skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently drove a 2019 Tesla Model 3 from NYC to Montreal via Vermont. Personally, I wouldn't do the route I took in a Tesla (/EV) again. The 'range anxiety' set definitely in during the trip because, when departing NYC, I entered my destination in Vermont and the navigation system showed I'd have 47% battery remaining upon arrival... I ended up arriving with 19% battery and I was in the middle of the nowhere. Due to the prevailing weather conditions (the car kept saying the battery was cold) and it was raining I guess the battery dropped quicker than it should have? I was stressing out because my wife would be late to meeting her client had I went to the nearest supercharger and I didn't know if I would have enough battery to make it to the charger if continued and dropped off to the client, given how fast the battery was dropping. After dropping her off, I had to charge the car a further 3 times at superchargers, adding an extra 1h45m to the whole trip to Montreal. I also charged the car once going from NYC to Brattleboro, which was another 30m, so almost 2h15m in spent charging the car.
too much of an implosion risk
I’m an outlier. An implant was around $7000 out of pocket, with insurance.
I think regardless Tesla is positioned to have a lot of value. Granted I don’t know a whole lot about it so let me know if I’m wrong but it seems like even if their cars fizzle out eventually they are still building the majority of electric car infrastructure. If more and more companies cut deals with Tesla to use their stations they may end up being some majority of the countries “gas stations”. If I were investing in them it’d be as an energy company instead of a car company.
Don't confuse production numbers with sales.

China has a problem with overproduction in some areas, EVs in particular. That's why they have fields of rotting EVs that they can't sell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8

Notice how that Forbes article confuses sales with shipments. They aren't the same thing.
Nvidia Shield would work for that with the Geforce Now service. Pros: don't have to pay unless stuck in queue and want priority or higher quality. Cons: have to own your games elsewhere for Geforce Now to be able to stream it (for license reasons), and it's about the same price as an Apple TV.

Game Pass Cloud does work on some smart TVs, mostly the latest ones from Samsung so if you got one of those then you don't even need a box. Amazon Luna is the same. Samsung TV.
This is expected in the US, the kicker is that even in the comfortably socialist EU dentists generally aren't included in the state healthcare unless it becomes an emergency room issue.

The dentist is in this regard a unique animal.
What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
There's definitely a lot games that don't run as well as they do on windows despite being generally playable on linux. It's nice to have a dual boot for games like that even if you play the vast majority of games on the linux side.
When can we have anything effective against tinnitus...
> Why would any country in a remotely adversarial relationship with America disclose their foreign reserves

Yes - that's the point. It shows intentions against US interests.
Weird article trying to make the obvious point that everyone has flaws and makes mistakes and we shouldn’t blindly worship people. Duh.

Fails to mention that the same French government that concocted a stupid lottery that Voltaire and many others could game (not scam) repeatedly harassed and effectively banished Voltaire for his opinions. I find it hard to interpret Voltaire or anyone criticizing corrupt governments and exposing state-run gambling schemes as immoral. No one ever has claimed Voltaire stands as a paragon of virtue.
At some point there were 275 people on facebook
Although, every Hummer that is replaced by a Hummer EV is a pretty big win.
God I hope it's not that soon. There's like nowhere to charge an electric car near me.

They really need to work on charging infrastructure before they convince me to buy an electric car.

And the cost still needs to come way, way down. It seems like every electric car that has any decent range is a luxury car. I don't want a luxury car, I just want a super basic cheap car to get me from point a to point b.
Bingo. This ruling will change absolutely nothing.
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Almost all of those sales are in China though. They're starting to enter Western markets and having some success, mostly by being the cheapest EVs around, but Tesla is still outselling them 4:1 in Australia despite steeper price tags.
>What is HNs view on the Cybertruck?

I can’t speak for everyone, but if it has vehicle to home power and a button to the play Mad Max fury road theme while shooting flames… I’m buying one.
Not a capability problem then, simply gatekeeping.
smartest? id agree in darling paypal days but have you see whats going on over in tw*terland?
I think that's an especially uncharitable read of that, and taken out of context. He's saying you should assess the folks in your team and possible opportunities for them in their career path, because Product isn't a clear cut ladder like many other careers are. He didn't say this person was a troublemaker, he said that if they're really focused on the outside edge cases of expert users that they may be better suited focusing all of their time and energy on expert users in a role that allows for that, vs being expected to represent users that they don't care about. It's mostly about aligning people's passions and interests with the company.

You put a very negative spin on something that seems to be written with an intent towards positivity.
If the bed size is like the lightning couldn't it just be an expensive electric pickup for the top 10% earners to drive around in the city?
Rap Genius (Genius.com) was sold at a loss a few years ago[1]. The annotation idea is, simply put, bad. The only part of Genius.com that made any money was the lyrics serving (they have deals with Spotify and Apple Music iirc); the lyrics explaining, on the other hand, no one cared about.

I'm not exactly sure why the annotation idea is bad, but it has been tried many times now (yours truly included) and has failed over and over again. It probably has something to do with our faulty intuition. It makes sense that it should work (the internet is virtually the perfect medium), but in reality, it stubbornly doesn't want to.

[1] https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/genius-sold-medialab-w...
TSLA net income ~12.5 billion

TM net income ~2.5 billion

The relative valuation seems about right. Also, your P/E ratio for TSLA seems really high. It’s about a third of that.
There is no time, just movement. How do you measure time? You watch how something moves. If everything in the universe stopped moving, time wouldn't pass. No movement, no time. Want to go back in time? Simple. Move every piece of matter and energy in the universe back to where it was. Since we can't do that, time feels like it only moves in one direction.

The bigger question in my mind has always been Newton's first law. Why does everything move forever? From the smallest quark to the largest black holes... Nothing ever stops. That's weird.
To me, VC-funded is exactly what worries me.

Unnecessary pressure and unrealistic growth expectations push toward quick and sure enshittification of a successful service or the shutdown of an insufficiency (unrealistic) successful one.

My hat said I love phind very much - hope you can stay in business.
My whole point was to care about enterprise value and growth rate over market cap and p/e
Factorio has a great dev blog. They don't show the code, but they go pretty in-depth on some challenges they have to overcome.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/
Same here. Once I thought the nightmare was over another team's dependent project's jest started failing for a different reason.
> It might work for some use cases, but being able to receive a payment is often only part of the story. There's reconciliation, settlement, refunds, tax reporting, handling of/liability for fraud disputes and much more.

Disputes are quite simplified by the fact that this is always a "customer present" transaction; the platforms generally simply do not provide the ability for the payer to dispute and this is understood by the payer.

Refunds are fully supported by every QR system in wide use. Reporting and reconciliation is different but not a problem; the QR service providers all integrate with POS systems and accounting systems.

In many cases in these markets, merchants and consumers both went from dealing mostly with cash to dealing mostly with QR, so there is less of a legacy issue.

> For example, consider a rental car agency or a hotel reservation. These usually make extensive use of the pre-authorization "feature" [1] of credit cards to reserve a deposit without actually charging it before the final billing amount is known. After a rental car is returned, toll charges are often posted to the card weeks or months after the rental.

> QR payment systems often don't support these use cases at all (since they're usually payer-initiated and confirmed); and even if they did, chances are that their API semantics are sufficiently different from credit cards as to require significant reworking of the POS and/or backoffice systems of the merchant.

Bharat QR (India), Alipay & WeChat Pay (China) and QRIS (Indonesia) all support pre-auth and are widely accepted for hotels and car rentals in their respective markets.

Sure, the APIs are different, but that hasn't prevented almost universal adoption in the world's largest and second-largest markets (India & China) and rapid ongoing adoption in the world's fourth-largest (Indonesia).
I hope this attack becomes more popular. I truly do.

Maybe these attacks will finally force regulators to do something about the financial parasites we call "payment processors". Any payment processing system that doesn't act like a public utility is broken and needs fixing.

I think the only digital payment system that comes close to acting like a utility right now is cryptocurrecny which is a sad, sad state of affairs.

OP: While not a complete solution, you might be able to partially mitigate this by allowing customers to pay you in other forms (e.g aforementioned cryptocurrency, bank transfers). That's what the porn industry and other legal businesses end up doing when they inevitably find themselves in your position.

If your customers want your product badly enough, a small fraction of them will learn how to use these payment methods. You'll have to learn to survive on those alone.
This could probably be used by any company. Just pick some Linux kernel bugs or a GitHub issue from some software you like/support. It doesn’t have to be “your” software specifically, and it gets around copy-paste leetcode problems.
If you don’t get dental insurance through work it’s generally not worth it (premiums > typical expense).

That doesn’t sound necessarily bad — insurance is for the extraordinary events anyway, right? But when my kid had his wisdom teeth out or I was hit by a car and needed a crown to hold a damaged tooth together, my regular health insurance covered it, not dental insurance.
China has a much larger problem with unsellable ICE vehicles which don't meet the new emission standards they're about to introduce.
Also I feel there are 2 other significant variables in play. Software is often an oligopoly type market. Self driving is likely to rewrite car manufacturers to those that solve this well and those that don't. Tesla for right or wrong has been viewed as one of the best bets here.

Elon factor. He's been a significant factor in quite a number of significant companies created. That seems an attractive bet he will do good things vs anyone else.
I still think it is funny that javascript has nothing to do with java except marketing
Having a private security guard seemed to discourage individual casual shoplifters, but it didn't scale well to organized groups.

Some stores limit the number of customers that are permitted in the store at one time, but it's a pain when you are required to queue outside.
This page is taking me back to the top when I scroll to the bottom. It's infuriating.
> almost nobody has a three-button mouse laying around

With the exception of a trackpad or Magic Mouse (or whatever Apple calls it), doesn’t everyone using a mouse have a three button mouse? Is the scroll-wheel click no longer used as middle click by default? Even Apple’s best mouse, the Mighty Mouse, can middle click.
My guess is they’re referring to the business lounges as being better in Europe than the US, which agrees with my experience (to your point, yes, often the gate seating is lacking).
The best thing about 95% of the users is that potentially no one is actually in that group.

Because product features don't exist in isolation. 95% of your users can share a pool of common features, but then every single one of them can have some divergent, extra feature as an utterly vital component of their workflow - without which the product does not fit.

Leading to the paradox: you eliminate features which aren't used by 95% of the user-base when looked at in isolation...and at the end of the day, your product isn't still suitable for 95% of the users, it's potentially usable for 0% of them.
FWIW (I'm probably the only one ever likely to read this), in Ch. 7.0 Lightman, Press, Price, and Teukolsky's Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation puts the previous comment in reverse (which I love and will steal). The entire brief section quoted below is glorious in its economy of English, too.

Forgive the lazy \latex anyone who actually sees this, including future me.

"If u is the tangent vector to a curve, a tensor Q is said to be parallel propagated along the curve if \nabla_u Q = 0. If the tangent vector is itself parallel propagated, \nabla_u u = 0 (tangent vector "covariantly constant") the curve is a geodesic, the generalization of a straight line in flat space. If x^\alpha(\lambda) is the geodesic (with u^\alpha = dx^\alpha / d\lambda) then the components of the geodesic equation are

0 = (\nabla_u u)^\mu = \frac{du^\mu}{d\lambda} + u^\alpha u^\beta \Gamma^\mu_{\alpha\beta}.

"Here \lambda must be an affine parameter along the curve; for non-null curves this means \lambda must be proportional to the proper length.

"If a curve is timelike, u is its tangent vector, and a := \nabla_u u = Du/d\tau, then a vector V is said to be Fermi-Walker transported along u if \nabla_u V = (u \otimes a - a \otimes u) \cdot V."

See also problem 7.11 and its solution.

Also of interest is Matthias Blau et al. 2006, "Fermi coordinates and Penrose limits". doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/11/020 hep-th/0603109 which adapts Fermi coordinates to null geodesics. (abs. "(Fermi coordinates are direct measures of geodesic distance in space-time)... We describe in some detail the construction of Fermi coordinates" §4, "We now come to the general construction of Fermi coordinates associated to a null geodesic \gamma in a space-time with Lorentzian metric g_munu. Along \gamma we introduce a parallel transported pseudo-orthonormal frame ... Fermi coordinate are uniquely determined by a choice of pseudo-orthonormal frame along the null geodesic \gamma" "For many (in particular more advanced) purposes it is useful to rephrase the above construction of Fermi coordinates in terms of the Synge world function").
Modern media is all about making the dumb layman pattern match into outrage. See: All the PPP talk in response to the student loan debt ruling.
> Package.json, no such thing for Deno (not unless you go out of your way to infect Deno with it)

Yeah...this always felt like a bug in Deno. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> scripts, doesn't matter since all Deno projects have the same tools built-in (benchmarker, bundler, compiler, formatted, linter, task runner, test runner, etc...)

AND...you therefore can't do anything outside of the box in a well-defined way. Oops.

Example: How do I run just the main server and not a worker? How do I seed the database?

> dependencies doesn't matter anywhere near as much because Deno comes with a standard library

Sigh. Yeah. Really. You said that.

OK, using the standard library, please:

- Parse Excel files, modify them, and rewrite them to disk.

- Load and modify a PNG and write it out as a JPG. Be sure you scale it down using a Lanczos kernel.

> eslint doesn't matter since deno has a linter

One of the most powerful eslint rules for TypeScript is the detection of dangling promises. A quick glance at the deno lint rules doesn't see anything that will handle this critical lint rule.

And OOPS, adding eslint to the project in a standardized way isn't possible because there's no package.json!

... I could go on.

Sorry, but Deno fanboying is so last year.
If this can effectively regrow replacement teeth it seems that the dentist will want more than anything to suppress or somehow monopolize the technology in order to maintain their role as "fixers of teeth".

Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before any doctor (or layman) will be able to pull damaged teeth and then easily regrow them, avoiding the endless thousands that would be otherwise charged for dental repairs.
The war in Ukraine has shown that highly integrated drone operator's with small UASs can fill that role. In the future, it isn't going to be a USAF or CIA operated drone circling at 40,000 ft, launching a $200,000 missile or dropping a $25,000 bomb... it will be a platoon or battalion level loitering munition operated by the people on the ground that costs $3,000 or $5,000.
One annoyance about the UI (for me at least) is the real lack of information density. Hacker News manages to show 15 stories without even scrolling, while this manages to present... 3?

For starters, individual posts in the Explore view[0] are wayyyy too big, while not providing much information at all. Look at the Comments button, for instance: why is that on a separate line?

After 5 minutes of experimentation, I was able to condense the post item down to the following: https://i.imgur.com/KthkpPQ.png
While it does have some kinks, it looks much better and presents a greater amount of information in about 30% less space. Low-hanging fruit, I'd say.

[0]: https://rings.social/r/popular
I got used to this by my second road trip and it’s a nonissue. You control discharge rate Tina large extent. Battery on track to hit 0? Low speed from 74 to 69 and you do just fine and arrive at 12%. Have near 50k miles in road trips and won’t ever buy a Dino bone burner again.
What a fragging amazing treasure. Rushkoff has just gotten better and better over time, more and more on point. Humble fun opening:

> I thought i was supposed to go out there to do this talk on the digital future & do this talk on the digital future - you know what I usually do -& just try to make people angry, you know- wealthy people upset by telling them people what this technology is for, and all that, and business plans are stupid, and killing the world....

Real talk middle, about the brutal indifferent stasism of AI:

> The dataset on which we are feeding our ai's is us. Is what we are actually doing. We have created a situation where we have a generation of very powerful children learning how to be, based on how we are.

> The only way to raise appropriately AIs is to begin behaving appropriately ourselves.
The lightning has a dog shit battery though. It has terrible range even without towing/payload load.

Nobody has an actual viable electric truck right now. Cybertruck stats remain to be seen.
Once a year trip sounds totally fine for significant work
Toyota and Tesla don’t just manufacture and sell cars they have a more complicated business model. Tesla’s EV charging network for example should clearly be part of their valuation and is unrelated to Toyota’s business strategy.

IMO people are heavily discounting Toyota’s stock compared to their car/total sales for two reasons. Most critically their 200+ Billion dollars of debt, but also the significant sign of mismanagement from their useless investment in Hydrogen.

Hydrogen aircraft/heavy equipment could have real utility, but it’s simply not compelling for passenger vehicles. High capital and operating costs + low energy density + low efficiency all for faster fueling times.
In the same way some people may be mad at Trump but more mad at an abusive parent, yes. Maybe Trump even personally influenced that parent to be what they are today, but I don't think that it's a controversial statement to suggest that many people can't properly scale powers and chains of responsibility in their heads.

Even if they do, it may not matter. One is doing immediate, local damage and you'll probably never be in a state to singlehandedly usurp Trump (ignoring for a fact that crow eating is imminent).better to deal with the local problem even if we could objectively agree that Trump has done more damage to a society.
For me it's more about emotional fatigue broadly. Transfers are annoying for any number of reasons, risk of lateness being only one of many. I would much rather front-load the annoyance and then get to relax, than to have to deal with annoyance after already traveling a long time.
> maybe AI mainstream adoption will take longer than we anticipate

I mean, I'm in "tech", and I don't anticipate it happening soon. People want something they can trust, and current solutions are nowhere near that.
you only charge on road trips. Charging at home has no analogue with gas cars... It's just something that's intrinsically better about EVs
Agreed. I tried to remedy it to the best of my ability[0]; there's a lot of room for improvement.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36568295
what is the difference between 20k doctors/lawyers/enginners/ in developing countries and 250k doctors/lawyers/enginners in developed countries? It is the same answer. On average or in general , doctors (and also software engineers) in developed countires are going to be more capable and competent (there will be some individual exceptions but it is not relevant in general). But the salary is mainly determined by market forces independent of their skill levels. A great doctor who goes to work in a hospital in developing countries will not make 250k no matter how good he is. same for programmer. A medicore programmer who goes to work in US will take at least 50k per year.
I can relate to what you describe from personal experience. I definitely want to mitigate earlier than later on my trip, even for a train ride from the suburbs where i live and downtown where I work, which is about 2 hours now (the train schedule is messed up with a new train line that is late on delivery and way over budget (public budget)). That's why I really enjoy remote work, I don't have to think about that stuff anymore.