skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inflation adjusted chart tells the same story. It shows the price can, in extreme circumstances, plunge back to slightly above the long term average price. Otherwise it sits much higher. Prices from 2004-2016 are the only thing making the prices in 2019 look reasonable.
My sadness is I don't see the entrepreneurial entry points as low down the scale as they were for Internet. A one or two person start up in the EV world is not going to survive in order to grow. The supply chain for cars is big capital intensive and dominated by the whims of the big players.

I am not sure where / if I can play at that table :-(
The UK has also ruled it out. I wouldn't use one - emigrate or never travel. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/30/uk-vaccine-p...
For x86 systems? No way, we already have open source emulators like QEMU and 50 years isn't enough to make the retro computing nostalgia for x86 go away even if they stopped making the things tomorrow.
Those numbers are why I’ve always thought cleaner fuel options were the real future here (like natural gas and hydrogen).
Seems all the images in the article are compressed and resized (I guess at least, judging by https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F27C/production/... and others), anyone know the original source of them? Some would make excellent desktop backgrounds.
I believe what most people think of when they say "Arduino" are the boards themselves, not the IDE. And the thing with the boards is, they are either obsolete, or expensive. RPi Pico is neither. And it comes with a modern language support, not a Java frontend to C compiler.
Sweet. Maybe we invest in travelling wave reactors or electromagnetic rod / saltwater harness designs.

Or we just start building more nuclear infrastructure on less safe designs (although not sure why we should do that when we have safer designs available), given that the consequences of not pushing nuclear immediately vastly outweighs the consequences of pretending it's less safe than the status quo.
I'm not going to buy an electric-only car until these issues have been solved:

1) range - when driving on a motorway, with regular pauses every ~2.5 hours, it must be possible to drive two periods without charging: 5 hours at regime speed, plus some slack, means 700 km.

2) comfort - range must be long enough that manufacturers do not need to focus too much on aerodymanics vs internal space; the correct outline is: horizontal, very steep, horizontal; an arc like a Prius is an abomination.

3) predictable battery life span - I'm not advocating for a huge life span, I understand there are limits, but I want to know in advance how the range evolves as my car ages. ICE vehicules are very clear on this point: range never changes.
We are currently talking to a fuel station company in East Africa to deploy solar powered battery banks for electric bikes across 250 of their petrol pumps. We have already powered two of their stations with panels and batteries as a proof of concept. They know there is an energy transition coming from fuel to electric and they want to be at the beginning of this curve. The transition has started across the world.

Ramez (in the article) is on my Board. He has always maintained that price point/economics is crucial for tech to become main stream, to a point that adoption often can be much faster than anticipated. This has definitely been true for solar adoption so far - it has beat all expectations until now. I won't be surprised if this happens for EVs too.
In some NASA TV show around Perseverance were some shots of someone using their pano stitching software. Apparently none of the existing tools were good enough so they wrote their own and the users love it. I'll share a link if I can find it.
I wasn't suggesting to give up, rather it was a response to the poster above, who was trying to build some kind of mental model of how progressives viewed the world in contrast to conservatives. I was trying to highlight that there are progressives out there who are simply tired and just want their lives and the lives of their families to be OK.

And I think that's OK. Personally I tend to look at things negatively and push onwards anyway, but I also understand when people say they don't want too much negativity in their lives. So I get it.

That's all!
If you are not in a city you charge in your garage or in your driveway. The true last holdout for ICE cars will be urban areas dominated by street parking.
That new electric F150 looks pretty good for that use case.
I don't agree with this analogy. Most Germans I know (especially those who like cash) are not against the existence of electronic payment at all, but about the choice to have both ways. It's mostly lamenting that you still can ONLY pay in cash in so many places. (Covid has actually improved the situation at a lot of places.)
To "aim to enable EU citizens to study, live, shop, work and retire in any EU country" is an official goal of the European Union. If not many people are able to do this, then perhaps it has simply not yet succeeded.
because it is literally written in Italian (with specific regional inflections)?

Besides, this guy (Italian) has been writing these harassing things for years.
And the use case is when you have a sufficiently high-performance storage controller that the SCSI protocol (that you are tunneling over IP or Fibre channel) becomes a bottle neck.
I stayed in a hotel in Canberra that was set up like that (charging cables hanging from the ceiling). It was just normal domestic extension cables, so not obviously dangerous. Fortunately I was tall enough to reach up to connect my car's charger to it to charge it overnight; I don't quite know how they would have expected someone my wife's height to grab them.
People need to be bitten, and they need to be aware that an alternative exists.

The first half of that happens all the time. In my experience, it's the second half that's missing.
Sounds like you've never seen a battery explode! Anything energy-dense is an explosive.
Started 2 years ago with an OTC boil and bute, sleep quality is night and day (no pun intended),l.

In fact it annoys me greatly if for whatever reason I don't sleep with it because I know I'll be yawning, nodding off, and generally low energy all day.

Highly recommend it at least as a low cost experiment (mine was $70), no issues so far with bite or jaw soreness.
The article is titled as some Bill Joy-esque paper. Then you actually read it and it's just some blog post about a guy complaining how he's disorganized and keeps 73 tabs open.

Then some naive proposal for a weird uniform interface known as "fragments".

Yes, the userspace is becoming increasingly browser centric. I don't understand what this guy is dreaming for. That future desktop environments wrap everything in some meta data structure, on top of a preexisting file system?

A symbolic link to a url is a file, meme gifs are files.
Goign self taught, you have 2 risks.

1) The teacher is shit.
2) The curriculum is shit.

University, if you choose well, can remove these 2 risks.
right but I bet the ratios of cpu latency to l2 and l3 latency have both gotten worse with that growth.
Natural gas is significantly dirtier than nuclear, and hydrogen (in terms of how we use it) is a component of an energy storage technology and not a fuel source.
On Money Creation
I don't think this is expounded enough: smoking does make you look cool. Hollywood inculcated society with this back in the 50s with the James Dean types. You go down to drags with bars and you see all the people outside doing it. There's something alluring about someone not caring that they're shaving off a fraction of a fraction of of their lifespan. To me socially I've found myself drawn to those who smoke vs. those that don't. They're right below the surface to where I can quickly find something in common with them. At one of my previous places, the CTO told me how he took a bunch of the employees from another job to start their own successful company. How did that happen? They got the idea because they were all smokers and all congregated at the same.
The first larger production of ICE automobiles was in 1888, with Benz.

The first automobile with a wider impact was Ford Model T, 1908, 20 years later.

And car ownership only took over after WW2, some 60 years after Benz.

With EVs I guess Prius was the Benz moment and Tesla was Model T. Even with today's accelerated rate of tech progress, I'd be surprised if EV are 50-50 with ICEs faster than 2035.
you can use % in firefox to search tabs and ^ to search history and more https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

EDIT: and even Vinnl shared it first here , sorry for dup, but maybe you haven't seen it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27351289
Well here’s the thing, you are putting friendship on a pedestal. Everyone is lucky to have anyone to talk to at all. Enjoy it for what it is, but why feel entitled to a life long commitment?

These things come and go, and it’s better not to judge how life progresses.
NASA posts the raw images
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
I think you grossly underestimate how heavily ingrained the things you're complaining about are into UK culture.
lol, downvoted. A sensitive incel I suppose? should've realized this is incel land. Using that power to silence other users here when they criticize incels seems like quite the abuse of that power.

"Discussions in incel forums are often characterized by resentment and hatred, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against sexually active people. The American nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the subculture as "part of the online male supremacist ecosystem" that is included in their list of hate groups. Incels are mostly male and heterosexual, and many sources report that incels are predominantly white. Estimates of the overall size of the subculture vary greatly, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands.

At least seven mass murders, resulting in a total of 46 deaths, have been committed since 2014 by men who have either self-identified as incels or who had mentioned incel-related names and writings in their private writings or Internet postings. Incel communities have been criticized by researchers and the media for being misogynistic, encouraging violence, spreading extremist views, and radicalizing their members."

So yeah, FU incels.
Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC)
I've smoked tobacco on somewhere between 5 and 15 occasions over a decade since becoming an adult, but I didn't become a daily smoker or addicted to smoking. Am I just an extreme outlier?
Until electric vehicles are like-for-like with petrol/diesel, I'm unlikely to buy one. And by this I mean range, power and price. I can buy a MB/Audi/BMW, 3.0 litre diesel or petrol, that's 0-60 in 6s or less depending on version, a full tank range that is 500 miles for petrol and 700-800 for diesel. And I can buy that starting at £30k.

The closest similar performance, and I hope to be corrected, is the top end Teslas, where you pay more and more for the batteries. A Model S long range, is £83k, 50k more.

The article is probably correct, because governments are incentivising electric cars. And the "demand" and "supply" by manufacturers is also pushing in that direction.
Same for me, but that's probably the reason I've never sold a company in the first place;-) The term "serial entrepreneur" exists for a reason, and I guess it applies to some and not to others.
I'm starting to think it is a feature, not a bug: peasants should stop being able to move anywhere so easily. The fact you can't easily charge a personal vehicle? Good.

Bunch up in overcrowded cities, use public transportation only so we can keep the outside clean for the new nobles.
That just implies journalists don't understand tech.
It also shows how information can be distorted.

If you go the FT article, you have a link to the official documentation. Draw your own conclusion, I still see it as SSO.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/trust-serv...
They need internet for updates, backups, and worldwide control. But not sure who really need the wirldwide control really.

I have a logitech harmony, and it's a really useful tool. But the cloud-connection is really a double edged problem, especially with poor internet.
Just wet dream.

Did they try electric cars in winter in Europe? Do you think you'll able to ride more thann 500km without worries about power?

Electric cars are blind line and it fits only for makers because of money.
'Ghosting' is one of the most petty things imaginable. Sorry to say I judge a person's character so much by this. It's understandable that someone may not want to break up with their partner, but simply not responding is still terrible behaviour. I'd rather be yelled at than ghosted, at least it's candour.

Summon the courage and civility to find a few empathetic words and that's that.

It's odd that we teach 'knowledge' and even 'morality' in school but not 'basic manners'. I can imagine a room of teenagers laughing out loud at someone trying to teach them how to be civil and polite, and it probably wouldn't change them, however, I think that a few years later it would start to click in. As if they were 'lessons for later, when you're not an irreverent teenager'. They would at least have choices and options for human engagement, it's a form of knowledge.
> Bet you can’t do that with today’s electric car.

Do you realise an electric car comes with a massive electric battery that you can use to run the heater?

Unlike a petrol or diesel car, you won't be risking poisoning yourself while you sleep either.
Testing is important, but unit tests are the least important of them.

Powerful type systems and compilers that catch your mistakes before you can run anything is the best kind of testing. It’s fully automated and will inform you about most things early on. Practically, this kills dynamic languages for projects expected to become larger than proof of concept (pydantic, typescript, etc. mitigate, but must be in and enforced from the start).

After that manual testing is the most important. Specifically because it can be done by hand with isolated inputs and outputs. This won’t catch the refactoring breaking something disparate, but will ensure you can reproduce production issues with the code locally where you can expect it.

After that, integration tests are the most important. Give the whole component/system an input, and verify the output. This should be as fast as possible but should mock as little as possible. This should be able to be done from a local machine with a debugger running and still be fast. If an integration test takes half an hour, it’s never going to get run except on a Thursday at 6pm when you’re trying to get out a change before the Sprint review. Then it will fail and make life hell, because running it is so slow that running with a debugger is going to be hell.

After that, logging is the most important form of testing. Every input or start of a workflow should get an ID that follows it through the system with logging to watch it go. Any problem identified should include that Id so that you can grab logs from all the disparate systems. Specifically, that ID should be attached to the inputs or each component so you can replay it in a controlled environment later.

Then you finally get to unit tests, because once your software works as expected, they let you lock down the implementation and ensure that any changes will get flagged by the tests. If you lock down the unit tests before the software works, then you wind up having to go back and redo the unit tests for every issue found, as the implementation wasn’t correct so the unit tests can’t test it. This is the big lie of unit testing. They don’t prove correctness, they prove implementation details.

After that you want to get to end-to-end that workflow the whole user experience with a product or system. But if you don’t get there, that’s really okay.

Most problems are caught by the compiler, manual tests, and integration tests during development. Any problems that do come up can be identified quickly and repaired by the highly inspectable infrastructure that provides you IDs to dig out logs for any input, and while you’re fixing the issue, your unit tests will let you know when the implementation has changed in a way that requires more thought (though the compiler probably did first and the unit test complaints are just noise).
The regions outside urbanized ones will deploy solar faster than in the cities, so they will end up with very cheap power in the middle of the day.

You can charge a car from an ordinary domestic power plug -- particularly in a low density area where you can park the car close to the house -- so you don't need specialised charging infrastructure.
> The total energy usage shouldn't be much of an issue as we'll move electricity use from refineries to charging batteries

Don't forget about the taxation aspect - as the sales of petrol and diesel fall, so does the tax revenue.

In many countries tax represents over half of the end-user price of petrol and diesel. How will governments replace this as the revenue drops away?
> They sound a lot like the complaints about the lack of the tank stations during the transition from horse power to ICE.

How so? With ICE engines you just bring an extra tank of fuel if you’re going somewhere without fuel stations.
Edit: >= 51%

Sure that was obvious but in case anyone points it out. Sleepy brain.
How can the Arduino boards be obsolete? I still use nano clones because they are cheap AVR m328p boards with a fine power regulator and a sane quartz.
The only reason why she is paid to have her face on a billboard is because of her activities in the tennis world. If she is unknown to the general public for being a tennis star, then there is no value to the companies paying her for the use of her image.

If she wants the endorsements she has to put up with the fame. The two go hand in hand. She is trading the hassle of extra attention for a big cheque. Besides perhaps Tiger Woods, I doubt a random person of the general public could name a golf player. Which is why Tiger Woods has/had the endorsement contracts.

If have no problem with her just wanting to play tennis, or not wanting to be in the public spotlight. But to agree to be on public billboards, and not-agree to do public interviews, is an inconsistent position IMHO.

Stop taking the multi-million dollar cheques if you don't want the attention. You'll fall into obscurity quite quickly: how many people pay attention to Andre Agassi or Steffi Graf nowadays?
I think / hope / wishful think that in the near future, e.g. with solid state batteries, battery technology will take a quantum leap (like internet speeds did, as the article makes an analogy to) so that things like range and aerodynamics trade offs will no longer be a concern - to the point where they far exceed that of ICE's. That would be the real futurology / science fiction flex, a car that can go two, three, five times as far on a single charge than an ICE can.

And if on top of that self-driving capability improves, it could mean, especially with better comfort, people can do 8+ hour drives without having to stop.

It's not likely at the moment, but I'd be willing to put money on it being the case in 10-20 years.

Of course, I could be vastly underestimating the possibilities, like with e.g. smartphones that are far more advanced than the best things we see in science fiction.
There are new RISC-V chips that aim to do that:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/24/bl602-bl604-risc-v-w...

Here is a recently announced board:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/05/28/rv-debugger-plus-uar...
Maybe you're right, however OpenCL 2.2 came out 4 years ago and (almost) nobody has adopted it yet, so the problem could be with the spec. OpenCL 3.0 was adopted by nvidia (although OCL 3.0 is the same as 1.2 with some optional features added)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#OpenCL_2.2_support
Compare "megawatt-hours generated per year" to "megawatts of installed capacity". Very different measurements.
There were plenty of “won’t happen, can’t happen” arguments against mass takeover by digital cameras, CDs, etc. - then they did, very fast. Megabrand Kodak had a five-year plan to transition; customers switched en masse in about five months (how many now even know what Kodak is?).

Living near Atlanta, I see lots of electric cars. Many are switching; few switch back.

Gas savings & longevity is substantial, to the point of likely paying for itself in the lifespan of the vehicle. Big motivator.

Most of the naysaying arguments are obsolete. The few remaining are solvable. Really wasn’t that long ago gas cars barely existed, yet here we are. Change is coming fast.
If you have them archived as iChat files on a Mac (Library/Messages/Archive), you could try Past: https://zeezide.de/en/products/past/
> The whole principle that you need to prove vaccination to be let into a country is not really new.

Exactly. Necessary and recommended vaccinations are one of the first things to check when planning a trip to destinations in Africa, South East Asia etc.
Tax on electricity?
French frigate downs supersonic missile in NATO exercise
Both had a lot of internal rebellions and wars that took massive hits at the country.

Not to mention that both started way worse than the US at their respective times.
Would you recommend this over https://github.com/ericelliott/cuid ? I use cuid with Postgres and it’s worked out great.
Those spams should be NoCeM'ed, and google groups should accept trusted NoCeM announces. But I doubt google ever cared about Usenet at all.
I suppose the concern in rural/suburban areas is what happens when you need to be on the road? If you really need to charge, do you have to go out of your way to find a charging station? Gas stations are everywhere.
So much potential... it's hard to know what this becomes.

I could imagine online service providers like a hosting provider etc. might start to integrate.

After all this would have 2FA and be administered by an authority that can actually verify who I am when access needs to be recovered.

Long term, maybe the EU could do a cheap micro payment system, one can dream :)
> Yet, it will be a reality that will change the world.

Yeaaaah, I kinda think smartphones were bigger change than this. It's nice, but not a flying or self driving. Just different, cheaper source of energy. It does not enable anything new, other than charge.
Pair it with ESP32-SOLO or nRF5. That’s what ESP8266 was originally meant for, a wireless modem chip. Remember back when ESP-01 came with AT command firmware?
Yeah, the images in the article are not the raw images though, they are composites of the originals. Or are you telling me I should just stitch them together myself?
didn't see that one :O seems weird pricing indeed...
I understood it other way - "Why do you think he's Italian"
I think he's asking: "Why do you think this person is posting in Italian?" not "what makes you think that this is the Italian language?"
I've always found the directive "unless you do math on it, it's a string" to be useful when working with json.
The blog theme is 11-sentence essays, but then the author makes use of a semicolon where, tbh, I'd just have split the sentence. But that would have spoiled the structure/restriction, wouldn't it? Style thing, sure, but I'm with Vonnegut on the topic of semicolons...
No one is suggesting that you are physically trapped in the job with shackles, but to insinuate everyone is in a position where they can just 'walk away' from their job is disingenuous at best, downright ignorant of the world at worst.

It's about the same level as 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps'.
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV might suit you. It's a 4WD SUV. You get 50km of battery range before the petrol motor kicks in, so it has a lot of the advantages of electric without paying all that much more for it.
There's more power sockets than fuel stations