skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC there are actually starting to be wind, solar and pumped hydro sited at former coal mines and plants because they already have transmission capacity. (In the case of pumped hydro, a coal mine can also act as a big hole with an elevation difference to drive a turbine.)
I guess this is very dependent on where you live?

I live in suburban Melbourne and have no problems getting a same day appointment. There are at least 5 GP clinics within a 5 minute drive.
Have you tried reading the subthread you're posting in?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38297746
Brave is built on the open source Chromium project. As long as it's open source they can't stop Brave doing whatever they want and ignoring these changes.
Not quite. otto cycle is most efficient at full throttle due to throttle valve pump losses.

Diesels are most thermodynamically efficient at low throttle because it takes time to combust the fuel. During this time the piston expands and the compression ratio drops.

You can see the derivation and formulas in Faires (and older edition. Even the 70s edition lacked the chapter). Actually just comparing the the PV diagram of otto and diesel makes it obvious.
I know, I know, it's possible to condemn and work against multiple problems at once, but it's just weird to me that there's so much more antitrust energy expended on free internet search that is very easy to not use than what looks like a pretty obvious price-fixing cartel that directly harms consumers.
This report is great. It certainly rules out the, “everything is definitely on track“ scenario.

But itoesn’t tell us anything beyond that. It simply comes down to what Tesla is really trying to do. This could either be a “pump”, or it could be the normal shortcuts and growing pains that are part of an ambitious beta product.

A couple of years ago I would’ve leaned much further towards beta product scenario, but I’m still not willing to rule it out at this point.
compared to what was going on in human history, it is a relative peace
"...or cocaine!"
> And yet a lot of people still believe Tesla is the market leader and that everyone is just waiting for Tesla to come and disrupt the trucking business.

Ironically those are not the people in the trucking business.

Another thing that Tesla likely hasn't gained a lot of experience with is the longevity requirements on truck chassis. Those things undergo a ton of harsh treatment with a smile and 750K miles+ between rebuilds isn't all that rare, with 500K or so probably around average depending on whether you look at short-haul or long-haul or a mix. In the diesel world the chassis get two or more engine rebuilds. Total lifetime is crazy, check these out:

https://www.commercialtrucktrader.com/Peterbilt/trucks-for-s...

That's 1 million miles and up.
need this in tokyo
Yeah, I remain baffled people are still using internet.
I think Ford only sold ~3,700 Lightnings in October. I bet Tesla is selling CT at a much faster rate than that by February. Of course, that ultimately depends on price and what trims are available.
Don't use it, don't care.
Even that would arguably far too long, and it's wrong anyway. Various forms of investigating the previous launch failure probably started (or could have started) long before that.
I don’t trust any soft science research. Hard science had a replication issue too but it’s way easier to find issues and run numbers. Psychology especially as a field is full of nonsense that may as well be alternative medicine
Children of the Geissler Tube
GP was speaking about Tesla overall, not their concept art department.
I get the feeling that along with youtube anti-adblock efforts that this is google rifling-through-the-couch-cushions phase, and we'll see them actually execute this time because it's worth it.

Makes me wonder if they have plans to deal with FF as well. I wouldn't be surprised to see them stop paying for FF search box defaults or progressively negotiate lower payments each year.
>I craved connection so badly it compelled me to try to "improve" myself to be more like others. I'd be completely fucked today if someone offered a fake, effortless alternative.

As long as someone makes enough effort to pay the bills and not neglect their health, I don't see why anything more should be necessary. It certainly beats having to adopt hobbies you don't like or learning to lie about your feelings in order to appeal to potential partners (both common pieces of advice for nerdy men).

>I don't think parasocial relationships are actually working out for anyone.

The tech isn't quite there yet, but we've seen immense progress just over the past couple of years.

>Your chances of finding a human companion who isn't a piece of shit is way higher than finding an ethical tech company to pour your heart out to though.

It seems that the solution here, just as with other software, is to make AI companions open source.
AFAIK the Tesla Semi isn't being sold to general customers. Pepsi is participating in the testing program, but they knew full well that they were early adopters, and they're doing it in part for the positive PR. It's sort of like a closed beta.
Its a long brick though, it shouldn't be considered a bluff body
> WhatsApp and iMessage require data plans, and as far as I can remember these have largely included unlimited SMS as well.

The reason why WhatsApp was huge internationally (like, 10^8 users huge) was because many teclos in developing countries included data usage in their plans but SMS was extra (and talking minutes were finite), so people used WhatsApp for all comms.

WhatsApp's had a free tier, but their basic plan was (IIRC) $1/month, and they many (tens/hundreds) of millions of users that paid it.

Facebook bought WhatsApp for $20B:

* https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-whatsapp-idUSKCN...

> Evidently, Zuckerberg lied to the European and American trade commissions. It was in fact possible to interface Facebook and WhatsApp platforms to mine data. Facebook has been doing it since day one of its acquisition. As always, Zuckerberg admitted to the misdeed, apologized and paid the fine. He got away scot-free.

> Months later, co-founder Jan Koum discovered that Facebook’s management weakened WhatsApp encryption system to make it easier for them to mine data. Koum resigned too.

> Fast forward to today and Zuckerberg continues to mine our data through Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram (which he acquired in 2012). Facebook has become a surveillance behemoth – arguably the biggest surveillance organization in the world.

* https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2023/04/05/2256935/real-rea...
You don't have to buy a data centre... You can lease space in an existing facility for almost nothing.
uBlock Origin already has a v3 (experimental) version:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

Yeah, it's not ideal, but this title feels overblown. uBlock seems confident they can make it (mostly) work.
These main reasons are the ones I start with when people ask why Delaware for a Startup, that will raise Investor money in future. There are lots of detailed explanation but these should get you started.

1. Delaware is business-owner friendly.

2. It’s favorable to buy shares as investors.

3. You’ll save a ton of money on taxes.
My god this is an ignorant take. They were lucky to be born in a safe country. I am happy for them. Children do not choose where they are born. They did not choose to be in the way.

I was gonna stay neutral in my wording but it irritates me how war crimes can just be brushed away with “Well, they should’ve just been born in ‘Murica instead”
> Meaning the batteries are not meant to use more than few hours per day because they heat up ?

TBH, it sounds like it might be temp related... but it could be as simple as overly conservative software. These are in such early stages of development, that I'm sure they are being very conservative about going into limp mode at the first sign of a potential problem.
IBM pulls adverts from X after report finding they ran next to Nazi content
It’s going to be difficult getting far at a max speed of 25mph.
Fortunately, the MV3 implementation in Firefox has the necessary tweaks to continue supporting add-ons like uBlock Origin[1]. So, even when MV2 is eventually dropped in Firefox, ad-blocking add-ons written for Firefox will continue to be able to work without restrictions.

[1] https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adbloc...
Chrome, Google and most websites are insufferable without ad blockers. I can't imagine living a life with so many ads.

Firefox, here I come.
That's rough, btw this guy has a good view.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=38298504&goto=item%3Fi...

(If there's a way to perma link a comment without doing the janky reply please let me know)
Will it affect other chromium based browsers?
Given YouTubes recent adblockblocking moves, it's reasonable to infer that it is in fact to prevent ad blocking, enabling delivery of malicious, undesired payloads.
Notice that nobody replied ;)

Anyway, VMS servers don’t generally have hard drives, they are designed to be run in a cluster, with each server using fiber channel to connect to a SAN. Also, I found that the ones we’re getting rid of aren’t first-gen - they’re 9300 series (3rd or 4th gen)
That’s actually a meaningful way for other browser makers to differentiate themselves. Notably Firefox, but potentially also Microsoft Edge. While Edge is based on Chrome, they could decide to keep supporting manifest V2 extensions.
When I saw this video earlier this was my immediate thought as well. Would've helped with closets in our old apartment so much.
Absolutely nothing in this actually covered how to plan for unplanned work. While yes becoming aware of issues quicker and preventing things from falling through the cracks is great and all, it's still strictly post hoc. "Dealing with unplanned work" would be a better title.
doubtful, because they have the data on costs to repair, and would be minimizing that, whereas competitors just let it stay broken since that is cheaper than fixing.
The thing that baffles me there is that the original group behind this had a semi truck background. And surely its earliest routes were NV<>CA, along with the checkpoint at the border?

It seems like either it isn't as big of an issue as it appears to be... or they 100% knew about it and went ahead with it anyway.

Given that this is Tesla, it could easily be either.
There's an extra trick with the semi where one of the axles can disconnect from the motor once it's up to highway speeds.
Microsoft 365.
I use it. It's ok. Slick, simple, gets the job done.
Brett Victor’s perspective is as relevant as ever: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
It depends on the customer :) - I agree with you both, especially on the shader, though I don't think you can find reliable CRT under $200 (maybe?) - I was lucky and found one for free dropped as garbage outside someones house. But it's rare to find such.

The main thing is portability (move to another studio, etc. - just carry the device). The customer - lol, kids nowadays want to make old effects.
Have you use multiple tab on iPhone, which basically suck more and more juice from the battery the more tab is opened?
The relevant number for a semi isn't "miles per gallon" but "gallons per (cargo)ton-mile".

(Which is not to say you couldn't make some improvements, but you're never going to get 50 mpg while hauling 40 tons.)
Landlords don't care about 100% occupancy if they are making sufficient profit per unit; the rent isn't constrained to some fixed premium over the mortgage & tax costs. They can just leave some construction material in the empty units and make up some expenses. Have you never dealt with a landlord that invented BS reasons not to return a deposit?
I am curious how the 0-60 performance number Tesla keeps talking about for the Semi is received in practice. Is it important to them? Is it more a case of something designed for an audience Tesla doesn’t understand?
Would this allow texting without a phone?

My kid doesn’t want a phone but wants to text his friends. Are there any options or will there be after this?
> Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment?

Drones were speculated to have been involved but it was said they were used to distract the ship's defense system as the missiles were in the air, not in the initial spotting/targeting. Although I suppose they could've pretty easily done both.
According to this discussion [1], a variety of tools are available to Linux distros (including nettop), but the Apple OS version that is baked-in may have more features.

[1] _ https://askubuntu.com/questions/257263/how-to-display-networ...
Libc on x64 is roughly a bunch of userspace code over syscall which traps into the kernel. Looks like a function that takes six integer registers and writes results to some of those same registers.

Libc on nvptx or amdgpu is a bunch of userspace code over syscall, which is a function that takes eight integers per lane on the GPU. That "syscall" copies those integers to the x64/host/other architecture. You'll find it in a header called rpc.h, the same code compiled on host or GPU. Sometime later a thread on the host reads those integers, does whatever they asked for (e.g. call the host syscall on the next six integers), possibly copies values back.

Puts probably copies the string to the host 7*8 bytes at a time, reassembles it on the host, then passes it to the host implementation of puts. We should be able to kill the copy on some architectures. Some other functions run wholly on the GPU, e.g. sprintf shouldn't talk to the host, but fprintf will need to.

The GPU libc is fun from a design perspective because it can run code on either side of that communication channel as we see fit. E.g. printf floating point handling seems prone to large numbers of registers needed on the GPU at the moment so we may move some work to the host to make the register usage better (higher occupancy).
CPU speed and clock rate has absolutely nothing to do with realtime anything.
Vacancy rates nationwide are near all time lows. I’d need more evidence to accept that occupancy went down or landlords left units empty.
> would you call that misleading or just an honest application of the transitive property?

The latter because McDonalds managers have been publicly discussing how and why they should stop serving nuggets to Trump in order to better protect their customers
It would be cool if
They could add features to group chats like adding or removing participants.
Yeah, but concept cars are well denoted as such and CEOs don't normally go all "this and that is production ready and it's financial suicide to buy anything else".
Forgot to connect that to the post... Even if Firefox fights the good fight for things like better countermeasures against corporate surveillance, we need many of us to be using Firefox, and to not be developing Web sites that gratuitously support only the most corporate-controlled browsers.
Where's the OpenZim Foundation when you need it?
A newer post with more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298502
"Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 (reddit.com)"
and just to play devil's advocate for myself, perhaps the reason that artists never lose that is because of a childhood trauma that "traps" them in this creative vice? I hate to admit that this could potentially ring true for me (note that the post below this is chronologically before this one -- apparently this only appears above the first post if you're viewing on mobile vs desktop)
Exactly. Being able to effectively block ads is a highly desirable feature. All it takes is a well-funded marketing campaign that educates users when Google stops supporting MV2 extensions.
> Diesels are most thermodynamically efficient at low throttle

I think you meant 'low RPM'. Low throttle doesn't always equate low RPM and VV.
Yep! An easy way is a color gradient background layer and then another layer like a white gradient intersecting it. The orientation/opacity of that top gradient lets you get anything from super-glossy to more of a frosted glass, especially when combined with some additional tweaks to give it more depth.

I still have some websites live (and untouched) from the period if you want to see some...evocative but rather unrefined examples: http://www.biotechgaming.com/software.php (left nav buttons, for example)

Homepage is offline because it has code expecting PHP5 (and Flash); deeper pages mostly work though!
At US scale, that is a $1.7 trillion subsidy (6.7% of 2022 GDP)
> great fortune to receive the details below, which were told to a trusted automotive source of mine by a PepsiCo employee who happened to have time for my friend’s questions

I believe this is what they call, in the legal industry, "Hearsay". Pepsi person tells friend person who tells the author. A lot can get lost in that chain of telephone.

But yea, you're right. A lot of it is kinda nonsense statements. Or it's otherwise meaningless. For example

> There is a team of Tesla engineers on call 24 hours a day, ready to fly out and fix anything wrong with the Tesla Semis. No one at PepsiCo is allowed to fix the Semi.

Well, duh? These are preproduction units that Pepsi is probably getting for a song, with the understanding that there are going to be teething issues. Of course no one is allowed to "fix" the semi other than Tesla, no one is qualified to fix them. Hell, Tesla Service Centers aren't qualified because the only people who know enough about these machines are the engineers who built them.

The author likes to repeat things that are clearly non-sense as well.

> The batteries completely burned out

What does "burned out" even mean? Driven until failure? That doesn't make sense. Tesla, if nothing else, understands EV's and battery packs (if maybe not Semi's). They know how to build batteries with protection circuits so they can't go too low and permanently damage themselves. So what this probably means is driven until the battery went flat/dead/0% SOC. And that's, once again, not a shock. Drive a vehicle that isn't ready to do 500 miles, more than 500 miles and its going to go dead. There are a total of ZERO megachargers out in the world that the Semi could use, so... of course they are going to die. If you drive a gas vehicle somewhere there are no gas stations it'll also die.

> The constant use of the battery pack is unprecedented and is causing reliability problems for Tesla and other EV truck makers

There are, what, a half dozen preproduction units out in the world? How can you even come to a statement like this that makes sense? The announcement of the first public delivery of a semi was December 1st, 2022 - so they've not been in fleet hands for even a year yet. I would be shocked if the first unit that rolled off the preprod line WAS reliable overall, if anyone remembers... the roadsters had more than a few issues too.

> All Tesla Semis and other electric trucks are subsidized by California state

Where are the sources on this? If Tesla was actually getting subsidy to build these, it would be in the news. Easy to prove. I cannot find any articles other than one mentioning the hope to get a federal grant to build a megacharger corridor from CA to TX.

Do I think the tesla semi's are the most amazing thing since sliced bread? No. I'm sure they have tons of issues. But shitty writing (I won't even call this article "reporting" since it is basically some dudebro's blog) based on hearsay without any sort of proof or corroboration is just shitty fantasy. Might as well read some of that rule34 fanfiction about Elon that the fanboys write, if you want equal levels of accuracy.
I think that vehicle is neat. I love the size and capabilities. Honestly, this would be a great vehicle for me with a few modifications. But I found the article to be at least a _little_ disingenuous.

> It was listed at $2,000, and I just knew I had to have it ... The price ballooned as I added a bigger battery and accessories from the factory, not to mention the exorbitant sea shipping freight ... Though to be fair, that A/C cost me extra for the factory installation.

I wish they listed the final cost, at least the final cost with the bigger battery and accessories they added. Seems much more than $2,000 based on their wording.

> like an alternative to a UTV ... It topped out at 25 mph ... it’s not technically street-legal (it doesn’t meet the safety requirements for LSVs)

A UTV is a great comparison, especially for their uses. It will almost certainly beat UTVs that are common in the US on price (again, they didn't tell us the final price, spec'ed out), but it's hard to find a good comparison given the minimal details.

> I’m not sure I’ve seen a golf cart that can tow a boat

At marina I used to frequent, the owner would move 20+ foot boats around the property using a ~30 year old ride-on lawnmower without any trouble at all. He even launched and recovered a few large boats with it, though that was always dicey.

Overall this looks a nice vehicle to have on a hobby farm, but it seems to have a long (and expensive) way to go before it's something to buy for driving on roads.
I would say that is the only mistake they have done during their existence.
I still don’t understand DuckDB use case. To handle huge amount of data, you need a large database that’s connected to the network. DuckDB will eventually hit a ceiling.
says me. i invest heavily here and do own maths. look to capital vs op costs of renewable
It’s mentioned that it runs the equipment harder, and France did have to shut down a large number of plants for maintenance recently: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/french-nu...
Anything can be "on track" if you don't know what the track is. It's a meaningless statement to anyone but those that know.

All you can really do is smile and nod, which, it's much more useful to spend your time not listening to this sport of speculation, and, if you must speculate, speculate on if the idea of an electric semi is viable in the first place.

Personally, I think it is. It's a much harder engineering problem than a car though, so, it's likely to take awhile to become really viable, and longer still to get to a place a reasonable person would call "good". I'd also go sofar as to say, tech wise, we're probably not there yet. We need better batteries, and a means to charge them. That's been slow going so far, and likely needs some significant investment.

Something like a billion dollar X-prize, or, make it 2 billion, for inflation reasons, for the first group that can demonstrate a battery tech suitable for mass manufacturing that's 2x current lithium ion cells at 1/2 the cost. That'd probably get us there in the next 5 years or so, give it another 5 to scale out, and the parallel tech developed trying to attain that prize probably sees things developing relatively quickly after that.
Its a lot easier than you think. Just like trains, but on roads.

The highway where trucks work like electric trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg

And, there is electrification happening along highways, producing energy. German highway PV could generate up to 200 TWh a year: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/04/11/german-highway-pv-cou...

Also, battery swapping will become a thing. You don't have to haul a ton of batteries, you can swap them in seconds along your route. There will be (eventually) a ton of battery plants replacing peaker natural gas plants, these will be built along the highways, also serving a second function of battery swap stations.
love this site! was surprised to see a couple repeats in my idle tapping
>> The EU may mandate interoperability, but I don't see them mandating bubble color...

> I’ve had a couple girlfriends in their 40s mildly judge me negatively for having an Android phone […]

I have an iPhone but don't tie it into Apple services so every fellow iPhone users have green-bubble interactions with me. :)

Over the years/decades I've lived through ICQ, MSN Messenger, BBM, and probably some other proprietary systems. I've managed to avoid tying into any of them so far.