skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your EV uses twice as much electricity it is going to spend twice as long at the charger

It depends on the charge curve more than the size of the battery. With a bigger battery you can pull more kilowatts to maintain the curve without stressing the battery chemistry.

The Hummer EV's charge curve is quite conservative for the size of its battery. It can pull 350 kW at low states of charge but slows down quite a bit after 65%.

Big batteries are a reality of practical EVs. Chargers still outperform batteries for the most part but faster chargers are needed. European charging networks are deploying 400 kW chargers these days for passenger vehicles. And the EU wants 600 kW to be the standard deployment by 2028:

https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f...

Megawatt Charging System chargers are coming for heavy vehicles for up to 3.75 megawatt charging:

https://www.charin.global/technology/mcs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatt_Charging_System

This Volvo FM truck can pull 350 kW at lower states of charge and still pulls 243 kW at 89%:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAttTG03WA

It'd probably be able to make full use of 400 kW chargers too.
If the free market can't insure a risk, at any price, then maybe no one should be taking that risk.

Or at least they ought to be left to fend for themselves if they suffer losses due to that.
Is everyone (third parties filming a politician or celeb on their own device) going to sign their videos and pay gas fees just in case someone else deepfakes it?

No.
What makes you think Apple wouldn't consider HTML or CSS to be "source code" as well, if they see browser dominance as an advantage?
Grma boc - brón orm, tá mé ghiotaín beag déanach leis an freagra ;) If you check out the source you'll see it's pretty straightforward, I'm leveraging a project called abair.ie from Dublin University to do the TTS back an forth and yeah then just firing it on to chatgpt. Works surprisingly ok.
I can't duplicate this. Can you tell me what your default browser is and how you are 'searching for a highlighted word'
https://archive.is/7YLJK
I want so badly be a big fan of WSL, but I just can't, I'm hitting too many issues for it to be productive and I had to jump back into a proper Linux environment...

> But they make it really hard to rely on. From random shutdowns, GPU unreliability to data corruption and performance differences with just using Linux directly, I had to move away from it and back to Linux because I felt like I slowly losing my mind troubleshooting these issues.

> Latest issue was that the virtual disk file continued to grow beyond 500GB large while Linux still reported that it was just 20% full from the inside. So, reading about things, I gave optimize-vhd a try and boom, full disk file was corrupted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308850

I wish it was working properly, because I have to use Windows for other things anyways and I don't really care about ads because I don't feel like they're getting in the way when I use the OS. But that WSL basically doesn't work properly is such a showstopper.
They don’t mention this in the video, but a failure in the four hour cleaning process that involves pasteurization/refreezing the remaining ingredients is the biggest cause of the error codes.
Only in part - and it would certainly not be “just fine”. Edge is pretty nice nowadays. It’s the tactics to promote it as the default - now and in the past - that have drawn so much scrutiny. And IE did used to be objectively inferior to the competition.

I’m saying the people at MS promoting this in this particular way are, well, dumb.
A major example of this was the decline of Intel (that they are trying to reverse) that was driven by an inane diversion of $$ by accountants who spent billions on 'share buybacks' instead of R&D = the inexorable fall from grace.
I have never understood this buyback philosophy and spoke against it(my whispers in a hurricane). It was done to increase the share price - it failed, buckets with no bottoms are hard to fill.
Intel now has the chips program they now hope will fill the bucket - they should spend more on the bottom. TBF to Intel, they have stopped the BB and have (hopefully) repaired the bucket and might regain their lost stature. I see another bad act in the form of patent 'mining', a high brow form of trolling.
i know - and it has always been lame - all mega-corporations have always been about $
omg, that's disturbing. I would have assumed most people pull over and help a turtle finish crossing the road. I can't believe people, especially this many people, purposefully do this.
No. If you expand the definition of a computer to be any somewhat organized system, maybe. Then you could argue all life is is just a simulation within the system of Earths elements and forces because said forces led to our existence and “organized” our own bodies processes
I've worked with Dave before. He will in fact implement ask the things in a very short period of time. We used to talk about him as the master of spinning developer plates.
I'm not sure it's particularly sudden influx, but rather a reaction to economic conditions changing. When money is cheap, economies are expanding, and the equity markets are going gang-busters as a result (from late 2009 [or maybe back to late 2002] through late 2021), it's a relatively easy environment to borrow to expand your business [as an operating company] or to engineer returns to shareholders above the risk-free investment alternatives [as a financial company].

Now, risk-free investments (such as a 30-year US Treasury) are yielding 3x what they yielded just 3 years ago. That dramatically changes the calculus when considering whether to invest in a risk-free or a risk-on asset.

To me, it would be weird if companies acted the same way in such a different environment rather than weird that they act differently.
They already do: https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-os-6-user-guide/index.html
It's been a mafia-run semi-lawless place almost since the fall of Communism. Really not clear how it's going to get out of this state.
The well was "poisoned" by Avi. He makes similarly unfounded leaps in this instance, as he has in very many instances in the past. There's no foul play here, just the reputation he has earned for himself.
Well the question is why does McD franchising terms stipulate they have to buy a special model of the machine, but it seems that no other fast food places that use ice cream machines from the company have such a requirement.

I mean I guess there could be other reasons of features or quality or something, but it seems a bit strange. I mean, in the end, it's just McD machines that constantly break down, so if anything you would think HQ would want to improve this situation somehow, when it seems they are completely uninterested.
Bundling their driver and a custom kernel to work with it _really_ sounds like a derivative work that would be a very clear GPL violation. That would be a pretty risky move legally speaking.
> Do you genuinely fail to see how your behaviour proves my point?

I genuinely see only one thing: I asked you to elaborate but you are convinced that I am pretending to discuss while I, again genuinely, actually did want to discuss.

You asserting something about me, a person whose mind you cannot read is confusing and quite aggressive, in a very uncalled-for manner too. But as I said already -- have it your way, I disengaged because it became apparent you are not interested in discussing. OK. It's your right.

What's not OK is you claiming that I am not interested in discussing however, and I maintain that I was interested in discussing.

> You cannot just hound people with demands because you don’t like what they are saying.

1. I am not "hounding" you for anything, I asked a question.

2. You are again assuming my motivation and I assert that you have gotten it wrong. You that I "disliked what you said" is a borderline personal attack and an off-topic. I was confused why you claimed what you did and wanted you to elaborate, to find out what made you think like that and if I can change your mind with a few anecdotes and some facts (that are hard to look up because they require scanning a forum; yet they are there and are visible to everyone who engages with the platform).

BTW, if you really have known anything at all about the Elixir ecosystem you would know that its creator, to this day, engages with users on ElixirForum and asks for their feedback on what they find lacking. That sort of engagement and genuine discussion spirit that you claim I (as a part of the Elixir community) don't have.

That alone invalidates your point entirely.

I am disengaging second and final time, let future readers decide for themselves.
Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries
Examining the Deaths Misattributed to Ayahuasca
Typically dumb pipe companies get involved in this side of things due to legal requirements. Less often, though often justified as such, it is due to sincere concerns by the provider.

For example, banks don't typically want to service car dealerships simply because they are a prime target for money laundering. Same for legal cannabis firms due to being unbanked previously or because the whole industry isn't traceable.

Frankly, while I understand the historical reasons for having a "big brother" watch financial transactions, it's way to convoluted to satisfy and represents a big cost in the economy.
They torture people to do online scams? What a bizarre world this has become. Never thought we would see trafficked and online scams in the same sentence. Effectively, I guess, they don’t want to pay the employees and so force them at gun point.
Running Windows 11 now, and for the first time ever I'm seriously considering running some flavour of Linux with a separate windows partition for games.

The amount of crap they are constantly shovelling down your throat is jaw-dropping. Add in the growing UI inconsistencies, options I turn off re-appearing after every 'feature update' and its just not worth it.

Also, not sure if I'm running on the beta channel right now, but damn is the thing unstable as anything, opening task manager takes FOREVER, explorer is incredibly slow and crashes frequently.
>Their current approach to Windows seems to be to milk it as much as possible before the desktop dies out.

I'm starting to think that this is what Microsoft's goal is.. pushing people to the mobile platform deliberately and getting people use to it. where there is less control over the experience.

I'm so glad I switched to PopOS[1] Last year.

[1]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
They would have to raise their price to build a crawler as good as what they’re currently getting.

I do hope they grow to where they can afford it at their current subscription rates.
https://www.wikitree.com/ is essentially this but free and community driven.
One fun thing about Calibre is that the library is stored in a SQLite database. So, if you write a wrapper to parse that data, you don’t even need Calibre’s content server running!

I have the library stored on my NAS and am running a fairly simple Node.JS + Express + React web app on my Raspberry Pi that reads the database and provides web access this content.

Sadly, I don’t have the code in a publisher format as of yet.

One thing I’ve been meaning to do is add an upload feature so that I can have the web app add ebooks to the library. For now, I still have to fire up Calibre for that.

Edit: Wow, I just saw a post below for Calibre-Web. It’s the same thing I had been working on but it’s much much nicer than what I had hacked together!
I've always used Windows (not exclusively) but i always got along well with it.
If they continue this behaviour or putting pop-ups on my Desktop, I would switch to an alternative.
because austria has a sparsely populated countryside with mountains, so while accepted i think it only affects a small number of people. i am pretty sure that not many more would want to do that.
One place I worked had been using a Google Map, but switched to Bing when the price went up. The Bing map had a banner on it saying they needed a license key, so they just hid the banner with CSS! I came in a few years later and replaced the whole thing with Leaflet+Carto, but it was pretty funny code archeology to see "Hmm, why is this crazy CSS class here. Oh…"
There are also plenty of non-trade-offs, for example.

1) Generally wasting resources locking up innocent people means you have fewer resources to spend locking up the guilty ones.

2) If you have poor investigation that nabs an innocent person as the culprit, you might stop investigating prematurely and not catch the real perpetrator.

3) A culture that locks up innocent people makes every interaction with the cops potentially life-ruining, which will make people less likely to come forward as witnesses, etc.
I was recently on a good empty playground with my kids, and the major factors limiting my swing jump distance were the width of my shoulders and hips! They limit your ability to slip out, especially your shoulders, which you want behind the chains to pump but in front to jump. It's a youngster's game!
The future of Tesla is in China
Apple had a pretty clear definition of interpreted code which boiled down to: "Does your interpreted download allow the user to write infinite loops or recursion?"
I do all my deployment to Linux Servers, but I want my main Desktop to just work and plan on sticking to the primary OS the hardware was built for. Don't need broad hardware support, it just needs to support M3 hardware when it comes out. I'm also running macOS software like Pixelmator Pro and Affinity software suite.

I'm already running multiple Docker Linux containers, headless Ubuntu on lima and GUI Ubuntu and Fedora VMs in UTM, so don't feel like I'm missing out on the Desktop Linux experience.

I could definitely do most of my development on Linux given .NET SDK and JetBrains products supports it, but I'll be waiting a few years at least for Asahi Linux to get feature parity before running it natively.
Execs heavily compensated in equity take a pay/wealth cut every time the stock goes down, unlike salaried employees.
If you consider that the latest human technology humans created is capable of spawning nearly infinite numbers of "simulated universes", then the probability that our universe is one of those "simulated universes" is nearly infinite! Or is it? This is a version of the Sleeping Beauty problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem
I've seen articles speculating that the Universe is a computer, a simulation, and a hologram. There are serious scholarly speculations that the Universe is a clock, a machine, or a book.
Neobanks died with the closure of Simple.
It is true that it can be difficult -- but, emphatically, no longer an excuse.

The Steam Deck has shown that there are no essential technical barriers to rendering the Windows operating system irrelevant.

This is good work, and it should be done.
The world is physically changing. Weather patterns are shifting. Hot is getting hotter. Wet is getting wetter. Wildfires are becoming larger, more prevalent and more destructive. Sea levels are rising. Ocean temperatures are rising.

Parts of the world are becoming inhospitable for human life. We can try as we might to terraform and engineer against it but Mother Nature will win.

At some point as an insurance company or even whole industry needs to look at the data and assess whether the juice is worth the squeeze. These companies - despite marketing materials - don’t care about fixing your home. They are only interested in risk versus reward. When the operating environment becomes too risky you either raise prices astronomically (this is happening) or you pull out entirely because your customer base simply can’t afford it (this is also happening).

Regarding the stance that we are smart enough to outsmart these problems - I agree but also disagree. What do you do when all signs are pointing to no and the cost of potential solutions far outweighs any benefits? You cut your losses and move.
Which unfortunately means you can't rely on it being UTF-16.
I've had excellent support from Linux across a variety of machines for 2 decades. Dell, Lenovo and HP.
Yeah, if the customer insists on waterfall, the customer will get waterfall.

You can choose to accept this or leave the customer to yell at and sue somebody else.
The difference is really not that large, if it exists at all which I don't find to be the case. What severity of crime justifies enslavement? You can have your sentence extended for refusing to labor, regardless of what you're originally in there for. Is that just? Is there "a big difference" between that and trafficked labor?
Not really.

For starters, Windows is an operating system, not a website contained in browser. There are many differences in usage, privacy, security, etc.

Also, unlike a website or browser, if you got fed up and decide to leave, then changing the OS can range from challenging to practically impossible (outside your control).
It amazes me that there's a drive to make deploys as seamless as possible to avoid customer impact, but nobody wants to invest in systems integration testing in order to make sure that what they're actually serving is indeed correct. Most of the time, the "acceptance test" is verifying that it renders and the basic behaviors of the page operate as expected. It is insulting to the people and teams that actually spend the time to do what is right.
https://archive.is/M5L2M
If they only went for powerless people, why are they suddenly dropped by services that almost never drop sites?

There's no way I would even be allowed to talk to a human at these companies, much less convince them to change their politics.
How Yahoo sparked a renaissance under new owners
Government artificially restricts the supply of housing through zoning and excess regulation. This creates artificial shortages and inflates prices and rents. A more detailed analcyst: https://mises.org/wire/how-governments-outlaw-affordable-hou...
I know I'm a little behind on this, considering Shen was created in 2011, but I've been studying Scheme (The Little Schemer), Clojure, PicoLisp, and LFE recently after having completed a few of the most common Lisp books (SCIP, HtDP, Software Design for Flexibility, The Little Schemer) and most of the Lisp dialects always seem to fall short for me. Specifically I don't think any of them go quite far enough taking the code-as-data paradigm to the extreme. Where they fall short, as far as I understand them, is that most are eagerly evaluated, which makes implementation of partial application and currying non-trivial.

Shen is different. Shen is amazing, especially for functional programming, which I see as the true future of computing. Turing machines are easier for the average programmer to grok, but the lambda calculus with its simple evaluation semantics just makes more sense to me. The best part about Shen, which is usually lacking in Lisps, is that it comes with an optional type checker! Clojure is pretty close with spec but Shen really beat them to the punch in such a powerful way.

I'm convinced this project, the Yggdrasil project, will be the future of programming if it can gain enough adoption. It's simply amazing to think about writing one single language and being able to transpile it to any other language. I hope you find this as interesting as I did. Cheers!
> people's income being redistributed to regulators

You mean, taxpayer funds being used to fund the operation of a regulatory body? I wonder how they should be funded in your ideal world:

* Don't fund them at all; the world is better with no regulators and no regulations.

* Cut them loose from the taxpayer; let them behave like an LE agency, and fund themselves by levying fines.

As far as I'm aware, there's no regulator involved in this, taxpayer-funded or otherwise. This is simply a law (which you can call a "regulation" if you prefer). As such, the only "regulatory" body involved is the EU lawmaking apparatus, and EU citizens seem to be OK with funding that.
They just call it "creamy vanilla soft serve" so they don't have to worry about whether or not it can be called ice cream. https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/mcflurry-with-ore...
And that's why I am gonna drop HN one day, I get the gray treatment for asking questions and for people to clarify nebulous claims.
Linux Mint is the distro you're looking for. Especially if you're looking to set it up for non technical users.
AntiX Linux 23 Released
I live in Oklahoma. Contrary to popular belief, getting your house destroyed by a tornado is unlikely. But hailstorms are on the rise and roof replacements are becoming more frequent because of them. Insurance has gone up A LOT for everyone, regardless of insurer, and for me despite installing hail resistant shingles last time. I am wondering what happens when people here can no longer afford insurance even though these are not luxury second homes. My agent told me that Texas and Oklahoma are becoming the most expensive states to insure.
They would put you on smartscreen/windows defender blacklist if you did this from your desktop app.

Really scummy stuff to see (and disappointing to see it).

Microsoft recently made edge the only browser that will open email links from outlook... and the way to turn it off is so buried I don't think the average user knows how to do it. Lastly, this setting (much like system default browser on major windows update) resets upon a major outlook update.
According to the data, prison is not a deterrent:

https://www.vera.org/news/research-shows-that-long-prison-se...

Instead of focusing on the penal system, which is fairly hopeless, we should focus on preventing people from entering the penal system in the first place by focusing on systematic improvements that reduce criminal behavior as an appealing option. Look up "rational choice theory" with regards to criminal behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory_(crimin...

But that all said, the fact that the penal system is not mutated based on sensible performance metrics such as recidivism rate etc. is a human failing. The thing is, the system has already failed them at that point and they made their decision to not cooperate with society, so of course the people who have chosen to cooperate with society (the same people who have not sufficiently contributed to the systematic improvements that would have prevented that behavior to begin with) will fail to care about them.

My participation in this is to mentor young men (some are "at-risk", which basically means that their demographics are more likely to lead to criminal behavior), which I've done a few times and which is rewarding, because young men really need it right now. If I didn't have a 2 year old son who is keeping my hands quite full, I think I'd do it again.
Nvidia is the default option because it's convenient at all levels of the stack. Close to two decades of investment into CUDA made sure that GPGPU with Nvidia is extremely smooth, and AMD support is a lot more spotty and less maintained. But add arbitrary restrictions like needing some outdated kernel or a special distro, and suddenly getting an AMD card to work with your favorite framework doesn't seem like so much more work. And once that reaches critical mass and patches are upstreamed, the convenience advantage of Nvidia is gone and competition will get a lot more fierce.
In my experience at pharma there has been an enormous divide between R&D and production for software development. Precisely for the compliance implications. In cases where it hasn't been a perfect black/white differentiation it was always dirty laundry where some subset of people knew they were sitting in a grey area and hoping that compliance officers/auditors wouldn't notice.
Darn, no GPU support for UTM. I'm using solidworks on Parallels/ARM windows 11 on my 14" M1 macbook pro and it works well, slightly faster than on my 2019 intel 13" macbook pro with bootcamp. I would love to move away from parallels and stop repurchasing it every time MacOS is updated and it stops working.