skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many states are pushing for tag fees based upon the average revenue per gas/disel vehicle per year without regard to those vehicles MPG. Given that a lot of EVs are replacing high MPG vehicles, the formulations are incredibly unfair.

Is it, though? Does the taxation rate matter more than the total collected per year distributed by the number of users? If you aren’t counting/won’t count miles driven, this seems like a fair alternative. The idea isn’t to tax 21 cents a gallon - that’s the implementation detail - the idea is to collect $xx billion a year to (ostensibly) pay for transportation related costs.

To use a logical proof instead, assume all cars are converted to EV with the flick of a wand. Do you think your proposal would seriously last? The same amount (modulo some percentage) needs to be collected to pay for whatever costs are relying on that tax to be funded. The rate (not the total price) has to go up for EV users.

Now if gas at the pump included an explicit carbon tax then absolutely, that shouldn’t be ported over to the rate EV users are charged.
An electric kettle can draw about 3kW, I've only once seen a home with a limit this absurdly low
Reddit threatens taking direct control of protesting subreddits, removing mods
It really is obscene how many useful answers I've found on threads that were subsequently closed as duplicate -- with a link to a question that's not even close to the same.
> more of a luxury food

I'd like your assistance in classifying other items, such as

1: upholstered furniture
2: refridgerator
3: wheat mixed with water, non-baked
4: bread
There was no reason given, no appeal process, can't contact anyone at Google to try to sort it out. Just failed. I understand why it's necessary, but they also have zero incentive for it to be good or even functional.
This is what people always forget about work relationships. You need it for money. But if the employer doesn't also need it for money ... you don't have a job!

So you are almost always in a situation that your employer needs you more than you need your employer.
all the infrastructure gets built and released during bear markets

over a decade of this cycle with nothing fundamentally different about why this time would be different in a negative way
Go error messages are very much also tools for developers, if they are useful in any way.
The people who can charge at home still make up more than 50% of the market, though, and there's a few more years before that really becomes a limiting factor in sales. That's plenty of time for most places to get L2 chargers available.
I had a previous gen Asus chromebox, I upgraded the memory to 16GB and installed Ubuntu LTS. I had a novice user in the family, so I just dragged all the icons out of the dock except for the file browser, settings, chrome, and firefox. This allowed things like plugging in a SD card, printing, and emailing photos. The experience was very similar to running Chrome OS.

It was a nice cheap ($180 I believe), quiet, and small desktop that was used for nearly a decade, I think it was purchased in 2014 or so.
It did mention the Librem.
I agree. It's definitely gotten better with automatic brightness limiters, pixel shifting, pixel refreshes and all that. It's still not at a point I consider acceptable though.

If I have to micro-manage or change my usage of the computer at all to accommodate the display, the technology isn't there yet imo.
>The closest competitor was Electrify America, and they can't make the economics work. Tesla made it work by subsidizing their $1B+ global fast DC charging network cost out of robust vehicle margins.

The economics are going to have to change.

Right now, dollar-for-dollar, electricity for your vehicle is cheaper than gasoline. I'm confident that will not be the case in the near future; the charging infrastructure has to be built and maintained, and the government will want their tax money (in Canada, a significant proportion of gas prices are taxes).
I suppose they’re afraid of the process putting a damper on signups. The middle of the road option would be to have an easy signup and then you can complete KYC at any point before your first payment.
> To be fair, load testing is hard to get right.

Load _testing_ is easy.

The problem is to handle load, and cache invalidation is _extremely_ hard.
Halalgorithms: Hollywood, Tech Ethics and Biased AI [video]
Thats the core of the case. It will be more political than actually technical.
It is a notoriously foggy area. I hope it at least has a radar reflector.
You still do. I live there and the signs are everywhere, and in completely bad faith. The corps putting the signs up (those are all corp farms) know exactly what they are doing.
are you living in UK now? can you share your perspective and why you think it became a third-world country with first-world prices?
> Discord has lower API limits and zero "3rd party apps" so the fact that it's the recommended darling child of people fleeing reddit because of "low API limits" and "them taking away 3rd party apps" makes zero sense.

The majority of kids these days have been stockholm-syndromed into loving closed gardens like Reddit or Discord. Nobody taught them to that companies and closed gardens manipulate them for their own power. Open, decentralized communities are dying because of it.
how?

I mean, practically speaking, how do you control how long you spend asleep?

Let's say I decide to take a nap - I lay down, I set my alarm for 15 minutes, then spend the next 10 minutes waiting to fall asleep. Just as I've finally drifted off, I'm jolted back awake by my alarm going off 5 minutes later. Is that supposed to make me feel better?

Because for me, that awful wrenching feeling of being forced awake when you haven't had enough sleep, you can feel it in your eyes, in your chest, the fuzziness in your head and sluggishness in your movement - it's all simply worse than just feeling tired. Because you're still tired - you barely slept for five minutes - and now it's worse, because you tasted sleep, then had it snatched back away from you.

How is it possible to make yourself only sleep fifteen minutes or less, and wake up feeling better than when you went to sleep? how is that supposed to work?
>A new WordStar?

I'd settle for zde17

A new wordstar would be so far from the original ideals that it'd be useless.
It's not fat tissue (that is, fat cells.)
They've tried very hard to create that narrative.

While breaking the law.
The reason the newspaper is showing you a bunch of garbage is because Google has basically forced them to. They need the articles on the main page that will push them up in search results.

It's not even what articles they show on the front page, it extends into the content within the article. (Not that USA Today was ever great)

If you go back to the late 90s when the newspapers first went online they weren't putting all the garbage on the front page.
Thanks for mentioning a rough cost estimate of desalination. I've always wanted to know.
OP likely meant that people no longer want the newspaper to be the only organizations capable of deciding what is 'newsworthy', since before the internet, newspaper and TV news were effectively the only ways anyone found out about the events and happenings going on outside of their daily lives. They're losing because people would rather get more curated news for their interests delivered via algorithm than by going to usatoday.com or buying a paper newspaper and being shown "Sarah Jessica Parker, 'Sex and the City' co-stars 'bummed' about cameo leak" when they couldn't care less.
What's the point of a locator beacon when anything going wrong begins with the implosion of the vessel and the death of everyone aboard? How would such a locator beacon work under 4000m of water?
It's funny how not one sentence mentioned corporate real estate, which I think is a far bigger driver of the push to in-person work than "you can't interrupt people on Zoom" or whatever inane reason these corporate types think justifies the huge (and patently unnecessary) expenditure in employee time and energy commuting represents.
lmao the claim is that the author is bullshitting, not whatever you're talking about.
Typical NYT, pro-business pro-plutocracy all day everyday...
Or have an ancient and undying passion for Eggdrop IRC bots. Eggdrop was an introduction to TCL for dozens of us.
And if you don't like the Bell monopoly you can simply not use a telephone. But courts haven't agreed with this argument in the past.
> How long until vision based ‘AI’ systems make these kinds of counter measures obsolete? It seems like it should be straight forward for a multi-modal sensor package to combine with some basic physics logic (the airframe can only ‘move’ so much) which would defeat these types of counter measures. The vision based processing component should be able to filter out chaff and flare based disruption.

And then the countermeasure can maybe just flash a weird pattern of light at the missile to confuse the ‘AI’ systems and it starts thinking the jet is a cloud (e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/06/mit_fooling_ai/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPxlhGSG0tc).
> Currently the price of energy per mile at a Tesla Supercharger is about 1/3 to 1/2 the equivalent amount of gasoline.

Is there a citation for that? It was my understanding that fast chargers were much more expensive, but I could be wrong.

> Approximately zero ICE owners refuel at home.

Nor do they currently use the extra electricity needed to fuel their cars each night. Again, at scale that's going to have an effect on electricity costs.

> Anybody with $10,000 can install PV panels and charge their EV at home for free forever. Edit: bonus if you have links to any youtube vids of people who have done this and are currently subsidizing the entire cost of daily commutes with solar.

I don't know anything about solar and would love some citations if you have them.
It sounds like something out of a cartoon

It's an explosive compound that causes you to overheat and die if ingested in too large a dose
I always forget just how energy dense petroleum and its derivatives are..
Yes, of course, a single point of data from one service disproves the general statement. Good job!
> Nobody wakes up one day and says hey, I’m going to try fentanyl.

That's actually what is happening... people who are already addicted to other drugs are losing access to those drugs (or realizing that fenty is cheaper) and then switching to it.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/fentanyl-...

"At first, she started using meth, then later added heroin. But about six months ago, she couldn’t find it, she said. Fentanyl was the only choice.

“I held out as long as I could,” Winter said."
I don't think federation is a good solution without a way to also centralize those communities. Discoverability and overlapping communities leads to way too much balkanization.
Most of the states that have introduced this fee are the states with low gas taxes, so EV owners end up paying substantially more in EV fees than an average user pays in gasoline taxes.
What battery capability? Do they even make the top 10? And superchargers are pretty sweet, but there is no moat at all there, anybody can make a NACS fast charger. EA hasn't done great, but that doesn't mean anything other than EA kinda sucks, there are plenty of manufacturers capable of building reliable DC chargers.
The developer of Apollo explains it in detail here:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-p...
> Maybe Tesla wants to qualify automakers' designs so cars don't cause problems with their charging network, or vice versa.

I shouldn't need Exxon and Shell and Phillips and Wawa and Sheetz and whoever to qualify my car to get gas. I shouldn't need Tesla and EA and whoever to qualify my car to get electricity.

I don't see how anyone can see that and think its a good thing.
> Ousterhout's dichotomy claims that there are two general categories of programming languages:
>
> low-level, statically-typed systems languages
> high-level, dynamic scripting languages

I understand that this may have seemed somewhat more true at the time it was originally stated, but it's not really been true since the '90s, and it's certainly not true now. What an odd thing to lean into in this day and age.
> io_uring is designed for systems that have a thread and ring per core

That's not needed to benefit from io_uring

> for you to give it a bunch of IO to do at once (batches and chains), and your threads to do other work in the meantime.

You can see substantial gains even if you just submit multiple IOs at once, and then block waiting for any of them to complete. The cost of blocking on IO is amortized to some degree over multiple IOs. Of course it's even better to not block at all...

> If your code is instead designed to be synchronous and thus can only do one IO at a time and needs a syscall to block on it, I don't think there's much if any benefit in using io_uring.

We/I have done the work to issue multiple IOs at a time as part of the patchset introducing AIO support (with among others, an io_uring backend). There's definitely more to do, particularly around index scans, but ...
The author should rather be honest and say "I like TCL just because", instead of coming up with contrived examples to state alternatives are bad.

E.G, in the Counter snippet, why make some complicated code when Python is designed to make it simple?

import sys, collections

for p in sys.argv[1:]:
try:
with open(p) as f:
for k, v in collections.Counter(f).items():
if v > 1:
print(v, "\t", k, end="")
except Exception as e:
print("dup error: ", e)

I don't buy the argument of simplicity here. Also, if you are going to just do "get", you don't need requests, the stdlib is fine.

And I don't get the speed argument either, given his script uses most_common(), that basically sorts the entire dict, which none of the other codes do. Yes Python is likely slower, but let's not push it.

Also the Go code is more complicated, but you can cross compile it and ship it as is. And it's fast.

I get it, TCL is cute, but making up arguments is not selling it.
Sure, but I'd think that makes the economics of operating fast chargers all the more tenuous. Like, if we assume they're mostly needed for people away from home, that means both that they're essential to adoption of EVs in general (people want to be able to go on road trips) and that they suddenly go from being a thing people need all the time to a thing whose demand has extreme fluctuations seasonally, or with the economy insofar as it affects people's seasonal income, etc., just like other travel-oriented businesses like hotels.

(I should also note: so far the EV adoption story has been much better for people who own their homes and have dedicated parking, but as someone who lives in an urban neighborhood where most car-owners park on the street, I think expending to markets like mine will necessarily mean more public chargers are needed.)
40% of the world lives within 100km from the sea.
The US government currently pays farmers to grow some corn for fuel, as well.

One fun factor is that corn is drought sensitive (esp during certain stages of growth) and only about a fifth of our corn is irrigated or something like that. As climate change heats up, we may experience more crop loss.
I'm at a loss for how to explain the polar opposite results of two situations I've been in.

I worked 3 year in an office in two different countries where the prevailing mode was absolutely silence, no socialization, no connection, no words beyond pleasantries about nonwork things. One office spoke my native language, one didn't. Those were both really dark depressing experiences. I often felt distressed by loneliness, of being a ghost haunting the human world.

Currently I'm doing the nomad thing, don't speak the language for crap, and spend 3-10 hours a day in coffee shops working. I order at the kiosk so no human interaction. I people watch and feel fantastic. I have been here 6 months and haven't interacted with anyone during this time.

Best guess: In the offices I feel like I had a strong expectation for my life to play out like an American office sitcom. I have no such expectation for random people in a coffee shop to ever speak with me. I think expectations alone determine the result, even for someone 9/10 on the psychologists neuroticism scales. If I hadn't experienced this first hand with years of personal evidence behind it to show, I wouldn't believe it could "all be in my head". But that's the only theory that works
Also, it's not only newspapers, but also small, independent publishers. Once, there had been a thriving blogsphere, sustained by online advertising, and there were professional bloggers, much like there are now professional YouTubers. Until advertising prices (and thus revenues) went south and this became unsustainable. This roughly coincided with the growing role of Google. It just seems like it's the advertising brokers, who decide (by their pricing model), which kind of media we have and what we have not.
If you don't like the FVWM Windows95 theme, don't use the FVWM Windows95 theme. I will say, however, the Windows95 design language is MUCH SUPERIOR to either MacOS 7 or MacOS 8. Windows had consistent decoration and behavior. #a11y features actually worked. MSFT continues to do font rendering wrong, but just about everything else is more consistent. But in this regard, I sort of prefer linux. Gnome can be configured to "get out of your way" and simply place windows on the screen. The thing I dislike about macOS is its features change between revision and apparently system-specific software has an undue influence on how well basic functionality works. (my mbp is a highly inconsistent, but a previous rev mbp or mac-mini isn't. or rather, it's inconsistent on a smaller, different set of features.)

It's been almost 20 years since we got to the point where you didn't have to manually configure x. And since then I have never seen features around the edge of the screen (menu bars, docks, etc.) render off the edge of the screen. I saw that this morning on my MBP running macOS. The best minds in corporate support suggest apple shipped this week's MBPs with the wrong graphics driver. (we updated the driver and changed a few defaults and it works fine now. I can actually boot far enough to get a terminal window open.)
In 2002, I was in a Team Fortress Classic clan. Idling in IRC was a thing. ICQ, hammering F5 on forums, all not much different from today.
That's what burner phones are for.
For laser printer, it is specified on the plug. It protects only against power surge coming from the utility provider. It does not provide power to the printer, this is just a protection if your house is hit by lightning.
Depends on where you live, I guess. Where I grew up in NW Scotland you can easily rack up a couple of hundred miles a day without actually going anywhere.
> can't contact anyone at Google to try to sort it out

This is a huge problem with most tech companies. There is little to no human support which ends up with a complete loss of access to accounts and, sometimes, funds. Because the accounts are usually free or funds lost are way too tiny to warrant a suit, there is little to no accountability.
This is a good point. It also makes reasoning about classlists more clean, if all are guaranteed to be managed by your own code.
/s Helpfully, Stripe provides a path for exactly this https://stripe.com/docs/crypto/overview
Thanks!

This is a great overview demo of current panels! You can already see some very slight degradation in some of LGs OLEDs, but many of the Sony/Visio (and Samsung) OLED panels.

The others mostly look like standard LCD and DDI/Flex defects rather than burn-in so far.
You know that Stripe isn't the only payment game in town right?
They do if 1/3 of java’s keywords are there due to types.
Not a big fan of Tesla myself, but surely if they figure out self driving that’ll make their cars relevant for the forseeable future? On top of that they seem to be able to make cars cheaper and more quickly than most of the incumbents.
Might be a motivation to make a fully analog keyboard as well :)

(for example in a game moving slowly->full speed, controlling wheels, etc)
Yup! Google did this to me. I ran a forum and decided to put ads on it, which they were happy to do. When I attempted to cash out they accused me of committing clickfraud and refused to pay out. There was no way to appeal.

This is why, to this day, none of the businesses or startups I've been involved with have used Google products if we can avoid it. At the startup I was a founding engineer for we hosted on AWS despite Google's venture fund being one of our investors. Google's products just can't be trusted.
I approve of the use of relative metrics, Austin! Just be prepared for mmhash4 to be a few megabytes in size ;)
> Cicero invented the conspiracy of Catiline

The “extent of the exaggeration is unclear and still debated; most classicists agree that the conspiracy occurred as broadly described – rather than being a Machiavellian invention of Cicero's – but concede that its actual threat to the republic was exaggerated for Cicero's benefit and to heighten later dramatic narratives” [1]. Think: Giuliani invoking 9/11 at every turn of conversation.

> had Roman citizens put to death without trial

The Senate let him by passing the SCU [2]. He was quelling a rebellion and Rome had no jails. Again, not unblemished good guy, but given the circumstances, within the shadow of doubt.

> literally appointed and was a warrior on the side of the oligarchy (the Optimates) all his life

This is a callous reading of his policy views. He advocated for stability. He wasn’t Roman patrician elite, and had experienced what political instability in Rome meant in the countryside. He had loose alignment with Rome’s conservatives, but in a pragmatic way, and was on good terms with Caesar and even Octavian.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catilinarian_conspiracy

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senatus_consultum_ultimum
Hiya Aidan! :D

> Is this behaviour new?

Don't think so. Even the docs for SQLA v1.3 ([0]) mention it:

> native_enum – Use the database’s native ENUM type when available. Defaults to True. When False, uses VARCHAR + check constraint for all backends. The VARCHAR length can be controlled with Enum.length

[0]: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/type_basics.html#sqla...

--

> Or is it that alembic still doesn't pick up changes to the enum to recreate the constraint?

Off the top of my head, I believe Alembic doesn't pick it up automatically. We make a lot of manual tweaks to our auto-generated Alembic migrations and I believe adding / modifying the CHECK constrains is part of it.
I agree with most of what you wrote in this comment - I don't agree with your original comment that just seems to be rejecting analysis.

If police are protecting capital and those who control capital, then they're not uniformly malevolent - coming across as someone who, in another context, might be telling them what to do is likely to get you further with them.

Likewise, if one goal of individual police is to force people to "respect their authority", then you're going to have a better time when you do "respect" that authority, especially when you're at the business end of the stick. Note that I put the quotes there because you don't actually have to respect them in order to make them feel respected.

That's essentially what my argument boils down to - acknowledging their motivations, especially the nuances and not just painting with a broad brush, in a way that you personally can work with will be advantageous.
I always found Zoom great for latency and communication. For some reason Google vid hangouts had us unintentionally interrupting each other more frequently - don't know if they've improved that now. I think it's one hidden reason Zoom got more popular so quickly over other vid conf offerings.
...the part where you said that they're communists who support genocide, I guess? Basically all of it? [citations needed]?
How do you know where he was killed more accurately than the claim by the tourist grab?