skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Type 2 spec there is an additional resistor on the control pins of the cord that communicate the current capacity of the cord to the car. That, along with the signaled capacity of the station gives the car the maximum current it can draw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_connector
Good job on standing up for yourself! Your manager is a dick. I think quitting is the opposite of lack of courage to be honest. Staying there would be doing them a favor and not yourself.
Paramount discloses data breach following security incident
I don’t see any Labour MPs planning to repeal those acts; nor did they vote against the bills.
Honestly, I don't understand why they don't just switch the battery to percentage by default for Teslas. The trip meter using the built in GPS is extremely accurate for getting to actual % remaining based on the route traveled. No confusion, no hassle. Percentage just means percentage. Just like on a cars gas meter.
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“Over the past year, we’ve been collecting Tesla data with a new methodology, using distance between charging sessions and local temperatures, instead of the top-line dashboard range displayed to drivers. With over 360,000 charging cycles from over 12,000 Teslas on the road, and with feedback from thousands of our active Tesla drivers, we’re ready to pull back the curtain on Tesla’s range performance in hot and cold weather. “

I’d like to hear more about this methodology. Tesla drivers are fanatical about keeping batteries between 20 and 80% charge, but how their analysis deals with this isn’t clear. There’s the other issue of the percent charge not being as accurate 1 to 1 with range miles. Are they calculating kWh/mi and using some reference usable battery capacity?
Figma is beyond chrome, it's a quantum app: it's both in a state that will lock up my pc while everyone on zoom waits for the screen to load and a journey in following designer's instructions: "no a bit more left, no actually right, ok go down, no up, ok back go the left a bit, ok here it is!", same vibe as rally racing lol
I have highlighted numerous security flaws in my organization — e.g., forced password changes every 60 days, resulting in many employees using simple passwords — which I've been told were the result of certifications or regulations.

It seems like a quintessential example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Either the prescribed solutions are bad, or the drive to check off boxes in an audit results in shallow implementations that appear to do something but don't actually.
First names are defined more by fashion than anything else.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/tesla-created-secret-team-to...

Then, when the battery fell below 50% of its maximum charge, the algorithm would show drivers more realistic projections for their remaining driving range, this person said. To prevent drivers from getting stranded as their predicted range started declining more quickly, Teslas were designed with a “safety buffer,” allowing about 15 miles (24 km) of additional range even after the dash readout showed an empty battery, the source said.

The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, this person said.

“Elon wanted to show good range numbers when fully charged,” the person said, adding: “When you buy a car off the lot seeing 350-mile, 400-mile range, it makes you feel good.”
Do the Tesla range estimates not adapt to recent driving?

I drive a Chevy Volt, and it "learns" from recent drives and will estimate range partly based on that, so it'll adapt to weather effects and to highway vs city driving patterns. It feels like there's both a short-term adjustment (updating range during a drive) and a more medium-term adjustment (estimating how far it can go on a full charge the next day), but they may be the same thing in practice.

There's a lot of "people have too much range anxiety, you'll want to stop every 2 hours anyway", but if you get ~50% of EPA range in the winter (per graph in TFA) and on road trips you only recharge 70% of that range (10% back to 80%), you're now down to 35% of the promised ~330mi range = 110miles. Bleh.
I don't know how they did it, but the range estimate on any recent VW group EV is really super accurate, especially if you set a destination in the navigation. It's very impressive. It really helps with road tripping because it's so consistent. In both my e-tron and my Taycan (which have the same infotainment software), I'd know that I'd beat the destination charge estimate by about 5% on a full charge with my driving style.
Yes, I have years of runway so that I can.
This is just not true. We are changing the earth in ways that is killing existing life but we are not threatening the existence of life or humanity as a whole. No matter what happens humans will adapt and life will evolve to fill new niches.
Isn't that the EPA's fault not Tesla's fault? It's just a metric for comparison really.

My expectation is that other manufacturer's vehicles that generally have shorter ranges would have a real-world deviation from real world ranges. Unless Tesla is unique in having ranges well below the EPA rating, then we really shouldn't be pointing the finger at Tesla, but the EPA system.
Okay then link a microcontroller that can do that in under 1 milisecond?
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The thing is - the ideal solution injects 100% the right amount of insulin and no glucagon because insulin is a growth hormone and too much of it makes you gain weight. Body builders have been known to use insulin to gain muscle.
I hear you. Our system is profoundly bad at taxing unrealized gains, though, for some pretty serious reasons. (See also, wealth tax).
UK: Monthly open banking payments surpassed 11M in July 2023
Using a standard input method editor (IME) was my first thought, too.

You can create a custom user dictionary in any IME, mapping the abbreviations to one or more full words or phrases, either in bulk beforehand, or one by one while you use the system.

During typing, pressing the space bar brings up a list with the substitutes corresponding to the preceding string. You can select with the up/down arrows and insert by pressing space again.

In practice, most of the time you can convert by pressing space twice in quick succession, because either you have a single candidate, or because the default selection, the top candidate is automatically set to your last, or most frequent selection.

If there's no match, you can add a new abbreviation to your dictionary.

You can turn on/off the system by pressing CTRL-space, or some other key combo.
A few comments on the game:

- would be good to support two tap moves like on lichens rather than only drag and drop

- drag and drop seems really buggy on my phone. Often had to repeat my move.

- accidentally clicked give up instead of try again, then my game was over? Not really sure why there is a give up button at all.

- the timer just adds stress instead of fun, for me.

- hated the music being on by default

- imho the obstacles should be symbols, not just a different square colour. I had trouble seeing them.
Do you mean Wh/mi? I don’t even know what W/mi would mean as a unit here.
Out of curiosity, what do professional chemists refer to when they need a quick reference for something like this? Is it all in their heads by that point, or is there special software that they use every day (some sort of knowledge base type thing...?) or how does it all work?

As a software dev I think I take it for granted that I can look up anything I need to in a second or two. How does it work for other professions with special knowledge bubbles?
Maybe someone senior in the PMO frequented such sites and did not want to be outed.
Great if you own a house. For most apartment dwellers home charging isn't an option. As you know, home ownership in the US is for the rich.
This seems like a strawman, the sun blinking out is not a slight change, obviously if only a world shattering change could produce such a effect then there would be a different calculation. In the context of the natural systems the parent's comment refers to, even a 1% deviation is enough to swamp out all human effects combined.

And that is entirely within the realm of possibility.
Let’s be more specific about the obvious conflicts of interest at play.

These managers, directors, and VPs are the same who have the most to lose if real estate loses its value. Their portfolios are diversified and they have commercial and residential real estate positions they don’t want to lose on, even if it means fucking over their employees.
Ive purchased 14th & 15th gen motherboards directly from Dell in the past.
Dell spares are actually pretty reasonably priced if you exclude storage.
Is that actually true? Even the 2014 i3 estimates range based on past driving data. I don’t think Tesla would just program in a magic number and leave it at that.
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They obviously ARE lying. Either a) they have the information to be compliant and pay all applicable fees or b) NCTA is admitting that the entire industry is chronically non-compliant and every state/municipality needs to launch an audit of every ISP.
Mine is 318wh/mi over my last 5,700 miles, mostly on the freeway. Is there a lifetime number displayed, I see only trip a/b numbers.

Getting 50 or 60% of the expected mileage seems impossible. Maybe driving 80 mph constantly speeding and slowing up in below zero Fahrenheit weather? My s is 8.5 years old.

I'm getting way better than the article does.
Bizarre take and tbh sounds like it was written by Jordan Peterson.
We desperately need someone young

The minimum qualifying age for US president is 35 years. I consider that young but just making sure that also meets your requirements.

has a vision for the future that involves AI and Robotics, that follows science but understand the needs of the gullible.

I like the intention. You are describing an intelligent person however. They will likely be smart enough to not run for deep state leader knowing that regardless of their goals or policies they will be obeying the will of the actual people in power the ones with the purse strings for most of their time in office. I think this is one of the many reasons we have never seen someone with the characteristics you describe pulling this off. Most are wheelin' back-room dealin' or war-hawks.

If you are wanting this to happen for 2024 it's too late I think. 2028 maybe? My dream pool of candidates are all comedians especially those that encourage heckling but they are also smart enough and know not to try it. The closest current candidate that matches your requirements is Vivek Ramaswamy but I don't know if he aligns with people here. Vivek is 38 and a tech entrepreneur.
Ha, nope! I mean, probably, but nothing meaningful. I did the other say and just told the person what to type. But like, I’m not writing code or composing emails or anything.
For the uninitiated, if NVidia refuse to make their modules GPL, and also cannot find a workaround, does this mean you cannot use their cards on (at least unmodified) future versions of Linux?

Maybe NVidia could persuade end users to patch their kernel to get around this?
We can speculate for sure and their real estate investments are a likely reason but I was trying to only use their historical behaviors and known information about the decision to make the point.
yo dagw: how to design neural networks that can process the weights of other neural networks that can process the weights of other neural networks that can process the weights of other neural networks...

Seriously though, Nvidia seems to be getting better and better not only on the HW side, but on the SW side too. Some of these more recent projects from them are bordeline magic (e.g. ray reconstruction in dlss 3.5)
I thought the selling point of Tesla was the super fast charging? How long would it take to charge to make up the difference in reported range? Quick Google says a supercharger is up to 200 miles in 15 minutes.

They should fix the reporting though. Ideally let the user put in observed range to calibrate.
That's a SR Y right? My lifetime is 155 W/km which is about 249 W/mi. Same with my mates. We are in NZ so battery is LFP and pretty suited for mild climate.

I am always suspicious of that number - whenever I start to drive the efficiency of the drive is more along 200-230 W/km. I assume its climate controls. Sentry also chews into battery a bit.
Dare giving some citation?
They debate it at the supper table (my childhood). ;-)
Ask HN: Monetizing Mobile Web Games
Do app stores have a complete stranglehold on monetizing mobile games? Or is there any viable alternative available in 2023?

As an old and crusty web developer, I've always been keen on the low friction taking a concept to fruition - beside the dev work, of course.

So I made a word puzzle game that runs in a web browser (Vue3-based). It runs well both on desktop and mobile browsers. I want to monetize it using the typical 'freemium' model - play a limited version for free, make a one-time payment for the full game. Bam.

Figured I'd publish it to app stores since they have a lot of monetized apps. Packaged the game up with Capacitor, built it as an app. Technically all good - game runs exactly the same on Android / iOS as it does in mobile browser. Sweet.

But actually dealing with the app store red tape has been huge PITA. Google somewhat less so. Apple - omg. Everything from the Xcode side to the App Store Connect side has been a slog of obtuse processes.

All of this friction to jump into the walled garden. Just so I can try and get a few bucks from people who want to play my game - which works exactly the same in a browser. I'd prefer not to use app stores at all!

Is there any viable way to implement the freemium model in a web-based "app"? This is not a SaaS - I'm not integrating Stripe, creating user accounts, etc - just a drive-by "hey I'll pay $5 for this" type of purchase.
It sounds more fratbro than many tech companies.

But this is an opportunity to look at one's own company, and what stereotypical fratbro influences it's picked up. Commonplace ones in tech: hazing rituals for negging pledges, bro/class culture fit screening, demonstrations of loyalty, questionable organizational behavior with everyone complicit...
You could make this exact argument against income tax cuts for the rich. Drug and alcohol consumption is strongly correlated to income, so cutting the top marginal tax rate is just feeding the destructive habits of the rich.
> playing by the rules of the kernel developers will cost... say 10% in performance

There would be literally zero reduction in performance by relicensing currently-proprietary code under the GPL.
You're making two assumptions that stick out to me:

- job hoppers perform worse (as opposed to better) than people who stay put

- layoffs are based on contribution level

Two things that if believed in aggregate will make it easier for companies to short and manipulate employees into overworking and staying. I don't buy it personally
> The vast majority of the production houses in those productions are California centered with California staff, and many of the actors fly out to Georgia to film their on set scenes.

That's how it started, but we're well past that point.

IATSE folks are buying homes here and staying put. I know dozens of them. One of the Marvel DPs moved to my building, and this is his only residence. I also know several ADs that now call Atlanta home. There are thousands of permanent LA transplants.

Many of the top-billing actors own homes in and around the Atlanta area. Some of them now spend the majority of their time here.

We're seeing entire studio villages -- thousands of acres of lot construction -- spring up everywhere. Companies at all stages of the production cycle are now headquartered here to live alongside their staff.

This isn't ephemeral. Y'allywood passed critical mass, and it's growing. The people are here to stay. I know because I work in film tech and I've talked to lots of these folks.
New 'droplet battery' could pave the way for miniature bio-integrated devices
Most ICE cars show remaining fuel as a distance now, in addition to the fuel gauge (although some now hide the gauge behind several digital menus). No GPS required though, just a tachometer and fuel-burn sensor, and they're required to be accurate to within 2% by law.
I consistently beat every energy estimate given by navigation; maybe I just drive more efficiently than average? It also adjusts in real-time based on your actual driving.
Filling up in 10 minutes instead of hours is worse because... it's so convenient and quick that you may forget to fill up the previous day? This is not a very good argument.

You can solve this by leaving the house ten minutes later, which you should do anyway in case something happens.
There is a sodium battery being put in a new Chinese EV which won’t suffer from temperature swings. Preconditioning the battery will usually help, it’s unclear how many owners actually precondition the battery on cold days.
Yes getting timestamped and synchronized ground truth to build/verify your model will be quite challenging for something like this. For the drones we just took them to a mocap lab, and races are inside so we had the luxury of assuming 0 wind. The only remotely tricky part is handling ground effect from the props.
The Tesla has a really cool range vs battery graph that includes an accurate range prediction.

Tesla has a several ways to display accurate battery ranges for current driving conditions. It's useful to be able to compare expected range to the nominal range. Removing the nominal range would be a disservice to customers.
Using a standard input method editor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method) solves the multiple targets problem, and it could be a universal, but customizable solution, as I explained in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330658).
I've had a career in hospital IT and operations. The challenge is finding a replacement that is as reliable and accessible as a pager. The replacement communications products out there have some nice features (managing on-call scheduling, interfacing with electronic health records, etc), but it only takes a handful of outages to get everyone to switch back to pagers "just in case."
I don't remember which game it was but it crashed with OOM under DOS[0] but run fine under Win3.1 and AFAIR didn't even bothered to swap, or the swap times were minuscule.

[0] It didn't help what I had a 40Mb HDD as the primary master, because nobody knew the proper jumper settings to change it to the slave and 120Mb DBLSPACEed WD as the slave. I think the regular working setup had only ~580Kb of low memory.
Geared to vacuum cause that pulled in more gas via the carb.
Site looks pretty nice. Too bad I just heard of it. I guess no easy way to archive this. This is my biggest grip with all that followed straight HTML.
The way you used to have to sign up for these tesla monitoring things is you give them your car account (Tesla acct) name and password and then they can hit the Tesla API back end, you have to opt into this monitoring. I'm not willing to do that because that means they can track my location too.
My Toyota RAV4 Hybrid provides a distance to empty number that "learns" based on your driving habits (probably just averaging your MPG over the last 3-4 tanks, or something like that) and IME at least it's usually extremely accurate. Several times I've driven the car down to just 5-6 miles left on the DTE. When I did that it took almost exactly 12.5 gallons to fill up, and the car has a 14.5 gallon tank with 2 gallons held in reserve.

If Toyota can manage do it, I'm pretty sure that Tesla can. I'm just not sure that they want to.
Yes! So happy to hear this. One thing I was really aiming for with the echo chess gameplay design is the ability for anyone to pick up the game without any prior familiarity with chess or other strategy games, while also offering a pretty exciting challenge for chess GMs and strategy veterans.

The fact that you directly got the solution to that fictional example kinda proves the point that 'type 2' folks (as described in that section of the post) can actually be at a disadvantage compared to the newcomers given their preexisting intuitions and heuristics. Curious to know if you ended up solving some of the main levels in 'classic' mode too.
They do when they open a new location.
> Or a deeper Reuters investigation[1] on how closely the diagnosis and acceptance of the "condition" is tied to police and taser manufacturers, Axon specifically. Cmd+F'ing "Mash" will jump you to the parts where they're paying the medical examiner who also happens to diagnose these deaths as exited delirium.

I think you may have misread that part. Mash isn't and wasn't the medical examiner ever that I can find online. As best I can piece this together from that article and some Googling, Taser hired Mash as an expert witness in 8 trials for a total of ~$24,000 (included just because I believe that's in the normal range for that kind of testimony).

Then Mark Shuman, who is an Associate Medical Examiner, sent brain tissue samples to Mash's lab without knowing that Taser had previously paid her for testimony.

That's not to say the situation or diagnosis is okay, just that I think this is accusing them of something that didn't happen. There's plenty of crap they have done to criticize them for.

That Wikipedia article would be funny if the situation wasn't so tragic. It's utterly unintelligible. A condition with no proposed cause, which causes death with no specified mechanism, and a list of symptoms that matches everything from "stressed out about being arrested", to a psychotic break, to "actively overdosing on PCP". How they ever manage to convince a jury that the cardiac arrest is from some vague syndrome and not the police having basically put nipple clamps connected to mains voltage on them is beyond me.
> And if any good thing came of it, why not just omnipotence that thing into existence and skip the hard stuff?

I have an answer for you. The tl;dr is that it’s not about the result, but read on.

So the outcome isn’t the reason. How do I know? Time isn’t a thing for God - he can skip to the end. God can have any state he desires, in an instant. Yet he is here through us.

But why? We’ll answer this from two sides, first: why not? You’re infinite and can have literally everything, everywhere, all at once, in fact, you don’t even know what sensations are, so what else are you going to do? Think about that for a moment. You’re infinite. You’re the king with untold riches.

Bearing that context in mind: why? The answer is the same. Because you’re a single infinite being. You can literally have everything, everywhere, all at once. God isn’t good or evil. He is good and evil. So as an infinite being, what don’t you have? Limitations, form (a limitation) and friends (someone that’s not you, because you’re it - the beginning and end). So this - _is_ the why. Why God did this. So that is to say that we’re all God, experiencing limitation, form and companionship. And to keep the illusion going, God has to hide the ultimate secret truth from himself: that he is infinite, that he has everything, everywhere, all at once.

But here we are trapped on a lonely planet with finite potential in a seemingly infinite box called space. Here, we are, experiencing _this_, feeling, sensing, solitude, companionship, separation, union, pain, joy. We experience who we are, because God has temporarily forgotten his infinity.
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You Don't Need a Battery, or Fast Charging to Give Up Gas
And I am guessing ML workloads use up a single computer to do just that (and nothing else), meaning that NVidia could start their own fork of Linux, and people need to just eat it (or switch to AMD, Intel, etc.!)
My S lifetime Wh/mi is 260. I live in Florida and frequently drive on I-4, at typical speeds to the surrounding traffic, with AC set to 72.