skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are being sold a range reduction of 50 to 90% and are being told this is good for them. Traveling long distance is made much harder and refueling times are long. The faster you refuel the more exponentially quickly you permanently damage the battery. Energy density is a massive problem.

Electric cars are excellent if you fit their use case but AWFUL if you don't. You have to go into the purchase of an electric with your eyes wide open.

They are NOT as versatile as ICE vehicles.
And yet, this game was clearly intended to be a throback to old arcade games. And old arcade games like this typically modeled tanks (and didn't have strafing). Old arcade games also DID have loud music like this, and as I noted above the whole arcade was full of these competing sounds.
I once frontpaged with a funny article that readers also shared with others. Back when people still did that instead of taking a screenshot.

1,000,000 uniques over 3 days in ~2011.

I have been trying to re-create that high ever since, lol. Going viral is one hell of a drug.
God knows how I am tired of those "insightful" let-me-tell-you-what-you-should-do headlines. Our stand-ups are working fine, there's nothing to be fixed. Thank you very much and good bye.
I believe most people mean significant family wealth, not necessarily post-death inheritance.

You can’t seriously claim that he was broke while being part of an emerald mining family? Also, why are you comparing him to other rich/er folk? Is your point that every extra million is an IQ point?
Panels + a few hundred kWh of batteries for chargers might even turn a profit even if no cars ever charge there.

Charge the batteries when electricity is the cheapest, sell it back during peak load.
The point is, they've amassed hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars with this stingy pyramid scheme. The "social safety net" they offer is a joke. Enjoy your knitted blanket and can of baked beans.

The institution is only generous with their marketing budget (e.g. BYU, which is also run on a shoestring budget) or when they're on the receiving end of generosity.

The whole enterprise feeds on the exploitation of human souls for free labor.

It'd be nice if they looked outside themselves a little and invested their resources into efforts to help human-beings. Does "god" really only want them helping themselves?
What factors are holding back adoption of lighting? I’ve come across Bitcoin as a payment option before when making some purchases, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen lightning.
Plus there’s battery recycling.
I'll see on the order of 10k-25k hits (hard to say exactly, most of HN uses adblockers/tracker blockers and I use CloudFlare for caching) from an article on the HN frontpage. It's not that bad, and I could almost certainly serve it off my colo'd server without any trouble - bandwidth just isn't that high.

But as my blog is entirely static (except for the comment threads, hosted on my Discourse forum), I just let CloudFlare serve it. I had to do some tweaks to the configs to say, "No, really, cache everything!" (it doesn't do that by default for a range of very valid reasons, none of which apply to me), but once that change went in, I'll see 98.5% or higher "served out of cache" ratios when I'm seeing a lot of traffic from HN or somewhere.

I'd originally designed it to be hosted out of a Google Cloud bucket with CloudFlare (egress traffic is cheaper that way than out to the internet), but I eventually decided to host on my server, as I could then do Tor and some other stuff more easily. I've got the server anyway...

One of these days, I may play with dropping analytics entirely and just passing requests through to my server, let images remain cached as that's the bulk of my bandwidth. Then I can go even more oldskool and parse my server logs for stats and referrers and such!
> Just because OSHA and health & safety rules exist doesn't mean we intentionally make power tools and machines have blunt electrified edges to cut/electrocute anyone who isn't "literate" enough and accidentally touches the thing.

The OP called for the abolition of credit cards, whereas you're describing the regulation of power tools which is all well and good albeit inadequate as people still cut their fingers off and break things all the time with power tools. Power tools are still around and no one is calling for them to be abolished, although there are efforts to train people in power tool safety. People need financial safety training too, and not just for credit cards.
I'm ready to bet that when all the turbines are back (some already are), if the geopolitical situation is still as complicated, Russia will find another good reason to limit the amount of gas sent to western Europe.

I think the Kremlin is expecting the German electorate to push pressure on their government to ask for a return to the "normal" flow of gas, Ukraine be damned.

That seems like a reasonable bet, but I'm not going to rule surprises out any more.
It's too late to do it slowly. If we want any chance of avoiding the worst parts of climate change.
When a court rules that a particular area is outside of elected officials' power to legislate, in a sense they are disenfranchising those who would vote for officials to make such laws. Leaving aside whether it is right or wrong, the underlying issue is that someone's set of values has been elevated outside of the democratic process. This has always been happening since the beginning, but in recent years we've experienced a significant lack of agreement over those values such that one side feels disenfranchised.
Thickness planers, shop-vacs, table saws, and mitre saws, as well as pillar drills and jointers/surface planers are not hand tools, or even cordless. Your powermatic tools probably use 3-phase power, but that is simply not necessary for home workshops, nor is it a mark of quality or safety.
Not all zeros are equal
how else would they make money?
I don't know if it's too conspiratorial but this does seem like a sideways attack to "embrace, extend, extinguish" FOSS.

By couching it in terms of FOSS being "unethical", FOSS licenses can be whiddled away until there's either enough non-libre licenses to cause confusion or have a widely adopted alternative license that's unusable for business.

I do notice that Stack Overflow is using a Microsoft technology stack. The author of the article has been part of Microsoft Research [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow#Technology

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/author/david-gray-widder/
Nightly charging, to which wide adoption of EV leads, smoothens the day/night load cycle and thus improves the business of power generation and delivery which is better for everyone.

Given how cheap the batteries already, i think the EV adoption would be growing exponentially and is slowed only by the manufacturers' capacities.
That's precisely my point: Nazi's will take advantage of party politics to gain positional advantage. And when it happens in enough places suddenly you get an avalanche of crap that is very hard to put back into the bottle.

That is why we have what's called a 'cordon sanitaire' around the parties that are enablers of Nazism, the one thing that sets the US apart from NL right now is that we still have the luxury of doing so. But the moment VVD/CDA/SP/D66/GL would accept one of the fringe that difference would be erased. Now the jerks have to first find a way into a mainstream party that will not kick them out or (alternatively) find a way to 51% of the vote (highly unlikely, for now, though things are very dynamic and it could well change to that at some point).

This is a pretty scary development, in ordinary times people would be expected to protest against a party that allowed Nazis to run under their banner by punishing them elsewhere, you'd expect that enough swing voters would see this as distasteful enough to guarantee that a party that had a single Nazi on their roster could not be expected to win the house/senate/presidential elections. But that's not the case any more (if it ever was). This normalized 'Nazi's in the house' for parties that may well end up in government. And that should have never ever happened.
Did you read the blog? I addressed all of that.
That’s not CoreFoundation, a C library, but a Swift reimplementation of that library, only to be consumed by Swift (import Foundation).
> This is a case of abject stupidity on the part of Krugman.

He mad a specific statement:

> By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Which if you look at the numbers, isn't really wrong:

> As Skanda Amarnath, head of research at Employ America, wrote to me, what people see as a major economic impact is really the social impact. From a true data impact, Krugman wasn’t wrong. “Productivity growth has been substantially weaker during the age of the internet,” Amarnath wrote. “The same deceleration is visible in terms of both nominal and real investment in software and even the broadest definition of hardware (information processing equipment). There has been some shifting and cannibalization of activity as a result of retail moving to e-commerce channels, and new media dominating advertising services at the expense of old media, but if we’re talking about macro impact beyond substitution, the burden of proof is with those eager to mock Krugman on this point.”

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/paul-krug...

* https://archive.ph/FD6GR

Where he did get it wrong:

> […] -becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other!

As Krugman himself stated a few years ago:

> I must have tossed it off quickly (at the time I was mainly focused on the Asian financial crisis!), then later conflated it in my memory with the NYT piece. Anyway, I was clearly trying to be provocative, and got it wrong, which happens to all of us sometimes.

* https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...

It's been over two decades since Krugman wrote that article: get over it.
Range reduction?
You have to research the counterfeit market for each chip/product series. There's no hard and fast rule for their quality because many of them come from the same factories that make the real chips when unscrupulous fabs have shadow shifts manufacturing their clients' designs for themselves or just straight up copy and rebrand it.
>> It helps you not forget things you've already learned.

The argument is quite weak when we discuss learning words in a foreign language.
You learn that lunch is "almuerzo" in Spanish, but is it learning or just memorization/association? To me the lines are blurred, even at first sight of the word.

I used Anki myself to learn foreign languages and it is tremendously effective for words and short sentences too. I use it also for words in my mother tongue, and it made be much more articulate than I used to be.
Apparently those requests weren’t necessary for using the device, so arguably it shouldn’t do them without user consent in the first place, and certainly not retrying multi-thousand times per day. It just shows that data economy and privacy wasn’t a design consideration of the software, which should be a red flag.
Fixing the wrong bug to discover the right one (2014)
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.

Just because combustion engines are 30% efficient at best (Prius-level tuning required, most are way under) and electric engines are 90%+ efficient.
Zoom has a beautifying filter built into it.

Admittedly, I use it, but I have it set pretty low. My face isn't lit up very well, and without it, in my webcam, my skin ends up looking a lot rougher than it really is.

If I set it to the max, then it just looks like a blurry mess.
The last bubble was obscene. 5:00 news talking about how many houses you should buy. This time around everyone who's buying is either paying cash or has had their income verified as being a large multiple of their loan amount.

A lot of tech stocks had a huge explosion in value and I've seen a lot of people locally sell off and just pay the whole house off at once. They aren't cash flow rich but $800k down on a 1.5 million house puts their mortgage payments at a reasonable level for a couple earning 300k+ a year.

I live in a state with all public records and it's very easy to just take a look at house sales and find out who bought them. Basically people who work at companies that had large increases in stock value.
This is a good point if you take the perspective that we are independent of our environment. Our desires and needs are natural, therefore we should follow them.

However, if you consider that we co-evolved with our environment and all of its challenges and constraints, then our desires and how much we feel them are simply the result of optimizing our survival over hundreds and thousands of generations.

E.g. the 'difficulty' of our environment is a 50. We have to have a desire of 51+ to survive: a will to live. The 'lazy' spiders all had <50 and no longer exist.

Therefore, if we change environments to something much easier to live in, then our desires are kind of vestigial optimizations that may not provide the kind of guidance on the optimal way to survive in the new environment - they may take hundreds or thousands of generations to unwind. Modern civilization in particular has created such a massive shift in challenges and resource availability that it's not hard to find examples of this.

E.g. we have a strong desire to rest even when we don't need it because we co-evolved in environments where rest was scarce (due to need to survive), so when we had the opportunity we took it. Same with food: food used to be scarce, so we needed a strong desire to get it, but now food is abundant and we still have that desire and wind up eating too much.

In both circumstances, the environment was the pace-setter, but thats now changed, so we need to be our own pace-setter.
Bernstein vs US ruled that source code is protected speech, and struck down the export prohibition on strong cryptography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

From your link: "the BIS must be notified before open-source cryptographic software is made publicly available on the Internet, though no review is required."
Indeed.

To be fair, though, even without the subscription thing, it’s a useful element of defence in depth when buying stuff online: how secure a random e-commerce website is becomes much less relevant if they haven’t a working card number in the first place.
The problem with that theory is that writing code is easier than reading code. This is generally not the case in other professions. It is definitely not the case for an artist.

You still need correct code, and the halting problem says you can't prove whether code does what you want it to. At the end of the day, someone needs to be able to go in and fix shit the AI did wrong, and to do that you need to understand the code the AI wrote.
They are good enough for most people and over time those details will get better until we have no need for illustrators.

Already I see website agencies and bloggers using DALL-E. What I do see is that it is easy to pick out DALL-E generated images, in that its too fantastic. Way over the top to a fault.
If we try to overlay the EV network on the existing ICE model, yeah, charging will be difficult. But if we rethink the whole ordeal, it becomes much simpler, and in fact, I think once EVs become dominant, you'll see fewer mom and pop charging station than you see gas stations, not because it will be more expensive and difficult to run, but because the need just won't be there.

The majority of charging will be done at home, or maybe at work (I can see EV charging parking lots becoming a benefit). Long haul trips, depending on conditions, could be charged overnight at hotels, or quick-charged at restaurants.

Cross-country EV trips are already viable, although they require some planning up front.

And yes, quick charging produces more load on the grid than fueling up at the pump, but again, the majority of charging won't be done at a quick charger. It will be done cheaply, at home, at night.
How come no one is selling something like a 5 panel slow EV charger?
Refreshing to see this much transparency.
Dall-E is very “first generation” in its design and interactivity with the users.

It’s just a matter of time until setting a “consistent art style” becomes a feature of these things.

Similarly, asking the AI to produce multiple views/poses of the same thing will likely become a common feature.
I remember hearing about it back when it was new, and it's cool to see it's not hard to give one new life. I imagine there aren't stacks of them kicking around though, so it might work better to snag the smallest Samsung Frame and run an RPi etc. though it for a wall-computer-running-Linux.
Whats not yet visible now, but might be in the future is that electrical vehicles can use a superset of fuel, meaning you can charge your evehicle with power saved - for example by heating your home with wood.

Meanwhile traditional cars are bound to the one fuel they can handle. Which might be needed elsewhere in emergencies.

Relevancy, might become blatantly obvious this winter in europe.
I switched backends a bunch of times because everything I tried (Go stdlib HTTP, Tornado, etc.) kept getting taken out whenever I would hit the front page, either due to CPU overload or some sort of resource leak. I ended up using Warp+Wai+Servant (https://github.com/yesodweb/wai) and it has been smooth sailing since then off my $3/mo VPS. It can take thousands of req/sec without flinching (which is higher than what you see from top of HN - that maxes out at a few hundred req/s).
Are you okay with it contacting servers in the US? Other countries? If so, which? Where do you draw the line?

Personally, I run my smart home fully locally, but it's interesting to me to see the geographic location of the server emphasized so strongly.
as a preferred investor, how does this “screw” you? even in a situation where the debt is senior, in the VC game it’s generally better to shoot for the moon than to cut your losses. this is simply how the game is played.
I think using arguments like "Amazon swinging votes" is bad, since it's easily countered with "Amazon is not interested in political elections". Amazon doing whatever they can to take more and more money from you, way beyond your means? Americans (figuratively, some) are already up to their eyeballs in debt. Amazon being able to make it much worse is already a huge drain on society. "A boring dystopia".
I like to think that in a strange, poetic twist TempleOS would shine in these post-apo conditions. Perhaps Terry really did god's work in some sense...
I saw the netflix documentary about that mission and Hayley was basically the main character.
His other option was breaking into "oops I did it again" song. $75 billion there, $25 billion here, who is counting.
That's 60 miles of charge a day. And this isn't counting the losses sustained to charging range while the car is being used for actual work.

60 miles is bare minimum daily range for many folks.
Bridge loans are able to be underwritten at better speed/size/rates than credit lines, all else equal. That’s not taking away from your main point about the article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32385157 related thread "The stumble over abandonment of ICE vehicles" responding to "Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?"

Personally I think it's "not fast enough" excect to the extent the speed is derailing substitutes for cars.
The revolution won't be televised.

This is going to hit harder and than people realize. There are so many really great EV options from nearly every manufacture. And their sales figures are growing at a solid clip. According to Cox, EVs are 12% of new car sales in 22, and it's the only segment that grew YoY (the overall market fell 20% YoY).
How can this be enforced? They can’t block people from using it and they can’t(?) blacklist people from using the tokens that come out the other end.
> Most of fintech runs on "screw the customer, we have an EULA!"

Most of fintech runs on "screw the customer!"

FTFY
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that part of what Arc did? I don't recall specifics. I'm also reminded of the old PHP hack of using arrays as an ORM for queries.
I really want to meet some of these mythical beasts that drive 1000km+ trips regularly and don't take any breaks. Maybe 3 minutes maximum to refuel and they're off again.

Don't they eat? Get tired? Need to relieve themselves?

The Ioniq 5 can charge itself from 10% to 80% (400km+ range) in 18 minutes. That's about the time it takes to stuff a gas station sandwich in your face and do a quick toilet run. Is that really a dealbreaker? Even when it's 80% cheaper to drive that way?
Librifox is where it is all at
My $3/mo vultr box can handle HN loads easily when using a fast and well-designed (namely resource-leak-free) backend (I've settled on https://github.com/yesodweb/wai based apps - the only thing that has worked well for me so far).
And that, ladies and gentlemen, summarizes the attitude you'll get from Nix people.

By antiquotation you mean evaluating things inside ${}, which is a standard thing in many, many places, including shell and Javascript.

Meanwhile, https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/expressions/language-val... has gems such as this:

> Since ${ and '' have special meaning in indented strings, you need a way to quote them. $ can be escaped by prefixing it with '' (that is, two single quotes), i.e., ''$. '' can be escaped by prefixing it with ', i.e., '''. $ removes any special meaning from the following $. Linefeed, carriage-return and tab characters can be written as ''\n, ''\r, ''\t, and ''\ escapes any other character.
>This time will be different.

The 20th time you hear that is when you stop caring.
There exists a very strange group of people who practice "churning", something I don't fully understand. It involves opening as many accounts as possible to get sign-up bonuses, promotions, etc, then transferring balance back and forth between accounts, then closing accounts.

https://old.reddit.com/r/churning/

I would imagine those people are in the 99th % of cards per capita...
For the VW ID.4:

When equipped with a level 1 120-volt outlet, it takes approximately 50 hours of charging time to go from 0 to 100% charge. A level 2 240-volt outlet takes an estimated 7.5 hours while the DC fast charging battery charges from 0 to 80% in just 38 minutes.

You have to be lucky to find a fast charger for this vehicle, and even if you find one, charging is not cheap, and you permanently damage your battery by charging the battery this quickly.

Visiting family with a road trip across Germany is still a hassle with these things and you permanently damage the expensive battery by fast charging
Power tools cut off limbs and cause accidents because those tools are designed to cut hard materials that are much harder than human flesh. You could technically make a completely safe angle grinder by completely covering the cutting wheel but that would make it pretty useless.

On the other hand, credit cards' pitfalls are intentional rules that have no other purpose other than to explicitly be "sharp" and "cut" careless people.
No, it really won't. You're looking at about a 25% increase in annual energy use, and almost all of that can fit in the cracks of system capacity. Charge at work in the late morning to early afternoon, and it's a perfect fit for the "peak solar, low demand" part of the curve as well.

Where are you seeing double the capacity? I've done the numbers a few days and I always end up around 25-30% more annual electricity use in the US if you replace everything with EVs.
>Firefox is solving a problem users don't know they will miss until it's gone: browser consolidation

Exactly why Google is effectively funding Mozilla. They need to keep firefox alive to avoid Monopoly status.