skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big fast car with an automatic transmission is a recipe for you getting forced out of your lane by someone in over 5000lbs of metal who thinks their time is more important than considering your life by changing lanes to pass. O-60 entirely silently in 3 seconds, you won't even realize you are going fast enough to kill someone instantly.
We have a local quasi-municipal phone/Internet provider and they're about twice as much as 500/500 fiber that just got laid, and I'm getting hard pressed to stay with them even though I like the idea.

Maybe I should call and ask if I can keep my current service at the fiber prices.
Both reads and writes go through the basic paxos protocol, so the answer to both is yes.
> (as opposed to crowding out competition)

How many places are you aware of in the US that have legitimate broadband competition? As in two or more independent providers offering gigabit or greater service with comparable real world performance? Competition in the American broadband market is largely a myth.

Back when DSL mattered there was a short period of time where it was possible to order competitive DSL, but in the end it was still using the ILEC's infrastructure so service could rarely be better or cheaper.

While it has occasionally happened it's incredibly rare for two cable companies to serve the same addresses, they definitely don't go out of their way to do it because the business model usually can't make sense of a buildout unless they expect to get most of the potential customers they pass.

Likewise for commercial fiber. AT&T, Comcast, Google, Verizon, they're not building fiber networks where anyone else already did.

Municipal fiber comes in one of two flavors. There the PON services that are basically built the same way as a commercial provider but are run as nonprofits, and there are the Amsterdam Citynet or UTOPIA style open access networks where the government organization runs the last mile but then allows providers to rent access to that last mile network to access customers.

I am a fan of the latter variety, the local government runs the local infrastructure that doesn't make sense for the free market to compete in and then service providers can focus on providing competitive service without having to worry about the last mile. Users in such areas have the most competitive internet access markets seen since the dialup era.

The former variety doesn't crowd out competition either though, it comes about because there is no real competition. Never has a local government gotten in the ISP business without the incumbent provider(s) having decided to ignore their jurisdiction's problems for a long time. PON style buildouts are faster and cheaper, so it's no surprise they get selected in a lot of areas.
> When tesla owners say "sporty" they mean acceleration.

When you live in a city, this is the only sporty thing you can experience. You aren't going to speed down the freeway at 90 MPH, if ever, you aren't going to practice drifting or anything fun like that.

It is a "sporty" sedan experience that is limited to leaving other cars in the dust as you quickly speed up to the 30 MPH speed limit. Oh, and it is still a sedan, so I can do that while taking my kid to his Chinese class.

Tesla made and will make an actual sports car (the Tesla Roadster and its successor), so it is not like that segment has been forgotten for EVs. BUT there just isn't a huge market for those, or maybe it is better served by the cheaper WRX or BRZ (a $30k small sport EV roadster? Ya, I could buy that).
Magneto Hydrodynamic Drives have been a publicly researched concept since the 60s. Magnetic pumps are used routinely in industry. You're definitely exaggerating how visionary Clancy was.
Even if they don't start out expecting that, people might be fooled by how it behaves when they try it out. So it seems useful to point out that initial impressions based on crowdsourced evaluations are misleading:

> We were initially surprised by how much imitation models improve over their base models: they are far better at following instructions, and their outputs appear similar to ChatGPT’s. This was further supported by both human and GPT-4 evaluations, where the outputs of our best imitation model were rated as competitive with ChatGPT (e.g., Figure 1, left).

("Competitive" meaning that 70% outputs seemed about as good.)
People are generally horrible at driving. But then giving them a big, fast SUV with absurd levels of acceleration available is a horrible choice, and so hearing that this is the best seller should definitely strike fear into our hearts.

Corollas are tiny and like a relic of a bygone era. These new vehicles shouldn’t be more agile on top of being way bigger.
HTMX and Alpine pair well together.

Generally, Alpine would handle pure client-side functionality, like toggling classes, expanding a drop-down multi-select, etc.

HTMX for server interactions, fetching, posting updates, etc.

One can accomplish a lot with little to no JS, with the app primarily driven by the backend. Which is quite a benefit if you know and like PHP/Python/Go/Elixir/C++ better than JS. Or just don’t like working in JS.
They're definitely not silent at 60.
Except that prius took 10 seconds to go to 60mph and this tesla takes 3. Lead foot + silent car + crazy fast 0-60 = people driving like a GTA game.
I have noticed this too and I feel it's because of the higher acceleration. It may give the drivers the feeling that they can insert themselves in even closer encounters because the car is more responsive.
It is worse than you describe. Windows 10’s design language was a moving target, with acrylic (later replaced by mica in Windows 11) introduced in 2017, and a move to rounded elements coming out way before Windows 12 in ~2019 (or maybe 2018) with WinUI2.

For much of Windows 10’s life, even the built-in apps like Maps were visibly inconsistent internally on things like corner rounding and hover effects.
Have you tried ChatGPT? It is the antithesis of theranos.
mostly because CCS1 is fucking ridiculous. But also have you ever actually been to a gas station? Have you not seen the three or four nozzles for diesel, pb free 95, 98 and whatever other upsell?
You say the intent is different but don’t show why. What about obfuscation implies malicious intent? How come it doesn’t apply to encryption?

It can’t be about applications, because I can come up with a thousand applications for obfuscation with benign intent. Such as delegating private computation to AWS without Amazon learning my personal information.
> I think he’s done more harm to Tesla after taking it over from the original founders than been a benefit.

Didn't every single product launch happen after the takeover? We probably would have never heard of the company otherwise, why would we assume a similar trajectory with different leadership? It's like saying Jobs did more harm than good after returning to Apple.
Yeah, that seems to be the way it always goes. It's not actually all that difficult to build an AESA radar in your garage, it's just very hard to get enough of the types of parts needed for a useful one without nation state level funding. The FPGAs they use are on Digikey....for 5-10k ea.
Are there many situations where court-certified debt can't be recovered by selling assets?
Agreed. It virtually guarantees I won’t buy another Tesla. My other car is a Ford (ICE) and I like it. This makes a Ford EV an easy decision.
The 70,000 ton Yamato battleship could go 50 km/h circa 1940:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship
you know, it's funny, the only person caught up by the china initiative was a white guy too.
i will have you know that i wrote an awful lot of javascript to avoid writing javascript!
In my view:

Thomas, Alito, Coney Barrett tend to be partisan conservatives.

Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, and Kagan tend to be mainstream jurists (whether that's "institutionalist," I'm not sure). If you see Kagan side with the conservatives or Gorsuch, Roberts, or Kavanaugh side with the liberals, it's usually in favor of the mainstream, centrist, legal establishment view. The differences between them tend to relate to mainstream legal debates (e.g., the proper role of Chevron deference in the administrative state; Kagan was an admin law professor, whereas Gorsuch in particular is skeptical of Chevron deference).

Sotomayor, Brown Jackson tend to be partisan leftists.
Oops. Just a typo.
There are already a handful of Superchargers that have a CCS adapter built in[0]. Thanks to US federal money, some locations are already set up to charge both Tesla/NACS cars as well as CCS vehicles[1]. These will expand, but if either Hyundai and/or GM now switches to NACS, CCS is dead in the USA.

The physical layer is easy - mostly just plastic and metal contacts, as well as minor electrical differences. The reliability and payment layer is where Tesla has way outperformed and it will be interesting to see if Ford can support that with their "Ford Pay" system.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240R6RhLGj0

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/ev-chargers/how-well-do...
> If someone owes a debt, place a lein on the property that prevents it from being sold until the owner makes good... or work out some kind of installment plan.

I can’t speak for every jurisdiction, but I do know that offering installment plans is a standard part of tax repayment plans.

These situations don’t occur until the back tax amount is relatively large. It takes many years and ignoring many, many tax collection attempts to reach this level of back taxes.

I understand why you’d want to prohibit this type of asset seizure, but you need to consider the unintended consequences: Many people would stop paying taxes if there was no real consequence for doing so. If you’re a shady landlord who intends to rent a house out forever and never sell it, why would you bother paying taxes if the laws prevented the government from actually collecting them from you?
> fuck the people, why should their life get better

But the lives of many people are getting better and I bet the net effect is positive, even if you as a Tesla driver (like me), now has to wait a little longer.
After 2024, Mustang will probably just be a crossover EV.
Obligatory mention of a great talk on the topic: "David Kriesel: BahnMining -- Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier" (2019)

English translation: https://youtu.be/AGCmPLWZKd8

Edit: Note: And that was still with better numbers than lmm posted.
I'm kind of confused. I'm guessing this is a dumb question, but I'm obviously missing something. If a program is running bubble sort, and another is running selection sort... can't you just run them instruction-by-instruction to see which elements they swap? And deduce what they were based on that? Like if you have [4, 3, 2, 1], and the first swap the program does results in [1, 3, 2, 4], then it clearly wasn't bubble sort, right? What am I missing?
https://youtu.be/ZTrfpahATpc?t=82

Seems pretty quiet in the cabin getting to 60 in under 2 seconds with the plaid.
Imagine if Toyota would've just made a simple, but nicely build electric car 3-5 years ago. Pretty foolish mistake.
No, white Tesla Model Y/3 (the paint color that doesn’t cost extra) seem to occupy the same jerk driver niche that the BMW 3-series used to own. Lots of young, single men stretching their wallets for one.
Yeah, but the spontaneous battery fires really help light the way at night in areas where the streetlights are poor.
I have heard second hand accounts from friends who have been hit by Teslas whose drivers tried to claim innocence because they were convinced their car would definitely have told them if they hit something and it didn't.
The AI boom is very real.

And much more pragmatic than the crypto or metaverse booms. The problem in the long run is the valuation. Its effectively a greater fool trading scheme for the next while here, as earnings are almost certainly not going to grow to support current valuation within the next decade or two.

If you think all the FAANGs and AMD will sit by and accept NVDA being the monopoly provider of AI compute (not to speak of recent success using CPU+SIMD), then by all means, buy and hold at these levels. The higher NVDA margins go, the more antagonistic the rest of the market will be to undercut them, e.g. via better support for AMD cards, building their own, or otherwise.
Not at all. Thomas is the biggest political hack on the bench. The Trump Era appointees were basically federalist society picks and surprisingly institutionalists. Obama only got one person on the bench thanks to McConnells games iirc. So the recent polarization hasn't leaked into the court via the appointments of the polarized Era. It just sort of happened the same as it did to the population at large.
Meta: I did not make it back in time. Ah well, comment reads well enough to stand as it is. Sorry all.
How do you make a request to a URL and then turn the response into HTML without JavaScript?
It's hard to tell if you're joking or not[1], but in a typical enterprise setting, easily more than half of all VMs will be Windows Server. At every large (>10K user) enterprise or government org I've worked at, there will be typically 1K-6K Windows Server virtual machines.

First of all, there are hundreds of thousands of software vendors that have written Windows-only software. There's an enormous amount of inertia behind that. Tiny dev shops especially can't afford to rewrite their software for another platform on a whim.

Second, ASP.NET + Microsoft SQL Server was and is an excellent platform for web development, especially for internal-use apps[2]. If you're paying your dev staff $100K or more per annum, the cost of licensing is comparatively unimportant. Sure, ASP.NET Core now runs on Linux, but it's relatively new and there is no direct upgrade from the Windows-only .NET Framework.

Third, Linux-compatible databases used to come in two categories: proprietary and garbage. Using something like Oracle or IBM DB2 is basically "the same" as Microsoft SQL Server. Just as closed source, just as proprietary, just as expensive. MySQL was a hilarious joke outside of startups and remains so in the minds of anyone working in a real enterprise. It's the Microsoft Access of the Linux world. PostgreSQL is very good now, but wasn't really in the running until a few years ago.

[1] The fact that you've even asked this question rather confirms my point about the extreme level of bias seen here.

[2] E.g.: seamless single-sign-on from your desktop to a web app is literally just a boolean "Enabled"/"Disabled" config option in IIS! Doing something like this on Linux is... sucks breath in through teeth... a lot of work. https://cdn-blog.netwrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Pict...
Since other car makers are trying to cover the market by diversifying their model lineup, this is hardly surprising. I mean, just take BMW, despite seemingly not taking EVs seriously at first, they already have more different EV models to choose from than Tesla. So even if BMW would overtake Tesla in total EV sales, the Model Y would probably still get to keep the "best selling car" title...
Microsoft’s attempts at Fluent over the years are a striking example of why engineering and design need to work hand-in-hand.

On Windows, concepts like acrylic and mica are nice, but are terrible for performance over Remote Desktop, RDP being a core strength and differentiator of Windows (especially with the push to sell cloud-based subscriptions and thin clients).

The other thing that drove me nuts is lack of care for low-res (aka full HD) displays, where rounding and thin borders leads to visible artifacts in common controls. A designer who uses high-end mac devices will never see these things. UI/UC Design isn’t meant for museums, it needs to be built in dialog with the real world application.
I would consider it equivalent to putting data into Excel to generate a report with visuals. There are a lot of cases where the data is the same data, but the "wrapper" is different for consumption purposes...and entering it by hand is time consuming and sometimes emotionally complex - e.g. if you are trying to articulate a specific challenge a student faces, it's easier to "talk to the chatbot" to generate completely new variations on what you meant to say than to sit at the word processor in a start-stop edit workflow.

GPT, even 3.5, is very, very good at putting new wrappers on things. It's much better at that than at solving logical challenges or acting as an oracle. If you need that for work, you'll probably already be among the adoptees.
Flagged for the blatantly hyperbolic title.
The corruption of Big Hyena knows no bounds
Yeah that the problem being solved: the rich person who does something dumb with their money such as buying up all properties in one county to try and play mafia.
That doesn't mean those tables didn't have primary or unique keys.

According to that post, in 2010, they had about 10 million users. At a conservative 10 fields per user, you're looking at 100 million records.

I'm a bit skeptical that they table scanned 100 million records anytime they wanted to access a user's piece of data back in 2010.
"We ignore what created us; we adore what we create." — Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
But hydrogen cars are the future! /s
If EU rules are too draconian, neither OpenAI nor their competitors has anything to gain from the EU. The only bluff to call would be if OpenAI were pretending they're too draconian when they're really not. I'll believe that bluff when EU compliant competitors popup who are on par with openAI. Thus far it hasn't happened.
> Similarly, if Microsoft promises Windows 10 is the last "Windows Version", then launches Windows 11, we should be allowed to sue them for making false statements.

What damages would you claim?
It is not useful to individualize this. Even if you could make a solid argument that being a landlord might sometimes take more effort than working a job does for someone else to pay your mortgage for you, corporations holding many properties at once (with just a couple of companies holding up to 5% of the rental stock) are going to have a bigger economic impact on the market, and the small-time landlord's experience isn't really relevant to that, vis effort, risk, or graciousness to their lessees.
Seems like a great result to me.

More government overreach if this is what we get!
Interestingly they've gone for a UIKit approach on iOS. I would have thought for future proofing they would have gone straight to SwiftUI. In my experience so far the transition has already started.
> The supercharger network is one of the reasons why I stayed with Tesla instead of getting the BMW i4.

I still got the i4, CCS coverage is good enough, but ya, superchargers are pretty common on longer trips. I'm going to do my first roadtrip tomorrow (up to BC for a short holiday), hopefully Electrify America in Bellingham is open without much of a wait.
I swear I don't mean this in a snarky way: I don't quite understand how, functionally, interpreting the law is all that different from creating it. Deciding to interpret a law one way or the other (because of the ambiguity of language and intent behind laws) has impacts on people's lives, the freedoms they have, what rules they are subject to, etc.
Fortunately we're small enough that us devs are effectively the DBAs as well. Meaning, we write the queries and we maintain the DB schema.

I can indeed imagine life being a lot different if you're on the receiving end of an unknown barrage of queries.
I get what you're saying but I the context of the discussion, Htmx requires JavaScript, doesn't it?
If what I read about the non-SC network, then I have to strongly disagree. The SC network is in my experience extremely dependable and fast. I have at most had an issue with (rare) congestion in peak traveling season at a popular stop. I have never been left stranded with all-broken chargers.
That could definitely be an issue. However with Project Lifesaver, someone comes by once a month and changes out the button cell for you!
They had a 10 year head start on EVs (well, Hybrids), with the Prius and blew it.

Worse: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/07/toyota-bet-wrong-on-evs...
I got to the part where it says "feudal lords" and I don't need to read any further. I can't fathom how they actually tried to defend this based on the abuse and exploitation of the dark ages. Seriously.
Many states make special processes available to delay or prevent property tax foreclosure on homesteads. I believe Minnesota does, but in this case, the owner had moved in 2010 and taxes were unpaid for 5 years. Not sure why 5 years of non-payment on a vacant house (well condo) isn't enough time to start proceedings to foreclose?

But, the county shouldn't get to keep the complete proceeds from the sale; they should get their duly owed taxes and fees, any expenses from the sale, and that's it. Any excess should go to leins and secured, perfected debt holders, and any remaining should go to the owner. Anything else doesn't make sense.

There could also be a question of how $2,300 in unpaid taxes aquires $13,300 in interest and penalties in a near zero interest rate environment, but that's doesn't seem to be disputed in this case.
Perhaps Mozilla has figured out that you can't corner the market if you focus on nerds with privacy concerns;

these people (which are also the majority of posters in this thread) are a vanishingly thin slice of the cake. They're trying to corner a totally different market by using that kind of language and design, if that annoys the HN crowd, so be it; they're not the target for this kind of copy.
Yes, I very much see myself in this. Though rather than humbly depending on the library, I tend to wander off in disinterest. I realize that my motivation came from saving the world with a supposedly better solution, and I didn't actually care that much about solving the problem in the first place.
> don't want the unreliability of a German luxury car or a Tesla

I truly beg you to talk to an actual Tesla owner to refine your opinions.

EVs are practically 0-maintenance machines. Unless you need to change your tires... you just don't think about oil changes or motor belts breaking or engine filters clogging and all the other nonsense that breaks in an ICE car.

If you hate Tesla that's a completely valid opinion, but don't pretend that people are buying Teslas just to spite themselves... the user experience is, for the vast majority of people, simply great.
I think money spent on VPN and mdn+ goes more directly to funding Mozilla. But I would actually prefer to see a Mozilla that tries to become fiscally independent of partnerships like Google and fully commit to the donation model (+ maybe selling a few products like VPN and mdn+) closer to what Wikipedia is doing.
Great day to do it too, I just googled AMZN to see if anythings been written and articles about Nvidias big day are coming up instead.
Tesla drivers statistically have significantly less accidents than other vehicles. So, by the data, they can't be worse than other drivers.
Apparently building a petrol station is on the order of a million dollars in the US, so it would appear to be on par?
The nuance you and others are missing is that I didn't say it was a definite thing. I didn't even say it was likely. I implied that the ideology he was complaining about is made up of people who don't think we should accelerate towards extinction: not an extreme stance at all.

Given even a slight, non-zero risk of us doing that, if you have the stance that we shouldn't, it's reasonable to take steps to reduce the risk.

I could have been way more succinct and less sarcastic with my original comment, but it hardly seems worth the effort when replying to a post like theirs.
That and flying cars too. Magnetic chargers are far less efficient and highly placement sensitive. They just don't make any sense. A mere gimmick.