skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion that nation-state issued fiat currency is based “solely” on convincing others they have value is quite a reductive over-simplification. The existence of organized societies with some central government body has shown value, and the means of exchange amongst citizens and with citizens of other societies is backed in part by that value. It’s quite a bit more complex than you suggest.
Basically all superchargers are placed next to food and the major highways.

It's not "who knows where". Your car knows where and its right off the interstate in a parking lot next to a lot of places to eat. Better than most gas stations actually.

You want to eat while you charge? Get food next to your charger. They have already thought of all this when they were spending billions of dollars on building out charging infrastructure
Both Toyota and Daimler did and collaborated on tech actually. The Tesla stock they once owned would have been worth more than their current respective market caps.

Tesla, Mercedes pair up to create a mainstream EV with 115-mile range (B-Class)

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/153888-tesla-mercedes-pa...

https://www.tesla.com/blog/strategic-partnership-daimler-acq...

Toyota Unveils 'RAV4 EV' Jointly Developed with Tesla

https://global.toyota/en/detail/152289
Few points to note:

- Indian income tax is quite high.

- Besides India taxes the shit out of its people via indirect taxes on everything and that’s too high as well

- Inflation is very high

- Quality of life is shit. Yes, shit. Even if you earn high. You can rarely live in an alternate reality of gated community. For that you’ll have to be more than software dev salary rich.

- Social service - nil. Infra/facilities - close to nil. Healthcare - one of the worst in the world. Healthcare cost can bankrupt you easily even with insurance.

- Leetcode regular software dev demographic is already a tiny fraction of Indian software devs. So most of the Indian software devs get meagre salaries. Really little.
> China has a still growing economy

No matter how many UN councils vote to agree on this, we both know it's not true.
That's true that 51% voted didn't give a crap about how this will affect business and trade. Serves them right for cutting their nose to spite others. And I'm half British !
> Complete, utter bullshit from you.

While you were accusing me of spewing bullshit, you went ahead and read stuff that isn't there. Please, point to me where it is that I advocated that we let the "Free Market work properly." All I did was attempt to present Toyota's argument in a way that they would be more likely to recognize. I haven't made any value judgments on subsidies, or taken any of the positions you are arguing against. If you think that's a constructive way to have dialogue though, by all means continue. You stand very little chance of changing my mind when you don't even take the time to understand what I'm saying before you call it bullshit.
My employer has made 2 days a week in the office mandatory this week. I've already decided that if it creeps up to 3 days, I'll be out of there and looking for a new job, probably remote. It's not that I don't like being in the office, but that my commute is 1h30m in each direction. Doing that twice a day is exhausting and steals precious hours of my day away.
Out of curiosity was does the amount of that liability? How much more does that add to the price of the house for a buyer?

>"They make you pay for what it generates, not what you use"
For the uninitiated, what's the significance between this cost model for a consumer? Do most houses produce much more than they consume? So your paying for something you can't use?
Sure, giving anyone a tax break will enable them to spend more and generate economic activity. However, generally reducing taxes also requires reducing government spending, which means less investment in things like infrastructure (which tends to create lots of middle class jobs). Basically the two end up cancelling each other out, so the result is just worse income inequality like the study showed.
Revel gets green light for blue-hued electric car fleet
Do whatever you want while you're alive. Give them all the bitcoins, if that floats your boat.

We're talking about one single type of inter-generational transfer, the one that happens at your death. America has historically been against inter-generational transfer at this point, because it helps to create an oligarchy.
There's a big difference between looking at a "puzzle" (and knowing that there's a solution), and playing a game (and not knowing if there's a solution to any position).

Puzzles are good for when you're still learning how to look at basic things: forks, pins, etc. etc. But you need lots of experience in-games (especially with the "lack of knowledge" about whether or not a pin is possible in any position).

Puzzles are much easier than playing a game. Focusing for just 1 to 2 minutes on a particular board state is much less tiring than focusing for an hour over a "Rapid" game.
There is certainly sexism built into the rating system, as woman titles require 200 less Elo points to achieve. https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-become-a-chess-gra...
PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk
The good news here is that the auto industry is ripe for disruption. Lots of opportunity here as some incumbents dig in and refuse to change, and the market, infrastructure and consumer preferences move on without them.
So you're saying it should be opposed now so it's not abused by anyone in power?
As usual, depends on location. In France employers bigger than some numbers are mandated to provide some lunch allowance in specific vouchers/cards usable for grocery shopping/restaurants/etc. OR at least a partially covered cantine.

There's no specific provision for WFH, so we still get lunch allowance ( 9.80€/day, iirc the minimum is around 6.50), which is a bit hard to use when you no longer go to a restaurant every day.
> though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables

Bullshit. When one coal mine in a remote region of China flooded, the Bitcoin hash rate measurably dropped by 30%. Keep in mind this was just one coal mine. Not all of China's production.

https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/bitcoin-mining-coal-china-env...

> it's more apt to call it Web 3.0 than cryptocurrency at this point.

I've said this so many times: But what does it doooooo??? Name one project that isn't "speculation" or "loans" built on cryptocurrency that has seen any uptick or utility. NFTs sure ain't it. DAOs sure ain't it. Supply chain tracking sure ain't it.

I haven't seen one work. Don't say it's the early internet and we'll find one eventually, because it's been 12 years since Bitcoin's launch in 2009, and the ideas are all still junk. Widespread broadband to the home was in strong demand in the early 90s, and Amazon was already selling books while dwellings with connectivity were in the single-digit numbers. The 80s saw university lines saturated by BBSes, newsgroups and MUDs. There was far more demand than supply, and it was very immediately clear what the utility was.
The end of the summary mentions that biologists determined frogs would actually jump out even if the water was gradually brought to a boil. I think a lot of us are really starting to feel that boil with climate change...
It's strange to me that so many of you seem to stop when you realize you're so far away from being at the top of the top of the top.

I know the chances of me being on the PGA tour or being an Olympic level skier are basically 0%, but that doesn't stop me from improving myself and even competing in golf tournaments sometimes (I'm not a good enough freestyle skier yet to compete, but that doesn't mean I think it's impossible).

It's not about winning the tournaments, it's about constantly improving myself and testing myself at the highest level I can qualify for.

It's so confusing to me when I see people completely write themselves off. "Oh I'm 30, there's no way I'll be [a scratch golfer, able to do a backflip on skis, etc]". Maybe it won't happen, but why completely write yourself off before you even try?
Yeah, I had my (completely clean) car searched because "the dog signaled". OK, sure.

It would be more honest and to just say cops have the right to search you at will.
Since I moved my personal laptop from Mac to Linux I have been using borg. It works really well so far.

One thing that’s confusing me is the prune strategy. It seems prune removes the whole backup set at once. Let’s say I have daily backups and weekly backups. At some point I am pruning the daily backups. It seems this means that if the weekly backup ran on Sunday but a file was created on Monday and deleted on Friday, the file would be completely deleted during prune and there would be no trace of it.

I would much prefer if the pruning was done on per file basis and not by pruning whole backup sets.
> I suggested that perhaps this is because the famous people are the only ones who are fast enough to actually do everything you're "supposed to do" and still be productive.

Conjecture: it is instead or also because famous people are the only ones who are given enough slack to be able to take the time to actually do everything you're supposed to do.

Proposed test to distinguish between the conjectures: do famous mathematicians become famous by finding gaps, or find gaps after becoming famous?
There is a huge difference between speculatively giving money to a company that may or may not provide you with a product and a company promising investment returns. The amount you'll give to the product company is capped by some plausible valuation you give the product itself, which is virtually always very low relative to your net worth. The same isn't at all true of an investment opportunity; people can and do lose their life's savings chasing sketchy investment returns.

If your point is that cryptocurrency speculation should be heavily regulated and even restricted to accredited investors, you won't get any disagreement from me!
>"Possibly the most fundamental distinction between economics and other fields is that, in economics, it seems to still be permissible to start with your conclusions and then work back from there. "

This is only really true in the most contentious subjects studied in economics, and even then, I don't think economics is unique or even unusual in this respect. Unpalatable results go unpublished in many of the social sciences.
C#'s `Tuple<T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6,T7,TRest>` [1] would like a word!

[1[: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.tuple-8?v...
Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage -David Foster Wallace [pdf]
> easy to zone out or get disengaged during the discussion

To be fair, this true of almost all work meetings. Extra points if nobody asks for your input the whole meeting, and extra points for meetings over an hour.
> Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manife...

not dependent on who is in .gov

Wouldn't you say that Big Tech (along with most of Big Media) has shown itself to have a (D) bias?
I really hate windows defender. It's as aggressive as Apple and a constant struggle to shut up.

But on the bright side install any other AV (including free malwarebytes) and it will switch off.
Perhaps they know what's best for their companies which is why they're not giving their entire wealth to their children.

And if they do, if you believe in meritocracy, it won't matter as that wealth will be squandered away with each subsequent generational transfer, as is often the case.
I hear ya, but a $50 wacom tablet and a jam board window on chrome with 2 27” monitors goes a long way.
Quietly? They have been pushing hard and publically for years and years all over the world. Toyota has been the most anti-EV car company.

They call their hybrids 'self-charging electric' vehicles.
When the republicans came into power from 2016-2020, they did not use the IRS to harass left-wing groups, which both Obama and Biden did.

We can't pretend every party is equal. Things change, and parties obviously violate their principles (just look at the democratic party!), but when one party is disproportionately engaging in distortion and authoritarianism, they deserve the scorn heaped on them.

This was true when Bush was enacting the patriot act against the GOP. And it's true today against the dems.

Sorry, I'm not going to buy into 'everyone's the same mentality'. This is the same dribble the republicans were telling me during the Bush years -- Oh the democrats will take away your freedoms if they were in power. Well, I'm sure that's true, but actually in 2002, it was the GOP. Not going to pretend.
In asking NASA to accept his billions for the Moon, Bezos admits his mistake
Any time I move into a new apartment or home, I change the locks and give a copy of the new key to the landlord, whether they like it or not.

I refuse to live and sleep somewhere where an unknown number of prior residents may have access to the lock.
Related: 11 years ago or so, 3 Tesla executives died when their small plane crashed in East Palo Alto, where the shotspotter system recorded audio of the crash:
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2010/02/19/shotspotter-s...
Meanwhile, Americans are apparently happier than ever!

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27949658
Those are religious, not practical, movements.
They already have chargers for the masses. Superchargers are all over the place and charge nearly as fast as filling up a tank.

Most people wildly underestimate how much time they spend at a gas station filling up gas anyway.

Range is not really an issue either. Unless you're regularly road tripping 400+ miles, an EV will handle the trip just fine.
wrote something along the same ilk but got distracted
https://github.com/dathan/go-find-hexagonal
> E.g. dollies/ make up/dance for girls, cars/ shirt/football for boys. We don't mix enough "gender interests" and we inculcate this difference in kids even not on purpose. I hope it's changing

Another side of it would also be boys in girls hobbies I think. There is no reason boys can't dance, except cultural. It is perfectly fine sport/art.

I think that one can't exist without another.
Reduce WIP by practicing trunk-based development, rather than pull requests
I don't necessarily find it disingenuous because at the end of the day the result is that the rich do in fact benefit most, and there's nothing wrong with reporting this. But I agree that it is rather silly that this is sometimes seen as a shocking revelation when it's really just how tax cuts work.
That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power. Actually, quite the opposite. We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right content and people.
Outnumbering hackers all together, the multiplayer firewall
The walls of the garden are rising. And retrofitted and applied to your digital archives. Power corrupts.
I still think it's good for the FBI to monitor and infiltrate organizations seeking to destabilize the govt or cause violence be they on the right or left.

I totally disagree with them being the instigators and then finding vulnerable and gullible subjects and then patting themselves for flipping people into being bad guys and gals.
> A pretty large portion of aviation (over 50% of miles traveled) is short-haul, which actually is amenable to battery-electric decarbonization.

I'm shocked and happily surprised at the same time.
> start with your conclusions and then work back from there

Sadly this doesn't make it distinct from other fields at all, at least within the social sciences. Much of sociology is built on explicit anti-positivism and anti-empiricism.
> The key difference between Toyota's approach and Tesla's was simple: Tesla built out their own charging infrastructure.

No. The vast majority of Tesla charging sessions are done at home (and it cost little to charge at night, for most people). Toyota cannot compete with that if they continue to sell hydrogen (which they promote it as being green while 99% is produced from natural gas). They just don't competition and one of the two is dead on arrival. Hydrogen may have a future, but certainly not on the road.
It's leveling off.

And it's still well below Japan in per capita emission. Japan is quite an advanced green economy.

I don't think any reason to put China front and center in this discussion "who should start closing coal power plant".

Edit:

> Focusing on per-capita data inevitably leads to whataboutism

Well, energy usage is a key indicator of human wellbeing. I see no reason this leads to whataboutism. It's a key part of the discussion. Without this, humans are not going to unit in full strength.

> that's exactly the narrative the CCP wants to push!

CCP lifted 600MM+ people out of poverty. I guess they can make a few correct statement, right?

> But when looking at emissions over time, it becomes pretty obvious that some countries are working hard doing their parts while some others are simply polluting at an accelerating pace.

Yes, we can clearly see that China committed to carbon neutral at the critical juncture of economy development [1], and the only large developing country. And we are waiting India [2]. Meanwhile, despite enjoying the most from the carbon emission industry in 20 century, the advanced & developed country continuously insist on equal responsibility for all nations. It's like I eat most of the lunch, and grow so big, now I say that everyone on the table should cut their food consumption by certain percentage... Not fair.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2021/03/08/chi...

[2] https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/climate-change/is-india-...
Toyota made a bet that they will leap over current EV teach with their, "soon to come", solid state batteries.

With all battery production capacity already spoken for, Toyota has to slow down EV adoption, convince us that hybrids are still a thing. If unsuccessful, they stand to loose market share soon.
"I love Windows" does not refute anything. It's just tribalism.

"there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft" implies that Microsoft is bad, and on HN it's more or less accepted (mostly due to the user tracking and non-flexibility). Of course, there are still reasons to stay with Microsoft, so that argument is far from perfect too.

> I would say it is at least as good as this post: "You actually can directly listen to many scientists on social media."

My post suggests how to find the opinions of actual scientists. It's an actionable suggestion with reasoning unlike yours.

> by telling me all my personal decisions are bad

Nobody tells you that your personal decisions are bad. People are just discussing the reasons to choose one system of the other. Bystanders read that and decide for themselves. "I love Windows" arguments do not help anyone to decide.
The problem with this paper is that it's just not measuring anything interesting. Seeking to prove that cutting taxes for the rich increases income inequality and doesn't impact GDP growth isn't cutting-edge research, it's borderline tautology.

There are three massive problems with this paper:

1. Their dependent variable for measuring the impact on economic growth is GDP, which includes government spending. By their methodology, if you cut taxes (and government spending) by 50%, you will see a 10% drop in GDP (since government spending is ~20% of GDP).

2. Who cares about income inequality (or even GDP growth in the first place)? What you really want to understand is: how well off are people in society? What is the distribution of life outcomes? GDP is a famously flawed metric for quality of life[0].

3. They are failing to account for a key confounder: spending. Ceteris paribus, we should expect GDP to decline with tax cuts not met with spending cuts (even after accounting for #1) since debt servicing load will increase.

Not only does this paper say nothing about what we actually care about: how well off is society when cutting taxes on the rich, but it comes off as a pseudo-rationale for confiscatory policy justified by nothing other than envy.

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w23306

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>"when Republicans come back into power, the left will be targeted as well."

As trite as this may be to say, we are in uncharted territory. Perhaps suppressing speech and using algorithms to curate biased content to the general public through social media means one side gets the upper hand for generations to come.
Adding support for transcribed voice notes like from Otter would be nice.
I’m hoping the one advantage I have living in a third world country is that I get to drive petrol and diesel cars for a good few more years then the rest of the world.
This is a great example of a startup that solves an actual, pre-existing problem. Looking forward to your expansion.
Yeah, that's an annoying typo. Fixed.
It's less than the median household income. If you save 15% of the median income for a few years, you could come up with $40k. It's also small relative to $4.5m (0.88%).
I was going to say... when scary GOP was in power, the largest websites literally censored and removed the GOP president, to the applause of the left, except for the few reasonable people, like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.
I've had the opposite experience, funnily.

Our discussions have been much more focused and to the point. Primarily because interrupting thoughts and comments are often done on the chat rather than being vocalized. Things like "where can I find X", or "What does Y refer to?" can be answered async with the meeting.
Renewables already surpassed coal power since 2019, at least in the U.S. This is a trend that will continue over the next few years. Also, a good number of EV drivers already have solar.

"U.S. renewable energy consumption surpasses coal for the first time in over 130 years"

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43895
AF2 certainly moves us forward, especially for proteins where no structure was previously available
> There's no difference between empowering bloodlines drawn from wealth or monarchy

The Walton family can't throw my in prison. In fact, they can't do much of anything to me besides perhaps denying me a Sam's Club membership.

Monarchy and wealthy families are not the same. Hyperboles like this don't serve your case.

If you believe in meritocracy and you pass your company on to your children who are not suited for the role, then they'll fail and lose it all, as is often the case.
This feels like classic feedback from the Julia community. It really stifles any hope I have of the language recovering. I know there are reasons behind things, but they also seem blind to fixing the obvious stuff because of them
Not even that there is absence of evidence -- but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Moreover, your cherrypicking of "Internet-type" inventions that develop very quickly are definitely outliers. By contrast, the answering machine was invented in the 1930's, and didn't take off until 50ish years later.

It's absurdly and ignorantly early to declare "crypto has no utility."
Peak water use in the US was decades ago and isn't related to population growth, nor does economic growth require increased resource use. It requires efficiency.

Degrowth is just killing people, in which case the people proposing it rarely want to go first.