skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that you didn't tackle the actual "need" you're trying to criticize, namely the need for a car which is compatible with road trips.

For some people, it would look like this:

> We need a car which can take us to our vacation home

(goes to vacation home once per year, it's unreachable by train or bus
and in a location where having a car is important; they could just rent
out a rental car for a month for a billion dollars instead of having a car
which can be used for the trip)

That's the reality a bunch of people are looking at.

Granted, for a bunch of other people, taking one or two stops to recharge at well-maintained and nice charging stations along the way would suffice. But as I'm sure you're aware, that's not the universal experience with recharging EVs along the way yet.
A part of me thinks that our weariness of spending "more" on architecture and beauty in cities is the same kind of weird frugality people experience with day to day goods.

My grandparents will endlessly complain about the lack of good quality products on the market (knives, power tools, clothing) but at the same time refuse to engage in locally-made albeit more expensive merchants.

Making buildings pretty may cost more (although, from my own understanding sourcing local tradespeople and using local materials ends up significantly cheaper over time) but the ROI is significantly better, both culturally and financially (pretty buildings age better, they become more appreciated over time in both financial and cultural value).

So is it the same with house goods? Are we just unwilling to accept that knives haven't got worse, it's just that we have mass-produced medium-quality low opportunity cost products that we can keep chucking out the window and complaining about? I rambled on, I totally agree that the efficiency of good/pretty architecture is completely understated.
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> If it's just one guest, they can sleep on the couch.

This works until your friends start getting married, start having back problems, or just want a little privacy while they sleep.
Regardless what any critics might have to say, the Space Shuttle Orbiters (and all their accessories) are practically heroes wherever they go. They're a kid's dreams brought to reality and then some.

I hope we can fly something as cool looking and mindblowing as them again some day.
Out of curiosity, why did you stop using it daily?
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Yes under ideal conditions my setup has 4xxkm reach ( it claims 5xx , but I guess that means depleting the battery completely, which is not smart) . 3xx is during winter including winter tires etc.

Summer usage is 17kWh per 100 km, winter usage 21-25 kWh per 100 km. Battery is 100 kWh.

That is 0.342 FoBpF ( firkins of butter per furlong ) in summer and 0.422-0.503 FpF in winter on a battery of 1kFoB, if you prefer imperial units

I never measured reach with a trailer. I only use it to haul lumber from the wood or buy heavy stuff close by.
I do severely disagree. Something is different with RISC-V as this is a modern ISA and is not locked by some absurd PI in many places in the world like x86_64 and arm, not to mention it is seems the RISC-V guys are actually "doing it". Ofc, RISC-V can still fail as it needs extremely performant implementations all over the board (mobile/server/workstation/"embedded"), and will have to survive the mistakes of its big CPU vendors (usually accute micro-arch bugs).

About what you call "evolution" of computer languages, well after decades of coding, that "evolution" is to me mostly tantrums from developers and a scam: "planned obsolescence" and "developer locking" for the benefits of few vendors, that to justify permanent income. I now believe the people doing that are brain-washed, or actually really toxic people (a liability for humanity as a whole). Not to mention, those issues are exponentially boosted by language syntax complexity, with the worst being c++ and now rust. Of course, I did shape this opinion after decades of coding, this is will be alien to short term-ists or inexperienced people.

From this global perspective, I think the real way forward would not be to code a kernel in rust, but to code one in RISC-V, and I was voicing my disagrement here, on HN, even though the pro-rust/AI bots are performing accute karma slash only because I have different views on the matter and voicing it...

But some people made me think more about the issue of the computer language extremists a bit more, and now I am thinking RISC-V... as a computer language, namely with its "compiler" generating code for other ISA (not a JIT). I may have a look at that in the near future as RISC-V as a computer language should be much more resilient to syntax "planned obsolescence" and "vendor/developer lock-in for permanent income via compiler/syntax grotesque complexity". Hopefully, I did open the eyes of some non AI bots here, while providing some different paths of moving forward.
Are you, like me, confusing the main picture illustrating the article (which is the Harold Washington Library in Chicago) with the building the author talks about (which is the Board of Education Building in Philadelphia)? Because the Board of Education Building seems to have an adequate number of windows [1]. The Chicago Library does have few windows, but I'd attribute that to its purpose (the lower floor contains an auditorium, multi-purpose room, and exhibit hall) [2].

[1] https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/im_display.cfm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Washington_Library
Range is still a problem for many, just a reduced problem overall.

500km is a short drive for some, when you can only fast charge to 80% and cars get far less range in the cold. 500km becomes 400km at 80%, you have to start hunting at 70km range, and at 140km/hr that's just over 2 hours of driving.

(Speed reduces range too)

But as I said in another comment, this will self fix. Charging time will come down, range will extend.

When you can fast charge a car to true 600km range, even at 140km/hr at -20C, with the heater running, and in under 10 minutes, I'd say we're there.

Maybe by 2028? I think?
It's not about being a good cook, it's about the joy of cooking and sharing a meal with friends. And the joy of having friends stay overnight and having a coffee together in the morning.
I love that story man (sorry if you're a woman! but I'm not talking about gender just an expression). And the way you write about it is fantastic.

Like there's something redemptive in reading your writing. As if it, even if everything isn't going to be alright, you make it seem like it will. I bet you're a fantastic parent. Keep it up! :)
What's the point of colonizing Mars in this the way? Depressing.
> How do we feed the peak power demand to these tiny towns?

Like petrol station: charge some reservoir batteries during off hours and then you're able to discharge this energy fast. The problem then is the energy density of batteries making it so you'd need a gigantic battery / capacitor to replace a lot smaller fuel tank.
I anal but as far as I know you can’t copyright facts.
I think this came up in some tennis thing where people were sneaking in phones to gamble on games as early knowledge of facts could theoretically make a difference.
I imagine the same applies here.

So and so has published a paper on such and such topic is a fact, right?
Personally, not a huge fan of the overly-ornamented stuff, but I do think that the current architectural trends are overly... generic. Case in point; Fitzwilton House, in Dublin, a Brutalist office block recently demolished and replaced with a modern one. The original was, well, a lot of people didn't like it, but it was utterly unique. The replacement is a completely generic glass thing, almost indistinguishable from the next one down the canal, or literally thousands of others worldwide.

Before and after shots: https://www.archiseek.com/2016/permission-demolish-fitzwilto...

Pictures don't really do justice to just how startling the thing looked; it was completely unignoreable. Now, from a practical point of view, it probably needed replacing; it was a pretty inefficient use of land, if nothing else. But they could at least have replaced it with something interesting.

(Fun fact: it used to contain the Australian embassy, amongst other things, which always felt vaguely inappropriate; Australia just doesn't have the appropriate sinister vibes for such a building.)
That house looks like modern Australian architecture too.
> only broken for encryption

It's broken in an adversarial situation: given the hash of evidence-file A, it's possible to construct a file B that gives the same hash.

But it would be a different matter entirely to construct a file B that actually looked like a file of evidence relevant to the case. I don't know how lawyers use these hashes, but unless they're being used to detect malicious tampering, I don't see what's wrong with MD5. And since the files to be hashed are evidence, they're in the custody of a court; things have got quite bad if court officials might be tampering with evidence.
I'm not sure talking about theoretical problems that don't exist is very useful. Better to talk and question about the present subscription culture.
This is great advice, thank you. <3 Realistic, useful and hard-won, I bet. Not that I'd know, but thanks!!! :)
Questions of law are settled by the courts, not private lawyers and federal agencies. If police officers show up and arrest somebody, the public is allowed to have an opinion. We don’t just throw up our hands and say police officers know better than we do. They work on our behalf.
lol I'm not at the point you're talking about, but just work on something you like. If I could tell my 22-year-old self some unsolicited advice, it would be to not focus on "making it" but instead make things you want to see in the world.

I was doing that anyways but it would've been nice to hear.
If you're writing your own libc, then you absolutely can work around a whole bunch of missing syscalls by emulating them in userspace
IDK who's downvoting you. We've been in "Schrodinger's recession" for the last 3 years. Everybody has been accurately predicting the other shoe falling every single day while SPY is breaking records and the outlook on inflation looks like a successful soft landing.
It is Windows only, so no.
I have CF DNS and the website works correctly for me in Italy so the answer is yes, changing DNS works, even Google's DNS should do it.

But the default ISP ones all block some websites related to piracy, and sadly for most people that’s enough to deter them or worse, it leads them to visit suspicious websites and download viruses.
After reading the first few paragraphs, my first thought of the future was a dystopian police state rather than concern for "renting" vision.

The federal law enforcement apparatus in America has a long history of pushing for more power and pushing the boundaries of its power. Warrantless data collection is at an all-time high. Most of us brush it off as no concern since we are law-abiding citizens.

I'm beginning to see it as a real threat after the last election. It made me feel less secure in the stability of our political system. It's conceivable that someone could come to power and abuse law enforcement for political purposes on a large scale. I recognize that some people believe it's already happening but I'm not one of them.
Just curious: are the copy, cut, paste and undo commands remapped by Doom Emacs? Those don't seem to be the defaults. TY
That particular rule always irked me because it's always after midnight as any meal is over time not at a precise point in time.

I should really have got over it after 40 years.
the reason these features exists is so apple can continue to send the occasional media from user devices to the mother ship under gdpr and cpca et al.

now collecting user media have an agreed upon feature use case. wink wink.
> MD5's weaknesses are easily described, and importantly, it is still (second) preimage resistant

Most devs have no idea what that means, but most devs still need to use hash functions. They need to use primitives that match their mental model of a hash function. Said model is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_oracle

The usual answer here is "don't roll your own crypto", but in practice abstinence-only cryptography education doesn't work.
After Glenfell I am happy to see a council house/tower
whose facade hasn’t been fucked with. In reckon a better solution is trees around it.
One thing I've noticed by people watching, both in real life and digitally, is that even if there's a lot of things to do, people won't stick around if the buildings around them are blah and flat. You could have an amazing square with all sorts of little fried food carts and comfortable benches or a digital square with lots of minigames and events, but people won't go there if they're surrounded by modernist and post-modernist architecture comprised of flat glass and concrete surfaces, no matter how planar or curved the overall forms actually are. Such buildings have a "This is a place of function, not humanity" aura that people unconsciously pick up on.
There is no need to charge for an hour today unless the car is first gen EV or the charger is not a fast charger. The fast charger roll out could be better, but it's expanding quote rapidly, only in the most rural places is it a major issue... That said I have seen cases where people add 30 mins of a diversion to a route to use a fast charger for 30 mins.
From a reply: “wow. I expected expensive (two digits), but indeed: these are _very_ expensive (three digits).”

Honestly, seems pretty reasonable for what is likely an industrial-grade product.
I've paid 80 dollars or so per button on a panel with a dozen “simple” push buttons, and there were buttons in that same series that went for a few hundred (for example https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/schneider-electric...).
One thing I have not heard discussed is the all-too-common family visit. If I drive 200 miles to visit some family and stay at their house what’s the etiquette for using their power to charge my car? I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking and saying “I’ve got to leave for two hours to find a charging station” also feels awkward. I want to maximize our time together and not burden folks with needing to pay to charge my car.
Yes, you're correct. I tried to connect a common training problem (gradient explosion and vanishing gradient) with the issue of softmax being sensitive to large values. I agree it's misleading/inaccurate, so will rewrite that part.

That said, the whole neural network will be sensible to large values, so it won't be fixed by a numerically stable softmax. The normalization is a key aspect for the network to work.
Because for most people, the edge case trips are holiday ones. Which a lot of people tend to have at the same time: so try renting a vehicle when everyone needs one.
Did they ban .gs and .se, too?
Highly addictive drugs destroy lives and families. The little girl who’s father has a heroin addiction sure didn’t get any say in his choice, but she’s affected by it.

The citizens of communities ravaged by addiction all suffer, whether they individually consume the drug or not.

The idea that drug use is a victimless crime is patently false and all it takes is a few moments of thought to realize it.

No, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with adults smoking a joint after work or on the weekends if that’s what they choose to do, but it quickly devolves from there.
Data: EV sales up 50% YoY. Business Insider headline: “Fewer people are buying electric cars”.

A useful discussion for HN might be: Why are they choosing this framing?

Some discussion in Electrek about why the record growth is framed as if the numbers show absolute-figure declines: https://electrek.co/2023/11/09/which-is-it-already-is-us-ev-...
We also had Smalltalk, Prolog (esp. Visual Prolog) or Lisp.
This is extreme-sounding. Care to explain your thinking / experience more? I'm interested! :)
Not at all. It leads to energy waste in winter.
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The same way you don’t care about plumbers and their issues, you already have your own, a job ( or two ), family and need to rest.

On top of that people ( rightfully) feel they have no power to change anything on their own without requiring a multi-year almost full time job pressuring and bringing awareness to the public, which is part of being a politician, which is exactly what they don’t have the time for and the will to deal with those type of people, which are being paid for and you don’t.
Totes agree! Sorry for bumping your comments, but you look like an interesting new one here. WINDOWS FTW!
What do building architects think of Ayn Rand's treatise on architecture in the FountainHead?
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I promise you I did not! But I have recently started changing my "prose" to be more clear, layering information thoughtfully, and spending more words on filler (e.g. The Author Suggests). I definitely learned part of it from reading chat gpt. I like it better than some of the more math-y or academic writing which I will sometimes use but only if I need to be hyper specific.
Doom Emacs defaults to Evil mode. But if you turn it off, it gives you vanilla keybindings. So I don't think it remaps them. :)
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the first line of the article "a record 300,000 electric cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023"; the spreading of FUD around EVs continues, nothing new here; this time it is from the opposite end of the spectrum from the crowd saying "Getting Americans to ditch driving altogether would be the most effective way to reduce emissions, but it would require a massive rethink of our transport system."

classic case of the great being the enemy of the good;
Ok, but the poster had clearly explained a reasonable thing that they want to do. And keeps getting pushed and gatekeeped/kept on that stance for some reason.
Unless it was in a city with implausibly clean air, that 19th century one has probably been cleaned at least once (at great expense, probably). Otherwise, it'd be practically black. And cleaning these things is _expensive_, and takes ages. IIRC doing one smallish (but highly ornamented) 19th century building in my university took about a year. By contrast, the house could be cleaned up in a few days. Modern buildings, clad in, essentially, plastic (or just having all-glass surfaces), even easier, of course.
> It's not obvious that buying the frequent item and renting the infrequent item is the reasonable thing to for all situations and contexts.

Owning something means taking on the liabilities of storage, maintenance, and depreciation. Renting allows you to only pay for the parts of those liabilities commensurate with your time of usage. Therefore if your time of usage of something is small, there are relatively more gains in reducing your share of these liabilities in this way.

Conversely, owning confers the benefit of reducing the friction involved in each individual use of something. So it stands to reason that the more useages, the more benefits owning confers.

> I also think the frequent vs infrequent products are not equivalent in the first place. A dining room is just not the same as a restaurant setting, so a rational trade-off must account for that inequivalence. So far, you have assumed that a home dining room party and a restaurant room party are equivalent social experiences. They probably aren't.

I agree that they are different. But the attitude I am arguing against is that of 'if I don't own this thing, these experiences will never happen'. In other words, people seem to be completely discounting the substitute experiences. In reality, there are other places to go besides one's house, and even at one's house there are other things to do besides eating dinner, and even if one wants to eat dinner at one's house, it is not that different whether you eat it at the kitchen table, on a fold-out table in a game room, or in a bona fide dining room.
Is US EV demand slowing or growing?
The editorialized headline is not correct. From the article:

"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."
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That's why in economy you vote with your wallet, not your mouth. AKA talk is cheap, show me the dough...
They're probably going to make the WTO enforce against countries with more liberal copyright regimes, but it must be said they'll need to crack on if they want to do so and several of the larger economies are politically gridlocked at this point in making any decisions at all.
most countries have elites who do not want their financial information on their central bank, so everyone else have to accept the infective system because of them. us and uk and ru are the last holdouts, with most other places moving to instant payments owned by central banks as a backdoor into society to close this option.
Then pay them. It's not hard to figure how much energy you consumed and what the cost of electricity is, make a conservative estimate, round it up and give them the money.
That style is also totally in line with correspondence into magazines like The Economist and Time. It’s not exclusive to ChatGPT
Imperial or metric football?
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Kinda blows that It's shipped as gigantic compressed zip file. I happen to have the space for it but not double so I can actually use it. Shipping 10GB standalone chunks or just totally uncompressed would have been so much easier. I'm pretty sure all torrent clients could handle a couple hundred thousand files just fine.