skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not my experience with an EV (and I'm a relatively new EV owner). My range is ~480km (300-350 miles) to a charge–the same as my previous ICE car. I can charge from ~20% to 80-90% in about 15 minutes on a 250kW charger, which is not rare where I live and more are being installed regularly. By the time I've gone to the restroom and grabbed a coffee, the car is fully charged again–I've never found myself standing around waiting for it to finish, and even faster chargers are already being installed out there en-masse right now. I have to stop every 4ish hours for a quick break/stretch legs/bathroom or it's unsafe anyway, so it's really never been a hassle.

On top of that, I always leave my house with a "full" tank and 90% of the time I charge at home...when I need to charge out in the world I've never had a problem finding a fast charger. The "damage" from fast charging over the lifetime of the car is minimal at best, most older Teslas (10+ years) still retain more than 75% of their capacity despite using superchargers regularly.

Why wouldn't it improve over time from here, which is pretty good and acceptable for most people's usage? It seems odd to assume that the technology won't get a lot better quickly, as it has in the last few weeks. It might take thinking about it for 5 seconds longer than an ICE car at the start of the trip, but overall it's not changed much about the realities of roadtrips for me.
> The reality of credit card adoption – and we have decades of data to demonstrate this – is that young consumers don’t like credit cards until, suddenly, they do. Older Gen Z consumers are reaching this point.

For me, this is only because I will be locked out of access to certain essential financial products as the result of having no credit history. The advice I hear is to get a credit card and use it like a debit card, always paying off on schedule. Why can't decades of debit card use and living within my means demonstrate the same thing? It seems ridiculous to me. The starter credit cards also offer, in my opinion, rather measly rewards, so there is very little upside. It really feels like I'm just being forced to do a dance for the banks.

And can someone explain why credit scores aren't just visible in every bank's (web) app? I acknowledge that it is ultimately possible to obtain your credit score free of charge, but how is it not anti-consumer that doing this requires you to jump through hoops and use a service like ClearScore?

I believe there's a strong case for saying that credit scores exist in a similar space to criminal records, in that they're often used to further marginalise those most vulnerable in society. Or at the very least, that is the result of their existence.

For the avoidance of doubt, I do not believe myself to be a vulnerable member of society and I do not feel as though credit scores are wielded against me in the way I describe in the paragraph above. I also do not think that the marginalising effect due to credit scores is as great as that of having a criminal record.
Your argument to all of the problems affecting bitcoin is...don't use bitcoin. Use this other thing, lightning, which is sort of built on bitcoin, but not really. And also not actually used anywhere, yet, even though it's supposed to be so amazing at fixing bitcoin's problems that crypto merchants should have embraced it over night.

That bitcoin's biggest proponents still haven't embraced lightning is a pretty clear admission of defeat by bitcoin apologists that bitcoin doesn't actually solve anything, and isn't actually very useful for anything, even with the fix that was supposed to finally bring bitcoin into the promised land.
"The majority of charging will be done at home" ? With multifamily/apartment style homes, no way every parking place in the basement parking is getting a dedicated charger.
"or maybe at work (I can see EV charging parking lots becoming a benefit)" - with work from home trend gaining traction ?
"Quick-charged at restaurants" ? So, eating out for $50 per person and an hour to eat and quick-charge, instead of stopping for 5 minutes at the pump ?
"It will be done cheaply, at home, at night" - no it won't. Majority of low pay workers won't be able to charge their EVs at home, even if they would be able to buy them. More "rich get richer, poor get poorer, and affected by running dirtier ICEs"
An important lesson: >99% of your blog readers will visit during <1% of the time.

If your goal is to allow people to read the stuff you write, you must be capable of serving your content to >1000 people per second.

Use a good backend (I recommend Servant+Warp or Snap - the only two I've tried that could handle it, out of probably 15 popular options tested) or a good caching reverse proxy (insofar as such a thing can be said to exist) and/or a CDN.
Right. I'm the good guy and will gladly help build autonomous killer robots for my government.
There's a difference between licensing a project to try and limit what users can do, and being legally obligated to stop hosting a copy of it.
Probably not. What if you're having to wait on 10 other Ioniq drivers to refuel their cars for 18 minutes each?
A history of storage media (2017)
> Which doesn't really work as a concept when there are things so terrible that no amount of money can compensate.

Well yeah, but surely some compensation is better than the current status quo of nothing at all.

> What price would you put on human extinction?

Well, if we want to get hyper-capitalist about it: whatever the resulting opportunity cost is from those humans no longer being able to produce value. Of course, seeing as how humans can produce other humans who then produce value and yet more humans and so on in perpetuity, that opportunity cost rather quickly approaches infinity.
I wrote that one, but haven't gotten enough traffic again to see if it works... https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/hug-of-death
Maybe in the future, when a family wants to take a long trip, they will rent a gas-powered electrical generator on a trailer.
Non EV-owners always overestimate the need for quick chargers.

I've had an EV for 2 years now and I've used a quick charger about 2-3 times per month during the summer and around 0 times during winter. All other charging is done either at home or at a slow charger at a mall or something.
Another article not behind a paywall https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/axios-sold-to-cox-enterprises-...

And the WSJ's take on it, which is behind a paywall but is probably the best one I've seen https://www.wsj.com/articles/axios-to-be-acquired-by-cox-ent...
There may be but “nature” is strong on atleast this trait. Just look at height differences between north and South Koreans.
Would nginx (caching everything) work on a $5/month VPS?
If you cut down the charge time you damage the battery. It's a fundamental limitation of physics. The damage is caused by physical expansion of the battery (and later contraction). The expansion is uneven and eventually wears out the film that separates the anode and cathode and develops pin holes (short circuits and sparks). The membrane is designed to lose ionic conductivity at elevated temperature and that spot becomes inactive by design and doesn't conduct electricity to protect the battery to prevent fire. Larger pin holes vaporize electrolyte, blows up seals, and causes a fire. That's why they don't want you to pack lithium batteries in checked luggage.
> let's ask the developers of the open-source deepfake program what they think is an ethical use of their tool.

We... did? Like, that was 90% of the comments when it was posted.
Only if you have implemented your destructors correctly. Forgot to add a 'virtual' on one of them? Too bad. Have some pointers to objects? Better remember
to call delete on them all. You never really 'know' things are destroyed, that's why tools like Valgrind exist.

The real fun is really the combination with exceptions and destructors. So much so, some projects essentially ban exceptions in C++ code.
I don't think an appreciable amount of confusion is added: there's already a wide range of "approved" open source licenses that impose varying restrictions or requirements on end users, packagers, and potential contributors. AGPL, for example, is materially different in its requirements from Apache-2, and yet both are "open source."

Put another way: it's not clear why the current complexity is okay, but other kinds of complexity (that accurately reflect the current ethical landscape, instead of the ethical landscape of software in the 1990s and 2000s) are not.
The GSL is also largely responsible for the famous Utah ski resorts

Without the lake effect producing all that snow, Utah's ski industry is in jeopardy. Without the ski industry, a very large portion of Northern Utah's desirability as a place to live goes away'
For maximum coherency, you have to make batches of 50 - 100 and pick the best one. Which can be time consuming and expensive.
Using Imply Pivot with Druid to Deduplicate Timeseries Data
> And how are the "participating in an economic destruction campaign against millions of Muslims"?

Part of the broader disinformation campaign culminating in e.g. H.R.1155 which was passed last year.

Goal: destroy the economy of Xinjiang so that it becomes a terrorism hotbed a la neighboring Afghanistan: the Brzezinski playbook. It worked against the USSR, right?
Yes, I first tested locally with httperf and some other tools. I took it as a good sign when the load testing tools crashed before my server did. Then, I found a few services by searching for something like "website load test" and using their free tier (which would typically generate something like a few hundred req/sec - sufficient to simulate HN).
This essay was definitely instrumental in my life, helping me to adopt a worldview where I could define my own destiny (yes, in privileged America) despite some very serious headwinds: growing up in an alcoholic, single-parent mobile home. I barely graduated HS despite ability and floundered without college for several years. But later put myself through public college for CS and have had a great career (and life) for many years thereafter. This worldview gave me the courage to not care that life is "unfair" and that I hadn't been granted many opportunities available to my peers. If I hadn't believed it were possible, I never would have tried.
> Do you still support it for Black people?

No. Most Black people don't want racial preferences (https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe...). And I've come around to believing that the patronage of progressive whites is ultimately harmful to minorities. The fact is that they don't really know what causes structural poverty and don't have more than theories on how to fix it. If I was in their shoes, I wouldn't want to be a guinea pig for progressive social engineering.

> You could coherently support affirmative action for Black people while not accepting a complicated hierarchy of grievances (which: most people outside of Twitter and nonprofits don't).

Oh, it's spread way beyond that already. If it was just internecine fights at progressive non-profits I'd be amused by it, not worried.

> I'm glad you support it for women, but I'm not sure what the "different in significant ways" thing means in relation to it.

Sex is a different kind of difference than race. Designing office buildings to have separate bathrooms for men and women is an accommodation to biology; retooling promotion tracks to accommodate balancing motherhood and career progression is similar. But having separate bathrooms for different races is a different story! Women, moreover, are not a minority and are not socially isolated from the dominant group. If social engineering directed at sex has negative consequences, it will quickly become apparent to decision makers in the dominant group. Not so with social engineering directed at race. Most white progressives will never have to deal with the consequences of the policies they espouse.
"no way every parking place in the basement parking is getting a dedicated charger"

Why not? Everyone in the nordics has done that for 50 years.

A "dedicated charger" is just a normal outlet, it's not some high-tech piece of gear.
There are a bunch of mod articles and YouTube videos about doing mods with the Gen1 and bi-amp speakers - or some even turning it into a subwoofer amp - and trueplay apparently still worked.

That said, removing the bi-amp capability may technically break trueplay, but I don’t see how. If it worked in single channel mode as a sub, it should work bridged like this.

[edit] just looked at his gen1 guide that does the same mono-bridging, and it claims trueplay still works. Which makes sense - trueplay is a feedback loop. With the speaker playing specific frequencies at specific volumes, and your phone listens to it and adjusts the DSP to make those frequency/volume pairs match what it expects.
A fundamentally new power source, 100% renewable and with unlimited capacity for the entire planet. Since it's not invented yet I unfortunately don't have any details to share until a decade or two. Stay tuned.

Sidenote: Unlimited power capacity introduced many new challenges, so there will be uhm powers who wants to stop it, temporarily.
Second place for a few hours and ~1k points resulted in around 50k unique visits.

If your website is a collection of static files and you're hosting them on S3+CloudFront or something similar (GitHub pages works too), then it'll work without any issues and cost pennies for the whole thing.
How I generated static html for my static site and it got served and cached.
It will never come for us. You think it will, but that’s because you don’t understand software.

Pick any random Jira ticket for a large software project. Could an AI understand and implement that feature into a larger project? Can it correctly deploy it without interruptions to production jobs? Will it correctly implement tests and decent code coverage? If there are regressions will it know how to go in and fix them? If there are bugs reported by users will it be able to investigate and accurately fix them? What about when multiple branches of feature development have to be merged, will it know how to do it correctly? Will it know how to write high performance software or just use shitty random algorithms?

If it can’t do these things AI is basically useless. Because this is basically 90% of software development.
Indeed. Chess and go have survived a long time, and they would not have done so if they were not interesting in their own right. We just don't see the games lost to history.
To be fair, in most of the USA it's 'has been to prison' as voting rights are not restored in every state upon release. Some animals get reverted to the 'taxation without representation' model. Those inalienable rights are actually pretty alienable after all. Who knew?
Sadly a good portion of HN thinks blockchain is only used for money laundering and will be completely fine with this subversion of rights
The grid will be just fine. An advanced economy can install bigger wires and burn more natural gas. Battery technology is already diversifying around mineral mining constraints.

The problem I see is with lifestyles. There's a ceiling on how many people work and travel in a predictable manner to a predictable place with a garage that they own and can install a charger in.

Are landlords going to install enough chargers to fill entire apartment complex parking lots? Are they going to maintain and repair them? Will they charge for charging?

Do we live in a society where people won't routinely vandalize and neglect the chargers?

I fear a future where there will be a privileged set of suburbanites who get to drive their subsidized cars from their subsidized jobs to their subsidized homes and charge it with subsidized electricity, but a very large subset of people will be stuck driving combustion cars that are heavily carbon taxed and penalized. And it won't be because they don't care about climate change, but because their lives are different.
The control on those are in places that have relatively standard nutritional distribution. The environment obviously plays a strong role, just look at the height difference in populations between north and South Korea.
Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220808212448/https://deephaven...

Unfortunately the images are cached at a very low resolution
Not quite. The review intervals increase exponentially, so if you stop adding new cards the workload quickly goes to single digits per day in a few months.

35 a day is excessive for sure. Even with foreign language stuff which is the lowest time to solve per card, I limit myself to 10 new cards/day. Math problems 2 new/day. Daily workload ends up around 50-100 cards, which is very manageable. You do need to be consistent though.
>Just powering a proper generator with gasoline or diesel to power an EV is more efficient than blowing it up thousands of times per second inside an engine.

I don't follow your point - Gasoline powered generators and Gasoline powered car engines both work by "blowing up" the gasoline in the piston(s) of the device (and neither blows it up "thousands of times per second", though at 2000-3000 rpm they both do so thousands of times per minute). It's certainly possible to keep a generator charging a battery tuned more tightly into its peak combustion efficiency zone than one can typically maintain with an ICE engine tied to a gearbox and wheels, but that is I think a different argument.
If actually using it has this huge friction, how do you manage to use it every day? I always have a hard time creating habits out things that are hard to "start" doing every time.
Let me introduce myself. 500km no breaks done regularly. 1000 km with one break to refuel and take a leak , easily. You know, good comfortable diesel car (BMW X5 ) does wonders to make traveling long distances a non-issue.
You are not the protagnist of reality. And one day even you might want to send money easily to somewhere other than a UK account, without jumping through any hoops of middlemen.
The question misinterprets the dynamic. Point is, people disenfranchised ("left behind") by secular administrators are turning to religion for community and identity. That's the undercurrent in the context of the thread. It's not about the legal separation, it's about a change in the upstream culture as a reaction to the politics. The official principle of agnosticism that the separation of church and state represents is not official atheism either. In fact, it's the opposite. The US system was famously said to be vulnerable by it's founders, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." While it can tolerate almost every kind of minority belief, it doesn't survive a shift to complete atheism and nihilism. The American system is predicated on the universalist idea that, "people here are free to have both kinds of beliefs, theistic AND deistic," and the trend I was pointing out is religion is becoming a reactionary tendency.
If you're thinking of EV charging as it's commonly portrayed in the media ("You have to go to the fast charge stations and wait, or you have to have, like, 700A service to charge your 300 miles in an hour overnight!"), yeah, there are problems.

If you talk to people who actually own and use EVs, almost none of that matters, because slow charging at home overnight is what people do, and it simply doesn't take much power.

The average American drives about 35 miles a day, which on an EV is about 10kWh. Maybe more in the winter, but if you charge on a 3.8kW charger (240V/16A), that's only 2-3 hours of charging at home. You can charge on less if you want, or even on 120V and be fine most of the year, but winter will be a problem in some areas - you're using more power for heat, and the car has to warm the pack to charge in the cold, so 120V may not deliver enough power to both warm the pack and charge the pack. It's not impossible, but you make your life a lot easier with 240V/16A charging (max continuous current on a 20A circuit).

DC fast charging is only needed if you don't have a place to charge at home or at work (which will be the case for plenty of people right now and hopefully fewer long term), or for long road trips (also a fairly rare case).

My preferred method for EV charging infrastructure [0] is to simply put those 240V/20A chargers everywhere. Apartments, shopping parking lots, etc. Your car is "grazing" in enough places that it's never a big problem except for road trips. If it's not full, oh well, it'll be filled up next time. I can do 100 miles a day on a Chevy Volt (10kWh battery pack before the gas engine kicks on) purely on battery if I'm going between places that have chargers, and have some time at home to charge, etc.

Now, are there problems with sourcing the raw materials for batteries? Yes. And this is why I'm a fan of PHEVs (40-50 mile battery range, gas engine for longer travel) for the next decade or so of vehicles, because you can put a given number of cells into a lot more cars that way (you can build about 5 Chevy Volt packs for the cells going into a single long range BEV), and that offsets far more gas use, while also being less annoying to use - if you can't always charge, it's no problem, you just have a hybrid.

In terms of additional power needed, because EVs are so much more efficient than ICEs (about 85% wall-to-wheels vs 25-30% on an ICE), you only end up needing about 25% more annual power production. There are some peak demand concerns here, but they're fairly easy to mitigate as they approach - peak demand increases from population growth anyway, so it's a "Build out peak capacity slightly faster than you were planning to" concern for power companies, not an overnight panic sort of problem.

And while you're at it, EV charging after the morning commute can take up a lot of the mid-day solar surplus.

0: https://www.sevarg.net/2020/04/27/slow-dumb-charging-quit-ch...
Right. So a CDN?
Within the next 15 years, Amazon will provide data gathered from Roomba LIDAR and/or Sidewalk[1] to police (with or without a warrant) which will tell them how many people are in a private home, and when.

1. Or whatever their blanket WiFi system that piggybacks on your bandwidth is called
I agree. They're pretty in the same way as fractals are pretty, but still boring and bland.

I would not have any of the ones that I've seen this far on my wall, or as my blog icons.
Electric cars are a distraction that don't solve most problems cars bring.

It's fundamentally inefficient, both energy and space wise to move a huge box weighing around two tons for what is most of the time a single passenger.

We need to rethink how we transport people and emphasize trains, metros and bikes much more strongly.

There'll always be a need for cars for a few use cases, and we should make those electric, but the much more important step is to greatly reduce our overall car use.
Battery trailers might be a good idea. A charger station will have a bunch of trailers with different size batteries for rent. If you need to get somewhere fast and don't want to wait to recharge, or if you want to go on a long trip, you can rent one.

To be honest, this just logically leads to hotswapping car batteries. If a car manufacturer was able to make their batteries quickly hot swappable and then sell spares to gas stations (who could have large charging racks) then you could solve the charging time problem nicely.
Or you could just take a look at the linked course and learn something. It's pretty good and worth working through.
What VPS are you using and can you recommend it?
On this day in 1908 Wright brothers’ unveiled their flying machine
Should work fine. I personally avoided using a reverse proxy like nginx or apache because they tend to have a ton of vulnerabilities (check out the CVE database results for "nginx"), making them a security management headache.
Static html, from a cloud bucket.
Digitally, without fees, with a fair exchange rate? With no limits on transaction sizes, with complete finality?