skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've actually driven an EV, you realize mileage is a crock of shit so getting 700 miles actually means you can not worry.

* You can't use the bottom 10% without going against recommendations

* You shouldn't charge above 85-90% to avoid going against recommendations

* If you drive over 65 mph, the drain is above average.

* If you tow a trailer, your range is halved.

* If you install a little storage roof rack, you lose 20-30% of range

* You experience 10% battery degradation in the first couple years of ownership.

* 20% loss to cold weather (Thanks to a comment for this one)

I really don't want a reply to this comment to be "Well...gas engines..."
She’s a Smash Hit in Latin America, Even If Her Korean Mom Disapproves
This was not worth reading. Skip it.
Could you elaborate on that? I've not been aware of any.
Some of those are just definitions. Not sure what's the usefulness of det(A) = |A| or c=λf, it's not like one would need to look that up.
by Dilbert hell do you mean Kafkaesque office politics? or is there like a specific kind of Dilbert hell?
Or why can’t an EV drive up to a gas station and pick up a towable battery to get to the next stop. I’ve heard it’s done in China.
There was no contract. The result of Leonard v Pepsico makes lots of sense read in the context of something like Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (the classic English contract law case every student learns).

In Carlill the Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. claimed it had never intended a contract to arise, that the advertisements were just "puffery" and no reasonable person should have expected (as Carlill did) that if they do what it says in the advert and yet they get Influenza anyway (Carbolic Smoke Balls were a bogus cure for flu) they can claim the £100 stated (then a considerable sum of money) like it says in the advert. The judge said well, why does the advert explain that the company has £1000 in a bank account? If there's no intention to pay people money, why did you make a bank account, put money in it and tell them about it? No, this is clearly a contract, you offered, she accepted by performance, now you need to pay the nice lady.

But Pepsico clearly doesn't expect to give out fighter jets. It doesn't have any fighter jets, and the depicted scenario is ludicrous, which is exactly the opposite situation.

We can see that - at least after the initial hype - John Leonard saw this as a profile opportunity more than a serious attempt to get Pepsico to give him a jet, when he's like oh, this shouldn't be a Federal trial, this should be in front of a jury of my peers, and I define "My peers" to be "The Pepsi generation" that's clearly not serious any more.
> It's quite embarrassing to be paying the lease on an empty office though.

While I agree, and I can imagine CEOs/CFOs in a hard spot over a 10-year lease with an empty office, what is better: to just pay what you had promised if downsizing is not possible, or pay and have disgruntled employees, with most of them immediately starting to look for another job and leaving as soon as they manage to find it?
What are some examples of something more productive? Hobbies and family time?
Raw Cow Milk Consumption and the Atopic March (2021)
You aren't gaining experience every second of those 20 years. There is definitely a large condensation factor to be had here and knowledge can be transferred in written word. What are we saying here? The only method of communication has to be done via hip thrusts and eye brow waggles?
Sorry, I wouldn't have been so harsh had I not suspected the entire blog was AI spam. Good luck with your back. (And please do at least some basic resistance training, even just once a week.)

> The text content of the blog is all hand-written by me, not AI, although I do use AI (Stability) to create the header images.

Well, you can't really fault people for suspecting you're using AI for other things too, can you? It's almost a form of gaslighting. You also apparently did an AI-generated podcast? (According to your profile.)
These uses no OS specific calls because of on-going rumors for a while of a move to Linux.

But by testing on OpenBSD, issues have been found that AIX and Linux would happily ignore.
I didn't want to put full context in the post as it could be distracting, but it's for http://random-character.com

There's a varied user base - some use it to help with writer's block, some chuck it into chatgpt to make some kind of game or story, some use it to practice art, and one of the earliest uses was some NPC generator. I do get questions in the suggestions form, which is weird because they often don't attach an email address to respond to those questions.

There's likely no offline equivalent, it's likely a bunch of people who come in from Bing to talk about similar interests. I had a Discord but it didn't click, maybe because of the lack of critical mass - there's just too many discord servers and nobody wants to stay in one with only a single person.

Also the other thing is I'm considering adding modding, and I'd like people to be able to share their mods, gauge interest, and get support. However, without a community, it makes little sense to allow mods.
IDK about how much wear and tear I inflict on my doors and floors by programming from home.

You would have a better point by arguing about energy consumption, there the difference might actually be significant. If you, e.g., need to run your air conditioning in hot summer.
So what sorts of consumer protections come with FedNow? The current consensus has been that ACH is the cheapest, and most dangerous, way to pay for things. Debit card being less dangerous, and a credit card being safer than the two. Because with a credit card, no money has left your account, and there are chargebacks, although I suppose these could get you blacklisted by a vendor. Credit card issuers often offer insurance of some kind on your purchases, as well.

What about privacy? Is FedNow requiring people to exchange bank account and routing numbers? You know, like when I receive a box of checks and it's got big red warning signs on it to "Protect Your Personal Information! Don't Show These to Anyone! (except everyone you are going to pay)"

If FedNow will be integrated into POS, what will be our instrument of payment? A smartphone with NFC?
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I was just saying I don't think they are as far behind as many think. They seem to have all the components to make an EV.

As to why they haven't executed and delivered a car, who knows. Could be lack of profitability at the projected numbers they could sell vs cost to bring up a manufacturing line - in addition to, as you mentioned, cannibalization of more profitable products. VW, BMW, ... etc. are they making money or just eating losses selling EVs right now?

Maybe they aren't rushing it, it is a relatively new type of "engine/fuel" for them, and they want all the kinks and gotchas worked out before they release something to preserve their reputation for reliability.

That said, just because they haven't released anything doesn't necessarily mean they can't.
Deutsche Bank was one of the first places I worked at, closer to its heyday, I absolutely loved it. But it has been in decline for years, and has a lot of management issues, and fiefdoms.

One of my favorite stories to retell is my wife had a job there also and she had a medical issue from a car wreck. Her boss said the bank couldn’t function if she was doing physical therapy two hours a week, basically fired her, all the paperwork was drawn up, sent to a manager in London to sign. The manager in London was “too important” to sign things so he just leaves it for someone else to rubber stamp in his name the next day. Meanwhile my wife goes across the street (literally), gets a doctor to sign her disability paperwork, walks it into HR - and instead of doing physical therapy two hours a week she was on paid medical leave for almost a year. Her termination paperwork did get signed eventually but because she was on a protected leave they had to throw it out.
It is clear choice between bad alternatives. Unless you realistically think we’re going to make cash transfers a thing then this boils down to “better above ground in the rain than below in the dirt”.
Now Everyone Can Be a Math Person (Thanks to Covid)
Large floor plates make it difficult to fit in smaller, affordable apartments with their own windows and full utilization of the interior. The rich already have their dedicated aeries so they don't need to live in a conversion to find large spaces.
I will help you - what happens when you break the law you didn't agree to? The government uses aggression to punish you.
"It"?

Activities which proliferated nuclear waste during nuclear research activities in the ~1940s... became illegal in the 1980s?

I'm saying that we need retroactive prosecution. People are financially liable for polluting the planet. They knew they were working with toxic materials.

I'm saying: The individuals involved with the earliest nuclear tests should be prosecuted for spewing nuclear waste throughout the planet's air, water, and soil. Retroactively.

They are the responsible parties.

The US Military likewise should be heavily prosecuted for being the top global single-entity polluter

The problem is that the nations, corporations, and people who did the polluting are above the law.
Piece of feedback- the screenshots in the App Store look like fake iPhones (wrong shape) which (I believe) hurts the overall polish / trustworthiness of the app.

(After a quick browse in App Store) Splitwise and Feedly do this well. AllTrails is a bit more abstract but gets the shape right.
riscv provides a vector unit instead of a traditional simd
At least here in Toronto (linked article is Bloomberg Canada), banks (minus tech department) are back to office 5 days a week. I just feel like outside of tech, wfh isn't much of a debate.
I agree, and the rewards system gives consumers a false idea that they are getting a net benefit. The new game is charging a 3.99% service charge to the customer to pay with card, which takes the pressure off the vendor and allows the processor to take a larger cut. In some places, like tourist traps, you don't have any other options. The ATM in town might charge $3.99 withdrawal fees as well.

I was told by an insider that the reason why emv+pin is not used in the US is because Visa/MC actually profit from fraud. If fraud were cut considerably, you could argue that the network is only providing 5-10¢ of value per transaction, and cut their rates with legislation.

If we went to a system like PIX in Brazil, and dropped rewards, we could do away with most of the industry. People would only use credit cards if they needed credit.

Maybe we'll see some legislation in the future.
Is this HN's auto-capitalizer? The title should be “STEM Formulas”.

It's a nice collection, it could keep me glued for hours thinking about all this stuff.
They may be a necessary evil for large production of the industry but you can make do without them when you make your owns that you will eat in the following 3 days. It is still a bonus in that case.
> Government can provide incentives to people without enforcing that everybody follows those incentives.

But the only way it can do that is by coercing other people. For example, if the incentives are monetary, the government must first obtain that money – which it does through coercive taxation.

It's coercion all the way down.
Got it now. And yes, rubbery paneer is not good.
Referring to the "small startup experience" not mattering - I would say it is almost like an alternate track as an engineer.

I have trouble landing interviews at FAANGs with 15+ years as an eng. and successful acquisitions as a founder - but those don't mean anything if you don't have direct knowledge of certain tools to handle scale or experience guiding projects across departments, etc. Which makes sense for any role past junior, since part of the value you bring is experience and only some of your experience is directly applicable. Vaguely being competent doesn't really move the needle.

On the other hand, I've heard stories of people getting hired from a FAANG going to a startup and not able to shift their mindset to a "make it work" approach, so the challenge goes both ways.
SQL injection is super trivial to prevent, right? How are we still falling for this? Is there any compliance audit regime that would catch this (presumably DoE has some pretty strict compliance protocols?), or is all compliance stuff just security theater?
Yes, I agree with all of this. But you’re still not going to have a bank with zero capital. We don’t have infinitely leveraged banks, for good reason :)

I’m still missing how this negates the money multiplier though. If banks are subject to reserve requirements, doesn’t the money multiplier still give a reasonable upper bound for the amount of money that can be created?
"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

- Warren Buffett
I used to use OpenBSD about a decade ago, I liked it quite a bit. I haven’t paid attention for over a decade though. Does anyone know how the maintainer base has evolved? I guess my main question is will OpenBSD survive Theo’s death?
I don't think these kinda of comparisons are valid.

The cheapest yoghurts have all a very bad taste and consistency in the mouth while those you will do at home taste on par with those you pay a premium for.
Have you considered reaching out to a local uni? An above average uni student could be better and cheaper than the average junior dev
At least for me, it’s one of those things I never knew I needed… until I had it, and now it’s like second nature. It’s like a much better version of the “switch tabs with scroll wheel” extensions I used to use on desktop.
> gives incentive to the employees to demand actual wages instead of the bull shit system we have now.

Ah good, revolutionary theory to support not tipping.

Sorry to have to break this to you, but "incentive" for employees to fight back is not the issue when it comes to the power dynamic between service employees and enormous companies that employ them.

Don't get me wrong, everyone unionizing and having a general strike until tipped wages are abolished seems like it would be a better solution.

But this attitude punishes people already under massive stress for not taking on extra stress and risk getting fired for complaining in the hopes that eventually the system will course correct (with how many victims between now and then?).
they were not things from a modern author. They're direct quotes from the office of strategic services (so old that it's from before OSS was the CIA). Quick google would have helped you know that. https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...
Every other manufacturer calls this a series hybrid or electric with range-extender.

They have cost challenges - because if you want to drive one at a constant 80 mph on the freeway, you need at least ~50 horsepower of gasoline generator, ~50 horsepower of generator ~ 50 horsepower of generator inverter, ~50 horsepower of motor, ~50 horsepower of motor inverter.

Turns out all of that costs and weighs a lot more than just 100 horsepower of gasoline engine for a similar size car.

Cars like the BMW i3 with range extender undersize their gas engine and generator to save money and weight, yet are getting sued because in worst case conditions (driving up a mountain heavily laden), sometimes the car runs out of battery power and has to rely on gasoline alone, leading to a top speed of only 20 mph - not really usable!
Nobody here did so and I've never heard anyone anywhere say so. In every instance ever there are various events often over days or weeks and when anyone of a certain stripe talks about the entire period it's as if Joe random stealing a playstation and Bob somebody standing in the street are part of a connected whole instead of disconnected events that share no meaningful connection beyond the tangential.

This complete failure of analysis comes through when the individual is completely incapable of disintangling disconnected events from each other as if people holding signs destroyed a community. This usually coincides with holding views opposite of the protestors wherein the speaker is attempting to degrade the opposition by fictitious association with criminality. It often further coincides with exaggerating actually negative events within scope in an attempt to generate an emotional instead of rational response.

Eg 10,000 people protest, 5 people loot a Walmart and we degrade the 10,000 by declaring that "protestors" burned down the city as if a meaningful portion of the people protesting looted the Walmart in protest rather than 5 opportunists.

If you look at it a little closer it's not much different from having a million immigrants having 99 rapes committed by citizens and 1 by an immigrant and declaring immigrants rapists even when the population commits the act at no higher rate than baseline.

It's manipulative, disingenuous, and unhelpful.

In short we never started calling looting protesting so have no need to stop doing so.
> The lack of determinism can be considered a type of strength. Run it multiple times! It might find different bugs each time.

I’ve only tried it with code a little bit, but what I find is that it gives me hallucinations that I need to spend time figuring out. I don’t know what it’s saying, because it’s gibberish, and then I have to spend my time figuring out it’s not accurate. I don’t want to run on that treadmill.

I’m guessing software will continue the trend of getting less reliable as more people are willing to generate it via an AI.
> An interesting question is whether lotteries should publish the number of tickets sold...

Don't many State lotteries publish a "where your lottery dollar goes" breakdown - showing the percentages of ticket sales revenue going pay winners, going to support State programs, going to reseller commissions, and going to Lottery administrative overhead? With that breakdown, a history of the jackpot sizes, and some number-crunching, you should be able to get pretty good feel for ticket sales for each drawing.
3:13 on digital clocks without leading zero is the king of time.
So he’s a mastermind because he did the easier thing?
Ok. Most of my experience the switches will have 2 modes for each port: 1G/2.5G/10G/25G/100G or 10M/100M/1G/2.5G. This is typical for datacenter switches. Found this out when my trusty 10/100M USB dongle couldn't establish link. I needed to upgrade to a 1G USB3 dongle.
And the R for reliability.
What's not to like? Wear a hood. Pull a lever. Get your fat check. It sure beats answering a phone.
They announced the Cybertruck that year and they still haven't delivered one, and ditto for the new Roadster 2 years prior. Tesla has demonstrated that long development cycles aren't bad, especially when creating a new tech (the Model Y is built on the Model 3 platform)
It does, but it’s really quirky! Any browser getting it right without so many weird quirks would be a compelling option for me.
I would rather work in a call centre over factory work, food production, retail, cleaning etc. None of these jobs are fun, but millions of people have to do them.
I think the question of "Where else would it go?" is a real one that is currently driving the Blackrocks of the world to create BTC etfs. Its another vehicle to park the money in.
MVP comment right here. Thanks for taking the effort to type this up.
the conplexity of the combustion generator is pretty low

To add: you can always run the engine at its most efficient rpm, getting the most out of every liter of fuel.
When the paper value of an asset disappears you don't get the money back to spend elsewhere. Nobody does.

Just like lending creates money, destruction of assets destroys money. Which happens to be what we want right now, as long as it can be done in an orderly fashion.
Nope, it was necessary for our survival in that it allowed us to get energy-dense food (in combination with cooking) instead of wasting all our energy in gathering food with little nourishment at the end of the day.

We are Coctivores more than Omnivores - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7EccYugxhQ
The body knows how to do stuff. The more I pay attention, the more I realize that I (the thinking I) don’t get involved in most of it.

This has been a very liberating realization.

Really cool to hear that you’ve had a similar experience.
I hate lotteries and gambling in general. Take from the hopeful, give to the lucky. And the house (almost) always wins. Yes, I have some respect for those who can game the system, because I like the house losing, but their winnings are still taken from the hopeful (or worse, the naive and stupid).
In the UK this isn’t even limited to office space. Business rates on any kind of retail space are so absurdly high that it is a huge barrier to entry for setting up shop.

They haven’t adapted to the continuing death of the high street at all, so you have loads of property sitting empty because the rates to lease it, on top of the rent, are too much.

In fact, a loophole was to allow a business shop to set up rent-free for a few months, and then close up just before they were due to cover tax and business rates, allowing the landlord to keep the property vacant for a while longer. This is how places like Oxford Street in London became inundated with ‘American Candy’ Stores.
Voltaire made a fortune in more or less the same way in 1730 [1].

> This system worked best if a consortium of players bought tickets together and split the winnings, so, writes Pearson, Voltaire, de la Condamine and 11 compatriots teamed up and by June 1730, all had made a tidy sum.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/voltaire-enlighten...
> Obviously it's not impossible, since it's happening on my laptop.
Well, zstd cli is more optimized for multithreading and asynchrounous i/o. zstd is overlapping cpu decompression with reading/writing. Additionally zstd compressed data is more dense. It's possible that on your notebook you have lz4 decompression including i/o slower that zstd. This is not the way lz are compared in general. Otherwise nobody will use lz4 anymore.

> I haven't tried TurboBench, but this is what I get when running the built-in lz4 and zstd benchmarks
You can see, even on your machine lz4 is faster than zstd.
Now it's obvious that asynchrounous i/o + multithreading is making the difference in the cli case.

> However, I don't understand exactly what this metric means. Does it mean that lz4 can ingest the input at ~4 GB/s or that it produces the output at ~4 GB/s?
In data compression the metrics are always relative to the original uncompressed size.

> But in any case, what matters to me as a user is how quickly I can compress and decompress a file.
Well, this depends of the use case. I'm using 7zip (GUI) and it's working fine for me.

It's very hard to make benchmarks when multithreading or i/o is involved. You'll get often different results on different hardware configurations and the number of threads.
Absolutely insane that this gained absolutely no traction on here.
This bill is basically an admission that Grusch was telling the Truth and that the only way they can get access to it is to create this bill.

I thought Hacker News was pro technology. This is potentially the most advanced technology humanity has ever witnessed. The amount of power these crafts have been shown to exhibit is multiple gigawatts within seconds based on their luminosity and movement.