skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's said so sure, but I don't think he's acted like it. He's frequently sued people or threatened to sue them for criticizing his speech (criticism being a consequence of speaking). He's recently embarked on just such a lawsuit against Media Matters, in connection with the affair you reference. He threatened to sue Vernon Unsworth for calling his rescue sub idea a publicity stunt, when asked directly about it in an interview.

You can think whatever you will about Media Matter's reporting and Unsworth's analysis, but I don't think that's accepting the consequences of his speech. To me that seems like trying to intimidate people who criticize you.
> The airplane founders/owners got a big payday.

I would not assume anyone got a major payout in an acquihire.
I'm surprised there are 3 Electrify America chargers but no Tesla Superchargers. Then again, a 300-400 mile Tesla can do the trip in one go (charge at your family's place).
You are probably thinking about the whole battery. But if you consider that it can be split into multiple modules, the weight of a module will not be that big.

Benefits of such design will be:
* lower operating weight since you wont need many modules for short trips
* lower registration weight of a vehicle
* the tires and road won't be damaged as much
* one can swap modules at gas stations instead of charging and waiting
* and the modules can be used as part of a house battery

In fact there is an european startup for microcars https://www.helixx.tech/ where they explore similar idea.
>If I ever have a paper cut or like dry skin on my hands from eczema, as soon as he sniffs the cut or damaged skin he tries to keep licking them like he's... cleaning them out or something? He's my first dog so I haven't really looked into why dogs do that.

If it were an injury on the dog, it's very helpful for preventing infection.

However, because it's on you, it's a good way for you to get an infection and need your limbs amputated.

https://people.com/human-interest/man-who-lost-arms-legs-nos...
My bad, this is still MVP, will replace it.
I had my first at 35, second at 39 (last year).

My only "regret" was I didn't have them sooner so that I'd have more energy and drive. But, in reality, it wouldn't be the same and I'd have other regrets if so.

I never wanted kids. Why bring more people to this shit show, you know? So I just focused on my work and having a good time.

But my better half always wanted kids and we've been together for years.

One day, while on vacation, I get the news that the project I was working on remotely had been pulled and the whole team is out of a job. That's when it hit me: fuck it.

And so we did.

Financially, I'm borderline poor. Mentally, I'm beat. Physically, I'm useless. Parenting is the hardest thing (being a tourist is easy). It's the epitomy of paranoia. It's like extreme sports for the mind.
In this specific case, closer to $40,000 USD and 40-80 hours per week. These were QA roles at a game development studio in Europe.
120V 15A circuit is 1.4kW. If charging time is linear, that BMW battery would take 52 hours to charge from 0-100%.
There's publicmodlogs for reddit but they are rarely used, especially in the sort of places they should be.
Companies like Pilot and Remote make it easy though.
Circulating an open letter point-blank criticizing the CEO is absolutely unprofessional and I'm honestly shocked anyone here thinks they could pull this crap without getting fired.
400mi range seems a bit overkill since I'm up for a break after 4hours of driving, but 300mi seems like the lower end of acceptable, if you don't have another car for trips. I don't want to have to do some special charge for a <3 hour roundtrip, and if you use only 80-20% that gets you 90mi each way while still charging at home.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37966767 (“HN: Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spiral that can end oil”)

https://electrek.co/2023/10/20/cratering-motor-fuel-sales-in...
I would hardly consider this as “take those disagreements public”. It’s not like they talked to the press. This letter was circulated internally using internal employee communications channels. Ironically, we would never have heard of it if they didn’t fire these employees in retaliation resulting in this lawsuit.
> buyers in Norway "tend to be in higher income brackets, often using their EV as a second car."

They've got it backwards: buyers in Norway are using the EV as the first car and their older ICE vehicle as the second car, for when they want to do longer trips. If they share driving time between cars, they're still going to drive less in the ICE car.
I think you're thinking of phi-1.5 https://twitter.com/suchenzang/status/1701615026648605095

Unless there was something else for phi-2 as well?
Then dont buy a 50-60K EV? buy one thats 30K or less?
Even if it's illegal to retaliate in the case of protected speech, however destructive?
Ha ha that's pretty funny but the article specifically states that there's no regulation around these types of rf emissions and that maybe there should be
> These guys [1] took an iX3 to the Kruger Park in South Africa and back with careful planning.

This is not as impressive as you might think, to be honest. What they did is the ideal situation for using EVs: drive short distances and charge overnight.

>> over the course of our 4-night stay, despite driving over 100km per day in the park.

Their needed range was 100km/day, over four days, with overnight charging for each 100km drive.

To get there, they drove for 3 hours, then stopped for 1.5 hours to charge.

Honestly, the story makes it clear that range is an issue, not that range is doable in an EV.
Check out the discussion[0], looks like there are submissions in several languages. Go, Rust, Python, and C++, to name a few

[0] https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions
pretty sure they only acquired it because of the word "air" in the name

/s
Well see this is the thing. I think a lot of people make comments on these topics with a LOT of misconceptions which would be cleared up if they actually had an EV.

So honestly, while I think pure EVs are already good enough now, I think the solution is to just tell people to buy plugin hybrids. If it's like the Volt, they'll almost never use the engine, and when they do they'll wish it was pure EV. So it's perfect training wheels for a full EV. No range anxiety whatsoever, other than the desire not to use gas.
Article does not support the title, and I assume the source title has been changed since it no longer matches the HN title.

> Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric — but the pace of adoption has markedly slowed, and analysts have suggested the country is no longer on track to hit the government's sales targets.
I wouldn't blame Russia for stupidly refusing to upgrade to newer technologies. Russia has its faults to be sure, but I'd sooner blame all the "freedom-loving" general aviation enthusiasts in America: you know, the people who refuse to give up carburetors and leaded gasoline in their 1940s-era airplanes?
kill my descendants with tesseracts!
They’re not _that_ new anymore: the original Model S was sold in 2012. So, while they’re still young compared to ICE cars, we still have at least a decade of data on them.

I do agree, though, that there’s some novelty risk but (a) my numbers only include gas (and I’m not factoring my solar savings in at all because I ran the numbers before I installed solar) and (b) I’m spending quite a bit every year to maintain my Odyssey and basically $0 to maintain my Model 3 (only exception is I’ve changed the tires once, but I’ve gone through a couple sets of van tires in the same time period for a similar total expenditure). I think that I’d come out ahead even if I had to replace the battery (or sold the car when this is needed). Also, the depreciation on my Tesla over the last four years is much more in my favor than the van’s depreciation in the same time.
> If you don’t believe in climate change, there is no value in a discussion.

it's not the belief that's in question. It's the actions required.

I, and many others (whether they admit it or not), do not wish to make personal sacrifices to fix climate change, if others are not willing to make the same level of sacrifices (such that relative positioning within society does not change).
> Q: Can I make assumptions on the names of the weather stations showing up in the data set?

> A: No, while only a fixed set of station names is used by the data set generator, any solution should work with arbitrary UTF-8 station names (for the sake of simplicity, names are guaranteed to contain no `;` character).

I'm unsure if it's intentional or not, but this essentially means that the submission should be correct for all inputs, but can and probably should be tuned for the particular input regenerated by `create_measurements.sh`. I can imagine submissions with a perfect hash function tuned for given set of stations, for example.
I was pretty dismayed that Gwynne Shotwell's actions were so blatantly egregious. I'd expect something like that (or probably worse) from Musk, but my view of Shotwell was that she was always "the adult in the room" at SpaceX. So a bit sad to see that she didn't even realize the illegality of her actions (as other comments mentioned, all her actions were clearly put in writing).
Also, before recording from tv (or streaming) was deliberately made difficult by nonsensical DRM...
NAL, but I think they would also have to prove that the thing they were fired in retaliation for is something you're actually not allowed to fire people for.

You can fire people in retaliation for stealing or screwing up or for wasting everyone's time complaining about Twitter drama instead of doing their job or lots of other reasons. Simply firing in retaliation is not illegal.
> Idk, are people interested in these things?

Yes, absolutely. Would be awesome to read deeper.
Sure it was approached not in the way it had to be. It requires a long-term commitment - longer than duration of one administration. And it requires actual mandates, like we do in EU. Simply put, there are norms of how many electric cars should be sold and on the road in every country every year, and countries face steep fines if they don't. There is no way to object apart from leaving the EU which means instant economic and social death. So things move along quite well here. It might look like socialism, but hell yeah, if it works, why not?

U.S. needs to have state by state mandates which are actually mandatory and provide irrevocable mechanisms to maintain them regardless of administration in power, it needs high tax on gas (make it more expensive than in EU - maybe $10/gallon? because people make more), and ban or extreme high taxes on large cars, especially large gas cars. That progressively increase as share of EVs increase.

Median age of a new car buyer is 53. These people are not going to voluntarily change. They need to be forced to.
> Hosting your own party has a lot more planning.

It really doesn't. I have a backstock of beer and wine and cheese and a subscription to Apple Music, I can literally do it with 15 minutes notice, and have had plenty of practice at doing so. Most of my neighbours are the same.

> a restaurant, public park, street (block party), arcade, bowling alley, or whatever is fun and convenient for you.

- Restaurants do not like large groups showing up without reservations, and the cost is wildly different.

- Drinking in public parks is not typically permitted, nor is street drinking.

- Arcades and bowling alleys are out in the burbs and require driving to.

What is fun and convenient for me is to have parties at my house, in the entertaining space space that does not require manual labour to reconfigure.

I don't care whether you like that or not - I'm not the one who was getting "kind of annoyed" by the preferences of others.
Why would I use Hadoop for such a small number of rows…?
maybe all they need is a layover?
Yeah I know but like… it’s so bad. It’s the only car I’ve ever driven where it feels unsafe to point the aircon at my hands. Completely unnecessary and probably expensive digital mis-feature.
Finding working-as-advertised chargers appears to be hard if not downright impossible. The situation does appear to be a little better if you own a Tesla, but if you own most any other make of EV you're going to have a bad time. From a hard requirement of a third-party app to pay, chargers using cables that do not meet spec, outright broken charging stations, issues with the apps themselves, and so on. Aging Wheels did an excellent video[1] on how frustrating the experience can be.

[1] Aging Wheels - EV Road Trips Suck Now (Except in a Tesla) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92w5doU68D8
The Beepy is just as capable. The T-Deck is only serving as an interface to the Meshtastic LoRa node. A Beepy can run a Meshtastic companion app and connect over Bluetooth, just like the T-Deck.
Par for the course, unfortunately.
Until humans are either all dead, or no longer human (e.g., they've been genetically engineered to have no capacity for violence, or perhaps be part of a hive-mind like ants).
Hybrids have the most maintenance and catch on fire more than 10x more than EVs. They are solving a problem that shouldn't be solved.
Sure.

You can be stranded in the middle of nowhere because a road is closed for many hours or days due to inclement weather or an accident and the detour is 100-200km beyond anticipated, with no charging possibility in between. Some parts of the mountain west have 200km between exits. Has happened to me multiple times. In some places and some times of the year, getting stranded legitimately risks exposure to the elements.

You can find a road impassable because EVs almost universally have poor ground clearance. If a road is closed due to conditions, per the above, the alternatives that are remotely reasonable in terms of distance may require high ground clearance to safely traverse. Again, I have been able to circumvent road closures for various reasons because I had a high-clearance vehicle. There are parts of the US where I will not drive without one.

Many years ago, I would routinely rescue people out of the Sierra Nevada in winter that had foolishly taken their (ICE) SUV on unplowed roads they were not equipped to traverse. You can die from exposure to the elements in that country, both winter and summer. An EV is much, much more poorly equipped for these types of environments. They were lucky I trawled for people on those roads (it was a hobby), they may not have been found for days.

tl;dr: high ground clearance and robust reliable range are serious safety features in the mountain west. Lack of it may find you stranded for days in difficult survival environments. Same reason I also carry ample water when driving through the same areas, just in case.
So the "right way" is to replace all hardware with new hardware, and the second-best solution is for CISC systems to emulate a specific RISC architecture? And you think this will be more maintainable, performant, etc? Do you have even a shred of evidence that this makes any sense at all, beyond "RISC is a good standard"?
Add a lifetime carbon tax to car purchases and EVs would make a lot more sense.

Even without that they will make sense soon. Expecting new tech to start out at the same place on the mass-production supply chain curve as the internal combustion engine is idealistic. It takes time to reach economies of scale but it will happen.
If I am paying a huge amount for something, I would pay for something that fits my needs including the edge cases. No convincing necessary!!!
That's very anecdotal evidence you are using. In my area that number is nowhere near 90%, maybe not even 20%
People often mistake software engineering, or IT with computer science.

Those are not science.
Some manufacturers actually do this. NIO particularly does this at scale in China and I believe they are starting to expand to the US and the EU now as well.

But the reason that this is not a thing are that most of your assumptions as to why that would be a good idea are probably wrong.

1) Batteries outlive the vehicle. Not always but on average they do. There are plenty of first generation EVs that are more than ten years old now that still work fine with their original battery. And the batteries in the newer ones are far better than those first generation ones.

2) Replacing the battery is actually not that big of a deal technically if it needs to be done. It's a bit costly but otherwise just a routine maintenance operation that can be done in a day or so. There are of course lots of older EVs with lots of miles that have had a battery replacement at some point to get a second life.

3) most people are a bit irrational about how much battery they want vs. what they actually need. The reality is that most people end up being perfectly happy with a modestly sized battery. Charging infrastructure is rapidly improving and mostly you only need it when you go on longer journeys. My father has had an EV for one and a half year. With the exception of their summer vacation a few months ago, they never use any chargers other than the one at home.

4) Battery safety is just fine. Yes there is the occasional battery fire. But it's far less common that ICE vehicle fires. There are a few hundred thousand ICE vehicle fires in the US every year. And unlike with battery fires, fatalities are very common. Hundreds per year. Unlike batteries, petrol burns fast, hot, and explosively when it burns. Modern batteries are a lot safer than the first generation ones. Manufactures test that by crashing vehicles, shooting at the battery, puncturing them with nails, etc.
> Each contender will be run five times in a row. The slowest and the fastest runs are discarded. The mean value of the remaining three runs is the result for that contender and will be added to the leaderboard.

Shouldn’t he take the single fastest time, assuming file (and JDK) being in file cache is controlled for?
You're could use this argument to explain away seatbelts in cars
Model 3 was 30K for the longest time after tax credits and Model Y not too much more. Citing a price of 50K is a massive strawman.
It's a private company that does not have a legal or moral obligation to extend free speech to employees. Employees are paid to produce value for their bossses and are free to leave if they don't like it.
Well, you do have a genuine need for a truck of you're doing landscaping work every second weekend. You could use a tow behind cart as well, at least that's what most people do in Europe.

I got a compact crossover to carry my bike. It has the same size of an engine and emissions as my previous car (a sports mini), just the space inside is bigger, one can carry four people without getting crowded and it doesn't look funny with a tow hitch on. Most sensible people drive these kind of cars in the US as well, I saw a lot of Subaru crossovers.
> I want one of these Linux handhelds so much but they all have these clicky push button keyboards.

As someone who has programmed ESP32s, I doubt that they can run Linux. The ones I have (Risc-V versions) just don't have the RAM necessary, nor a memory management unit.

Maybe once they start coming with 32MB of RAM and an MMU it'll feasible to put a stripped-down Linux kernel on it.
Not a felon, but this is a valuable reply. I'm finding it tough breaking into security operations and DevSecOps even though I have a clean record, but because of the fact that I'm a US citizen living offshore now. Seems like a lot of roles they want on-site in the US. (I'm currently in an APAC time zone). I'm wondering if that's true or if it's just a possibly wrong impression I have about the industry.
Perhaps it's changing, but nobody I know who is British thinks of themselves as a Brit. Where Australians do at times admit to being an Ozzie and New Zealanders a kiwi.

My point is, some monikers are self assigned and some external and the Brit one, is just not how British people I know ideate themselves.

Perhaps yank is the same? Or Canuck? Do foreigners know Yankee was once an insult?

It's headline-ese. I hate it, as much as I hate Jap, Pak, Scotch and Jew used to identify Jewish people. A jew, singular fine. Jewish wine not Jew wine. Jap and Pak are other misnames. Its scot about a singular person and Scottish or Scots for anything else except the Scott monument.

Some Indians might say indo-pak relations but "pak player scores century" is just trying to save letters in the headline.

Btw that list is mostly real except "come to dinner" can actually be an invitation to dine.
Depending on your car, it could easily be 30 cents / mile in depreciation + maintenance costs. So that's "worth" $480. Depending on how long of a trip and the type of car, the rental may well be cheaper.
> dev tools businesses are hard

I understand why dev tools business are hard, i'm just curious as to what makes them hard? I know one of the things that make it a difficult sell is that devs don't buy much but what else?
I'm around 6 hours. No naps, can't take them. Plenty of energy for outdoor chores and hiking around the ridge to get sunrise and/or sunset photos. I did so this evening.

I've been living 25% longer per day. Now, if I spent it wisely!!!!
Also, don't forget LD_DEBUG for debugging your handmade ELFs:

man 8 ld.so

Your advice is completely on point. I spent some time a while back hand-writing ELF files in GNU Assembler. Statically linked executables are, indeed, quite straightforward. That said, there are definitely some mysteries, like the difference between p_vaddr and p_paddr in the program headers. Also, the difference between segments and sections is never really explained in the main references.

Dynamically linked ELF executables are somewhat of a different beast, though. You need some decent familiarity with assembly and the broad strokes of program loading to make heads or tails of the details around relocation symbols.

When I was playing around with these things, I never succeeded at hand-writing x86-64 dynamically linked ELF to do anything other than immediately segfault somewhere during loading. Maybe I should give it another try.

Not to far back, I spent some time decompiling (small) static ELF binaries by hand. That really hammered in the x86-64 ISA and its subtleties. I also have Levine's "Linkers and Loaders" sitting on my shelf, which I hope to get around to reading sooner than later.
> Restaurants do not like large groups showing up without reservations, and the cost is wildly different.

Keep in mind this cost is compared to an extra or bigger room in your house. You can throw many restaurant parties for the money you'd spend on a larger house. (Invest the difference and the restaurant parties are effectively free)
Iceland has 41% EV adoption, and I'm pretty sure they have more snow than anywhere in the US (perhaps only comparable to Alaska).
This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. Assuming you take one trip a day, then you’re literally only hitting that case 2/365 days.

Obviously there’s people where this doesn’t apply, but there’s outliers everywhere and they’re free to continue buying gas cars today.
Ask HN: Obsolete PDF Format
The PDF format is bloated, complex, and difficult to edit. When someone asks how to merge two PDFs, it's hard to know what to do without some research, maybe use some software, or script, anyway, you can't easily use it.

So, shall we talk about obsoleting PDF?