skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to put the entire ICE maintenance list here, but there are a lot more wear items. Brakes, belts, coolant, oil, transmission service, annual emissions inspections.

Radiator or other leaks.. pretty annoying.

The maintenance schedule is definitely more involved.

Edit: lostlogin, sure.. that's a, uhm, certain strategy. No doubt, Japanese cars can usually take an impressive amount of abuse. And yeah, a harsh way to treat a machine you rely on to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Very neat simulation.

As a note, you said it requires a dedicated graphics card but it does seem to work fine on my laptop's integrated graphics (AMD 4500U) and performance was good with at least the default map size.
Any plans on dealing with topsoil vs bedrock? Seeing water only on the surface above what looks like an impermeable layer looks odd to me, unless I'm misreading the video.
GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve used
> I'd love to see done to Chrome what WireGuard did to OpenVPN.

While I share the hope, the situation is (imho) very different. OpenVPN is FOSS while Chrome is proprietary... OpenVPN is a tool which still helps many many many users while Chrome is a mixed bag - pretty good browser made by a worlds largest advertising company.
The Augmented Programmer
> Why can’t my whole home participate in this technology? It would seem an ok fit for things like freezers, refrigerators, hot water heaters, etc.

At large scale (think like walk-in coolers of supermarkets), this is actually being done in the form of district cooling [1].

> Someone needs to make a standard for moving heat/cool through all appliances in a house…

The problem is that the piping itself and the circulation required are sources of energy loss, and it's hard enough to keep these appliances sealed so they don't leak their coolant - most coolants have insane CO2 equivalent potentials. It's not worth the effort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_cooling
> The first task is to reactivate the project and the community around it

What does that mean, when there's active development of the github repository?

It's never been deactivated has it?
I’m 100% in the EV train, but this article is weird.

It says they ordered a ton of EVs, and that EVs have lower cost of maintenance, awesome - but it provides no evidence that EV maintenance costs actually contributed to the improvements here?

The statements they have from Hertz say “we made $$$$ from demand coming back to rent cars” and “we spent that $$$$ on buying EVs”.

The quotes and facts in the article are not aligned with the point made in the title
> Having a tiny fraction of humanity on a different world, which is entirely dependent on shipments from home for the foreseeable future, is an irrelevance to the problems we're facing on Earth.

I agree. Which is why I think the fanciful idea of a Mars colony is nothing more than a hand-wavy distraction at this point, designed to propagandize a billionaire's other projects to gullible sci-fi enthusiasts.
Basecamp details $3.2M bill that saw it quit cloud
In 2017 we installed a very efficient air-source heat pump and solar panels. My electrical utility offers 1:1 buyback of electricity so I am able to build up a credit in the summer and run the heat pump well into the fall and winter on that surplus. The system is sized for cooling the house which means that it is undersized for heating, but during cool fall and spring temperatures it operates satisfactorily as a heat source.

Our fallback is the pre-existing gas boiler which is much simpler, more reliable and able to be powered by a small generator during our all-too-frequent power outages.

If I am still in this home when the current heat pump fails I will seriously consider a ground-source system instead. The ability to operate during an extended power outage is a significant concern and I expect to always retain the gas boiler as a backup.
Definitely a lot higher than on Upwork, on average.
youtube is a site that oscillates between being a social network and not being. and for the most part they choose not to be. and maybe that's why it's constantly growing and unrivaled. they don't care about things like personalization.
Here’s an interesting question- do they need to sell off EV’s after only 25,000 miles? Does simple maintenance reduce the turnover rate & associated costs?
> In court in October, a lawyer for the company, Randy Mastro, told the State Supreme Court judge, Lyle Frank, that “lawyers sometimes alienate people.” Mr. Mastro said he had experienced being on a banned list himself when he cracked down on the mafia as a federal prosecutor. “There are some Italian restaurants I couldn’t get a reservation at,” he said. “I didn’t sue them.”

Well, at least Mr. Mastro is self aware enough to realize the kind of people he’s a lawyer for.
The article mentions failures. Presumably it's quite an expensive hassle if a customer's car fails and you have to provide them with another one on top of the cost of the actual repair.

Interestingly JD Power claim that EVs have more problems https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/28/jd-power-evs-and-and-plug-... .. but mostly in the infotainment system? Maybe that matters less to rental drivers. Maybe that depends on brand.
You wouldn’t believe how common it is for people using Emacs in a terminal to bump up against the limitations. Assigning a key binding to M-[ is a particularly bad idea (<https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/68703/m-causes-ema...>)!
This seems very optimistic.
What is your take on the "Apple prison" metaphor? I hear this a lot, but I can install whatever I want on my Mac and have zero issues doing what I need to.

It's true that iOS is a walled garden. I suppose if you have serious work to do on a smartphone without a keyboard, then the limitations could feel like a prison. I question how many people need to do this and wouldn't have a laptop handy, but that's just me.
Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to dig a well, fill it with tubing, and pouring concrete all over? The concrete being the constant-ish temperature heat reservoir ?
Is this really due to Hertz's electrification efforts, or just a broader trend (ie. lockdowns ending leading to more car rental use)? If we look at their competitor, we see that their profits rose even more (in percentage terms)[1]. Sure, being "50-60% cheaper to maintain" is nothing to sneeze at, but without analysis into how much that weighs against other factors (eg. depreciation, because electric cars are more expensive) making such bold claims is simply irresponsible.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HTZ/hertz-global-h...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CAR/avis-budget/eb...
Hm one display connection seems to be reserved for the HDMI port if there is one. Considering how much trouble I tend to have with HDMI ports, that means the M1 Pro only supports ... one external display.
Technology is destroying our world
Greed fueled technology is destroying our world and the human spirit.

The status quo is unsustainable.

Are humans going to continue to be passive slaves of dopamine or take charge at last?

It seems time is almost up.
How many other animals do this to themselves and their habitat?
Really cool and helpful.
Is there anything similar for R?
That may be true, but from the perspective of a company like Hertz they are covered by the standard 8 year warranties offered by most EV manufacturers because they do not keep cars that long anyway.
Shh - don’t disturb the logical argument classifiers while they’re training.
The quote you highlight says "even after accounting for energy expended to produce, transport, and charge." And the assertion holds up.

For example, this recent study University of Michigan study [1] shows BEVs producing fewer carbon emissions over their lifetime, accounting for battery production, though it takes a few years to offset the greater initial carbon footprint of BEV production. (I'm not sure that this includes battery disposal specifically. Though I wouldn't expect that to be a decisive factor on its own.)

This is a complicated topic, and I'm sure it's very challenging to accurately estimate the carbon footprint of each step in the manufacturing production and value chain (for both BEVs and ICE vehicles). So I'm sure we'll continue to get a better picture as research continues. But it's incorrect to insinuate that these issues have not been accounted for.

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7cfc
> Kids that grow up in this environment are likely to develop grit and cooperative spirit

Alternatively, they may grow up dispirited and disillusioned, because they had no choice in the matter. Maybe they'll want to leave Mars and go to Earth. Or maybe they'll just be pissed off and lazy, wanting to watch the world burn, so to speak.

If you want to keep the kids in line, you'd better have a totalitarian government that restricts their access to information, to prevent them from discovering that life on Earth is so much better than their own miserable lives.

"Mommy, I want to go outside and play!" "Sorry honey, but outside will kill you. Now eat your manufactured nutrient packs and drink your recycled urine."
do batteries wear out in the lifetime of a rental car? I would think the batteries have a lifetime of at least 10 years whereas a rental agency only keeps the car for <4 years.
The AI is not the reason for the poor experience. The poor experience is caused by misguided policies excessively pushing for features (like Shorts). An AI would have toned it down long ago.

I also think Shorts is garbage, especially for a desktop/laptop. The reason I use YouTube is BECAUSE it's not TikTok. Not every service must emulate every other service.

Also, I am still bitter about the missing dislike stats. They were very useful for deciding among tutorials or courses, and avoiding misleading ones.
Idk how true this is, but I keep hearing that car batteries have gotten so good they are likely to outlive the car.

Anyways, these are rentals, which are usually sold after around 1 year/30,000-40,000 miles. So it's irrelevant for a rental car company if batteries last longer than that.
Small Talk, a Primer for the Socially Awkward
> then you'd compare any potential purchase against it, and it would fall short. So you'd end up never buying anything (except tickets for one week trips)

I think there's a number of folks out there who do this all the time, except it's not trips. It's saving for retirement in general.

If all you do is compare every outgoing dollar to "but if I invested this instead, then over X years it would have compounded to $X" you never buy anything non-essential because spending $400 today really means $1,787 in 30 years at 5% (of which $1,387 is interest), so now you need to ask yourself if future self is happy about that decision.

This becomes more important with larger purchases, a $30,000 car is really $134,032 after 30 years at 5%. Now this becomes a question of "is this 30k car worth trading 1 year of my life while working?" because it kind of is, especially if you factor in income tax on a pretty normal software developer's salary.
>> it seems that programming tools will need to make use of this tech in some way to advance the state of the art

Really?

How would you incorporate GPT into a compiler? or a code formatter? or a linter? or a debugger?

I am not saying that it is not possible to use GPT features in programming tools, but saying that "programming tools will need to make use of this tech" seems like a stretch.

Code generation seems like an obvious use case, but that does not mean that the code will be correct for the use case and the generated code may still need to be debugged.

When Bitcoin and blockchain were all the rage a few years ago, lots of companies rushed to create blockchain-based tools for everything. Most of those tools never really took off because blockchain was an ill fit for those applications and did not offer substantial advantages over the existing technologies.

Sure GPT is interesting and exciting, but it does not mean that practical use cases for it exist everywhere and in all domains.
Because when it was A/B tested, a non-functional feature-disable button lead to greater user engagement with the feature than the other options.

/s but not really.

edit: also 'No' means 'Remind Me Later'.
This article is thinly veiled blogspam for the real article: https://thedriven.io/2022/10/31/hertz-sees-bigger-profits-as...
Seconded.

The vast majority of contract roles I see here in the UK are brokered by recruiters who will enforce their own standard contract terms & rates on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

This kind of approach seems like it has no chance of working as the recruiter would rather place someone at an "okay" rate rather than having to risk submitting a higher-rate candidate and having the client balk and go away altogether.
Theories about the observable world aren't supposed to be provable, they're supposed to be falsifiable. You can't prove a theory based on empirical observation. Economic theories are tested--and often shown to be lacking--by statistical models; that's the entire point of the models. Economists test and falsify each other's work all the time. You basically couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
Sadly, not the same. Rockbox makes a real functional and usability difference.
I would be curious to see absolute values on this rather than percentages. Not having to do oil changes could easily be a 50% decrease, but oil changes also really aren't that expensive overall on a few tens of thousands of miles, right?
Most of the problems in any moving vehicle come from stuff close to the ground, tires, suspension, steering. This is true for everything from battery powered forklifts to semi trucks.

Leaks start showing up in old age and the involved parts don't typically wear out unless you ignore leaks and habitually run some subsystem low on its requisite fluid or run it dry. There are some exceptions for piss poor engineering but generally the prior sentence holds.
Nvidia killed SGI, and incidentally killed IRIX.
Nearly 20 years ago my friend and I returned to his dorm building after a long long night out, only to discover we were locked out. With nothing better to do, we sat outside on the stoop and planned to chat the hours away until 6am when the doors would reopen.

Before the dawn came, a man in his 80s almost walked past us. He stopped to ask for directions somewhere, maybe to a church. After our half-hearted attempt at giving him directions, he asked us a question. Small talk. And then another. And then the questions turned into statements (“my daughter also went to art school”), and then into short stories, then long stories. My friend and I — having nothing better to do at this early hour, and each recognizing this man wasn’t looking for a sermon but an audience — kept listening.

The old man’s long stories turned into deeply personal stories; of hunting deer with his father, of losing friends in the war… He went on and on, pausing occasionally to stare a thousand yards past us and let a patient tear make room for another.

An hour later, in a click, the man wished us a good day and went about his way. And with a click, the lobby door behind us unlocked, and we went on our way. We slept until noon and I mostly forgot what else happened the previous night, but I never forgot that early morning moment.

Those of us who are lucky to reach that age will surely have endless tales and thoughts to tell, and I hope we’re all lucky to find an attentive ear, whether from a stoop-sitting stranger or a taxi driver.
there's no way that will be true, lol
EVs have less maintenance costs than ICEs in general, but they have particularly less maintenance requirements during the for the lifespan rental companies keep their cars, often less then 30k miles. During that time you are really just looking at oil changes, fluids, and filters, which EVs don’t have or have less of.

Later in a car’s lifecycle you’ll start seeing things like tires, brakes (better with regenerative!), and trim start needing replacement, along with the battery. My older ICE’s most expensive maintenance issues in the last 2 years were the window regulators all failed- that has nothing to do with the power train.

Which is all to say EVs are cheaper to run overall, but they are suited to save even more money for rental companies than individual consumers.
That's not a high bar though.
Largely, because we're human. Nothing I've seen from other fields makes me think they're immune to it, or that devs are more susceptible to it.

Some fields are literally defined/created by personality cults.
> -1 degrees outside

-1F is -18C

-1C is 30F
Rental Companies are notorious for not doing scheduled maintenance on cars.
Business goals trump good UX. Their executives have decided that you will like the TikTokification or else. Google is certainly more than capable of saving the state of a “close this” flag..
With every year, I care less and less about comparing myself with my peers. I reached a level I can have a very comfortable life with and anything after this is gravy. I will work hard and try to level up but I won’t grind or trade any of my personal time for money. Especially with kids, I am very short on time!!
> Edit: I've savings already as I plan to buy a new home (I'm in Argentina, we buy it cash, no mortgage). I need three more months of salary to accomplish the home budget.

This is a significant last-minute edit. There's a lot of good advice throughout this thread, but I would suggest waiting until you've completed the home purchase and settled in before considering the jumping to freelance. It's only a few more months and you'll have a much better understanding of any issues and unexpected expenses of the new home.

Beyond that, you need to make sure that you can do the process of networking, selling your services, cultivating a pipeline of clients, and collecting from clients who don't pay on time. Doing the work is only half of the battle when you're a freelancer. If you don't excel at the business side, you might not enjoy it after you run out of immediate contacts with work for you to do.
If you've been programming for 30 years, it doesn't show. I'm sorry.

This is what a relation is: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/21677/relation in the context of relational databases.

I think you're confused.

>What string manipulation is required in the ORM phase?

You're just on some strange pedantic purity bent as the other person commented. Even the op refers to his "query builder" as an "orm". Most ORMs intrinsically tie "query building" and the orm together without even referencing the term query builder.

Despite all this it's fairly obvious you know what we mean and what we are trying to say. You're just playing a part here.
I am highly suspicious of people who are not math wizards.

And guess what? It is good life strategy.
Very cool demo!

Regarding the choice of name, presumably you already know about Sketch, the popular image editing software.

I wonder if the image editing guys will in the future incorporate AI functionality too? Which might make "Googling" for your product difficult for your potential customers?
No Database Is Neutral
The fridge isn't the biggest energy hog in the house, but I'm very sympathetic to the absurdity of heat levels in a house.

I often see my HVAC cooling when the set-point temperature is actually _higher_ than the outside temperature. Logically, the house is a heat generator, it makes sense physically. The roof is black, etc.

It would offer a good number of benefits if the system could outright open a duct to the outdoor air, and suck it in whenever the local outside temperature is within the range requested by the user. People who are into optimizing energy use (they exist) can go even further and pre-cool their house during the night in summer.

For this to work, all you need a pusher fan, no refrigeration at all. There might be some pressurization problems, like, you may need a duct both for the intake and outlet. Also might require another filter... but air quality would improve significantly.

This is a really "dumb" idea, but it's perfectly in-line with all the new ideas being thrown out there. The new ideas just tend to throw in an additional heat storage mechanism, like a water tank (in the article). You can get a lot more efficiency gains by saving the night's cold in a tank and using it through the day. But on a more basic level, you can pump straight into the house when the conditions are right.
The most typical rental car use case I can think of is you traveling to a random city and needing transportation, either for a business trip or on vacation. In either case, I'm driving in an unfamiliar city, to a bunch of random places. The last thing I want in that scenario is having to worry about where I can charge my car. Finding parking is already enough hassle enough.
I salute these kinds of companies. Including Collabora.
Do you know the skinny on BEEP? That (via Rose) are what lead me to this rfc. Wondering if it panned out in practice.
That said, a lot of EV have transmission and more fluids due to the need to improve temperature control. Until someone solves the battery chemistry problem again.
Not if that theatre group sells tickets to the public, no. I am talking about private clubs or groups that by definition have a limited membership.
Pool heater too. In our building we have massive AC units and a separate heat pump to warm the pool.
What is the software support cycle on this walkman look like? Android 12 is next year's outdated Android.
It can be, but our 2 corollas have had an oil change each in 10 years, one got a set of tyres and one needed brake pads and rotor skimming.

It’s a terrible way to treat cars, but they go fine.
Ascii is the reason why we have teletype control signals in our text files; I wouldn't call it particularly good solution for what it ended up being used as. Some sort of cleaner separation of control signals and data payload would imho been better
> average family’s water bill has jumped to $660 a month from $220

Oof. On the other hand, maybe that's the real cost of water in a desert.

How does "unincorporated" work here? Is there not a local authority? Is this the cost of being outside a property tax area?
Bro you're weird. Are you really going through the entire post history lol.
I agree with your position. The issue is whether unprotected classes are allowed to be turned away for reasons other than visibily disturbing the peace.

However, I think the difference between automated image recognition and security guards with clipboards is one of scale. It would simply be impossible to have images of lawyers from across 90 firms on clipboards and would take long enough to be infeasible for every single patron coming through the doors. Automation makes this possible and easy and thus it’s worth having the discussion.

It’s like Google with self driving cars. While they were technically on public roads, the breadth and scale of PII being captured and displayed changed what was acceptable. Hence Google choosing to instead deploy automated algorithms to blur faces.
As others have pointed out, attributing the higher profits to lower EV maintenance costs makes no sense, since rental cars are purchased new and sold after 10-20k miles, which is long before any major ICE-related repairs need to be performed. The only ICE-specific maintenance in the first 10-20k miles is 2-3 oil changes, which seems negligible.

I did notice that Hertz charges a flat $35 fee if you return an EV with less than 70% charge, with an additional $25 fee if the battery is below 10% [0]. I wonder if this is a big contributor to the profit margin: people rushing to return an EV rental car may not have time to recharge it to avoid the surcharge, whereas people returning ICE cars have time to refuel them. Also, the surcharge for returning an ICE car without a full tank is much lower; usually around $0.50 per missing gallon.

[0] https://www.hertz.com/blog/electric-vehicles/tesla/model-3/f...