skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never get how a healthcare system could "collapse". What could happen, and in fact what is happening in societies with stretched health care systems, is that people get triaged and wait, possibly until they die off.
People seem very focused on “should they or shouldn’t they, and why”, which somewhat perplexes me given that there is at least one really good reason for doing this: to create Rosetta Stones for very common pieces of software. To really and truly know if Rust should become the new C we have to start seriously exercising it in the places where C reigns. That’s not a bake-off entirely defined by technological superiority, but also of practical applicability, maintainability, and ability to ship pervasively deployed solutions. This project is a great test of Rust.

RIIR isn’t merely a “sprinkle Rust magic because I believe” thing. The tech has clear potential and I personally think a version of it will take hold where C was once assumed. To know for sure we have to ship more software with it, and we need good comparisons. I’m quite thrilled to have projects like this pressing on.
Drugs? Contraband? Tax evasion? Insider trading? Industrial espionage? Any process crime like "lying to a fed"?

If you think about it, we have tons of laws that don't fit into the mold of "hurting specific people" - which would definitely be "black morality" to me - but are more of either "preserving the system as it is" or even "we said it's illegal and so it is". I'm not saying none of those should exist, but I definitely would be willing to look onto some of it as a morally "gray area".
top comment, just keep scrolling down farther: https://www.zhihu.com/question/637763289
Depending on the weather my 2018 Model 3 will get 285-300 miles per charge. It was around 300-3015 when I got it. I've had zero issues. Range has never been a problem with the superchargers.
So, my Tesla is about as convenient as my Honda Odyssey to drive from Los Angeles to Houston. And, since I need two cars anyways (because of a wife and kids), the Tesla is a great car to have for all the trips where I don’t need more than five seats.
The reason LFPs are becoming more prevalent is because LFPs have worse range but are cheaper, and we've reached the tail-end of the cost-vs-range bell curve. Or to put it another way, buyers are much more sensitive to 100miles vs 200miles, than they are 300 miles vs 400 miles. OEMs just don't need the extra range, not if it increases the pricetag.

It also does wonders for the supply chain - the N in NMC stands for Nickel, and most Nickel comes from Russia. The C stands for Cobalt, for that matter.
We have one EV and one ICE, and it works great.
This supports my take, which is that the perfect EV is a plug-in hybrid with about 100m EV range, in addition to an ICE.

My RAV4 gets 50 depending on temps, so on average I use the ICE for about 10 miles of my long commute.

But I load up and drive 500 miles using gas when I need to, once in a while.
Did it know where it isn't?
> I don’t want a Tesla because AirPlay and adjustable aircon grates are non-negotiable for me, but the alternatives just don’t seem like a good bet yet.

Teslas have adjustable aircon vents, but only through the touch screen (at least on newer models). You can definitely aim/split them.
To quote Musk's Tweet[1] on the topic:

> If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.

> No limit.

> Please let us know.

Now "unfairly treated" leaves some wiggle room, but the obvious implication here is that if you get "unfairly" fired for Tweeting something Musk will fund your legal bills. Why would he make this offer if he did not believe that you should have freedom to say (Tweet) things your employer hates without retribution such as getting laid off?

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1688022163574439937
One would think these lounges also make money by selling food and booze.
I dont know about that specific file, but pdf usually gzips its component parts so i wouldn't expect naive grepping to work.
we have a car that's fun to drive up and down the mountain because we live on the other side of the mountain from civilization. when we want to do a long drive on straight roads, we rent a land yacht that's much more enjoyable. this isn't a hardship at all. why do people who only need to take one or two long trips a year get the least bit worried? buy the cheap EV with enough range for your day to day and rent something fun for vacations with the money you save by not buying the extended range ev. this isn't a marriage. it's a transportation purchase. be flexible, get where you need to go, and have fun doing it. electric plus vacation rental is the way to go.
The Pacifica is “ok” for the price, with the plugin you lose the best feature and you’re now quite a bit more out the door.

The sienna with a plug would be quite competitive but even that is a bit more than bog standard.

And nobody makes an EV minivan even though it should be a no-brainer.
It's not politics though, it also involved them asking to have Musk stop joking about sexual harassment, which is a protected activity.

And of course some higher up dismissing it and telling them to stop complaining just makes it worse.
> So companies now own 24 hours of their employees' day?

I’ll leave the specifics of the law and this case to the authorities, but in principle it’s not unreasonable for an employer to expect discretion in public about said employer. It’s a far cry from “owning” that time and not in principle even determining what the discourse otherwise involves.
The article mentions the key detail: MD5 is broken for cryptography (collisions) but not for second preimage attacks. I was hoping there would be some discussion of just how much more difficult the latter is. It is extremely difficult.

Let’s ignore that no second preimage attack is currently known for MD5. The software the author links to has a FAQ that links to a paper that lays out the second preimage complexity for MD4:

https://who.paris.inria.fr/Gaetan.Leurent/files/MD4_FSE08.pd...

It takes 2^102 hashes to brute force this for MD4, which is weaker than MD5. A bitcoin Antminer K7 will set you back $2,000, and it gets 58 TH/s for sha256, which is slower than MD5 or MD4. Let’s ignore that MD5 is more complex than MD4, and let’s say conservatively that similar hardware might be twice as fast for MD5 (SHA256 is really only 20-30% slower on a cpu). It’ll take 2^102/58e12/2/60/60/24/365, or about 1.4 billion years to do a second preimage attack with current hardware. So you could do that 3 times before the sun dies.

If you want to reduce that to 1.4 years, you could maybe buy a billion K7’s for $2 trillion. And each requires 2.8kW so you’ll need to find 2.8 terawatts somewhere. That’s 34 trillion kWh for 1.4 years. US yearly energy consumption is 4 trillion kWh.

It will be a while, probably decades or more, before there’s a tractable second preimage attack here.

Yes, there are stronger hashes out there than MD5, but for file verification (which is what it’s being used for) it’s fine. Safe, even. The legal folks should probably switch someday, and it’ll probably be convenient to do so since many crypto libraries won’t even let you use MD5 unless you pass a “not for security” argument.

But there’s no crisis. They can take their time.
When that edge case makes for an absolutely terrible experience of driving across North Dakota in 0F weather and having to stop every 150 miles then you definitely don’t forget that pain when buying your next car.
The range on my EV6 is noticeably less in the cold. It feels like I get 0.5-1.0 fewer miles per kWh when temperatures are around freezing (roughly 15-30% less).

On our last couple of trips in freezing temps, we had to hop on backroads so that we could safely reduce our speed enough to make it.
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Or a cheaper and smaller MRI that a hospital charges 3 times as much to patients to use.
i clicked on this thinking "this better be Jacques Carrette" and lo and behold it is. Hes a cool guy
The reason EV owners keep pushing back against this argument is that the experience of owning one often (obviously not always) leads to a massive recalibration of what you thought you cared about.

Road trips was something that was I was worried about when making the purchase in 2018, and it turned out to be a complete non-issue. In all that time, I have waited for a charger exactly once, for under 5 minutes, because we decided to stop at a busy outlet mall. During road trips, 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.

It is wildly offset by the convenience of never having to fill up the car outside of those occasional road trips. People in the comments are talking about gas cars as the ones where you just get in and go without having to think about it -- there's very much a mirror image of that situation with an EV. When I had a gas car, fueling it was a constant chore. I had to think about it orders of magnitude more often. It simply doesn't come up with our EV. Every time it leaves the house, it does so with hundreds of miles of range. The idea of getting another car where I have to watch the gas gauge is almost reason enough that I'm going to stick with electric forever.

It is absolutely true that my experience is highly dependent on where I live, the kind of use I have for a car, the places I go, resources available to me, and just dumb luck. Others' mileage, literally, may vary. I'm not trying to sell you on this. It's just really easy to overestimate the importance of EV range.
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Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858794
The last time I bought a personal vehicle (2022) I did some math. I drive X miles a year, I pay Y for gas, I pay Z for electricity. I then compared some vehicles in the segment that fits my needs and found the ICE options to have a significantly lower cost of ownership for the 8-10 years I expect to operate the vehicle. So I left the extra 15 grand in stock, which will see a much higher rate of return than an EV would have.

It's not even Joe Schmoe that's looking at the up front costs. I don't think EVs pencil out as profitable for people that aren't doing more than average amounts of driving. For someone borrowing for the car I cannot image ever getting ahead compared to traditional vehicles if you get $10k-20k more into debt at 6%apr for 60 months. That's an additional $3500-7000 in interest which buys you a lot of oil changes and gasoline. I guess I'll do the math again in 2031 when it's time to start looking at a more modern car and see if they are a good deal or not.
Yeah, I made a spreadsheet about this, and (at California gas prices) my Tesla breaks even with most ICE cars surprisingly quickly (just gas costs, add in maintenance and it’s even better)
You know the ones that managed to get through. You don't know all the ones that tried and were denied because of it.
What you need is a PHEV that gets about 100 on battery, and has the ICE waiting for use.

And then sell a version that just has no engine and still 100 mile range, extra trunk.

And one where the ICE is replaced with another battery for additional range. Everything else about the three is identical.

Winner.
I appreciate you making this distinction; it's one I haven't understood clearly. My outside impression is that right-to-work is a campaign to smear unions, though I understand in some areas/professions they can only hire union workers.
That point is so far in the future that I don’t need to consider it. The US is not going to abandon their massive agricultural infrastructure because EVs. As long as significant parts of the US are not readily navigable by EVs 12 months out of the year, and that looks to remain the case for quite some time, there will be plenty of petrol.

I am sure that in 2050 the EVs will be far superior to what we have today. But then again, so will AI etc and most of these discussions may be moot.

I don’t understand what people expect to gain by antagonizing people that cannot drive an EV. It trains them to ignore or oppose the same people on useful climate mitigations that have nothing to do with EVs.
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Yeah that's fair - it doesn't need to be cryptographic. But someone back in the day decided MD5 was what they wanted and it stuck. It always raises alarms with pen testers and security scans at work, and each time we have to explain that the cryptographic security is irrelevant; it's just some unfortunate genomics standard we need to support.
This is entirely because manufacturers thought they saw a way to pad margins and then US politicians added tariffs to Chinese EVs to protect them from lower-cost competition.

As the other reply mentions, this isn't an issue in China.

And now that the bet on expensive EV growth allowing manufacturers to have fat margins forever isn't panning out, they're all freaking out about cheap Chinese models and pivoting to design cheap EVs.

You see this more in Europe than the US because Europe doesnt have the same protectionist tariffs the US does.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/fear-c...
Which turned out more like a 5 year transition period. Let's not forget.
Throwaway because I speak from experience, but the NLRB (and California equivalent) just respond to complaints filed by the ex-employees. It doesn't require some top down command.

It's a pretty common thing actually, it's just getting press because it involves Musk.
Running the headline "Fewer people are buying electric cars" and then conceding that EV sales are rising at the start of the 3rd paragraph is embarrassing for the author Paris Marx and I hope he feels ashamed.
> The vast majority of places I stopped to refill the vehicle did not have electric service.

They didn’t have electricity?! What country are you in?! How did they power their pumps?!

Ok, I’m being too hyperbolic.

I assume you mean they didn’t have DC fast charging, perhaps making a trip less practical, but I’d find it hard to believe there was no electric service whatsoever. One of the great benefits for EVs is that you can plug in anywhere.

> I buy a vehicle knowing in will serve every one of my use cases.

Vehicles are for already specific use cases; I don’t try to drive my car into the lake. I think a vehicle that can do everything probably can’t do many things well.
Another big benefit of Atmosphere is that its audio can play while other apps are also playing audio, such as a music or video player. This opens up even more avenues for custom mixes for when your brain needs exactly the right ambient sound combo to fall asleep.
Depending on locality and exactly where the local trips are, those “hopped up golf carts” may be a quite competitive option.
That's the beauty of the Internet. With maximum freedom of association and unlimited access comes the ability to disappear completely! Everyone that I've seen do that suddenly, I've tacitly assumed they died.

For me personally, I wouldn't want my family to posthumously dox me just to confirm to my online friends that I've died.
AIUI, if you want to enforce rules like that they need to be uniform. Eh you can say “business communication only, only email people who need to know, don’t spam, etc”. You can’t allow someone to sell Girl Scout cookies but then not discuss working conditions.
Twice as big as we needed to solve the problem and not well adopted ?
I've always wondered what would happen if some black hat made all their payloads have the same hash in the hopes that if it ever went to court the confusion would hinder the proceedings.

Like i get that md5 is essentially a unique identifier and not meant to protect against malicious interference but if all the exhibits had the same identifier surely that would confuse people.
Why would you buy an overpriced electric car?
Aerodynamics. It's possible for a trailer to be 5x less aerodynamic than a car.
There have been a good number of articles recently about the increase of sales of hybrids. Some of them have probably been at the top of HN
It’s not reproducing exact strings in the training data but patterns and patterns of patterns.

Next token prediction is more intelligent than it sounds
Japan has trains.
A group of employees asking their employer not to joke about sexual harassment is protected concerted activity. That is why it was illegal retaliation to fire them
Their most expensive electricity scenario is 20c/kWh. Maybe that was realistic when the article was written 5 years ago, but electricity is definitely more expensive than that in California now, even with a special EV rate plan.
This is the one good idea the Cybertruck has, in my opinion - the expandable battery[1]. If EV powertrains were standardized to the point where you could rent a battery pack to extend your range for these kinds of longer trips I think there would be a lot less anxiety about EV range.

[1] https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/cybertruck-range-extender-opt...
The problem with greater regenerative braking is that it leads to more abrupt deceleration. The car has to strike a balance.

I drive a Model S Plaid. My car’s maximum regenerative braking capability is 150kw. It is easily reached, immediately, when you let off the accelerator at highway speed, but more would not necessarily be better.
This is where I am.

It's great that we're getting more competition, but since it's more expensive R&D it's all geared for top of market. I had looked at a plugin hybrid but the actual range of the electric engine was underwhelming.

I'm also curious how the EV situation will play out in Canada, it gets damn cold here. How much does that reduce the advertised range on top of running a heater?
But 5x a very small number is still small.

Loaded semis weigh 20-40x a car. That's 160,000x the damage.

And as the author points out - it's not going to change much whether the semi is gas or electric.

It's the load of the truck that matters.
Lol, it’s clearly not for you. I’ve been actually living this lifestyle, but even at the planning stage i never bothered to even make a list of cons, speaking nothing of the long and detailed one you manifested on the spot just to post on HN.
Thanks ants. Thants.
Part of what a car sells you is an identity - you may not actually venture off into the wilderness but it's nice to believe you could.
> "oh he didn't write a pronoun at all! he's not a culture fit!"

I find this particularly sad because of how harmful it is to trans people, especially trans people who are not "out". Forcing such people to specify a pronoun is forcing them to choose between "out yourself to everyone" and "disavow your own identity", and feels just awful. Not to mention people in earlier stages of understanding their own gender, who may feel a pointed distaste for the pronouns that they've always used without quite understanding why.

(To clarify tone, I'm not criticizing your comment.)
His conception of free speech is that he should be able to say whatever he wants with no consequences. It doesn't go beyond that, he doesn't want other people to be able to say whatever they want with no consequences unless they're saying nice things about him.
Let's just set aside how much of a right a company should have over its employees activities outside of work if they're legal and don't directly affect the employees'job performance

If I understand correctly they were actually fired for internal discussions and petitioning within the company complaining about Musk's behavior. This wasn't an engineer going on CNN and bashing Elon or SpaceX, these folks were advocating internally for changes in terms of things they saw affecting their jobs and the company (which is why the NLRB can be involved here, since that is a form of organizing activity)
Best Buy is removing all physical media from their stores as of today
Yeah. In America it's pretty clear that they're using the high battery cost to say "all EVs are expensive so they start at 50k and only go up" so they can crank their profit margins.

Batteries are unavoidably expensive, but the only market they've been targeting are the wealthy, so they're largely burning through the enthusiasts and people on the border. Of course that market slows down, you've gotta open up the rest of the market to keep it accelerating. Maybe make something other than F-150-alikes.
I was considering making a startup out of my simple C++ STM[0], but the fact that, as you point out, the transactional paradigm is viral and can't be added incrementally to existing lock-based programs was enough to dissuade me.

[0] https://senderista.github.io/atomik-website/
As mentioned in the video, building these stations is expensive and the company building them (Nio) is losing massive amounts of money.
The point is EVs cost more (sticker price) than gas cars and have less utility.

I'd consider an EV for my daily commute if I could buy a new one for $10K. I think that's a reasonable price for a small car that has maybe a 100 mile range.

But automakers are offering $50K cars and above that don't fully replace gas cars. No thanks.
I was thinking something more like my Mustang. But not a crossover or a hatchback.
Mainstream rental car industry being a complete mess doesn't help - they don't bother to even promise you the make and the model, best they can do is "a sedan with 4 doors and automatic transmission." I have no idea why people don't care as if that's something normal.

There are services like Turo, where you know the exact car you're getting, but, sadly, they're far from universally available. And it's pricier, of course.
Forget range, you can’t even reliably charge non-Tesla EVs without having to drive 20 min to find a working charging station. This is a problem I’ve had in a densely populated NY suburb when I was given an electric Genesis as a loaner car.

The car was incredible to drive, and I was sold on the idea that my next vehicle would be an EV until I had 3 miles of charge left after leaving my fourth broken charging station.
the law is meaningless. it just means they rescind the offer after doing background check.