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To be honest, I can't see myself ever wanting to buy a Tesla. They have terrible design, poor support from the dealerships, unavailable parts, and they are freaking expensive compared to traditional dealers. They remind me of an old BMW I used to own which cost me $80 for a single lag bolt and the windows wouldn't roll up without help.

They are already turning off people's ability to fast charge. Now they want to charge a $200 monthly fee to be a beta tester and risk your life with their half baked "Full" self driving. I wonder how long it will take for them to remove the initial self driving fee as an option?

They are REALLY cool cars! Just not my cup of tea.
I always carry some cash, even if I usually pay with card. many many stores have a minimum purchase to use a card, and most these days no longer accept checks. cash is my only option.

I ran into only one store that had a minimum purchase to use card, and they didn't accept cash or checks at all. I just left the stuff on the counter and walked out.
I'm assuming the goal is to slow the deployment of competing networks, while arranging some big benefit (besides branding): revenue, Tesla's charge faster, Tesla's get preference, etc.
I should also make it clear that despite having an official policy of "no racial hierarchies" and convincing inhabitants of the colonial world (who were NOT "citizens" of the french Republic, but "Indigènes" and were governed by a different civil/criminal law called "Indegenous Code") to fight against nazism during WWII for freedom and equality for all and against racial hierarchies (that the French colonial empire had themselves setup and supported), and despite many such people being sent a cheap blood on the frontlines instead of white soldiers, the French republic has of course not recognized their sacrifice.

For example, historical celebrations and references to the resistance movement often credit American intervention for the liberation of France, which for sure played a part, but downplays the millions of indigènes involved in the armed insurrection, as well as the Spanish antifascist bridages who have been erased from history despite liberating most of Paris 24h before the Americans even set foot in it.

On the other hand, colonial and racial oppression throughout the french colonized territories has not ceased after WWII. In some cases, it dramatically increased at least compared to the past decades, with the horrors of the "war" (read: genocide) in Algeria and Indochine for example. In fact, that France promised freedom and equality for all in the struggle against nazism while not holding such promise at all is precisely one of the major fire-starters for the anti-colonial independence movements of the 50-60s.

If you'd like a fictional take on what the French occupation in Algeria looked like, the Battle of Algiers is a good introduction. The movie was banned until the 90s in France because it revealed the horrors of colonization, while even today the government and national education insist that colonization was a disinterested act of kindness to help civilize lesser people... which is of course completely false as Africa and Asia had great civilizations long before Rome was born. The writings of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist from Martinique who worked in Algeria (and took part in the armed struggle against colonization), open a lot of perspective on practical details of everyday occupation and resistance.
Yes, one system would be nice.

Second-best is carrying a bunch of adapters in your frunk and having charging on different standards (that you can adapt) available widely.

I think the latter is more likely, given that everyone these days wants to build/own their own platform. As long as you can adapt it and pay to charge, it's a step in the right direction.
> Again, you don't understand how testing for medicine efficacy works.

I understand perfectly well how the process works. I understand your objection. It is not wrong, it is merely of no consequence.

Outside the realm of logical posturing, "evidence of absence" is valid. In the real world, you need to distinguish between there being "no evidence (but we haven't looked)" and "no evidence (but we have looked everywhere)" and everything in between. Any treatment starts out unproven, but as the evidence of absence mounts, the impetus to look even further dwindles, to the point where a treatment can be considered proven ineffective, again, for all intents and purposes.
"a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away."
The same thing happened in Brazil. Back to back Olympics and World Cup, billions spent on single-purpose, once-used infrastructure, while the economy was in shambles. No one but the government wanted any of it - okay, maybe the World Cup, but definitely not the Olympics.
Do you have some references for this bold statement? The development of busses, trams, metros etc increased urban traffic (much as widening highways increases traffic, and traffic jams) including animal-drawn traffic, at least in the cities where I have read up on the history of urban transportation (in particular London, Paris, and New York).

The GP mentioned Mumbai, which only recently banned animal traffic. It was packed before the automobile was developed.
I'm surprised it took this long for AWS to launch something as basic as this. As others in the thread have mentioned, the core problem of tracking your AWS costs and where they're coming from is still a very hard problem for most organizations. Especially startups.

I'm a co-founder of https://www.vantage.sh/ which helps organizations track their AWS costs and we'll look at incorporating Advance Pay balances into the platform.
Cheers for the recommendation.
Is it just me, or does

"These decisions took time to arrive at because - despite my role as the lead on the project - calls on this specific issue are not mine to make"

sound a hell of a lot like a diplomatic way of saying "I have been instructed to add spyware to audacity"?

How is the above entitled tone?
I’m pretty sure you’re seeing that completely wrong. But even if you’re not, a good part of the criticism is due to the way he said it. There is a huge difference between thanking a group of people in some non-descript way, and saying “you paid for it” when many Amazon warehouse workers are working in hard circumstance for as little as Amazon can get away with. This workers would probably prefer some of those billions that paid for this self aggrandizing stunt to be used on something else.
Take the initiative to protect privacy in your own hands
Physical goods are only going to get more rare as our digital economy grows, so the spend per article will increase on non-bit items.
6 years ago Dan Price raised his company's min wage to $70k
How annoyed will the "S" owners be if they can't charge because all the Supercharger slots are filled up with LEAFs, etc?
SFTP or FTPS? Kudos to those that don't need to look up which is which.
That’s probably a consequence of not allowing teachers to deal with that themselves.

Which is a consequence of some teachers abusing that unofficial privilege.

The police have become the only authority with the ability to use force in society.

That too is being questioned now because of abuse of authority.

Which leads to all sorts of questions about who should be the allowed to take action against bad behaviour?

Who watches the watchmen?
Yes, it's called CCS is EU/USA.

For asia, it's still undecided between CCS and CHAdeMO
Definitely given enough fuel and decent weather.
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This is good news.

But, why don't EVs have a standard to follow like gas cars have a standard fill port? It seems like there is a lot of proprietary tech going on in the EV market at the moment, like early 2000s cell phones that all had their own unique charging port.

Edit: Thank you for your replies! I'll look into the CCS EV plug.
The company behind Audacity has been doing some absolutely abhorrent things (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891005). These deserve to be pointed out on HN because they are abnormal and unprecedented.

This is not one of those things. The person submitting this link to HN posted a snarky rhetorical question—while it made a fair point from my perspective, it certainly wasn’t a constructive comment, and I would’ve been expected to be banned from commenting further if I had done the same. Instead they’re now complaining about it on HN.

HN posts like these trivialize the far more insidious actions of Muse Group. They make it seem as though this is just another FOSS infighting drama, which clearly isn’t the case after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891005.
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> I don't know if it would be cheaper to pay for iCloud, but for whatever reason I feel safer having two HDDs with my media than trusting Apple's (or anyone else's) cloud.

I'd suggest paying for iCloud just for the ability to automagically backup your iPhone(s). You can exclude Photos from being backed up if you prefer.

I use iCloud Photo Library as well on a larger plan, but the backup feature alone is definitely well worth $0.99.
Whatever they lose would be made up for in time saved not counting and dealing with pennies.
Bitcoin. Bitcoin relies on SAT being unsolvable.
This is certainly inspired by Discord.

I wake up with this and found awesome. Really easy to see who's in the audio channel, join or leave, share screen, etc.

This is certainly more convenient / quick than having to open & paste Google Meet link. Good news for remote workers.
Dude, congress could not have done it at this scale. Imagine hacking Modi's phone in 2013-14 and it leaks. People would have roasted MMS alive
Surveillance is colonialism taken to the end. https://www.queensu.ca/sgs/midori-ogasawara-colonialism-and-...
Because diversion!
This is very exciting. Synthetic biology is a promising path towards Dressler-type nanotechnology. I'm quite optimistic about this, but scaling things up is always difficult.
unsuprising, there is probably a tiny cost to them, given they have pretty much released the same game for the last decade, at full price each time, much like FIFA
I’ve tried a few times to understand what P=NP means and never felt like I understand what it’s about.

I get that problems can have constant/linear/polynomial/exponential complexity to solve so I (think) I understand ‘P’.

Over at NP I get confused around what constitutes a test/validating that a solution is true in polynomial time.

For example, a problem, “what’s the shortest path between two points” I get that a brute force breadth-depth first algorithm is going to rapidly take longer as more branches are added, but what constitutes verifying the solution?

In that example does verifying a solution mean having access to some prior list of all possible permutations and sorting them to find the shortest path, and because sorting is easy then this is an example of easily verifying?
I didn’t check his algorithm but if it only found one solution with a leading zero it is incorrect.

3821+0468=04289 as well.
"The submission" I reference in my comment is the GitHub issue submitted to Hacker News that we are now commenting on, which is not the original comment, but a response to Audacity's moderation of its own repository.
Putting on my technical writer hat and providing feedback from that perspective. First impressions:

> Leaf is a platform built from the ground up, for coding tutorials

In general I do think there could be a market for this. Lots of people want to create those kinds of side-by-side tutorials and they are hard to DIY. You would probably need to let customers brand the tutorial experience (host it on their own domain, etc.)

I don't much care that it's "built from the ground up", I suggest focusing the tagline more on the user. What's in it for me?

The "Learn more" link seems to go to an index of examples (it's a bit broken on iOS Chrome so I'm not sure). Regardless I was expecting it to link to an overview/explanation [1] doc

"Get started" button prompts me to sign-in. Seems like I should be able to test this product without providing credentials? At minimum you could link to a written tutorial of the workflow so that I can get a gist of it in action.

Stopping here. General feedback is that there's too much friction and the mobile UI is rather rough.

[1] https://documentation.divio.com/explanation/
It seems there was a lot of history going in to this, and it must have built up over some time to get to that point.

But yes, you're completely correct it doesn't read well (at all) to someone coming in with no context (ie likely the vast majority of us).

I'm trying to see behind the words as I'm reading about it, nonetheless. It raised very valid concerns about the state of the project; I may have some cleaning time ahead of me on my wife's PC as she recently installed it.
I don't think synchronized deployments is really possible - you'd have to either still do the iterative thing, or possibly have some versioning system in place
How's the geology compared to regions of the world that have a dense rail network? I've always found it strange that the stereotype for great rail infrastructure was Switzerland, which would be last on my list of countries to equip.

French TGV climbs 3.5%, German ICE climbs 4%. That simplifies a lot of the route planning. Rail bridges are surprisingly simple and cheap (open area, known loads, no salt) and tunnels are easier the simpler the rock.

I'd say it's no harder than any of the other miracles that we're building on the regular.
no it was not.
That seems like a surprisingly large amount of money. I thought university wasn't that expensive there (enough that the deduction of the income saved 6000 euros on taxes). Did you mean it became a tax credit and you just got all the money you paid in fees back?
Evidence that's the best for next decades? Sorry but the word of EU bureaucracy is not enough.
> Everyone should pitch in to have one system.

Are there any financial incentives for this? Even if a technical solution exists, are there incentives for EV manufacturers to support it?

This is one of the big things I'm looking for before committing to buying an EV as my next vehicle. Even if Tesla "opens" their charging network, that's not the same as having a single, universal charging standard which anyone can build out themselves. A "USB for cars" would be the ideal solution.
We traveled 1000+ miles this weekend on Superchargers with our Tesla and it’s just as delightful to use as you’d expect, and the uptime makes me confident enough to roll into a Supercharger with only ~30 miles of range left to ensure a sustained peak charge rate (low battery SOC = higher charge rate, as it tapers as SOC rises). The Supercharger network is also why we ordered a Model Y versus considering other EVs.

There's definitely going to have to be some sort of minimum charge rate enforced so vehicles without fast charge capability don't choke the network out for fast charge vehicles. Turnover is crucial considering the cost of fast DC charge stations (~$200k/station), and no one (reasonably) wants to wait to plug in when they arrive to charge. Tesla charges a per minute idle fee once charging is complete to encourage vacating the stall, and I'd expect a similar per minute penalty for slow charging vehicles using the Superchargers.

To Tesla's credit, they do install agnostic J1772 chargers at some Supercharger stations (the gas station near Ohare airport comes to mind [1] [2]).

[1] https://www.plugshare.com/location/249899 (the Superchargers)

[2] https://www.plugshare.com/location/326963 (the J1772 chargers)
In case of crypto, even the rogues wouldn't be able to do anything.
Nothing, in fact will 'save us'. Given our tight ideological grip, all we can do is reframe our failed order with new schemes.
The whole Special Weapons and Tactics things seems a bit over the top, especially coming from the UK where maybe some cop will maybe knock on the door and ask if everything is ok.
Such bikeshedding ^_^ clearly something everyone can have an opinion about, and every one of them (mine included) will be insuficciently informed to contribute any value.

I've used and found every possible way of creating new files useful, maybe except for copying and then emptying (except for some times when being a lazy programmer). Working in Windows95 explorer, the context menu from right-clicking seemed extremely reasonable, and I'd probably still use that if I worked on windows.
You're missing the point.

You still need enough bandwidth to stream the video. That is not up for debate. Their servers do not magically mean you can stream things from their servers to your client as if you had a fast internet connection if you do not.
Korea does exactly this, they got rid of 1 and 5 won coins. every transaction is just rounded to the nearest 10.

if we got rid of the penny, you round to the nearest 5. if the business hates losing that 2 cents, they will increase the price of their product by. 1or 2 cents so they get an extra 2 cents. if the customer hates that their product costs 3 or 4 cents more, they don't buy
Java mostly only got typical runtime ideas (managed memory, virtual machine, code loading, calling conventions, runtime safety) of the JVM from Lisp (often via Smalltalk, etc.), but not ideas like executable memory heaps, code as data, etc.

Higher language feature from Lisp (CLOS, macros, conditions, closures, interactive development, ...) were not brought to mainstream Java. Closures, some interactivity, ... eventually were added many years later.

From a Lisp user perspective Java was more than 'halfway' away, and probably still is.
If you're gonna take the salt from the starving person to do it, it's probably a good idea to skip the salt
There's a Noam Chomsky quote for this:

“I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9692159-i-m-sure-you-believ...
[2] "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky
The reason is because it’s new - there’s no clear winner for what’s the best, and not getting the standard right would likely mean the downfall of EVs. CCS is looking good and Europe has effectively forced it upon manufacturers, though.
There is a standard for EV charging ports: CCS.

Unfortunately, there's a competing standard: CHAdeMO and Tesla being the first mover has their own proprietary connector.
Correct, I noticed that at a lot of newly built charging stations along motorways here in the UK it's just CCS - no more Type 2, no more CHADeMO(sucks for Leaf owners I guess).
Several of the well-known Danish brand companies have a significant part of them owned by a foundation. Novo (infamous for high insulin prices in US!) has 28% of it owned by a foundation, with assets of $65B. Similar with Mærsk, Lundbeck, Carlsberg, LEGO and even the window-maker Velux: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_over_danske_fonde_efter_...
I can't imagine that there's a "list of targeted phones." Either this alleged "leak" is nonsense, or it's some unrelated collection of data.
Why does it matter if they own it or not? They still get the value from a functional vehicle if/when they sell it since the buyer will pay more for it.

It is possible infrastructure for gas will be reduced in 20 years, but I doubt it will be anything noticeable to almost all people with gas vehicles.

As of Mar 2019, percent of electric vehicles sold in US was at 1.8%. That means the majority of fossil fuel cars sold in 2019 will probably be around in some way in 20 years (cars generally last much longer these days).

https://www.eei.org/issuesandpolicy/electrictransportation/d...
I used to have a lot of bookmarks and I used them a lot to return to stuff, but after half a decade a significant amount of them went no where. So I migrated to using note apps + web clipping or screenshots.
You're right that with some workarounds you can reduce the negative impact of preorders on your business and turn it into a net benefit, I was just talking about valid business reasons not to invest time and effort into them.

Preorders can be a very nice gesture for customers, but they're no business necessity by any means. Implementing a new payment option (or, more likely, processor), setting up some kind of refund assurance system, dealing with customer support for cancellations, it all takes effort and time away from other parts of your business. I don't think the effort will be worth it until a shop can ship large enough volumes to need better capacity planning. From what I can tell, Pine seems to ship however many complete kits they can get their hands on. With the delays and issues in China/US shipping corridors, the availability of stock will probably be a bigger and more important issue to work on than the stock planning.
> This boils everything down to brains, and discards the human individual

The individual is the brain-in-a-body? There isn't a claim that all brains are identical.
This is good news. The Tesla superchargers seem to be overall the best charging solution. Making them available for everyone will boost electric cars for sure. The only question is: why is Tesla seemingly giving up this "moat"? As the Tesla management probably isn't stupid, they must have a plan behind this change of policy. Will be interesting to see. Perhaps they are at a point where they can scale up the supercharger infrastructure quickly enough and actually make a profit by providing the charging infrastructure.
What does it mean "by Amazon", "by Apple", "by Google"?

Is your code copied from their css or it's just a new implementation inspired by their buttons?
I really think this falls under my opinion of most titles in software. There's so much variation with little differentiation or standardization. Is it entry-level or junior, midlevel or intermediate? What defines a senior dev/engineer? You may have people that have the title of developer who do more "engineering" (however you want to define it) than someone with the engineer title at another company. Just the way someone might be a senior dev at one company but not be considered a senior dev at another.

Don't get me started on companies calling themselves Agile, etc...
My response to this is: "fair enough" :)
This is great news but it is already pretty crowded every time I use one of Tesla’s superchargers. I hope this means they will be adding a lot more superchargers.
The next interesting step for drug dealers will be last mile of delivery of product to customers.

Imagine coupling a Web app with a swarm of drones that can drop product on your back porch in a matter of minutes.

You can bet it's coming for illegal products.
Interesting that it was Salesforce that went after them
Well consider the administration is asking big tech to censor misinformation I assume they’re pretty buddy-buddy now.
aye - I don't list inactive projects, but some hobbies/side projects provide a small sense of what kind of person you are like and what it will be to work with you.
CCS is kind of a mess due to backwards compatibility. Tesla’s plug design is a better standard, but it’s unlikely for companies to abandon CCS.
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Looks very nice.

Can't really tell, from the site, but is this JavaScript/TypeScript-only?
Last I checked, the US still have income tax https://mises.org/library/origin-income-tax