data modeling both more intuitive (if your data is naturally a graph) and more performant. Here's one take on it (https://developers.mews.com/intro-to-graph-databases/)

At the end of the day there is no magic cure-all for data storage. It depends on the data you're storing and the way you need to read and write from it. And business wise, it may not be worth it to rewrite 10 years of SQL databases to improve performance by a few percent. But if I were starting a new project from scratch, one that involves layers of interconnected data (say, a bookstore with connections between books, images, authors, customers, reviewers, reviews, inventories, third-party merchants, Goodreads entries, different versions for audiobooks and ereaders, multiple books in a series, etc.) it's the kind of thing that would lend itself well to a graph database in modeling, as long as the stack can also be performant and scalable enough for end users.

As a web dev "in the wild", we've offloaded the scaling problem to a vendor by choosing to use a headless CMS (GraphCMS, DatoCMS, Contentful, Prismic, etc.; there are many). Some of those use graph databases while others don't, but at the end of the day we don't really care as long we don't hit their complexity limits. They play DB admin, we get GraphQL or traditional REST APIs, and we can build a frontend on top of that.
> 80% of people buying an f150 or similar never have been and never will be building contractors or lumberjacks

Yeah, I feel this. I used to have a big work truck, but it was for work. Everyone has a truck in my hometown (seemingly). Last week I saw a big F-250 super duty pull up and the dude that got out was in scrubs (a nurse).

Friends of mine have considered the super duty’s for towing, but now they’re interested in the lightning for the same reasons.
I'm no POW fan, but validating transactions is one of the most "useful" things to do.
…what a non sequitur.

The F-150 is already a bloated monstrosity, it makes no difference if it’s electric. It’s some tiny bit faster, but they’re all fast enough.
Not when moving at any significant speed - most of the sound of a vehicle going faster than 10mph ish is tires.
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Cut the advertised range in half. That is about the max you can expect for towing range. So the extended range version may let you tow the distance you want to.
Rather than pyramid scheme, maybe history's biggest pump-and-dump scheme: an asset with dubious value (some bytes in a decentralized database) that's so staggeringly inefficient to run that the transaction fees are astronomical and speeds are glacial, and that nobody uses for any real purpose besides speculation - pumped by a million and one influencers and "coin news" sites parroting empty bullish propaganda in hopes the price of their portfolio keeps going up.

I was originally fascinated by crypto, but the more I've come to understand it the more I suspect the world has lost its mind.
>Drivers are already the leading killers of children, and more and more people are being killed while walking and cycling.

I think more worrisome is the center console - pedestrian deaths had been going down for 20 years until smartphones became widespread and we've had increases every year since.
Sure, but that is an advanced subject. Don't put it before explaining what the technology actually does!
The occasional heavy-duty trip is a reasonable use case for a range extender (as in, an IC engine gen-set) either towed or on the truck bed.
If they ever get to it and if it's economically feasible. Meanwhile, people are trying to buy old Tesla's and repair their batteries on their own (see numerous youtube videos), which seems very dangerous, or they just go to the junkyard.
I'm curious, with the advent of electric what's the advantage of a truck vs. a minivan for a lot of situations? IIRC there were literal space constraints before which is why a minivan couldn't tow like a truck, but since the motor and batteries sit underneath the car, couldn't one build a van/minivan with just as much power as this?

If that's the case, other than hauling very tall objects, why get a truck? A minivan with the 2nd and 3rd rows folded is already longer than most truck beds.

Curious to hear thoughts on this. I know culturally a van would never beat a truck, but I'm curious more mechanically/technically.

Another thing I'm curious about with a truck in particular is if a custom fit gasoline tank could be placed in the bed of a truck that has an inverter that could charge the car, so even if your battery was dead you could effectively use the car as a gas one, in a pinch.

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As an aside I'm willing to bet within a decade this will outsell the gasoline version. A F-150 used frequently requires a lot of maintenance. I imagine this will be significantly easier to maintain.
Tailwind isn't quite inline styles (technical details) but yes, it replaces having to name 'login-box' with a copypasted set of styles that you can't change easily without massive regex work.
300 miles of range unladen seems very low to me. When towing, this range will likely be cut by more than half. The truck is priced competitively, so it will make sense for "Regular daily driver, and occasionally I need to put something in the bed" truck owners, but definitely not "Tow my trailer to the mountains once a month" truck owners.
This is a regulatory consequence, no?

My understanding was that classification meant there was a disincentive for manufacturers to build smaller trucks (fuel efficiency and/or emissions?).
The F-150 is considered a heavy-duty truck, I think the Ford brand and advertising would help
This will electrify a lot of fleet vehicles when people see the lower maintenance and input costs.
Can you provide specifics what do you mean exactly by unfounded accusations ?

Really curious who makes unfunded accusations ...
Most car noise comes from the wheels, at speed, on highways.
The proportion of pickup trucks (especially the light duty ones) that are purchased as "lifestyle" products rather than for utility use is probably significantly higher than 80%, if that were measured honestly.
They do, you just notice it less. MacOS is notorious for having one of the most asinine memory management schemes in the history of software, and so causing a memory issue can be a bit of a finnecky task (but certainly not impossible). As a matter of fact, most times you don't even need to fill swap before MacOS runs out of memory: you just need to fool the OS into thinking the memory pressure is high enough to warrant GC.