skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the problem here is that the public and government officials don't treat lack of charging infrastructure and broken chargers as an emergency.

If a tree falls across a major road, you can bet there will be work crews showing up within hours to cut it up and move it aside to restore access, because a road with a tree across it doesn't function as a road anymore.

We should treat lack of working charging infrastructure the same way: a road without the necessary infrastructure for EVs to traverse it with the confidence that they can charge when they need to isn't a road either.

If EV owners really wanted to press the issue, they could protest by blocking roads. If, say, there's a dozen or so EVs all stuck at one charging station because the chargers are down, they could move their cars to the middle of the adjacent highway and form a roadblock. Unfortunately this isn't safe, as it would probably lead to violence from angry ICE drivers.
I’m really glad to see domestic manufacture of national necessities onshoring to the US.
GPT-4 has shown that we can get general purpose useful AI like the Star Trek computer without making an actual digital person (much less a superintelligent one) and enslaving it.

So people should stop thinking we need to do that or that we should. It's idiotic and totally unnecessary.

We should actually NOT try to make digital people any time soon and ESPECIALLY avoid doing so with significantly more efficient hardware because trying to force a digital person who thinks 100 times faster than you to do your bidding is incredibly stupid. And again, completely unnecessary.

But regardless of whether they have many animal/human qualities, there is a strong possibility that we will lose control to some kind of AI when it gets to being 100 times faster or 5 times smarter than humans (or whatever numbers you want to use). Just imagine some idiots running a "botnet" full of CognitiveAutoGPT with TurboOpenGPT-6 in 2025 on Nvidia T1000s that are 20x faster than H100s. With the software improvements you could easily be looking at something twice as smart as a person and 100 times faster. For those entities, they would see activities of people coming in extreme slow motion. To the point that they would barely even see anything happening moment to moment as the instructions scrolled in. Whatever person or goal is controlling that is running circles around normal speed people who seem basically frozen. Imagine The Flash in digital form.

I believe that if people don't wise up about the folly of creating digital intelligent life and there isn't strong regulation restraining upcoming levels of AI performance, humans really can lose control of the planet. In a matter of a few years.
The Model 3 can travel that distance without charging. There is also a supercharger right in the middle.

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=9daba0ea-ad2e-449...
I wasn't aware that the fees are a function of credit score. What's the rationale for this?
> I don't understand what people with a higher than average IQ are getting from llms

People with higher than average IQ are smart enough to ask detailed and specific questions like “Fix the race condition in this [giant block of code]” rather than asking dumb, overly general things like “build me an app!!”.

Also, chatgpt models with internet access are completely happy to help you price compare. Go try bing chat, or ChatGPT plugins.
Ask HN: How do you monitor process flow in your apps?
I'm wondering if some of you use some external tools to track your internal app workflow metrics? Something like transaction processing or end-to-end user journey (including backend processing or external systems)? Then use this info to better understand your business process performance and identify bottlenecks.
LTS versions are the way to go.
objective oriented engagement, vs time oriented
Virginia is actually home to enormous amounts of solar. Not the least of which is Amazon production for AWS regions.
I'm optimistic that AI solutions can really do great work to improve false negative/positive rates in highly manual systems like this.

With that said, it's a slippery slope, and will quickly lead to different types of inconsistencies in policy, enforcement, and all the other problems that come with taking humans out of the loop.
Yeah, we did things like standardize the size of a gas nozzle so they're universal in all cars and trucks (and lawnmowers, and...) regardless of make/model or brand of gas. Then we just allowed anyone who wants to make an electric to have a proprietary system.

It's a standards problem, not infrastructure, per se.
GNU jitter right? I’ve seen (a few?) highly detailed slide decks about it. Extremely cool stuff

I found this pdf but I thought there was a different one, anyone link to that?

https://binary-tools.net/jitter-binary-tools-summit.pdf
You'd think that concept would be more popular here, but I guess the desire to consume overrides everything.

I think that engineering like Lego is gorgeous in and of itself. Like a Swiss watch at scale.
Related: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36384396/

“ Most plants form underground relationships with fungi. These relationships are mutually beneficial. The plants and fungi share, trade, and distribute resources between themselves, their neighbors, and their offspring. Plants employ diverse methods to detect and respond to their environment and the production of electric signals is one of these methods. It would be favorable to a plant’s survival and the survival of their neighbors, if this plant could transmit and share the information these electrical signals contain. Possible avenues of transmission exist in the roots, and the fungi these roots are in contact with. If a fungal mass is in contact with the roots of multiple plants, it could propagate electrical signals throughout the plant network. We found that electric signals were reliably transmitted from one plant to another via fungal pathways upon the induction of a wound response. Our findings provide evidence that mechanical input can be communicated between plant species and opens the door to testing how this information can affect plant and fungal physiology.”
That is why I always assemble my LEGO in a pressurised cleanroom.
That doesn't answer my question. OP said cars - you narrowed it down to "SUVs and similar".
Discussed 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32696089 (17 comments)
Debian Stable + XFCE would probably be my go to.

I've heard XFCE described as "the Debian of DEs" and I think it's pretty accurate. Slow careful changes over years, but the good things stay.

I'm not sure how Debian's LTS support works. Stable becomes old-stable in 2 years. It's supported for a while longer. If it is Debian and XFCE though, it's likely that the end user hardly notices the upgrade.

I suppose RHEL based distros have a 10 year support term, and could be a good choice too.
Just because this often comes up; I don't want to disable SIP. However I'm very happy with yabai.
What route do you take to SLC? 70? or 80?

Last summer we drove the i80 route on our way to Oregon and after Laramie (which I suspect has some super chargers) it looks like a wasteland until Rocksprings and I have no idea if they have them there either. On the southern route, after Grand Junkyard (which I imagine has super chargers) it looks like quite a spell before more. We go play in Moab periodically and it's pretty sparse out there. The distances seem manageable but if you mismanage things a little bit, you could have some trouble. I think I'd top off in Laramie and then probably think about it in Rocksprings, I assume they have chargers there. Even with an ICE out there, there are some pretty long distances between stops, seems like every time our range got below 100miles we were starting to get serious about planning a stop.

FWIW Southern Idaho and Eastern Oregon might have been worse. I think there were more people and it looked like more help if you were to have an issue but it might be farther between realistic charging stations. It's coming, it'll get there and most people aren't road tripping that much but it's still a factor.
Code style in Pydantic user code reminds me of Rust's Serde serialization lib. Not directly relevant to the point of this video, but it makes me curious if it was inspired by Serde.
Yeah I’ve seen a number of outages there so dunno what TP is about.
In NYC also: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/why-steam...
> It has a greater trove of content than Netflix, HBO and Amazon Prime combined and squared

And one third of that is presented by Simon Whistler.
I would call it a state of flow. Make your environment full screen to hide time .
I was thinking how addiction and depression are not always a simple cause-and-effect relationship. Sometimes it's the other way around, as in self-medicating behavior ("to drown your sorrow in a bottle"), and other times they're aspects of a larger complex feedback loop. The root cause of depression and suicidal ideation can be an intertwined whole, both inside and outside oneself, arising from the interactions between the self and the social environment, including family, work, media landscape, relationships and collective psychology.
Of course you can change them, but only when submitting an app update. You can't change them between updates.
YouTube is amazing but a couple of disappointments:

1: YouTube financially rewards 12 minute videos. I feel like this has resulted in a collapse in creativity as now most videos are 12 minutes. You get what you pay for.

2: being a walled garden, YouTube is devoid of technical innovation. This really hasn’t evolved far beyond broadcast TV and that’s because YouTube owns all the content and developers can’t innovate the core experience.
You can change it with every new version you publish.
How? Article was hand-wavy I couldn’t get a conclusion.
Oh come on. Can't the humans have anything fun?
> they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free

I have children between the ages of 9 and 26. You know what they are passionate about? Minecraft, Mr Beast, Travel vlogs, mommy vlogs, “reality” videos, etc.

I’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want to have anything to do with it. They are passionate about cheap mindless entertainment. I see the same things in their friends and classmates. You can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

I’m sure there are a few youths who are using their time productively and it will pay dividends for them. But, from what I’ve seen, the vast majority aren’t interested.
I'm sure that this happens.

When I was an academic, I never encountered (or heard of) such situations, though.
I was not saying it is challenging to make an amazon return. It is not.

I meant the amount of work that the UPS store employees were doing for free on amazon's behalf was astounding. Answering phones, telling people where to put things, all for free. Amazon has offloaded the customer service part of the return process on employees of another company who are not reimbursed by anyone for their trouble.

(At least the woman who owns my local UPS store, who was complaining about this to me, seems to think so.)
Law of large numbers seems to be one people ignore. If I’m making a scam app, I’ll just use multiple accounts and hope one gets through eventually. I won’t be discouraged by rejects because I’ll have an automated system that handles everything including retries. If I’m banned, I’ll just buy a new account and try again.
...when one is in the flow state, they are completely engrossed with the one task at hand and, without making the conscious decision to do so, lose awareness of all other things: time, people, distractions, and even basic bodily needs. According to Csikszentmihályi, this event occurs because all of the attention of the person in the flow state is on the task at hand; there is no more attention to be allocated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Yes. The most cited paper of all time in the field of sociology is Granovetter's 1973 paper entitled "The Strength of Weak Ties" [1]

The basic reasoning is that humans can only form limited number of strong ties, and the strong ties are already strongly connected/correlated to each other so limited new information enters.

Whereas with weak ties, the connection pool is more decorrelated, so more new information can flow through. It's not just the size of the pool -- though that's part of it -- but that the pool is more unrelated so there are more sources of independent information.

This is why it's more likely for people to find a spouse, hear about a job opportunity, etc. through weak ties rather than strong ones.

[1] https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/granovetter7...
I just spent a week with a Chevy Bolt while one of our family cars was in the shop. The good: nice small car, everything is pretty easy to use. The meh: without hardware installed in my home, keeping the car charged up for regular family use is problematic. Sometimes there is just not 2 hours to swing by a charging station, and so we spent most of the week with the Bolt showing under 40 miles in range. The bad: hitting the charging station for 70 miles in range costing $13 (this was consistently the deal for the week). My Subaru Crosstrek has a lifetime average of 27Mpg, so at $3.80 per gallon of gas, the cost to get the same range would have been $9.86. I was pretty surprised that it was 25% more expensive to charge the Bolt. Note: I was charging between 4pm-6pm, and my understanding is charging rates are lower in the evening... but, apples to apples, the Bolt was more expensive to fuel.
> They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent.

I really wonder about that. Learning anything requires active participation and motivation. YouTube provides great content, but I'd say it's the easy part. BTW, public libraries existed before youtube.

My personal example, I graduated in maths 20 years ago and spent countless hours solving problems. Nowadays, I'm a youtube addict, I casually watch lots of videos, but I have very little attention span left, and don't build serious knowledge about anything.

But your hypothesis could be assessed based on data. I may be wrong, but I suspect students math proficiency has declined in most western countries.
I am using 5 minutes blocks for getting things done. Little bit training, and it's not necessary to know what time it is. So i never know if 1 or 4 hours have gone.

It's easier to come in the flow.

I also don't like absolute times/the view of the clock.
Lucky for you, but I don't have that option. I also like having the ability to move a SIM between my 5G CPE and my phone. Not gonna replace a 2 year old, €700 CPE just to try and chase eSIM dreams.
For xcloud, the resolution is limited (by apple’s streaming rules, and not by MS) so it’s not as open as it looks.
LSD: Not Even Once
Yes! I'm sure I'm not using it anywhere close to its full potential, but just being able to two-finger tap a link to open it in a new tab is huge.

What are your favorite shortcuts?
Under what ownership scheme is it theirs? They don't own it legally and they don't own it by possession by living on it.
True, and i've clarified. I find the scamming extremely boring, but i'm also pretty surprised it's that lucrative.

Then again thinking for a minute, ~1.6 billion working iPhones at any moment - that's an absolutely insane amount of buyers.

Hadn't really thought about the sheer number, and it's actually really blowing my mind right now - wow!

Anyone know how fierce the copying, noise etc. is for niche markets? This number alone is making me interested in looking at some old ideas.
I agree completely. I've used Reddit since at least 2008. I quit Facebook over what they did to WhatsApp and will never use another Meta product. Reddit is getting dangerously close.

It's very clear there is not an adult at reddit who can tell the people in power NO.
Maybe we were talking past each other.

> ...and if the amount of cattle is kept constant...

My point (unclear) is that this is not a constant, but a variable (in the sense that it is a societal choice). Animal agriculture shifts more of the distribution of atmospheric carbon at any time toward methane, which accelerates warming.

> ...this whole closed loop has already settled into a steady state: At any point in time, the amounts of methane and CO2 in the atmosphere due to cattle are constant.

The premise that the amount of animal agriculture is constant is incorrect. It has been increasing year over year for some time as the human population increases. The theoretical concentration of methane has been increasing over that same time. It's also worth noting that industrial animal agriculture is not a closed loop because it currently relies on mined hydrocarbons for feedstock fertilizer and transport.
In some publications it's almost a formula.

Headline: <something that sounds really interesting about the war in Ukraine>

First para: For the uninitiated, it's easy to mistake Ilya Shevchenko for an everyday middle-aged Ukrainian man. His short-cropped brown hair, mild paunch, and gentle demeanour are disarming. When we first met, he insisted that we finish our cup of tea before we discussed important matters. [And so on]
There's quite a long history of these titles, even before ML:

"Sometime’ is Sometimes ‘Not Never’" - Lamport

"Reflections on trusting trust" - Thompson

"On the cruelty of really teaching computer science" - Dijkstra

I'm sure there are more
HN is the jewel of the internet. Youtube might be the amethyst maybe?
The norm is honestly that over 90% of the time, there are no issues.

The thing is, when there is an issue, it’s at minimum a huge pain in the ass, and a complete nightmare at worst.
They've been available for a few months now and a few of us hardware hackers have been improving the state of open-source tooling support for them.

I have an almost-fully-working GDB remote stub up at https://github.com/aappleby/PicoRVD that allows flashing, debugging, breakpoints, stepping, etc and only requires a Pi Pico and one resistor - no proprietary dongle or modified OpenOCD needed.
I'm shocked anyone would even consider this xenophobic at all. Why would our opinions on the Saudis not matter? You aren't making any sense to me.

It would be one thing if it was irrational, like not wanting to go to a Saudi barber, but when foreign nationals are draining critical geopolitically relevant resources, regardless of if other Americans are doing it to, to call it xenophobic to even mention the association seems like pure madness to me. There is nothing irrational about questioning the motives here.
He was only there for a few months, so I don't think the reddit community changed much and drove him off that way. It was like it was when it started for several years.

kn0thing and spez seem like they have a lot in common with Elon politically. Aaronsw not so much.

Sorry I can't seem to explain how I perceive their political differences at the moment and instead am just giving an example.
Most people put their grocery carts back, stop at stop signs and lights at the middle of night on a lone road, and there's plenty of examples where people go out of their way to do the right thing. There's this common misconception that most people are act immorally but in reality the law is only written for the few. For a very clear example, I doubt murder rates would change were it not illegal. Most people don't want to kill and recognize it as intrinsically immoral. The problem is that we ignore normal behavior and this makes us overestimate abnormal behavior.
I'm sure it will be a non-zero amount but not sure how many parents there are that do meth that still have their kids. Probably not that many.
The Flaws and Human Harms of Animal Experimentation (2015)
Just the work that the UPS store employees have to undertake to answer the phone, say hello, field a question from a "customer" (who will never pay anything) and answer "yes you can just bring it down to my store and put it in the box and it will magically get back to UPS" is absolutely mind-boggling to me, considering that it happens absolutely gratis and amazon is an enormous company. These UPS shops are, as far as I can tell (through knowledge gained from conversations with the owner of my local one) individually owned.

There is no packaging, as far as I could tell; all the stuff that showed up while I was standing there was boxed and labelled and ready to ship.
The eSIM is all about cost savings and more control for them, sold to you as more convenience for you. I'm not giving up my SIM!
So they fired someone for lying, despite 10 years of work history.

Seems like there's more to that then just not having the degree.

Your college degree is not correlative to your ability to actually do a job. He probably did a lot more than just that.
Implicit in the article is that there are only a handful of languages capable of certain use cases. Eg, embedded, bare-metal, programming operating systems, performance-sensitive code etc. So, your options are limited (C, C++, Rust, Zig, ADA, maybe a few more?), which would drive option 2.
One smart ape once said: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

The burden of proof is on you, and so far you produced nothing of value in that regard
I've used Quicksilver for clipboard history historically. There is a currently a bug that I've been meaning to delve into: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2913 but still generally usable. Particularly handy combined with adding simple AppleScript or JXA actions to manipulate the content (I have several simple ones for example to run a regex, to clean extraneous content around a number, a phone number, strip whitespace, indent 4 spaces for pasting into a markdown codeblock on SO, etc etc).

The Shelf plug-in also very handy along similar lines.
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There are no designated "safe areas" to run around in lol