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The last time I bought a car, this was the reason why I picked gas - I figured either the infrastructure for roadtripping would be there by then, or we'd have better range.

Since then, I stopped doing as many roadtrips. Tesla also decided to open up its charger network and everyone is switching to NACS, so the infrastructure is way better. I'd say I'm ready for EVs now, except the car industry decided that electric vehicles inherently have to come with lots of anti-repair bullshit. The same kind that I already find disgusting in consumer electronics. So long as gas equals I own it and electric means I'm renting it, I'm not """buying""" an EV, even though they're otherwise great.
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Thanks for posting, this is a fun space to see more software in.

Indirectly related, but I'm in the market for a 32inch+ screen which can be used for a photo frame. With the exception of Samsung's Frame, I haven't been able to find other products which is surprising to me because it seems like such a simple use case. Here's what I've found so far:

- TVs and monitors: downside is keeping these on 24-hours isn't great for energy consumption

- color e-ink: these are of course usually a maximum of 13 or so inches

- Samsung the frame - alas, has good features and a good look, but downsides are expensive(!) and Samsung(!!)

Do you have any recommendations?
I use public transportation. Americans should do the same for the sake of their health
That's especially valuable since it's normally impossible to take even the benchmark percentage increase claims seriously for LLM research, because they're usually reached through training set contamination of the test questions. But your requirement of not introducing any new outside training data to an existing published model would take care of that.
> If you qualify for the EV tax credit, I would argue the car is too expensive for your budget.

The AGI limit for a couple is $300K. I'm pretty anti-new car as a financial move, but even I have to admit that a couple pulling down $250K-$300K/yr is probably going to be able to fade buying a new car if they want.
Older versions of Minecraft had a similar issue. The block display started to get desynchronized with large enough coordinates, because their coordinates were relative to the world origin and not the player/camera position and truncation errors got large enough to have visible effects. (You can see them from most Far Lands videos.)

It should be noted that floating point is not really an issue for both Patriot and Minecraft. There would have been similar issues even when fixed integers of the same size, 24 and 32 bits respectively, were used. The real issue is that there were two values where one is much larger than another, and they were combined into a single variable without further consideration.
Mine is over $0.60/kWh in Silicon Valley ironically making most gas cars cheaper per mile.
> I'm not going to argue that we don't spend more time charging than we would stopping for gas, but it's not enough to bother me or my family, and if we include getting snacks or a bathroom break, the car is ready to go before we are.

The concern is that as adoption of EVs increase, the availability of places where one can charge on a journey outside of one's home range will not keep up with demand. I hope it becomes a non-issue, but I am hesitant to commit until it is clear it will not be.

At some point, there will be a tipping point where finding gasoline becomes the harder problem, but hybrid technology seems to me the most pragmatic way to get over the hump, if there will be one.
Your 'edge case' seems to be practically weekly, so that's fine for you but not what I was talking about.
It’s not confusion it’s a comparison. The other commenter is trying to highlight Musk’s cognitive dissonance.

On the one hand, he wants to support “free speech” on his platform (being able to say what you want _publicly_ and not get fired).

On the other, his employees are getting fired for things they are saying internally. Obviously less of a moral crime, but one speech he is okay with squashing because it’s criticism of him.

So given these two situations, what is Musk’s definition of “free speech”? A value he claims to hold very dearly and earnestly, but also tramples if it’s speech he doesn’t like.
Hello, thanks for the great question! Yes, you do have to specify where a variant comes from, but it doesn't have to be nominal at all! Here's an example:

```
enum Option<T> {Some(T), Nothing}

// Create a value with an inline type that doesn't use the nominal `Option`

let opt1 = enum {Some(Int), Nothing} of Some(5);

// Define a second option value, which is assigned with the first

let opt2: Option<Int> = opt1;

// Print the result

println(opt2);
```

You can create a variant of an inline `enum` type, and then typecheck it against another structurally equal type if you so choose!

I hope this example properly illustrates how powerful the structural type-checking is with enums!
I believe that would be illegal, sir
Intercity trains make more sense than just the East Coast Acela corridor.

Regular Amtrak trains don't count, they are too slow and too unreliable to count on - I'd take a train from LA to San Francisco if high speed rail existed and it it took less than 3 hours, comparable to flying. But not when it takes 11 hours on Amtrak (assuming it's on schedule, and you don't get delayed waiting on a freight train). Even a bus is faster than a train.
Ah good point, I wasn't clear enough! I was referring to rules like this one, which I believe are considered legal, despite taking into account protected attributes during the candidate selection phase:

https://www.visier.com/blog/how-hr-can-tackle-diversity-usin...

It does seem like it would be on kind of shaky legal ground, but IANAL.
Hug of death.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240103074335/https://macadie.i...
This is very strange. I rent cars routinely from a few blocks away and it's never been a problem. (I don't own a car and occasionally will take a day or weekend trip with a rental car...).
How is it MUSK's doing that a middle manager fired an employee?
See also "Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwicN2u6Dro
FWIW that is complete hyperbole.
I drove Alaska to Argentina more than a decade before they did [1]. I tried as hard as I could to get as remote as possible and as far from civilization as possible. Only once did I need to carry a jerry can to get than the 600km my little Jeep got from its stock gas tank. Note any place with a gas pump has power (and cellular internet).

I also drove right around Africa through 35 countries getting as remote as possible. Again, I had to work hard to need more than 600km of range.

I also drove 18 months around Australia, including the world's most remote road, also across the Simpson. Again, aside from a few really odd cases (where no normal ice vehicle can get anyway) I was never far from power.

All of those places are developing rapidly, and all have been driven by EVs more than once.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOigynaS4WY
There’ve been apps to use them as a second monitor to a Mac for some time, but as of a few years back, it’s a built-in feature.

Last I checked it does require the iPad to be signed in to the same iCloud account as the user on the Mac, which may present a problem if, say, you want to use a personal iPad this way with a work MacBook, or if you use separate accounts for different clients on your MacBook and don’t have them all signed in to a single iCloud account. But, if that’s not an issue, should be fine. Some of those other apps may still exist, too, and I don’t think they have that restriction (I think Apple’s is that way because it’s more tightly integrated with hand-off features and such)
Abuse of power is a relative term. If something is the norm, then doing it is not abuse. It's fine in most companies to complain about the boss to HR or to the boss themselves, but not fine to complain it to someone else.

If I had bad boss who isn't doing anything illegal or breaks company's policy, I would likely switch my job rather than taking the impossible task of fixing them if they don't want to fix themselves.
I’m willing to bet you do the exact same thing. The vast majority of people drive alone every day, and only occasionally have passengers. Do you have a passenger seat? A back seat? A trunk? If so, you’re buying for the edge cases, not the average, and you’re not special.
I just got my "configure your Cybertruck" email. Unfortunately, I have an outdoor parking spot in a rented apartment and running power to charge there would be difficult/impossible. Yet, I would like a cybertruck.

I am going to try to buy a house in 2024-2026 so I can have a charging spot/garage so I can buy the EV, although not in a huge rush given the local real estate market (Puerto Rico), hassle of moving, etc (and relatively few miles/yr on my present car, although it's a 2006 and gets about 10-12mpg).

I wonder how many people are in similar situations. A PHEV would actually be the optimal new vehicle for me -- no need to charge, exempt from 40% import duty, and highly efficient in stop and go traffic -- but I want the Tesla. (I've also never owned a new vehicle, and kind of enjoy owning an old/cheap enough truck that if anything happened to it I'd be relatively unconcerned.)
yes, a lot of environmental harm is caused by unnecessarily large vehicles (and houses, for that matter).
Sigh, been having this conversation in a related codebase. Md5 is just as fine as any other generic hash function if its being used as a non-unique key, which for many cases replacing it with one of the more "secure" alternatives does nothing except for the fact that the resulting hashes are frequently longer, thereby further reducing the statistical chance of an accidental collision. For something like a document store, duplication system, etc, simply taking the extra step of doing a binary comparison against the text associated with the hash assures that accidental (or intentional) collisions are handled. With the bonus that you probably get to either publish a paper or detect someone trying to attack the system should the text comparison fail.

And given the history of cryptographic hashes, i'm even more convinced that anyone depending on sha3/whatever being better than md5/etc over the next 10-20 years is fooling themselves.

Now would I use it in a secure boot chain/etc as a stamp of uniqueness? Probably not.
Isn't the most expensive fish Kohaku koi? I think some go for $1mm+
Title is incorrect.

> 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

So, from that we're to conclude that electric cars are doomed?

In fact, fewer more people are buying cars:

> Electric car registrations accounted for more than 16% of the market in the first seven months of 2023, up from 14% this time last year. The rise saw the number of electric cars sold rise to 175,978 from 127,492 by the end of July (a rise of 38%), according to the latest official figures from the SMMT.

https://www.electrifying.com/blog/article/electric-car-sales... (and their first citation)
I’d be curious to see your numbers.
Based on my electrical costs of about $0.35/kwh and 87 gas holding steady below $5 for nearly a year, 1000 miles driven in my real-world 45 mpg Camry hybrid costs about $110 while the same in Tesla Model Y costs about $95.
Tesla however is $10k to $15k more.

The only maintenance my Camry will need for the next decade or so that does not exist in Tesla is regular fluid changes which amortize to about $200 per year

Ps in SF Bay Area and don’t qualify for tax incentives
Fret not friend, I see turtles ahead
> However, experts are warning the growth rate in electric vehicle uptake isn’t strong enough, particularly with private car buyers, to reach the 22% target without greater incentives such as a cut in VAT on public charging and a more robust charging network

Yeah - you need robust charging network to incentivize more uptick in electric cars. Everyone knows that. This is classic. We can't handle 100% of use cases yet, so we're doomed.
Lots of American Exceptionalism in this comment and the replies.

The Norwegian state makes so much money off of oil because of how well they manage the revenues. The US could do the same thing but chooses not to.

The difference between the US and Norway isn’t in the amount of fossil fuel reserves one possesses vs the other. It is in how the money from those resources is used. The US privatizes it while Norway puts it towards the public good.
> Why? Do the life choices of other individuals really cause you that much harm?

I meant more emphasis on the 'kind of' in 'kind of annoying'.

Maybe 'frustrating' would have been a better word. It is frustrating when seemingly everyone around you is on a different page than you are.
I'm very socialist but I kinda agree with this. Often the unions here in the Netherlands are too entangled with the company's management and don't actually represent my interests. As such I don't pay them (and their ridiculously overpaid CEOs).

Unfortunately in the last 30 years the grassroots unions got corrupted by big business when the left (red) and right (green) parties worked together (we called it the "purple" cabinets). And the union leaders became entangled into the business cultures, also known as the "polder model". They basically made underhanded deals and cashed out. Our prime minister at the time himself started out on the barricades with a megaphone and ended up in luxury commisary appointments. Most unions are a joke now, just corporate puppets. I don't want to pay for their puppet show :P

The left-wing party got severely punished for this betrayal and is only on its way back into the political scene 20 years later, but unfortunately they left a vacuum which meant the country has deteriorated a lot (to the point of the extreme-right winning the last election).
I'll throw this in the pool, personal anecdote.

I have 2 children, school starts at 845 and it's within a 15 minutes walk. We get to sleep until 745,which is great.

Our bedtime is always the same 8 in bed, about 830 asleep and for the adults between 1030 and 11 (I need 9 hours).
As you can see pretty consistent sleep schedule.

My sleep is somewhat disturbed, as in I wake up a minute 2-3 times per night. Not alwaya, but frequent.

Last time with new year (no alcohol), I went to sleep at 3 am, and I forgot how good is it. I'm a former night owl, at 3 am ny body feels tired, it takes zero effort to sleep, I closed my eyes and I passed out, deep sleep for 6 hours, the use washroom and another 2 hours of sleep.

It was incredible. Society doesn't allow that, but the difference between "have to go to bed" and "go to bed when ready" is huge
A project in the back of my mind:

I walk the dog through a strip mall parking lot every day. There are some U-Haul rental vans that are always there. So pretty clearly, someone is doing daily rentals on a permanent basis. The prices are painted right on the vans: $19.95 / day plus mileage.

Or maybe they just bought the vans from U-Haul and never repainted them? Interesting question. But U-Haul has a box in the strip mall for dropping off your keys, so I suspect they are rentals.

I was thinking of doing a comparison between actually buying or leasing a van vs. paying the daily rental fee. Could there be an economic inefficiency where it's cheaper to rent every day than buy? I'd need to know the year of the van, for one thing.
I live in Livingston MT which is the closest proper town to Yellowstone. We have a two-bay charger at Clarke and Main. I've only seen it used once though.
What you need to know to talk to Europeans, Brits and others
Subcontracting work is the true sign of an intelligent species.
"If there ever has been a moment when reasonable men's hands itch for the pitchfork, this must surely be it." -- Jonah Goldberg
The HN title is wrong and contradicted by the article.

More people are buying electric cars than ever before, but adoption rates aren't quite as high as what the government had hoped for.
I've lived with an EV for 3 years now, and take some legit road trips from SF: Utah, Vegas, LA, San Diego, Tahoe. I have also been all over the world and done many, many trips (far to many to count). I submit the optimum mix for most Americans right now is roughly 1 EV and 1 hybrid, solar roofing and a battery storage system. The average American has a spouse. Even if we ignore kids, we can roughly assume, unless those suburbs are way more empty than they appear, that both people have a car. Let one have an EV, and one take a hybrid. That way, they can cover the occasional very long drive in relatively remote areas.

Keep in mind, it may very well eventually switch, where gas stations are less common than high power EV chargers in the remote areas. Sort of a Dutch disease issue: once the EV chargers are the dominant market, the gas station market is likely to quickly fade until it's just diesel and finally all electric.

The Mad Max theorists worry that they won't have power for their electric vehicles in the event of an apocalypse. Friends, how long do you think refineries, pipelines, and oil freighters are going to stay going in the event of an apocalypse? Better to get good at rigging some salvaged solar panels, an inverter, and re-learn the old pass times, like dominos, dice, and cards.
Correct. Tesla just closed another record quarter. And BYD just surpassed them as the largest EV producer in the world. Both of those things are true because the overall market keeps on growing very rapidly. Which means Tesla can break it's own records and yet not be the largest anymore because another company is growing even faster.

We're in a major economic down turn because of things like global pandemics and other macro economic events like the conflict in the Ukraine. Yet, this has barely impacted the growth of the EV market.

The article is rehashing the myth spread by traditional car manufacturers that the reason they are selling so few EVs is that nobody wants EVs. Which is patently false. More people bought EVs last year than any year before. Just not from them.

The actual reason they are producing so few EVs is that they are struggling to produce them cost effectively. There is no demand problem if they price them right. But if they do that, they actually loose money on the few EVs that they do produce. The reasons for all this are complicated and relate to their outdated manufacturing and supply lines that are optimized for their now obsolete ICE vehicles. They can build EVs but they just aren't very good at it yet. Too many parts. Too many suppliers. Too slow to assemble them. Lots of supply chain issues to source batteries, chips. Lots of issues with software. Etc. They are basically about 5-8 years behind technically.

Tesla, BYD, and others don't have these issues because they built their EV manufacturing from scratch and have been optimizing how that works for the last ten years. Tesla became profitable about six years ago (and ridiculously so). BYD has been growing in China and started expanding internationally only recently. Both are profitable and rapidly growing market share. And they are now able to produce vehicles much more cheaply and are waging a price war that pushes prices down for everyone else too.

And its about to get worse as they are getting ready to mass produce cheap (<~25K$) EVs by the millions. All the signs are that 1) this is actually happening in the next 2-3 years 2) there are exactly zero signs of demand challenges whatsoever for any of those vehicles 3) this will start decimating the market for traditional ICE vehicles and 4) This will continue relentlessly beyond 2026 until there's nothing left of that market; probably by the mid to late 2030s or so.

So, yes the article, and the site it's on are not great. To put it mildly.
I am ready for the era of the killer stored energy rhombus
> I'd consider an ICE vehicle if I could buy a new one for $10K. Have a suggestion?

No, but any ICE vehicle will not have the limitations of an EV. I was saying I might accept those if it were cheap enough.
If Hetzner storage boxes work for you, that would be less than 4 euros per month with unlimited traffic. Next level up is 13 euros for 5TB. (It works fine with restic over ssh but also has options for samba, webdav etc in addition to borg server. Now that I am looking at the info page, it seems restic is listed now too but I am not sure if it's via rclone . https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box )
QuantumScape's solid-state cell passes first endurance test
Thank you!
I'm pretty sure a pizza with pineapple is workable, after all there is one asian rice I have been served which included pineapple and was amazing
> If something is the norm, then doing it is not abuse.

Abuse is abuse regardless of whether it is normalized in a company, but it is also against the law in this case specifically, so it is obviously not 'the norm'.

> If I had bad boss who isn't doing anything illegal or breaks company's policy, I would likely switch my job rather than taking the impossible task of fixing them if they don't want to fix themselves.

That's nice. It is also irrelevant.
> You won't get persistence when you restart the process, but you'll still be able to run code that needs to read and write files.

Since it's Linux and you can give it "network access" (using workarounds such as redirecting via a server), you can just use one of the existing ways to mount a remote filesystem that could be stored on the server (such as NFS, sshfs, ...).

Or bridge/mount to the local browser and store it in indexeddb or whatever.

It already has directory mapping when running outside a browser - maybe there's even an easy way to do this more directly than funneling everything through the virtual network.
Those solutions are totally inadequate with regard to intangible values. It's as if you simply dismissed the emotional weight of GP's very real point, which is that the edge cases are singular and important. A rented room regardless of how nice is not a substitute for hosting friends and family at ones home.

And don't get hung up on this example. There are endless examples of the same sort and that pose the exact same conundrum.
Dumbass protectionist policies stop western countries from importing cheap Chinese EVs.
5-year ownership cost of a Model 3 SR is the same as a Toyota Corolla right now...
I am sure Musk has lot but issues but he has repeatedly said and acted like he is fine with consequences of his speech. Like he is fine with advertisers leaving twitter/X[1] for his speech.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK91Ji6GCZ8
That's the best app on terms of combining ambient sounds! Well done!
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