skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I charge my Tesla at home and I love it. But I visited family over christmas and driving around in their Rivian I was reminded how absolutely shit non-tesla charging still is. I'm not at all surprised EV sales are dropping when charging is as awful as it is.
The answer is a bit simple. Only a small amount of Earth's population lives at north European latitudes (https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/). Solar is quite effective for the majority of the population, so its adoption rate will have the biggest impact on further climate change.
> Why did the people who are meant to be our leaders not do anything?

This is by design. A representative democracy is not intended to do what the people want. The representatives know the people are ignorant, obedient, comfortable, and scared. So the people just stand there mouths agape while the representatives do (or not do) whatever they want. The only consequence comes from other representatives. No representative fears the people. They're sheep.
I think there's something to it. More important HTMX is just new and different enough that it needs time to be picked up by the industry, BUT indeed it does largely eliminate what is commonly considered strictly front-end work, and thus forces teams to change their composition and division of responsibilities.

At least where I worked there was often a frontend vs backend divide where some devs would write backend logic, and some others would worry only about consuming backend APIs to get the UI to do certain thing. The APIs is the contract and interface between the two sides and a natural place to divide responsibilities.

Now, with HTMX, the divide is gone. The backend generates and swaps the parts of the UI, effectively driving the UI/UX directly. This cuts tons of JS out of the picture and couples (not necessarily in a bad way) backend and frontend.

If you look at a popular YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GObi93tjZI , the result of HTMX rewrite was "JS guy left".

So in larger teams switching from something like React to HTMX largely turns everything upside down, not just on technical level but on how people work and collaborate.

It would be far easier for new teams and projects to go HTMX route, where they can start and keep hiring people who are fine in a new model.
Then why is there hundreds of Google tagged questions on LeetCode?
World Trying to Quit Fossil Fuels Gets Flood of Gas Instead
It makes sense... EV's pay for themselves over the long run, much longer than rental cars stick around for. They typically lease them for up to three years and then flip them for newer vehicles. EV's have lower TCO, but only if you keep it for a decade. With a higher sticker price and insurance, it makes sense the rental sector is having cold feet.

Anecdotally, the exception was Japan, where my wife and I rented a pristine ten year old Aqua direct from Toyota, but that sort of vertical integration seems to be rare here.
I know a relatively successful author and screenwriter. Said person is abondoning their current projects, because apparently their friend is very successful selling books on Amazon, produced with the help of AI. The friend will, apparently, teach them how they, too, can tap into this market.

This conversation over Christmas dinner set off so many red flags, that I could only bite my tongue and nod.
That's the problem for Meetup and most SaaS apps: they aren't running a charity, and need to match up their offerings and demand with those who are willing to pay for their service.
In my native Netherlands, in the summertime there's solar, in winter there's is wind.

I have a dynamic energy contract, I pay spot prices + taxes and markup. What solar energy I sell in the summer, I can buy in the winter. With our heat pump, I need to generate about twice as much as I did before we had the heat pump, to match it in money (summer is cheaper than winter at the moment). Watt for watt is not a useful measurement IMO, since I can't store Watts, but I can store euros.
> everybody only wants to spend $0.50 and then they complain when they get $0.50 worth of widget.

I don't think that's quite the case. Instead, I think the people complaining at receiving the $0.50 widget complain when the (now-broken) widget was in a $1000 gizmo, which used to include the $50 version before cost-optimization.

It's a market for lemons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons), only with general, notionally durable goods. Build quality is opaque and liable to change without notice, whereas price is obvious.
doesn't require the exponentially growing energy demands of BTC tho.

like, it requires a lot, but not exponentially
In general, I think it's a bad idea to try to orient our entire education system to push everyone into a job that only 1% of people will end up doing. Instead of teaching python to kindergarteners, we should start specializing students earlier. Rather than having everyone take the same classes up to about the age of 20 (your first 2 years at college being mostly pre-requisites and gen ed), we could adapt strategies from European education systems which allow specialized high schools in the mid-early teens. Even more, I think students should have more control over what they learn and when. The idea that we could push tens of millions of teenagers into the same narrowly focused job and have ALL of them come out with the same good outcome is just educational malpractice.
> For me; Its harder to fall into the "Oh - Ill just intall a bunch of these old games" distractions... or "what new games can this bitch run (slaps laptop's lid)"

Not to ruin your productivity but it's actually insanely easy to install a bunch of old games on Linux these days. And plenty of new games run just fine thanks to the advances Valve has been making with Proton.
> You no longer have to hire a copywriter

Has anyone tested a marketing campaign using copy from a human copywriter versus an AI one?

I would like to see which one converts better.
I bought some old refurbished laptops from Dell that my kids play with. Their cost was so low I just let them try their best with a screw driver in the back to open it up. We upgraded ram and relaxed the batty. I threw Linux Mint on there so I have full control without MS advertising to my kids and put retroarch to play some old games. Tons of old games were pretty good for learning depending on your viewpoint. I remember playing Putt Putt in the 90s.

I'm terms of hackabilty, I mean, it will depend on the kids. I try to explain to my kids what is going on inside the laptop and show them it is not magical, but their attention is fleeting. I let my two year play with the screw driver and my 6 year old actually pull ram and replace battery. He likes the old games and has stretched his reading/planning skills to get through Pokemon Red.

Anyways, here is where I frequently find cheap machines.

https://www.dellrefurbished.com/
Hertz says conventional maintenance is lower cost on EVs compared to similar ICE cars.
Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
> In the long run I don't see any company being able to build a moat around AI.

This feels like a fantasy.
There are some! This is called "Docker in Docker", and you need to expose your docker socket to the container, which has some security implications.

It can be secured, as gitpod does, but as I understand it is a PITA.
> htmx+<backend of your choice>

You can use React with any backend.
> is the hotel going to have charging, is it going to be operational, etc. Too much headache

Remember when hotel wi-fi was like that?

I expect this situation to change (slowly) over time.
>> your IMAP and SMTP username and password are transmitted to Microsoft in plain text.

> I think that is not true. I think that is a lie on Proton's behalf.

Sadly, it is all too true:

Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data...

Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwo...
Ask HN: How can I get Blind to delete my account?
I guess I made one too many low brow jokes and got permabanned. However, all of my non-moderated comments are still up on their forums and I can easily find them via web search. Because those posts are associated to my Real Name and corporate email address I'd like to take them down.

Here's what I've tried:

+ contact support asking for account deletion, response was: "We are not able to delete permanently banned user accounts."

+ GDPR data erasure request, response was: "Blind is a U.S. company not actively marketing in the European Union. Therefore, we are not covered under the GDPR."

Any other ideas?
Feds to Highway Signs: You Have Two Years to Stop Being Funny
> There's no reason to buy a sedan when on the same footprint you can get an SUV with more room.

This is a popular opinion, but there are still advantages to a sedan. e.g. driving dynamics, weight and aerodynamics and therefore fuel economy, price, etc.

It's just that many buyers don't prioritize these things.
My employer’s (not Microsoft) biggest problem has been getting any competent sysadmins to apply at all. Maybe one in a few hundred applicants is capable enough to interview; the rest are just cookie-cutter cloud-only SREs who’ve never cared for a server before. They’d love to be “DDoS’d with applicants”, because there might be a few capable sysadmins in that pile! And we’re a lot smaller than Microsoft — so, yes, most likely, they’re ready.

(Our job postings are all published on the usual job database sites under the usual sysadmin/opseng titles, and I don’t have any sort of special intake process to offer beyond that.)
> The reality is they are likely the ones making any money by building up a following making these promises.

The typical scheme that gets people rich since "Rich dad, poor dad", but now it's exponentially easier to do. It's crazy
I'll go one further, though I expect to receive mockery for doing so: I think the internet as we conceive of it today is ultimately a failed experiment.

I think that society and humanity would be better off if the internet had remained a simple backbone for vetted organizations' official use. Turning the masses loose on it has effectively ruined so many aspects of our world that we can never get back, and I for one don't think that even the most lofty and oft-touted benefits of the internet are nearly as true as we pretend.

It's just another venue for the oldest of American traditions at this point: Snake Oil Sales.
Unfortunately for consumers repairability would harm efforts to treat cars like subscriptions so I doubt EV manufacturers care
Indeed, why are innocent dogs and bulls getting the blame here? Clearly this is about artificial human shit.
Or you can go to some another page, upload a public key, and then they also tell you that you should put such and such lines into your ~/.ssh/config file.

And no, I am not going to store passwords, or auth tokens, in an unencrypted plain text file thank you very much.
I was under the impression that EVs would be a better fit for exactly this kind of a purpose - they're easier on the consumables other than tires and more resilient to abuse. Is it the lack of 3rd party part availability that makes damage repair more expensive?
The reason you wouldn't say something to someone is because you are afraid of the power that you give people along with that knowledge.

Your family is in a a position of power, which is why it can be scary to share information with them. People at OpenAI are also at a position of power, but people who use their services seem to forget that, since they're talking to them through a computer that automatically responds.
Sounds like someone is jealous they didn't get to have any of the apple.

This is why words have meanings. Companies aren't people and hence "shaming a company" can't possibly mean "shaming the legal entity" because that's nonsense but instead shaming the humans that make up that legal entity. Saying such a thing is impossible actually treats the company as an autonomous metamind.

I interpreted what you said as nonsensical and I'm making that your problem isn't really an argument.
Show HN: I built an affordable alternative to Spotify and YouTube Music Premium
Hey guys,

I had to cancel my spotify premium subscription which was a terrible thing once I like to listen music in loop while coding or at the gym.

So I decided to code myself something cool to solve my own problem that makes possible listen music in loop and without ads. I took a night off and started coding something.. so that's how I built Youtube Music Loop.

I know many ppl like to listen music but not everyone can afford to pay, so it's a lite affordable version of spotify and youtube premium, where you can:

- Keep listen music without ads.

- Synch your playlist through all your devices.

- Listen music in loops and without ads.

- Search for your fav music or just copy and past the link of youtube song (when search api doesn't reach its limit).

- Get it as pwa / app in your phone home screen.

- Works on pc and laptops, tablets and mobile devices.

- Easy and simple to use, no fluffy stuff.

It's an affordable option and you pay once and use it forever, which is more than half of youtube and spotify premium subscription price.

You check it here: https://ytb-music-loop.web.app/

Let me know what you think and improvements you like to see, I have made many improvements as you can see here and here.

-Fausto
When I checked an hour ago, the link went directly to a page that had the latest release and no readme. I checked twice, in two seperate browsers.

Now a readme does popup, so it makes more sense. No idea what was happening, but as nothing changed it seems to have been on my end.
> But the solution is not to argue that the notion of a union is useless. The intellectually honest solution is to seek achievable solution in the mess that is the real world.

You can say that about any topic, but what specifically are you proposing? Or do you just want to talk about stuff?
They seem akin to the investors buying old dying malls for cheap and optimizing for revenue generation at a lower scale.

https://www.investors.com/news/the-investors-who-see-plenty-...
Distributed SQL Database Internals (4) – SQL Engine
>Volexity said it has evidence to suggest that the customer’s VPN appliance may have been compromised as early as December 3, and has linked the attack to a China-backed hacking group it tracks as UTA0178
They are literally not easy-level

Just take a look at the list https://leetcode.com/problem-list/top-google-questions/
Getting some but not all of what we need sounds like an extra trip we could have avoided.
> free people from drudgery in the hope that it will encourage the biggest HUMAN artwork renaissance ever in history

Just like the industrial revolution or just like desktop computers?
I think the implication is that we'll see a further split around pricing.

One thing that stood out to me is that in the case of thermal loads (perhaps your dishwasher but more realistically a hotwater heater). It will become more worthwhile for that system to know when high and low electricity prices are and store more heat (i.e. hotwater) at low electricity prices and wait until prices fall again to refill it. In this sense, a heater would be operating like a battery.

In a world where energy prices are stable throughout the day, it doesn't make sense to manufacture, for example, a price aware water heater with extra storage capacity. It seems like that calculus is changing with solar and other renewables creating an incentive for variable rates compared to traditional fixed rate alternatives.
Maybe you could hang a physical piece of art there like a painting, with the display embedded in the glass within the frame.
Over Christmas I rented an EV here in Germany, wanted to try the Renault Megane E-Tech. Instead I got an Ora Funky Cat, so Chinese car.
Electrical driving was quite nice (as most EV), but there were so many other annoying things:

- First and most important for an EV: It needed a lot of energy, 25 kWh per 100 km at 120 km/h on the highway at 10 degree Celsius. Combined with a pretty small battery it was annoying how fast you lost range.

- It warns you (via voice) as soon as you hit 120 km/h, every time you go below and reach it again.

- If you activate the Automatic Distance Control it will warn you (again with voice), every time you activate it.

- It was cold in the car, even with temperature set to 26 degree Celsius. But the heating was working when the car was not moving but in ready mode.

- Slow charging speeds, 70kW max.

- If you unpack your car and leave the door open, it will warn you with voice output, that the key is not in the car. All the time, without any pause, a hundred times. Highly annoying.

- A lot more annoying things the car tells you to do, all with its voice.

So all in all a pretty horrible experience, if other Chinese cars are similar, they will not make a dent here in Germany, even with their lower price point.
It is. Ranging from sexualised animals (aka furies) to sexualised children cartoons (aka anime) and all the garbage text and trash google search results, the internet is starting to look more like a madhouse rather than a useful tool. Why are companies catering to the needs of such people instead of sane folks? Is it because the latter gave up on using it a long time ago - ie during the conspiracy theory craze of 19-20 - or is there some sort of agenda we are unaware of? Literarily all social networks are filled with weirdos spamming ai left and right.
I think you missed my remark about the inability to pull an old version from within an airgapped environment. It's usually still possible, but the level of difficulty can vary depending upon security requirements. Imagine a security officer refusing to approve the introduction of an older and insecure program into a secure environment.
Its already becoming hard to tell the wheat from the chaff.

AI generated images used to look AI generated. Midjourney v6 and well tuned sdxl models look almost real. For marketing imagery, Midjourney v6 can easily replicate images from top creative houses now.
I worked on government systems circa 2003 and it was a mess of outsourcing, delays and consultants. It was always a question of which corner to cut.

I don't think anyone was trying to do the wrong thing but rather timelines and budgets were tight.
The `real` type (float32) only has 24 bits of precision. So converting `9999999999999999.0` or `10000000000000000` or even `10000000300000000` yields the 32-bit float `10000000272564224`.

For some reason Postgres prints it as `10000000300000000`. It uses a heuristic to print a "pretty" number that converts to the actual stored value, and it's not smart enough to give `10000000000000000`. Some heuristic like this is needed so something like `0.3` doesn't print the actual stored value of `0.300000011920928955078125`, which would be confusing.

You can check all this here: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html
“Microsoft changed” indeed.
It baffles me... When I'm driving in an unfamiliar place, the last thing I want to be driving is a lumbering beast that is longer and wider than what I'm used to.
> Most older people don't do arts/sciences when they retire from work.

This isn't my experience. I know a bunch of old folks doing woodcarving, quilting, etc. Its just not the kind of arts you've got in mind.
Any engineer at ICL who was present when these prosecutions were going on, and *knew* there were problems with data integrity and quality of the system in general should've blown the whistle and shares (some) responsibility for these repeated miscarriages of justice just as senior management at the Post Office do.

If folks here don't share this view in their day-to-day work, then they are part of the problem. The act of writing software does not exist in a vacuum and software engineers are not too stupid to be able to consider the wider consequences of what they are doing.

In other professions, acting honourably actually matters and there are professional bodies which actually give a damn about the ethics and actions of their members. I'm not sure why it's okay for software engineering to remain in the dark ages.
Nobody maintains anything anymore anyway. Even a company that sells 18M laptops a year for $30B can't be bothered to timely fix their OS bugs.

So that's 99% of the code base right there. X has proven 80% aren't doing much of importance.

Of the remaining 1%, 3/4ths are probably rewriting to some flavor of the week and 1/4th are developing some real feature.
Copying this over from the other thread - It makes sense... EV's pay for themselves over the long run, much longer than rental cars stick around for. They typically lease them for up to three years and then flip them for newer vehicles. EV's have lower TCO, but only if you keep it for a decade. With a higher sticker price and insurance, it makes sense the rental sector is having cold feet.

Anecdotally, the exception was Japan, where my wife and I rented a pristine ten year old Aqua direct from Toyota, but that sort of vertical integration seems to be rare here.
are you in ca?
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
... and sometimes they have no viable plan for having something close to what they've promised.

Not so long ago Ireserved a car, from a large national company, to go on a backpacking trip. I picked an early pickup window, so I would have time to drive a substantial distance, hike, and get to my desired stopping point before nightfall. I arrive at the rental place at 8a, and find that they're fully staffed but had only a a single large van available for rent. If I waited around until mid afternoon, I was told, _maybe_ something would show up. One of the staff told me that the prior week corporate had decided to open up that site even though there were no cars.

I'm surprised that Turo/Getaround/etc don't message more aggressively about "you'll actually get the car you want, when you want, which somehow most car rental companies think is unachievable."
Considering the quotes have an unknown, and almost certainly not public domain or CC BY-SA license[1], they wouldn't be appropriate for any Wikimedia project.

[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"
Yes, they got screwed because 1) Tesla dropped prices repeatedly on new cars, and 2) the payback that makes TCO on an EV lower for private owners is not captured by a rental company.

#1 may or may not have been something they saw coming, but how they missed #2 is a mystery.
We are 5-10 years too early to be renting EVs. I have seen folks in Vermont who have rental EVs because those were the last on the lot. There is not enough infra, you need a bunch of apps, you need to understand how EVs work with weather and driving conditions, etc. This just hinders EV adoption because all of these people will never get an EV for the forseable future because they aren't early adopters but were forced into it. So yeah, it's kind of obvious why Hertz would dump these cars.