skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I leased our Bolt, the retail price was $23K. Costs me 1.7 cents a mile in fueling costs. It is a good bit nicer than an 80K Dodge Dart, of course, but it's a data point. I also have time-of-use rates, which helps.

Anyway. Assuming 27 mpg for the Dart (this is what Fuelly says average Dart owners experience) and $4.67 gasoline (the US average from a few days ago), should cost around 17 cents a mile in gasoline. Assuming an average of 14.8 cents per kWh (the US average from February) and 3 miles per kWh (somewhat conservative, but close enough) for the Bolt, you'd be looking at 5 cents per mile in electricity.

Not a perfect comparison, the Bolt would be brand new with a warranty, etc, but at least it's not a luxury EV comparison, just an appliance car like a Dart. You'd break even on costs at 76K miles.

Of course, at that point the Bolt has just reached the mileage the Dart started at, and so it will quickly pull ahead in TCO. If you do a lot of road trips you might not like it, but if you primarily drive in the city you will really like not having to stop once a week to get gas.
Public companies have huge reporting requirements that require much greater audit/visibility into business activities and are also scrutinized much more closely in the press.
>I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR

I tease my wife about not figuring out email until 2005. Of course I date back to the era whence we had to run down to the data center and take turns on the operator console to send each other text messages.
That's the point. If you don't trust open wifi then you would trust free VPN far less.
In the Pacific Northwest, beavers increase resilience to wildfire and drought. They do so by creating natural fire breaks and by increasing groundwater storage. They also do this in a way that also creates fish habitat and deeper pools that coldwater fish like trout and salmon can take advantage of to survive lower water years.

They're really ecologically important, and while some may complain that they fall trees, that's actually very beneficial in the west where we have forest fires that burn far more trees than any beavers could hope to destroy to build their structures. This is not just for the northwest, but other drought and fire-prone western regions (Oregon, Colorado).

TL;DR Our elimination of beavers is exacerbating the problems of drought and fire in the american west.

Good video from PBS's Terra series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lT5W32xRN4
Western Firms Quietly Enabled Russian Oligarchs
People said this about pre-Google search engines. Someone will figure out the next PageRank and give us another 10-20 years of useful search.
Good to see Cloudflare innovate on this. Stream is an ever getting better service. I only wish the automatic recording of live streams wasn’t mandatory.
Putin was going to invade in either case. He didn't invade because Ukraine was courting NATO, he invaded because things were looking up for Ukraine and Russia has been languishing for a couple decades now and he didn't want an up and coming democracy beside him, he wanted a Soviet style puppet state than he could dominate. It also gives him an excuse to push foreign countries out of Russia so he can tighten his fist around the throats of Russians even tighter and blame it on the West
Systems are not working well. They are just working carelessly till the catastrophy.

leftpad.js wasn't even malicious action. Just one developer withdrawing his code from the community.

Imagine what would happen if one dev of popular package just had a nervous breakdown and did rm -fr / on his next update. Or delete the contents of the repo it is a dependancy of and do a force push.

We have zero systems in place that could catch it before work of thousands of people is destroyed.
Anyone arriving at an airport in the UK with a Russian accent will be asked the height of Salisbury cathedral. An answer correct to 0.5m will lead to instant arrest.

I live quite close to Salisbury and have no idea apart from "bloody tall", how high the spire thrusts skywards. Apart from anything else we'd generally measure it in feet.

I'd better spell it out: One of the gentlemen accused of poisoning a Russian ex-pat in Salisbury (Hants. UK) claimed that he was a tourist and came to see the cathedral in Salisbury. He quoted the height of it to quite a degree of accuracy as proof of his touristic intentions. He really did not smear novichok on Mr Skripal's door.
I really am starting to feel like any writing I do that is not intended to be read by others should be in list form. When writing prose, I often catch myself worrying about "meta" things that have nothing to do with the ideas I'm trying to convey: phrasing, rhythm, vocabulary, etc. I feel it's just impossible to write prose without worrying about this stuff. It's like I'm always trying to impress someone with my writing. I think there's a time and place for that, but not when the only audience is me.
You didn't ask for advice, but I'm going to give you some. See a counselor (aka a therapist). Depression is treatable, but you need to get help. The world needs a "you" that is in the right headspace.
We could change the zoning laws so that it isn't illegal, though.

One of the ways you can reduce cars is by zoning to allow greater density, which enables forms of transit which are more space-efficient than cars are. It's a chicken and egg problem, but people will be crying out for better cycle ways and trains and buses if housing becomes more dense.

Also, having commercial spread throughout residential areas reduces the amount of travel between areas, because you don't need to go far to get to the amenities you want.
Specialist Ukrainian drone unit picks off invading Russian forces
And just like that, Facebook processes every message sent between every Brazilian.
It’s not always a nice problem to have. Before a change in tax policy under Trump it was possible to have taxes due on some of the gains the stock had made before you were able to sell it. At least with this type of liquidity program you could cash in enough options to pay the taxman rather than forfeit all your options to avoid taxes.
The “google search sucks” rhetoric is getting a bit old. It works really really well and is free. I rarely ever have issues with it.

I think it’s just getting trendy to dog on
I hope so too, but I think this is very wishful thinking. If Oligarch owned properties somehow get returned to the market, they'll just get snapped up by a different collection of semi-anonymous billionaires.
No war One of our contributors is in the middle of the war in Ukraine
> The solution is out there in front of us but everyone prefers to dance around it.

Jesus, man, slow down. It's a little early to start suggesting cannibalism as a solution to the housing crisis.
+1 kagi was the first alternative engine that has passed all of my random tests, mostly weird cameras and python coding searches…
London is one of the most popular places for people to whitewash their money via real estate.

It doesn't seem surprising.
Archive: https://archive.md/Gwbrl
The Double-Assignment Pattern in jQuery's Source Code
Be an activist for nuclear disarmament.

Look at the 2019 paper on nuclear winter temp. drops:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210430022658mp_/http://climate...

Whatcha going to eat? From where, when nothing grows?

Also - get to the southern hemisphere
> I'm curious how people evaluate them quickly.

To paint with a broad brush, I look at three criteria:

1. Infoboxes ("instant answers") should focus on site previews rather than trying to intelligently answer my question. Most DuckDuckGo infoboxes are good examples of this; Bing and Google ones are too "clever".

2. Organic results should be unique; most engines are powered by a commercial Bing API or use Google Custom Search. Compare results with a Bing or Google proxy (duckduckgo, startpage, etc) to avoid personalized results. Monitor queries over time to see if SERPs change in ways that diverge from Google/Bing/Yandex.

3. "other" stuff. Common features I find appealing include area-specific search (Kagi has a "non-commercial lens" mostly powered by its Teclis index; Brave is rolling out "goggles"), displaying additional info about each result (Marginalia and Kagi highlight results with heavy JS or tracking), user-driven SERP personalization (Neeva and Kagi allow promoting/demoting domains), etc.

And always check privacy policies, TOS, GDPR/CCPA compliance, etc.

> Google is now almost a convenience. If I have a coding question, I search for "turn list of tensors into tensor" or whatever but I'm really looking for SO or the pytorch documentation, and I'll ignore the geeksforgeeks and other seo spam that finds it's way it. It's almost like google is a statistical "portal" page,

I like engines like Neeva and Kagi that allow customizing SERPs by demoting irrelevant results; I demote crap like GFG, w3schools, tutorialspoint, dev(.)to, etc. and promote official documentation. Alternatively, you can use an adblocker to block results matching a pattern: https://reddit.com/hgqi5o
> Russia does not get to tell other countries they aren’t permitted to ally with each other.

Logically, no - they don’t. In the real world, it does not work that way. Hence, the US has the Monroe Doctrine. It’s also the reason why US has invaded Latin American countries and many other ones. “Might is right” is an unfair unfortunate realty in international military situations.
> legally I am forced to keep 3 bedrooms empty.

Not at all! Look into what it would take to lease them out to a self-storage facility. :-P
You mentioned things I hadn't thought of. Google's Search accomplishes the goals of 10 years ago, but steps no further than that. It treats its power users like kids, and offers no complex filtering to do things like removing search results that require logins. Librarians love when you come to them to specifically refine your search. Google still has the most useful search, but they've taken away methods to get better results. I remember I was pretty upset when i couldn't search for images by exact dimensions anymore. Bing allows this.

Google's product direction has been inching backwards for a decade.
Working for US company remote from Germany as A German citizen
Can i work remotely from Germany for US company.
I am German citizen.
I think you're reading some moral judgements in that aren't there. We have very little control over the future population of the world, especially over a 1 million year time scale. Nothing in the article says "it would be good for there to have been 100 trillion people in 800 thousand years", it just says there might be.

However you tweak the numbers, unless you assume a much more significant depopulation than just the current 8 or so to 6 billion people, it's many trillions of people either way. Even with a massive depopulation, if human life continues until then the number will unquestionably dwarf the current population.

So it's posing the simple question: If your actions cause pain for future generations, how many people will it effect? What's an acceptable number of future people to hurt for whatever you're doing now?

This is a moral question, a kind of ultra scale trolley problem, not an answer.
The geographic or political consolidation of tyranny is not a bad thing.

The sooner we get to a point where tyranny overtly seeks tyranny, for all to see, the better.
I was wrong. I admit that. I spoke from a position of superficial knowledge at the time as I ignored the wider context of the situation and was commenting from a position of received wisdom as I was unaware of what a parent post mentioned regarding a widely known fact that NATO was in Ukraine providing thousands of weapons, I was not aware of that and was only commenting on the basis of "received wisdom" on a particular situation.

I have examined my bias against mainstream media and still find them completely warranted, thank you.
Yes! If you can get somebody on your team that has worked their way up from, for example, a customer service contact center, they'll be immensely valuable. Just their insight on what customers love and hate about your product is probably worth their hire.
You honestly think 2 iBuyer companies would have the liquidity to move the entire housing market? I don’t think you understand the size of the US housing market.

If you’re in the top 2% of earners and can’t buy a home, you either live in a ridiculously expensive city (outlier) or have a money management issue.
It’s genius, in a slightly dark manner.
I/we bought a new house a couple of years ago and have obviously needed lots of different stuff, large and small, as a result. Our choice of local shops is relatively restricted and I’d estimate that >90% of everything bought online (by volume) has been from Amazon - it’s fast, free, and reliable. That Prime subscription pays for itself several times over in postage costs saved, before you consider any of the other relative perks it brings. It’s an enabler - and means that Amazon is your first choice to look for something you need, before any other site.

If you want to look at it purely mathematically, I find that typical postage from an independent online retailer costs ~€4 for something by small. So if I purchase more than 2-3 items per month, the cost of Prime is already earned back.
> But it will be hard or impracticable to convince everybody I know to do the same.

That's why it is a problem. Messaging apps are for messaging people
Reduce function using Generics in Go (Golang)
Russian soldiers have been helping rebels and openly fighting in east Ukraine for years as well. Let's not act like Russia didn't start the need for this.
> Going’s step further, Are you saying it’s not okay to blacklist neo-nazis? I get there’s the issue of who decides, but I’d say its fair for companies to say black list a neo nazi from working if that’s their desire. If someone walks in with a swastika tattooed on their forehead I wouldn’t hire them or serve them.

I'm not arguing an absolutist position (ie. "corporations should never disassociate with someone") here. If someone has demonstrably done a Bad Thing, I'm for proportional actions being levied in response. That said, the examples[1] given are anything but proportional.

[1] ie. "This movement began by targeting Russian artists and athletes who were told that they will be cancelled or blacklisted if they do not expressly denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin."
Einstein on Nuclear Weapons and World Government
>drop bombs on enemy cities

Unless you're targeting military forces or infrastructure in those cities, bombing civilians is a war crime. Of course, who gets tried as a war criminal or not mostly depends on who wins
It's discussed on other parts of the thread. Also, I was assuming that this was not an owner-occupied duplex. It falls to state law if it is.
Volta Labs (YC W19) grabs $20M to address a growing genomics bottleneck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YgJx8VGRA is a pretty good one, actually. It's in the form of a joke, but the fact that it got a laugh conveys a sort of shared knowledge they were pulling a fast one over the public.

ETA: If you're asking for more "straight news" types of sources, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/iraq-war-... is a pretty neutral and objective retrospective, relying heavily on a Senate Intelligence Committee report that was approved on a bipartisan basis.
This sounds really helpful! Can you share an example or two with both the outline and then the final writing? I’d love to see how the ideas become the final manuscript.
I did not know about the Pro, thanks for planting the seed of desire! I've yet to get into keyboard reprogramming, someday I'll take the plunge and learn to type efficiently.

One thing I really love about the Freestyle is that, with the stands and hand rests, it actually sits very nicely in the lap, for when you want to sit in the living room with the laptop on a coffee table.
This would be legal in the United States as well. They would just first form a corporation and then donate it from there.

This is why the "Citizens United" decision was so horrible and should be reversed.
> Google sucks compared to Google from years ago.

Came here to write exactly that

Why are we still using it?

There's nothing better out there.
> you're not going to change my mind about it today

Probably not worth asking the question in the first place, then.
I think the concern (if you ever see this comment) is that an attacker will for instance put the fake browser ui around an iframe to a proxy to the legitimate website content using a tool like Modlishka. In that case, whatever is presented to the user in the legitimate application (including whichever superheros or whatever are selected that time around) and all of the bogus images will be presented in the proxied version. Transparent proxies like that are very effective ways of doing phishing because you can phish 2fa or even SSO or similar info by just passing on a legitimate login page to the user but through your MITMed page.
So what you're saying is, there's a huge market opportunity between "0.2%" and "everything other than longer haul routes in cold climates"?
Analyzing intraday and overnight stock returns with pandas – wrighters.io
Do you know any trusted sources about the structure of the soviet union and its collapse ?
Codemasters did a lot of innovative things back then with this and the Game Genie while also supporting their 8-bit roots longer than most companies.
It’s cold in the winter.
I use the app Things and each day have a todo / note called "standup 2022-02-24".

I make a very quick note of each major thing I do, each thing that blocked me and things I know I need to do tomorrow, e.g:

- Y: created basic CI pipeline for application

- B: was blocked from working by having pointless meetings in the afternoon

- T: add security scanning to CI pipeline
Here’s background on standard HTML controls, their history, and their future development: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/11/standardizing-selec...

The future of accessible web controls is likely Open UI - building standard, agreed upon controls that codify how “modern” widgets behave, though each browser might integrate the standard control with their underlying OS platform and/or screen reader conventions.

If you’re familiar with how JavaScript has stages of approvals for proposals, they have those as well: https://open-ui.org/working-mode

Like adopting new JS functions that make our lives easier, there will come a day when we need a particular new control and it’s up to us as web devs to help standardize and push the web forward.

There are a number of proposals already, but it’s arguable that some controls, especially existing ones, need much more flexibility in their specification to make them easier to style and override to match a theme. https://open-ui.org/ has what they’re working on, a long list in the menu (hidden away on mobile).

As I write this I recognize there is a lot more to web accessibility and usability than simply using custom controls, but browser makers ultimately want to innovate and solve these challenges within the HTML spec as it will help their own efforts in building for the web.

Back in the day we thought it was meaningful semantic HTML when we picked an em (emphasis) tag over an italic tag, or strong over bold. Now, we should try to use dialog instead of divs and who knows, in the future, we might use an infscroll tag instead of an ordered or unordered list.

Innovation always happens faster than standardization, but just because we’re upset with the lack of functionality in a textarea does not mean we should be satisfied with our progress reinventing the wheel. We should finish the job and contribute back to HTML the custom controls we value most as standards for the benefit of future web developers and designers, including ourselves.
A wireguard operator created to easily provision a VPN in a k8s cluster
Because each one of those events happened under a unique set of circumstances and succeeded because of different reasons. I'd also like to add that those nations were not emerging superpowers with vast amounts of resources and manpower. They are also not the worlds most populous country and third largest nation by landmass. I don't think anyone knows what it would actually take, to "figure out a way".
>nor do I want an AWS outage to keep me from making nachos.

This is a keeper.
Fortunately, the North American beaver has a conservation status of 'least concern' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_beaver)

They are one of the most important animals due to their roles as 'ecosystem engineers'.
There are lots of scenarios where a modal is the expected way to accomplish a task. Preventing irreversible errors (Are you absolutely sure you want to delete this user’s data irreversibly?), save/load dialogs, etc. Modal overuse is a real problem (and one we’re addressing in our product), but there are some situations where they solve a real problem.
> The results weren't even in the same ballpark, despite me really wanting it to succeed.

Have you posted feedback about bad results on kagifeedback.org?
It's basically impossible unless you're comfortable with your country becoming an apocalyptic wonderland
About four months ago, I used to cycle every week to the store, but an auto-immune disorder has me now disabled and I use a wheelchair. A lot of this annoying attitude honestly is people really feel like accessibility is for "other people" and many just lack empathy in general. But really, no one lives forever, no one is 25 forever hitting the bars every night, even abled bodied people grow old and their bodies change or like me, an illness or injury can strike without warning. At the very least if you cannot be empathetic to other people who are disabled just know that one day it could be you and you'll be thankful someone somewhere thought of accessibility. Today, the ramps I used to walk my bike up to the walkway under my apartment are now a godsend for the wheelchair and the stairs that I used to haul my bike up begrudgingly are now a curse.

This is a cringe analogy but may be, just may be this will help since this is hacker news: think of the "Master Foo and the Programming Prodigy" and how writing comments is for your "future self." Well, making things accessible is for your future elderly or injured self if you're able bodied today. If you can't do it for others out of mere empathy, at the very least do it for a potential version of yourself in the future!

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
How Dems, media and Big Tech worked in concert to bury the Hunter Biden story
Has anyone already learned Dvorak and made the switch to some other "more efficient" layout, such as Colemak, Workman, Neo, this new one, etc? Has it actually been more ergonomic, efficient, and/or faster than Dvorak?

I have a Moonlander and have it totally tricked out so I have no problem with qwerty hotkey locations. It's basically just the time delta to grind a new layout. When I learned Dvorak around 2009, it took me about a month to reach parity. It might be even faster this time around since I'm constantly messing with my layout with small tweaks and having to relearn muscle memory.

Also if you aren't using some kind of layer scheme to map things like ~./()= up/down/left/right to home keys, you are really missing out :p