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> This is such a stereotypical tale: Europe mandated a universal plug for electric vehicles 10 years ago

I would disagree and revert it entirely.

Like usual we have a standard CCS2 that is used successfully over multiple country representing over 500 millions people.

And like usual, USA goes its own way because a private actor pushes its way through lobbying and force it on everybody.

The Tesla connector has nothing Superior. It is thinner, that is its only advantage.

- CCS2 supports three phase power AC 22kw which is very useful in Europe. NACS does not.

- CCS2 cable are bulky because they respect international norms in term of cable safety. NACS does not, cable are undersized on purpose for cost reasons.

- CCS2 is already supporting payment in car. Tesla could simply have adopted that.

- We were already having 3 standard. Chademo for Japan, GBT for China and CCS for the rest of the world.

Congratulations: now we have 4.

Should I quote the appropriate XKCD or should I wait that Liberia and Myanmar uses NACS before doing it ?
Return of the gas lamps!

Seriously though. It wouldn’t be hard to make a dynamo and some incandescent (or carbon arc!) lights with material already available in most metropolises. The bars would get prioritized, hah.
Having owned Tesla & CCS..

The state of CCS in 2023 is at its peak before it draws down and converts to NACS.. and yet it never even got to Tesla 2018 levels near me in NYC metro areas/I-95 corridor DC-Boston.

So they are behind where Tesla was in 2018, and Tesla was actively adding locations more quickly, with more connectors, in better locations than the CCS networks. So the gap only grew.

Even in terms of CCS connectors, via MagicDock, Tesla probably installed more in NY state in 2023 than any other CCS network, and possibly all other CCS networks combined. It's just absurd.

All that said, I prefer my car over my previous Tesla, I charge at home and am not much of a road tripper so it's all good.
Hell, I work for a charging company, and I'm buying ICE. Of course I want a truck that can haul an RV, and I don't want to spend 60 grand for it. But even if I was buying a regular car, it'd be used half the time for high elevation cold weather hikes, and I don't want to sit around for an hour charging when driving long distance. Let's face it, EVs mostly make sense for around-town driving. Rural people are gonna drive any ICE vehicle they can into the dirt until their prices go up so high that EVs are the economical choice.
Minimum wage changes are counterproductive in almost all instances. They consume a large amount of political capital, are rendered pointless by inflation and penalise those who produce less value than the minimum.

There are better policies to protect poor workers, like reducing taxes on the poor or allowing government welfare for those with jobs. These help workers without distorting markets and hurting workers. The only case minimum wages are useful is if all the alternatives are impossible.
>"Eg given the fact "Foo is the capital city of Bar", it might be able to complete "Foo is the capital city of _" but not "The capital city of Bar is _"."

Is that really so? It would seem to be well within what I thought they were capable of based on all the other things they can do correctly.
I guess that wasn't one of the many cases that I was referring to, where, when given a supply budget, the union immediately claimed it was too small. It was increased, they still claimed it was too small and wanted more. You'll notice the omnipresent demand of "more" never a specific amount mentioned unless it is something wildly impractical for anchoring purposes.

Of course, no matter what budget is promised, it can be misspent, and the tendency for administrators of all sorts of organizations to only spend on splashy new things they can brag about and not cover boring operations and maintenance of existing equipment is well known.
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Export to print-quality PDF?
God bless you Anna.
Also, how do we make sure this/ mirrors of it can't be taken down?
> Sometimes you want to return a partial result along with an error.

Sometimes you do, and there are types that represents that. Having a single type that is almost always used a certain way but occasionally used subtly differently is a trap waiting to bite you.
The problem is that electric cars have honking massive battery packs which are effectively junk. Until battery tech advances dramatically allowing you to drive thousands of miles then I’ll stick with gasoline engines.
But this is the direction warfare is going, whether we like it or not. It started the first time anyone used a machine as a weapon. The mechanized warfare of the first half of the 20th century was very scary to people, and was very efficient at killing, but now we all look at it as the norm. The same will happen with this, and this is just a continuation of the same process.

Ukraine using cardboard drones to blow up Russian tanks, Hamas using quads to hit targets. Eventually all warfare will be done this way, and every actor will have access to autonomous technologies.

I argue it is a good thing; the goal in warfare is to negate the enemy's ability to continue their campaign, strategically as well as economically. Historically, manpower was the source of economic production as well as strategic advantage, so warfare focused on killing people. In a world where the strategic and economic targets are machinery rather than people, the number of human casualties decreases. Target automated factories and caches of autonomous weapons, force surrender, less people die.

It also democratizes access to force, no more will the ability to establish sovereignty be limited to those will large populations. It levels the playing field, like firearms did, and reduces the ability for despots to concentrate power. It is the great equalizer 2.0.

Of course, during the process of normalization of fully mechanized warfare, there will be asymmetry and people will die. But I believe the end result of this is a more peaceful world.
Even less for their annual Black Friday sale
Clearview was used heavily to prosecute J6 participants. I suspect their political capital is high on both side of the aisle now.
Awesome Cloud DX list
A list of tools that make developer experience with cloud providers better
Either Indeed, or from email. The emails usually come from recruiters using databases, but I've also received emails directly from the companies using word of mouth, too.
You gotta be a bit ballsy attacking the US military. Sometimes they may be a bit sleepy and not do anything. Other times they may get excited "Oh boy a legitimate target" And spend a few million dollars ruining some lives.
I am not at the mercy of my employer or capitalist class for that matter.

And I will be the first one to automate my job and reap the benefits of automation myself.

This is the way of life - if you cannot adapt - those more flexible, more adaptable, smarter, younger, hungrier - will eat your lunch.

There is no way any tech union can enforce monopoly, because there will always be new entrants ( ew grads) and offshore workers and immigrants willing to take the job, if union workers decide to strike.

In fact, I will be the first one to create outsourcing and offshoring consulting company to help companies fight unionisation.

This is the way of capitalism, the way of life. Smarter, faster, nimbler will get larger piece of the pie.

If union is willing to get $xxx mln in labor costs from a company, I will happily help this company fight unionisation for a fraction of that - to drive unions out of business while pocketing the profits by myself
> Ghostwriter is now free for all users

Ironic that another feature at Replit is now being advertised as "free"..

This whole HN thread is about how Replit has reversed many of it's free offerings.
If you're thinking about buying an EV you should really use an EMF meter while in the car when it is in different states (charging, parked, driving) before deciding.

EVs emit a ton of radiation. Not something people talk enough about.
That’s not how they got to that figure, which is 50% greater than the oldest known tree… (and I don’t think they even counted the rings for that one)
Maybe it would benefit them now but they wouldn't exist without those credits. I think the overall system is good and working as intended but let's not pretend subsidies are not subsidies.
Piezo actuators are solid state devices, though the definition can get hazy. The biggest issue with heat pumps like TECs is that you’re always paying the entropy price so you need more energy to move energy. But you also need a thermal sink somewhere to remove the generated heat. Ends up being a vicious loop for electronics.
I have taught all my kids some programming using Scratch (then lua, python, C#, Janet, ...).

Scratch is great as a first introduction because it lets kids get something working almost immediately. From there, they mostly self-motivate.

One big issue I have is with Scratch's 'deliberate, because, pedagogy' limitations with the language.

I find there's a big gap to jump between just tinkering around with moving things around, playing sounds, very simple games (catch the falling apple etc), and getting into 'real' programming.

IMHO, as an example, the fact blocks cannot return values (functions are such a fundamental concept in programming) is inexcusable. And there are just so many hacks required to work around other features or lack-of-features. Eg, adding parameters to messages and maybe clones, would clear up whole areas that currently need complex hackery.

For the really motivated/talented, most of these limitations can be overcome, but they're an unnecessary barrier for everyone else, and kind of lead to a 'haves' and 'have-nots' split.
>Tech does a lot more than that.

You can do a lot of things and still have your primary role be something different from those things...
What an immature answer. If I knew I wouldn't ask...I'm asking in good faith 'Why'? Space X is a genuinely successful and innovative company. I have friends who all like their Teslas or their Starlink service. I have no idea about Twitter because I've never liked it to begin with. So, Why?
I think we should give more credit to Musk's political and regulation influencing power. These tax rebates didn't randomly end up in Tesla's pocket.

We can bash on him for the mountain of stupid stuff he does, but dancing with the government in highly regulated fields is where he seems to shine.
Their coverage along interstates is good but outside that it's sparse at best. The government doesn't get to try running projects any more it's all incentives and public private partnerships. Also Tesla is far from a no subsidy company, it's half built on EV tax credits.

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...
The best and only way to counter anti-truth is with truth, usually meaning transparency. There are always going to be non-conforming groups, you shouldn't be worried about countering their views explicitly if you're worried about general human wellness. Focus on transparency, and the natural scientific process will do the rest.
> Not too much to go on here without the paywall-locked pdf

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.023...

that works for me.
its of course hyperbolic but frequent enough in any substantial codebase to be a wart on the language.
American companies not complying with European law is quite common. That's not a problem as long as they and their owners don't care about doing business in Europe.

There's not a lot Europeans can do about it, nor is there much Americans can do about European countries doing things Americans don't like. Take, for example, the copyright lobby; they'd love to take down libdvdcss so you need to pay for licensed software to play DVDs on your computer, but French law allows them to operate freely.

Companies like Clearview (or YCombinator for that matter, as HN accounts can't be deleted), don't strictly need to comply with the privacy laws as long as nobody is willing to enforce them. Illegal (and unethical) as that may be, you'll have a hard time convincing any kind of European government agency to take action.
The former Net Neutrality regulations provided exceptions for an ISP's own VoIP (phone), IPTV and other managed services. That means the bundled phone service is inherently more reliable than an unaffiliated VoIP service using best effort delivery. As long as they did not anti-competitively block or hobble a competing over the top phone service they were legally fine.

On cellular the effect of priority is much more apparent. The "bundled" phone call service has very high priority and can function normally under network stress/congestion. Over the top Whatsapp or Facetime calls will suffer audio glitches or fail to connect under the same conditions.
> Panics : Weird because golang already had errors.

It is true that panic allows any value to propagate, so technically you can use it to carry errors, along with anything else you can imagine (names, email addresses, audio, whatever).

But the intent is for it to be used for communicating exceptions. You will notice panic's behaviour mirrors exception handling systems found in some other popular languages. But errors, along with names and email addresses for that matter, are decidedly not exceptional.
If you lose your job, then you look around, and you discover that there is in fact more than one tech job available in Iowa.

I'm not sure why you're fear mongering, but stop.
Yep, that is my mistake - on a second read I can see that I misinterpreted what you were saying and agree with your sentiment.
You don't have an idiom, you write it out longhand every time, which ends up obscuring the important control flow and business logic under a pile of ceremonial repetition.
Working code can hold unknown bugs, including those Swift could help prevent.

There are reasons to rewrite it, though I’m sure it will take a long time and they’re prioritizing risk vs reward.
> ...why didn’t you pay for the thing you complain about? If something means something to you, adds value to your life, or saves you time, maybe it’s worth considering paying for it if the value provided is worth the cost. Demanding free stuff is entitled and silly and needs to stop.

At risk of derailing this conversation, but a common problem today is that oftentimes the companies offering a free service simply won't let you pay for it: long before Elon and Twitter Blue, I wanted to pay for Twitter so I could have an ad-free experience with some kind of "personal-grade" API access so I could use my own clients - but that was never an option.

Similarly, I would like to pay Google for an ad-free search experience (and to filter out content-farm websites from my search results...), instead Google's attitude is pushing me towards https://kagi.com/ - which is their loss, I suppose.

There's also the worst-of-both-worlds: when you pay for something, and it still comes with ads, and introduces user-hostile changes to the UX - or otherwise leaves you with the feeling that you aren't valued as a customer (e.g. Windows 11, Reddit, post-Elon Twitter, etc).

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We're told that as customers in a free-market it's up to us to vote with our wallets, but clearly even that isn't working to effect the change we want to see.
Jon Stewart has never been a journalist, he's always been an entertainer. The Daily Show was not news, it was entertainment. His current iteration is worse because he now he pretends to do real news where before he was self aware of being entertainment, it was part of the joke. But he isn't different from Tucker or Maddow. He's now just cranking the Rage Machine to get his nut. The outrage on your part is just as false as the outrage he spews. He's entertainment. His entertainment should be controlled and owned by the people paying for it. There's no editorial independence to protect because it's not journalism.
Is there evidence that bing creator does this? I remember when it first rolled out there the generations were lower quality but didn't stray as far as Chatgpt. It's just anecdotal though, so might not be true.
If this feature is anything like their existing detection, it'll be near useless, buggy and just get in the way. For a while discord would detect things like close up pictures of hands as nsfw and would block sending them in a group dm channel even though none of us had the filter setting on.
I find the best part about reading McCarthyism history is that THERE ARE communist traitors in USA, sometimes in very high places https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Venona_pr... . I guess if your spy network is sophisticated enough to make your enemy have to blunder either for false negative (your spy doesn't get caught) or false positive (your enemy self sabotage, killing their own kins), you win.
Is this your opinion or can you cite some sources. My biggest mandatory expense is medical insurance and I hardly think that is driven by the minimum wage.
Good point I guess - axing relates more to terminations, and ‘erasing’ sounds more like they’ve removed the job role altogether. That said, the former usually comes in tandem with the latter.
linode has a $5/mo plan
I do:

https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
The blanket term anti-vaxxer is extremely problematic. There are plenty of legitimate reasons for intelligent people to question the risk-benefit of the coronavirus vaccines without being anti-vaccine in general. They're novel, no long term testing, powerful vested interests, rushed out when society was hysterical, did little to stop transmission, etc. Please stop turning this into more tribal, politicized us vs. them bs.
My typical use cases don't usually involve actual text in the pictures themselves, but I definitely have seen lots of situations where it gets confused and tries to insert the description of the image into random speech bubbles. I can "usually" fix this most of the time by explicitly stating that there should be no text in the image.

I've gotten some pretty accurate images in one shot though that would've taken me 1000 rolls/mangling to get MJ to do:

- Historical 1980s photograph of the Kool-Aid man busting through the Berlin Wall

I haven't tried DeepFloyd or Ideogram, so maybe I'll give them a shot. From what I've gathered 99% of people who use these just use them to either generate anime, or facial portrait type stuff so most of the models out there are tuned for that kind of thing. DALL-E 3 is the first model I've used (including SDXL, etc) that can actually get pretty close to matching my prompt.
- https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared

- https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/

- https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
Billions say <insert their deity> exists too. So. What. That's not proof.
“Free” is never, ever free and it blows my mind that people still don’t get this.

Like, it’s understandable that you get a little burned the first time it happens, but then you’ve learned that this is how it all works. “Free” in a SAAS context has always and will always mean “no need to pay us until we decide otherwise, end of negotiation.”

Every time I look at a free account for some product now, I ask myself if I’m willing to pay for it at some point. If the answer is “no”, then sometimes I just don’t even do it.

People can’t even be bothered to think critically about the product situations they put themselves, and I’m sure these people are intelligent in many other aspects of their lives, but this is such a simple concept that I don’t understand how people, especially tech professionals, struggle with.
Yeah, if Netflix wants to do short shows, they should follow the British model of TV series. Short series but with a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. Not this bunch of half started stories that just stop.
> may end up working for human rights NGOs instead of big law

How is that letter showing human rights values?
Woah, let me know when the kickstarter campaign for a physical version is live!
Additionally, until very recently, there was no (practical) way to reach the performance potential of manual memory management in pure Swift: all heap management was done via Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). A series of "ownership" features have been getting integrated into the most recent versions of the language that let you avoid that runtime cost while retaining memory safety (at the expense of more complex code — the vast majority of code should still use ARC). That makes Swift much more suitable for lots of "systems programming" than it was just a few months ago. https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5.9-released/#ownership
That's only public charge stations and most EV owners predominantly charge at home.

There's also fewer than 30 gas stations per 100k people too. Tesla charges almost as fast, so they don't need as many slow EU chargers.
How the West, even Israel, Funded Hamas
Must be library dependent. I only get 5 movies per month.
> A is B implies B is A.

I get the overall idea, but this statement isn't always true, right?
Good call. Surprised it’s not more given its value as (among other things) AI corpus.
yeah , loans are just subsidies of time.
Yes, but those tax credits certainly helped get them started. Mad props to Tesla for making a great product, too, but the government subsidies helped.
lots of places, if you're willing to live like a college student. for example, you can find 3BRs around baltimore for ~$2000/month. split 3-4 ways (sometimes there's an additional room with a door that doesn't technically count as a bedroom), your share is $500-700. main issues are going to be health insurance and a car if you can't find $15/hr work within walking distance.
Mortgage pools are only for institutions and/or very wealthy (private banked) individuals. If you are already private banked, ask your rep.
As someone who has done the technical work of converting a product with a free-tier to a paid product, I mostly agree. I think the problem mostly stems from the transition being inherently painful to a lot of users - it’s not really reasonable IMO for them to expect hosted software to be free forever but it’s definitely frustrating for them to transition off of it if they can’t or won’t pay for some reason.

In my particular case there were a few pain points where I couldn’t help but sympathize with the complainers. For starters, they’re still subject to all the problems stemming from vendor lock-in, so migrating away may require not just a lift and shift but a partial or total rewrite. Another common problem is that they wrote some software for eg a for-fun website or side project a long time ago and don’t check up on it often - they may not even use or have access to the email and other contact info you have at your disposal to tell them that their stuff will break if they don’t pay by a certain date. So a lot of people don’t know about the change until their stuff breaks or they check in one some old project and find it broken or gone.

This was less of a problem for me than it probably is for Replit, but students are particularly impacted because they usually have little money relative to their investment or interest in the thing. Students under 18 without any credit or debit card may not even have any way to pay at all. And also they are still figuring out how things work so they don’t necessarily understand without being told that eg free tiers are primarily meant make it easy for people to try the software before paying for it (the company doesn’t want you to use it forever without paying), subject to a lot of annoying things like abuse, and just generally require a decent amount of operational maintenance to keep running. And of course they haven’t had corporate communication styles beaten into their brains so they’re pretty rude about expressing their discontent.

Basically, I think it’s wrong to feel entitled to receiving a free thing that obviously costs someone money to provide for forever, and that you should just pay for it if it adds value and is reasonably priced. But it’s also inherently frustrating to be on the receiving end of these changes, so grumbling and discontent are only natural.