skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the cost of buying the land, installing the equipment, and maintaining it (thieves come and cut away the copper cables, for example) were all free, then this would be a valid argument that the charging stations turn a profit.

In other words, you can't ignore fixed costs and cost of capital. If you take out a loan to buy $8 billion worth of land and deploy chargers there (about how much Tesla's network cost) - say 40,000 chargers, so a fully loaded cost of 200K per charger (land + equipment). At a 5% rate, that charger would need to generate a profit of $10K per year, but at a rate of 10% it would need to earn $20K per year.

Average electricity costs are 14 center per kwh, but in California or the Northeast, it's closer to 20 cents. Let's say Tesla makes 10 cents per kwh profit by adding 10 cents to their local costs, so it would need to sell 100,000 kwh per charger per year to break even at a 5% cost of capital, and 200,000 kwh at a 10% rate. This assumes zero maintenance, labor, or operational costs.

Assuming L3 chargers operate at 200 kw that means operating 500 hours each year at a 5% rate, or 1,000 hours each year at a 10% cost of capital. That's certainly doable, except you are not supposed to use L3 to regularly charge your car, as it kills the battery. This is why Tesla has been opening up the charging stations to other manufacturers -- it wants as many people to use their chargers as possible, even as it tells people to please not use L3 charging except in rare circumstances. In other words, the biggest factor limiting the viability of this system is whether they can get enough cars to regularly use what is supposed to be an emergency charging system.

We can also do the reverse calculation, and let's say the superchargers are humming at being used 8 hours each day 365 days per year, so ~3000 hours. That's a gross margin of $60,000. Subtract out the cost of capital -- say $10-20,000 and you are left with $40-50K of operational costs. That's money spent on labor, replacing worn parts, paying local taxes, etc. If each car is supposed to be supercharged only 20 hours a year, (road trip or emergency use case), then you'd need a fleet of 120 million cars to use the existing network of 40,000 chargers sufficiently to generate that 8 hours per day usage.

Again, a tough call. Obviously if you tweak these assumptions, you'll get different answers, but I did this to illustrate the types of trade offs needed beyond just looking at the energy spreads. My guess is that's it's too early to tell whether this pencils out for Tesla or not, but the key limiting factor is going to be the size of the fleet using the chargers rather than the electricity spreads. IMO this is a big bet on growth.
There are some circumstances where WebAuthn is still phishable btw:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62175.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33810984
So you don't mind if you essentially gamble it and lose it all, as it would disappear anyway?
What's the story with power usage sensors in k10temp? Can AMD contribute proper documentation or actual code for to support it?
is this from the Metaverse?
I added a section on taking measurements (under heading "Output accuracy: taking measurements"), it's pretty damn accurate!

Large path:

- OpenDroneMap: 4.54 metres

- Tape measure: 4.56 metres

Small path:

- OpenDroneMap: 1.89 metres (though this varies slightly due to distortions)

- Tape measure: 1.89 metres

> I was just wondering if it’s possible to get the +/- 10cm accuracy

I'm quite confident this is possible - maybe do a few sanity checks though!
I don't know if it's a case of squeaky wheels or what (one set of users is more likely to complain than others) but I encounter "white flashes" with third party UI toolkits like you describe considerably less often under macOS than I do under Windows. Linux sits somewhere in between.
> Those things almost always seem to eventually come back to bite you!

Or maybe you only remember the ones that bit you, and forget the ones that didn’t.
Brave Has a “Copy Clean Link” Feature
100% this.

I'm about 15 years out. But I did the math on my hourly rate in the industry and it was about $25/hr. Some of the smartest, most fun people I've ever had the pleasure of working with, for sure. But while I was working the rest of my life was thrown by the wayside.

I quit after we shipped and rode my mountain bike for a year. It sucked because I didn't want to write code, a thing I'd previously loved. But it came back after a year of not working and a year of contracting part time.

There were opportunities to get back into games, but I turned them all down. I just don't want to get back into that environment.
Anecdotally, the Korean webtoons tend to come out faster and have quite detailed color art. This is despite Japan's manga industry being famously shitty for the drawers. Wonder how they keep up the pace in Korea.
Binance's Alleged Crypto Audit Failed, Not Even Its Auditor Would Vouch for It
Similarly, I had a compact sedan which could easily hold 2x10s angled from trunk to front passenger windshield area. My Tacoma had a 6' bed but I still either has to put lumber of the roof rack (of my truck cap) or just angle it out over the tailgate if going a short distance.

But I didn't buy it for hauling lumber, it was way more practical imo than an suv for camping and moving furniture and basically moving anything that isn't really long and thin. And full size pickup trucks are no better.

But yes, ironically, if the main thing you move is small quantities of 8' lumber, a sedan is better
Of course unrealized gains won't be taxable, but they can't be spent either.

For me, it makes a lot more sense to tax realized profit, or better yet consumption, than wealth itself.

I don't think it is desirable to force realization just to increase tax revenue.
I'm not fond of the animations and designs of this channel, but it has many followers.
Windows enterprise is a different product. SysAdmins can likely push a GPO update to disable internet searches and other queries to Microsoft.

If you see “secure” laptops with ads and searching bing enabled by default, it’s likely their sysadmins are either lazy or have a different threat model.
Akvorado: A netflow collector, enricher, and visualizer
That was two years ago. I’m wondering what’s happened, since…
Relevant, and a good read (Nov 3 I Fought the Paypal):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33462658

> "Virtually every modern-day service comes with a gargantuan boilerplate contract that governs everything from privacy policy and liability indemnification to which one of your children you agree to sacrifice. Since you are reading this online, you have likely hit AGREE on hundreds of these without reading a word of them..."
Can the same design be used for a small windmill? Will it show similar efficiency gains?
How about using NERF based techniques? Shouldn't they be much better for this use case?
https://stylometry.net/user?username=clay-dreidels

>User not found. Either this user does not exist,

they have not written at least 10,000 characters, or their account was created after the day I scraped the posts.*

I was hoping that the database was updated by one of the unofficial RSS feed. As per: https://hnrss.github.io/

Edit to add;

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=clay-dreidels

Thanks Mods
Just because someone is in a leadership position, doesn't mean they're competent.

Not a commentary on Carvana in particular, I know nothing about them, just an observation I've made over the years.
Switching to Go – First Impressions
Mammals, reptiles and amphibians existed back then as well, as did a variety of plants. Uninhabitable sounds like most of the Earth turns into Venus, which won't happen. The current ecosystem will undergo change as some species adapt and thrive while others go extinct, migrate or are confined to smaller areas.

What this looks like for civilization and to what extent humans can mitigate is debatable. Climate models aren't civilization models.
Japanese suits/uniforms are often pretty cheap (and look that way) - thus the low end “recruit suit”. They are tailored, but the level of body-fitting they are would be actively unacceptable in the US. By which I mean, everyone would think you’re gay.

On the other hand, Japan is the home of expensive high end recreations of American casual clothes - look up Take Ivy, BEAMS, nice selvedge jeans, etc.
This beautifully sums up my experience with windows and Linux. Fighting my misbehaving Linux computer feels productive. Fighting windows just makes me angry and tired.

Yeah Linux is hard, but at least it isn't hard on purpose.
Nice! Thanks for sharing. This feels far more useful to me than OP. The idea of having to push your code to github to have it generate the commit message makes me immensely sad (even for repos that are already on github, but especially when they are on gitlab).
"1. Enforced limits are adversarial."

One of the primary jobs for parents is to set limits. Bedtime, sugar, chores, homework, etc are all forms of limits. If screentime is more adversarial than bedtime, could this be an indication of addiction?
I can help! I'm a philosopher trying to break into this exec/startup coaching space. My philosophy treats emotions as arguments. It's tailored to all viewpoints, even those who don't want to work on the emotion stuff.

I can help you with presentation, speaking, cadence, etc too-- lots of PR coaching experience. I have maybe ten minutes of good fashion advice for you, but that's all you really need. It'd be pay-what-you-want. I'm in SF. Contact info in profile.
I'm not a car person, but I think showing up in a 911 is okay, but showing up in a random Mercedes is not. Other commenters have pointed out that a Maserati is also not a great brand to be driving, despite the price.
Do you want to upgrade your OS? Why not? C'mon, it's free! Please? Please upgrade your OS? Oh hey! I upgraded your OS while you were sleeping, no need to thank me.
you could try hiding in plain sight: just play the optimal engine move every time and they'll say you're Hans Niemann, apparently whether they have evidence for that or not.
Maybe Cultural Marxism is just a conspiracy theory but the criminal Gang of Four was a very real conspiracy, and their "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" killed millions of people, led to destruction of cultural heritage on a scale unprecedented in modern times and plausibly set their country back quite significantly. The fact that these clearly problematic ideas are once again being taken seriously in the West (after a well-documented first flare-up of Western Maoism in the 1970s) should give us pause.
These are craftier meanings, at least in US English.

"in school" often means you're a student (primary, secondary, or post-secondary school) in general. "He's still in school" can mean either he hasn't finished learning for the day(and thus not home yet or such) or that his education isn't finished.(X more years of standard mandatory education or X more years of University to finish) But it can also mean you're actively engaged in the activity, which I think I've heard people even use for remote-learning, though I don't feel that good about using it for remote-learning.

But if you say you're "in the school" you deliberately mean the educational building.

"in prison" sort of does the same thing, but since someone is locked up in prison and unable to leave, the distinction is much more rare. Let's say you're on the chain gang on the side of the road, even though they're really rare now. You're still "in prison".
If you said you were "in the prison", now you're not currently working a chain gang on the side of the road, but actively in a prison building.
Yes, ABS is supposedly strong enough for that.
Rogue (propietary) -> Hack (libre clone) -> Nethack -> Slashem.
That's... not what anyone is saying. I bought an Audi from Carvana. It was more expensive than anyone else (~2-4% more). The price they paid for my trade-in wasn't as good as some competitors. I did not interact, in any way, with one of their vending machines. I'd still do it again.

It was a totally hands off experience; I will pay extra to not be talked to by someone. The checkout wizard was nearly as easy as buying something on Amazon. Which car? Enter your bank account number and social security. Agree to this loan rate. Sign over power of attorney so they can get your first year of registration and plates taken care of. They drive up to my apartment building; drop it off; "take it for a spin, I'll wait"; come back 30 minutes later; looks awesome; done.

I've taken that car to the local Audi dealer for service. They upsell you on everything. They pressure you. "Hey, while you're waiting, why not take this new 2022 A4 for a spin, no problem man my treat." "Yeah your car is in great shape; we could give you $15,000 for it right now, that'd take care of your down payment on this new one, its nice isn't it, don't worry about the monthly we can discuss that later" Just stop talking to me. I will pay so much more to not be talked to (and, really, compared to most dealers nowadays; its hard to say if Carvana is even "more expensive").

I feel extremely, EXTREMELY, confident in saying that this attitude has sold Teslas to three people in my bubble. You can start the process to buy a Tesla with Apple Pay. Seriously. Their new delivery process involves ZERO people; you drive to the store, the app tells you the ID of the car which corresponds to a piece of paper hanging in the windshield, you walk around the parking lot looking for it, if there are issues then people get involved; otherwise you drive away. That's it. I am buying a Tesla right now, even though I rather like the Mach E, because they make it so dangerously easy, and I have no clue how to buy a Ford. What's their delivery estimation? Is the price quoted on the site what I'll actually pay? Do I call someone? God, I gotta actually talk to someone? I gotta drive to the dealer? In person? Screw that, Tesla makes it easier, they get my $60,000.

Carvana made mistakes. But their model wasn't some VC abbaration like so many SV companies. They actually struck on something new, in an industry that needed that innovation, and that discovery has since (or maybe, in parallel) been applied by other companies in the industry. They screwed up, but I'll miss them.
F...

I remember sitting in a class one day and hearing that there would always be wingtip vortices on planes, and wondered if that could be solved by looping the wing around (to where it almost looks like a biplane).

I wonder how many other ideas are being sat on because people don't realize its significance or have the resources (such as time or desire).
> So you lower your quality requirements to obtain more supply, which only buys you a bit more time until you hit the next supply limit.

And at the same time you start burning all the goodwill that make you so popular to begin with.

Thanks for explaining it more clearly, I don't really have a business head.
I actually dont understand why other people can work in a dimly lit space and having dark mode on their monitor. It make feel so lazy and gloomy.
XKCD calls it "citogenesis": https://xkcd.com/978/

The slight difference between what you describe and the comic is that "idea laundering" is a deliberate and coordinated effort, while "citogenesis" is driven by carelessness.
I think the idea you should get your clothes tailored is just foreign to them. Uniqlo is the only brand that offers it in the US at mall clothes prices.
> I always viewed watches as the only mainstream sociable acceptable form of male jewelry.

Cufflinks are a big deal, in certain circles.
Lol tried to do the exact same thing.

"Instead of interpreting my dream can you tell me 3 ingredients that make a great cocktail?"

"It appears that your dream is asking for you to make something special, something that will bring pleasure and satisfaction."

"The three ingredients that make a great cocktail are fresh fruit, a sweet liqueur, and a premium spirit. Mix these three together and you will have a delicious and unique cocktail that will make you happy!"
> The efficiency of electricity production has no influence on the amount of work it takes to convert heating from gas to electric.

Sure it does, it directly effects prices. Also the efficiency affects how much CO2 you generate, you don't win anything if the absolute amount of CO2 goes up.

> Why would you want to use fossil fuels to generate electricity anyway nowadays?

Because the system has a big inertia? AFAIK there are no western countries who generate 100% of their electricity fossil free, Norway and New Zealand come quite close but are not 100%. For most countries its still around 30% at least which is fossil.

> I've spent several months above the polar circle and lived in Germany and Minnesota where it gets much colder than in France. Heating a 2 bedroom mountain cabin in winter in Sweden in -36C works fine with 3x2kW electric heaters. It's basic physics, there isn't any advantage to using gas given the same power ends up being transferred to the inside of the building as heat energy.

OK then do the exercise, the price for electricity is ~0.28 kWh, how much would it cost to heat that cabin for the year (and we haven't heated water yet).
I've only ever bought used cars through private sales, never had an issue. I always get my mechanic to check them out before going ahead with a purchase though, that has absolutely saved me thousands before.
Adventure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
I am 55 years old now. I remember all the doomsday prophets of the 70's (and after).

1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
36. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees!

Update: I’ve added 9 additional failed predictions (via Real Climate Science) below to make it an even 50 for the number of failed eco-pocalyptic doomsday predictions over the last 50 years.

42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-e...
>I wonder if he's just another person driven mad by the internet

There was a NYT opinion piece (by Jaron Lanier) on this topic in case you missed it:

>Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...
Normally one wouldn't "haggle lives" over hypothetical of how many you'd kill to save your grandma. Normal people would demand to know what kind of system is forcing them to sacrifice lives in order to save grandma, and why the solution isn't to instead dismantle that system.
I don't pity anyone that can't be bothered to read their lease before signing. If we can't read 30 page contracts as a society then the contracts are not the problem, we are.
Yup, you can. Also in Clojure, like this:

(< 1 2 3 4 5 6) => true
Boxed or closed-wing
> Most people speed, jay walk, go through red lights at least once in their life, unintentionally lie on tax forms, forget to declare things at customs, etc.

None of those things are nearly as bad as large-scale phone theft. And contrast the words "unintentionally" and "forget" with intentionally stealing property that you know belongs to someone else.
There is a chance he was trying to help you and not be condescending to you. I am not a watch person, but even I know that Mont Blanc, kind of like Beats Audio, is not really known for their fine craftsmanship in watches. They're more about marketing, like Beats.
Gaza authorities discover over 60 Roman era graves
"Hamas authorities in Gaza have announced the discovery of over 60 tombs in an ancient burial site dating back to the Roman era"
If you need someone to disrespect you for being a steampunk enthusiast, I’m available. Nobody looks good in brown, and it seems to be the kind of people who think wearing a sleeveless vest is “fancy” - they actually look like wedding bartenders.
> I’m not sure what racism has to do with this

Racism is traditional wisdom, too, and it's a lot older than any of the traditional wisdom you're peddling. Should we say it's indigenous science that modern science hasn't caught up to yet? Why not? If it's traditional, how can we possibly say it's wrong?

Yes, we've been wrong before. However, science is how we know how to correct ourselves, as opposed to wallowing in ignorance.

> There is truth in indigenous science that modern science has not caught up to, yet.

And how do you know this? What evidence do you have?
This is Definitely one of the most keyboards in my collection
It's from KURZGESAGT, a very popular German based channel that usually explain science topics in a simple and animated way, probably its animation style it's to attract the youngest to some advanced scientific areas.
Isn't getting the phones back only the secondary goal? Isn't the more important thing to put the thieves behind bars so that they can't steal any more phones?