skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rented a Tesla on a recent trip lasting a few days, and I feel there are other reasons for which is a bad rental car than charging.

I've rented a lot of cars, but when I got this one I spent ten minutes completely dumbfounded trying to get it going. They gave me a key card but I couldn't figure out what to do with it. Swipe it, I guess, but where? I tried the door, but the pillar? Would've never guessed until looking online. Pretty much all other cars have keyless entry with a push button on the handle. I couldn't figure out how to adjust the side mirrors, which I always need to do in any rental, until I gave up and looked online.

Oh and when I got to where I needed to go, I left the car unlocked because I couldn't figure out how to lock it out or even whether I had locked it. I might have even left it running so that someone could have driven it off, for all I know.

I am very used to Android Auto in rentals, which I love because of easy access to the places that I care about (vs the last place than some other rental customer went to), the music that I care about, and the voice assistant that I'm used to. Instead I found the Tesla screen beautiful but distracting and useless without Android Auto.

It felt like a design very focused on eliminating hardware controls that are commonplace on most cars - very unusual - and with a strong proprietary, "we know better" bent.

So I feel like if you're going to have EVs in your rental fleet, maybe a Hyundai or Kia or Chevy is a better choice than Tesla.
In the NIO case, NIO owns the battery and you pay a monthly leasing fee. One interesting feature this allows is that you can lease a cheaper low capacity battery for the 48-50 weeks of the year you drive less then 100 miles a day, and upgrade to a more expensive high capacity battery for the few times you're driving far.
Bending Spoons also bough Evernote a while ago. Pretty much doubled the price.

With that I thought they could go stuff themselves and went to unsubscribe, but they offered a drastic discount if I didn't. So they managed to keep me for another year. :/

But if they don't get their Python SDK in order soon I might drop them anyway.
Those traditional methods don't often work very well across borders like a DDoS does. The post at the top of the thread didn't state whether or not they were based in India too.
One has to wonder how bad the justice system has to be if a trial is unable to surface the truth in this rather trivial case.

And it failed multiple times.
If I can't make my pitch / problem simple enough so that the average person / mom can understand it, I need to refine it. See: YCs advice on building simple pitch decks
Also applies to Vim. Rekindled the joy of exploration in me.
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You mean, instead of paying cash to use it, you pay with your property (your code). An old school barter exchange.

It's not that simple. If it was just about "my" code, this would indeed your claimed barter exchange. But often, say in industry, the code that you develop is combined with a lot of third party code and libraries for which you simply do not have the permission to put them under GPL.
Why it's almost always a good thing when staff quit
Used to read Private Eye in the 90’s as a teenager. I thought they were a satire mag - what is their interest in these kind of stories?
Oh that makes sense. I never am completely sure how to deal with the interaction of quote marks at the intersection of code and English
I don't expect YT to be a charity, but I do think its current market position is a monopoly (or close enough as doesn't matter) which is worth more scrutiny. It also seems likely that they got to their current market share by being massively subsidized for over a decade, and not needing to run (many) ads. How many services would have launched but thought "nah, we can't compete with Google's infinite money machine subsidizing our competitor"?

Nebula is worth a look, though.
Codeberg Under DDoS
> “Are these continuing due to recent changes in the way software expenses are accounted for?”

What is being referred to here?
or watch 'Brazil'
Show HN: Run Stable Diffusion Directly on iPhone
Stripe blocked my account without any warning or disputes
Stripe blocked my account without any warning or disputes,

stating that "we've determined that your account still presents an unacceptable level of risk. As a result, any funds in your account balance, and any pending charges, will be reversed within 5 days of the account closure date. If a balance still remains in your account after all reversals have been processed, it will not be made available to you."

It's been 20 days and they haven't refunded the customers, nor are they willing to allow withdrawals in the future. They are not responding to my emails;

if they do respond, it's just an automated response stating that funds will be refunded to the customer and I can check the status as 'pending refund' in the dashboard.

However, there are no pending refunds in the dashboard.

I don't know what to do; it's 5,000 pounds with no update. They haven't even issued refunds to customers. At least, I cannot see the status in the dashboard of which customer is refunded or not. How can I update the customers?

Has anyone else faced this issue or knows what to do?
They are just very bad at targeting them.

I'm a software developer so of course 90% of the ads I see on fb are for developer courses and no-code solutions to develop software…

On youtube there's often the "meet east european single women" above the list of suggested videos.
The old Onion joke about a nation with a GoFundMe-based healthcare system rings true.
> Google makes billions in profit every year […]

Yes, and they only offer products/services because they generate profit. Which is why there are ads on Youtube—because they help generate profit.

People find value in watching Youtube videos (howtos, tutorials, news, vlogs, etc), and for providing that valuable service, Youtube/Google/Alphabet wishes to (a) at least be able to cover their bills (server, DCs, salaries), (b) some extra reward/return.
I for one am excited for all of the money laundering and fraud that will ensue. Excellent opportunity for so many people, such value creation. /s
The consistency rule I follow in any CLI tools I write: options are optional, required are commands or arguments.

Anything with `-` or `--` is an optional. Just like all the basic unix/linux tools. You don't have to `ls --thing` to list a folder, just `ls`. Or `cat --magic --args the_file` and so on.

If I require an 'option', it becomes a command or an argument for the command, i.e. `tool --list-files` becomes `tool ls`. Copy for example: `cp src dest` works, `cp` on its own, doesn't.

I even tend to write extensible CLI tools, `tool-ls` will drop into the same folder as `tool` and running `tool` will detect `tool-ls` and present it in the list of commands. Just like git.
Pretty sure the blog existed long before SourceHut.
They're probably angling to use it against Keira Starmer because he was DPP
As someone who started with speccy and cp/m I hate command line - and also nothing beats good commander like FAR Manager for simple stuff
You’re writing down things that everyone already knows. But you’re seeming to not take the next mental step, which is:

Given that I understand all the bad things that a business can do, how do I structure a relationship with a service provider such that I get the benefit of their service, and avoid the bad stuff? What tools can I use to ensure our interests remain aligned?

You’re writing like it’s not possible to do that. Even though we live in a highly specialized society that is chock full of examples.
> In order to enqueue an element, you have to change two atomic pointers: tail->next and tail. That cannot be done atomically.

With added indirection, there are ways of doing this atomically.
Nobody has ever accused Cogent of being reasonable or competent.
The EU move wouldn't exactly help, if the attack is specifically directed at Sourcehut. That is unless the ISP and hosting provider in AMS is offering some form of protection as part of their offering. I can't see why the attack wouldn't just follow the services.
>It’s like saying, “It’s easy to ship fragile glass sculptures. You just smash them into little bits and put the bits in an envelope, I don’t see why people use all that styrofoam

You’re obviously not a New Yorker
What do you suggest for making this statement realistic?

People who work in HR do useful things. I have leaned on "people operations" support in most companies I've worked for, they do recruitment and policies on employee behavior and performance management and a bunch of other things. This is all valuable work. I'm glad it's not what I do for work, but it would be a much suckier world if nobody chose to do this work.

But they are also asked by company leadership to be the buffer, to be the messenger that gets "shot", when bad or even necessary but incredibly painful decisions are made. It's part of the expectations of the people who hire them, that they'll do that.

So what do you suggest? Do all the other useful stuff, but then when asked to be that buffer in these shitty moments, they should quit and find a new job? What should they say when asked why they quit? Is it ethical to lie about it, or do they tell a prospective new employer that there is an expected part of the role they're applying for that they are not willing to do?

Or is your suggestion something better? Like perhaps there could be a professional guild for HR professionals, and they could have a code of ethics that makes it clear that this is not something they will do. I think that would be pretty great! But that would be a much bigger and entirely different project that individuals quitting in protest.

Or perhaps your suggestion is, actually, that there should be nobody working in HR, that it is not a useful function. In that case, no, that's wrong, I've worked with many smart technically inclined people who think this, and I've worked at companies that are led by people who believe this, and it sucks.

I'm all for shifting the expectation of who has the responsibility for delivering the news of shitty decisions onto the management that made the decisions, but there has to be some theory of the case for how to get there from here.
..and THIS is why you need a strong, independent Internal Audit dept, with serious, educated, trained IT Auditors.

News like that make me very angry.

From the little I find to read, looks like it would take a 'basic' IT Auditor could in a few days figure out (and fail) basic ITGCs.

And it amazes me when I hear the term "DevOps" (cringe). But hey, I get it.. we need to make money, A LOT of money, and we need to make it FAST because of reasons (competition, greed, lack of talent, timing, etc.). Who has time and money to spend on Dev/Staging/Prod? Only stupid highly regulated environments need to be stupid enough to do this..

Going back to the story, THIS happens, people go to prison, people die. I have (in my IT Audit years) discovered/uncovered SO MANY tragic things.

And what scares me.. when I see YC 'offsprings' hiring and 99.9% of jobs are "stuff-building/money-making". Zero audit roles. And I am not angry because "damn - please hire me".. it's that how many of these places have an experience, IT savvy auditor? Not someone's cousin that is an accountant.. (no disrespect - it will take a CPA 10+ years to not be tricked).

And with that, I leave you with a friendly note on IT Auditors find and hire one with strong IT knowledge/background. They are worth their weight in Latinum!!
The Story of Your Life (2000) [pdf]
In general I agree with you, however.

Advice that is "go get drunk" to deal with a horrible situation is bad. Maybe this is what she needs for closure and not looking for answers in the bottom of a bottle.
Cachix v1.7
Yes. Recently I rented a car and put nearly 3,500 miles on it in a week, most of that in very desolate places in the Western USA. In Nevada, we would drive for hundreds and hundreds of miles without seeing another car, much less a EV charging station. I’d hate to be out there in something with as limited a range as an EV.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388
Yes, it's obviously a form of dynamic linking, which triggers the GPL share-alike clauses, but not the LGPL ones.
Thanks for sharing. Appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and results.
Ok, and you are wrong
Carta Stumbles, Prompting Customers to Consider Competitors
I don't think philosophical stance to statistics correlates very strongly to other political views. There are maybe some undercurrents regarding epistemology (Bayesians being relativists/antipositivists and frequentists being more positivist about "the truth") which maybe would be a slight left lean for Bayesians. And the father of frequentism/NHST was pretty HC right wing, but I don't think that means much either.

I'm more of a Bayesian in interpretation of statistics and epistemology, and I'm pretty far left. N=1 of course.

Neoliberalism refers to a social order and doesn't have much to do with probability and statistics.
Doesn't really matter, but that's one location that contains multiple chargers.

Of course, very few people that live in Greater Manchester would use a really fast charger like those there whilst in Greater Manchester. Maybe if you're a taxi driver, or caught short somehow? This is the confusion I was talking about.
What a weird comparison. Nobody is saying we should drill oil and gas instead of wind turbines.
https://www.nio.cn/charger-map

This map has real time stats on battery swap. Unfortunately it's only available in Chinese. NIO has done 35 million battery swap to date and you can see where the swap stations are located. Not quite as accessible as your gas stations but not far off especially in the large cities.
That's interesting, because:

- soda is up about 50% for name brand, and generic soda is up around 80%

- diesel is up, what 50%? how much is regular gas in california?

- housing "values" where I am at are up 25-40% in the last two years

- Potato chips are up at least 40%

- Apples are much more expensive

- Restaurants are up at least 25%, some 50-75%

Many of these products went up by these amounts yet also engaged in shrinkflation. The biggest example of this is Chipotle which almost doubled the cost of its burritos but also shrunk them in size by about a third.

Governments are motivated to reduce inflation in inflation statistics. Perhaps the cost of goods for the ultra-rich hasn't really changed much, but for the poor (or cheap) they have all gone up quite dramatically in two years.
In fact, they had recently shortlisted the lady in charge of the PO at the time to be the Bishop of London, because of course they had.
But my point is that you don't need additional generation. At night, a lot of wind energy is currently being lost, because 1) it doesn't get consumed and there's no means to store it and 2) the more eolic you install without batteries, the less ROI you get. Thus, you have to install extra-capacity for the day in the form of gas or coal. Now imagine you install batteries to store night wind energy: the show changes! You can actually replace a coal plant with a battery that can store enough wind energy at night that offset the coal plant, without extra generation installed.

This currently isn't true, because grids are not dumb. They are not over installing eolic or PV if they can't store the over production. But if batteries are price competitive, they might go that route. An eolic turbine that was previously stopped 50% of the nights, could be producing 24/7.
The Next Front in the US-China Battle over Chips
>probably wouldn't be around if Microsoft hadn't given them $150M to save them from bankruptcy in 1997

I'm _pretty_ sure Apple could have gotten the money from elsewhere if they really had to. It's history now, so we'll never know for sure, but I'd bet that they could have found other investors if they really had to. People seem to think it's a black and white scenario - money from MS or death! But I don't think it ever was.
What is wrong with Rust's user community?
> It's always important to look at numbers before you get trapped in your bubble.

The irony. I didn't realise that the UK (and in fact a large portion of Europe) wasn't part of the western world.
Surprised he put that shout out in, considering he doesn't like Hacker News.
Would you be willing to pay £12.99 if it didn't come with YouTube Music?
Maybe the rate of diminishing returns as they realized too many cooks in the kitchen just slows down everyone.
We had an email system starting before I joined in the mid-80s (a product we made called CEO) but it was purely internal until well into the 90s. I'm not sure exactly when most people had some form of interoperable email but it was well into the dot-com era.

I still use email pretty frequently even if communications are at least somewhat fragmented across SMS, Facebook, Slack, etc.
> brand popped up and offered a gasoline ICE with old toyota-level reliability and longevity, and without electronics

Bought that car last year for about 20K - Kia Rio 5 door. Wonderful little car.
I totally agree with your comment. I should add that, as the Romans used to say quite some time ago, 'Audentes fortuna juvat' (fortune favors the bold). With this I mean to say that some more optimistic and unmindful attitude usually helps in finding those doors, or at least in forgetting the ones that did not eventually open.
Wake jet of an enormous civilization on the move?

The higher level of organization of the universe forming some DNA?
But if all businesses really need is reasonable access to credit then isn't all this financial innovation merely amounting to highly developed parasitism that saps the strength of firms, thus the economy and society? Does finance genuinely help business or society in any of this?
Changing what is taught in business schools will make little difference. You have to change what incentives operate on people.
For my use case, the app is not half bad, except it's being Electron. The underpinnings hold so well, because .enex format is good, and the application understands Markdown formatting cues for the most part.

Also, the professional plan has GPS tagged notes, which I tend to like. Evernote doesn't have much alternatives for what I use it for. Notion doesn't work offline, Obsidian is too information dense and not easy to collaborate with. I use Obsidian + publish for my digital garden, but it doesn't work well for other things I use Evernote for.

I never had the data loss people mentioned about, either.

Lastly, I don't care about AI stuff in either Evernote or Notion. I neither trust the tech, nor I consent to train these "things" with my data.
HTTP(S)-only _is_ the limit.
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seems like wrong case study, cli power (at least for me) is in comments and record keeping what has been done months if not years ago, and an "easy way" to script repetitive tasks, I just don't see how same thing can be achieved with GUI:

record video and then comment it ?

have detailed logs what button, and what fields where edits/pressed ?

etc ...
Wouldn't the `if` need 3 branches instead of 2?
What is the process to migrate Carta to Octolane? Do we need to cancel existing certificates or what are the steps?
I certainly do. Plenty of people do.
Because stderr being conventionally used for error reporting it's important to immediately output that information to avoid losing it in case the program then crashes or ends without flushing.

Stdout is generally the "normal output" so loss of information on crash tends to be less relevant, and throughput more so as programs commonly send huge amounts of data to stdout.
I hoped for literal flying, like in the Jurassic Park operating system:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOeY07qKU9c
>There is nothing "cool" about it.

Not now of course, but I think that they lost their way mostly after the first decade.

For the first decade they launched a bunch of services that were so much better than anything else it seemed like sci-fi, and they did so without obtrusive advertising or shady tracking.

Even Chrome was cool, to outcompete Microsoft's browser on Microsoft's OS seemed impossible back then but chrome was just so much better than anything else that they managed to do it.

I think the extreme money-fountain from ads started the corruption, and the threat of Facebook created a paranoia inside Google that removed all the floodgates.
Bleeding edge TTS is 95% as good as human actors, at least for the audiobooks I consume. I think that for vast majority of audiobooks, the era of human readers has come to an end.

That said AFAIK Audible buys audibooks from partners and does not voice it themselves, so I think this layoff is unrelated.
If learning is "fun" for you, you can play around with BGP and build your own global CDN with Anycast.
"Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe."

This passage/article doesn't make intuitive sense to me here. What in this physical universe is smoothly spread? Only if you average or look at a massive aggregate level, sure. But at each "zoom level" there should be another non-smooth structure, while things at a smaller level smooth out.

It's more or less fractal all the way up and down.

I don't think this challenges our thinking on the cosmos?
What does "war" have to do with dropping 2000lbs bombs in one of the most densely populated areas of the world, bombing refugee camps, stripping people in the streets, sniping a 70 year old women with a white flag and fleeing with a child, destroying streets just to make Gaza unlivable, singing about how there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, spraying demented graffitis in the homes of Palestinians that are either racist or religious zealotry? Politics? All that stuff is a result of personality disorders and group dynamics between people with personality disorders. The incapability to have empathy and the inability to reflect, the positive NEED to deflect every single time, talk about the other, talk about something else, is the one constant.
At this point you are very loudly and publicly grinding your axe to the point that you’re telling someone to their face that they don’t understand their own viewpoint. Putting aside briefly the insanity and futility of that, it makes for a bad experience for literally everyone else.
Thanks for your additional comments folks, it's good to hear from other experiences.

It still love Tech as much as before, but I also saw the "vibe" change over the past years. I was wondering if it really was a thing, or mostly me growing older :). It seems it might be a combination of both.
> How the heck is this not criminal fraud?

It probably is; however, it's probably also not being enforced, since no government agency in the US seems to have the teeth or the will to protect consumer rights to the level they are elsewhere.

Also, when they do get a bit too willing, their regulatory activities get shut down or their funding cut because they become a little too visible in the public eye (who has a negative view of government agencies and federal employees in general). Very few government agencies have the courage to take actions that might end up on Washington Post etc.
It comes free with a Raspberry Pi.

https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
For some computer functions it makes sense, such as audit logs and other basic operations e.g. timestamps. For complicated accounting software, there should definitely be some kind of proof of correctness such as being self consistent and having sufficient auditing and logging systems.
Why luggage trackers don't prevent your bags from getting lost