skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the point.
This is really a non-reup on Tesla as a rental fleet option.

It’s important to note that they have been renting half this fleet to Uber drivers at approximately 1/2 their consumer rental rate, according to TheVerge:

> Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged / Also, Uber drivers, who are using about half of Hertz’s Teslas, are damaging their cars more than Hertz expected.

And:

> repair costs are about double what the company spends on gas car fixes, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr told Bloomberg.

Apparently they tried to pull more vehicles into the leisure category (aka consumer rentals not Uber driver rentals) to mitigate repair costs, but it didn’t work.

Also, the price cuts Tesla has been making are turning the company off on renewing:

> Price cuts have taken another toll on Hertz. “The MSRP [manufacturer suggested retail price] declines in EVs over the course of 2023, driven primarily by Tesla, have driven the fair market value of our EVs lower as compared to last year, such that a salvage creates a larger loss and, therefore, greater burden,” Scherr said.

Your analysis seems spot on.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934691/hertz-tesla-ube...
Would just penalize non native speakers.
I rented a Tesla from Hertz once in Houston and the whole experience was terrible.

Got to the counter and the agent first suggested that I take a gas car for $25/day. I was confused because that was so cheap, although the Tesla was already heavily discounted. Apparently, this was $25/day above what I had paid for the model 3 and it was for a compact economy car. I stuck with the Tesla.

The agent warned me that repairs were very expensive and I need to have insurance, which I had bought and my company also provided. Stuck with the Tesla.

I was told I need to return the car charged or I would be billed for "filling it up". I was confused why they couldn't charge at the airport and also explained that if I charge near my hotel it will likely not be 100% when I get to the airport. They couldn't say if that was ok.

I went outside to get the car and they had to go get it, a few people asked me what I was waiting for while I stood there. People getting gas cars were quickly served.

I got the car and was again told that I need to return the car charged, explained again that it won't be 100%. The agent said that 85% is fine. He asked me if I had driven a Tesla before, I had not, I expected he would show me the vehicle and provide some guidance. He simply handed me a QR code and wandered off.

I got in the car and it was only at 80% charge. I figured out how to drive it on the way out of the parking lot.
idk why you're getting downvoted, but I kinda feel the same too. I've been gradually abandoning all social media sites bc it's all hustlers and fake antics (fake news, fake tiktok 'hidden cameras', fake articles, fake everything!), vying for a second of fame to sell you on something. The fact that it's 99% video also compounds it, I feel like
We'll fight one buzzword with another!
This doesn't seem apply to a paid corporate Office 365 subscription. My work outlook doesn't even have the Advertising Preferences item in settings.
Cause they pay 2-3x as much, that’s why.
It's all of the above, but it's also because Americans like big cars, and manufacturers have realized that bigger, pricier cars are higher margin.

It's not that it's that much cheaper for what you get, it's that you can actually pay less for the smaller product, which is harder and harder in the US because they're simply not offering them.
Only on reads. For writes you always want to loop until the kernel buffer really is full (remember the kernel can do I/O while you're working). Writes, incidentally, are a case where epoll is awkward since you have to EPOLL_CTL_MOD it every single time the buffer empties/fills (though you should only do this after a full tick of the event loop of course ... but the bursty nature means that you often do have to, thus you get many more syscalls than `select`).

Even for reads, there exist plenty of scenarios where you will get short reads despite more data being available by the time you check. Though ... I wonder if deferring that and doing a second pass over all your FDs might be more efficient, since that gives more time for real data to arrive again?
Email to Google Advertisers Outlining the Redefining of "Sensitive Events"
I only rent EVs, if possible. I've gotten by just fine. Plugshare app makes it easy to find working chargers.
Tesla warranties the Powerwall for 10 years, 15 years if part of one of their virtual power plants (orchestrated by Autobidder [1]). Look into the 30% federal tax credit for it, as well as state, local, and utility incentives.

If you don't yet have solar and your site is favorable, I strongly recommend considering it if you can have it installed at a reasonable cost.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/tesla-software/autobidd...
There's a group of people who were eager for events once the pandemic "ended", but that group is much smaller than those who used to regularly go to events and stopped. Companies like Meetup need scale to be successful.
It's not a cost thing, it's not solved by salary.

It's a culture mismatch, I am certain that Indian SWE's think that American SWE's are difficult to work with.

In India "work is god" (as a report of mine has once said), and perception is reality. You do as good as you can and hide your mistakes.

America is aggressively: Pro-failure. In which I mean American SWE's will fail and move on with the idea that they've learned and grown.

It's just a different mindset, and while you probably agree with the American mindset, they'll be similar to each other in reality.

The reason that people dislike working with Indians is:

A) A communication issue, which is exacerbated by not writing specifications properly.

and

B) Indians wanting to go slower and with proper specifications and strictly adhering to those specifications.

Germans are also somewhat like this, so Indians and Germans tend to work significantly better together than Americans and Indians.
True, I could just stop configuring emacs and use it as is.

But who does that?

Plus, it took significant work to get the behaviour close to what I expect, whereas an annual Moleskine notebook already has 100% of what I need for $20 and zero minutes of configuration.

Merlin costs CAD 240 / year but it works out of the box too.
The Empire is global. If the Fed lowers interest rates, not only can foreign nationals borrow at lower rates directly or indirectly from US banks, because of that the central banks in other countries tend to follow suit.
"Responses are selected randomly from a group of base chat AIs. ... The response generated by a specific chat AI is conditional on all previous responses generated by the previously selected chat AIs."

That's all? That works? Useful.

Could that be extended? It doesn't seem inherent in this that all the chat AIs have to be LLMs. Some might be special-purpose systems. Solvers or knowledge bases, such as Wolfram Alpha or a database front end, could play too. Systems at the Alexa/Siri level that can do simple tasks. Domain-specific systems with natural language in and out have been around for decades.
Could you please let Nvidia know? They seem to have missed the memo.
Stop Building Stingy Apps
Are other brand EVs selling at high prices? Or are they sitting on lots at high prices?
except it's dropshipped right to your eyes, all the time, everywhere
> a post from a non-native speaker

In my experience as an American, US-born and -educated English speakers have much worse grammar than non-native speakers. If nothing else, the non-native speakers are conscious of the need for editing.
> you need to expose your docker socket to the container

I always thought this was a hard limitation, but I deployed some self-hosted GHA runners in Kubernetes this week and to my surprise that setup came with an option to run the full docker daemon inside of a container - so apparently it is possible.
Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash

Postulate two spherical cybertrucken in a vacuum suspended from the same point by wire under Earth gravity acceleration. After contact each vehicle moves away from the point of contact with the energy equivalent of 1/2 the sum of each vehicle's input kinetic energy.
Kerbal Space Program is another.
Hi,Thanks!
The ramp up is inherently slow, we’re still generally seeing cheaper nighttime rates than daytime rates even after years of ‘heavy’ investment in solar.

Solar’s impact on prices is going to remain fairly trivial for the next few years. But start looking 20 years out and a great deal of nighttime load will shift, which dramatically reduces the need for storage even as decades of X0 GW per year adds up.

Aka it’s not just one trend you need to follow but several.
This isn't like trying to beat the stock market. There's no intrinsic reason why their predictions should be any good, and in fact they've been comically bad, coming in too low every year for 21 consecutive years:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/09/iea-low-balls-solar-g...

(this is from 2018, but the same trend has continued up through 2023)
> That’s fairly recent.

No, it's not. In the early days, everything on the internet was free. Before 1996, commercial activity on the internet was forbidden.
It infests the 'rest' of your code.

It's a framework.
It's not a mainframe unless IBM ships 6 entirely different OSes for it.
What sensitive event prompted this change?
... plus hardware vendors, some very large companies and security consultants financially benefit from churn
(splinter thoughts on this):

How can one call a digital fingerprint for a digital creation by my digits a copyrightable material, versus an actual fingerprint of my digits to ensure one produced said material?

If every key on a keyboard took a fingerprint scan before submitting the unicode for whats being typed?

Scould you expect a smart machine to have an individually signed keypress for the code generated?

Biological-keylogger

So if every key on a keyboard were a touch-sense input button? Then add pressure and you can get emotional sentiment analysis on angry typing or not - or thoughtful typing of a cadence of thought?

Or touch-type-training for keyboards which map to a typing style - or an educational/mental ability acuity level?

Maybe you can have a typing cadence associated with a fingerprint signature such that you can modify the behavior of a system based on who is typing what...

If the software was adaptive to how you interact with it, that would be interesting - then you can have a true provenance for snips of code?
Car rental companies generally don't guarantee specific models. Even if you select like a convertible Mustang, odds are they won't actually have it. They'll give you something that "meets or exceeds your reservation", like a chevy suburban.

Turo is much better if you need a specific vehicle. In Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah I've rented 4WD vehicles when I needed 4WD. They almost all still say in the contract that you're not allowed to take it off road. I always contact the renter ahead of time to make sure it's okay if I go on dirt mountain roads that need 4WD and I've always found someone who approves. I'd guess you can get what you want on Turo.
brb, just switching my 100k employee company from Teams to IRC, should be quick and easy, everyone is going to love it.
Please provide sources. This contradicts the "avoiding insider trading" course I had to go through at work last month. (and just to be clear, I'm not saying you're the one who is wrong).
That may well be the case. But I’m not driving far, it’s just while my car is in shop. Gas is $2.90 here, and the rentals was a Chevy bolt — so not a Supercharger right, some non Tesla connector I have to track down?

I think it was $25 flat if not as same level, so I can fill it to the level I received it and hope they kept accurate records (ie knew it wasn’t full).

I think if I had ample time during all this an EV would be interesting but I just don’t want to make a mistake and make this repair even more expensive.
You get a better TCO much sooner than 10 years in most cases. Tesla is often not one of those cases, however, because they've historically commanded a price premium that was hard to overcome with lower running costs. That's starting to change, but Hertz bought these cars at a pretty high price point. They'd have been better off working out a fleet deal with GM for Bolts.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/democrats-react-benja...
Very few people have ever paid for Windows in a way that was visible to them. The majority of Windows users have always just used the Windows that was pre-installed on a computer that they bought.
Wayland breaks things Just for now?
Ah, Hacker News

Never change
* Adobe switched to subscription model.

* Locked-in (for various reasons) userbase moved in to subscription model en masse, begrudgingly and complainingly

* Now, as soon as you stop subscription, your software stops working, and your catalogue will not work with pre-subscription files

We can debate semantics of "turned on the screws" and "screwed over", but take it on my word that most of us are feeling thus :). Yes we were hoisted by own petard and choices.
Hours? You might wait 20-30 minutes every 2-3 hours of driving. Well I say wait, you’ll probably be doing something else for most/all of it since that is a natural stopping point for most.

Note: please people don’t shares stories of how you drive for 20 hours without stopping, I hate being reminded about the habits of some of the people I share the road with.
No OP, but for example you still see the C# folks still struggling to add discriminated unions to the language because of complex interactions due to its too many features[1]. Virtual threads are easier to use than async/await is another example.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/113
This must work on some subscription system. Otherwise how can you be sure you're not getting a bad nattery replacement. How can the business make sure you're not giving them a degraded battery for their new one?
>I'm going to avoid Hertz from here on out as much as possible.

Hertz having a history of unrepentantly reporting their customers as having stolen returned rental cars is another reason to avoid them.

The fact that CostcoTravel.com does not have Hertz as an option also tells me that Hertz is not a good business.

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/herbert-alford-hertz-l...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/hertz-false-arrest-cla...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/03/02/rental-car-h...
Just in case you missed it, the same guy also has a gear generator

https://geargenerator.com
Yes, interesting thank you
It's like Apple offering a default "privacy vpn", and lately now google too, it's really just a way for them to slurp your data as well what you're visiting, dns resolving, basically everything you do over the network. Even worse is apple enables it by default for all their devices, so all day long firewall logs for customers fill with "proxy avoidance" drops for apple proxy service as that's what a firewall should do in a corporate environment, treating this as data exfiltration.

What does Apple really do with that information? I at least know what Google or Microsoft is doing, by example of this article.

I just laugh as Apple users misplace their trust and think they're somehow secure for it buying an iphone, at least Microsoft users know the insecure mess they're stuck with.
If compatibility isn't an issue (I have yet to have any compatibility problems with my Steam Deck), I don't see why they shouldn't move to SteamOS. However, I fear a future in which people develop games on Linux targeted directly at SteamOS: I find C++ development to be far better with First party Microsoft tools (Visual Studio, MSVC, DirectX, DirectXTK) than on Linux. I vastly prefer Microsoft style APIs to Linux style APIs (DirectX over OpenGL especially, though Vulkan is ok), and I have yet to find a C++ development environment that I like as much as Visual Studio. With solution files, vcpkg, and project files native to Visual Studio, managing projects and dependencies has become a breeze in Windows. Comparably, few IDEs on Linux provide comparable debugging tools or good UI (CLion being the only one I can think of, though I personally hate most of Jetbrains' UI) and cmake is such a poorly designed tool and syntax to me, I would hate to have to deal with it directly than just having vcpkg manage the builds and dependencies for me (though I think vcpkg is compatible with Linux). I don't mind targeting Linux as a platform via Proton, but I would really hate to have to write Linux specific bindings for a game
More or less, yes. You get OpenSSH for free; you are not paying for it, and not paying to support its development. Critically, you are not paying for its developers to support old, obsolete, broken cryptography. Keeping DSA would be an added maintenance burden that the OpenSSH team just isn't prepared to continue taking on.

If there's a wide need for it, hopefully everybody won't maintain their own fork; all that's necessary is people band together and maintain a single fork.
Sixt is dumping Teslas for same reasons as well.
On the other hand they are increasing their Chinese EV fleet in Germany at least

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/08/sixt-dumping-teslas-due...
I'm cautiously optimistic, but I also think about things like "Rebel Moon". When I was growing up, movies were constrained by their special effects budget... if some special effects "wizard" couldn't think of a way to make it look like Luke Skywalker got his hand cut off in a light saber battle, he didn't get his hand cut off in a light saber battle. Now, with CGI, the sky is the limit - what we see on screen is whatever the writer can dream up. But what we're getting is... pretty awful. It's almost as if the technical constraints actually forced the writers to focus on crafting a good story to make up for lack of special effects.
For a resale impact it doesn't matter much if the price is low or high, it matters if the price drops.
Hopefully this improves the quantity and quality of meetups in my area, which seems to mostly be ESL, toastmasters, book clubs, various fringe nutters, barhoppers, and old people who want to go on short walks.
It's entirely situational. I paid less than $300 last year to drive 12K miles. If you're using a supercharger for all your charging, you'll spend the same as using gasoline. It would be pretty unique situation if it actually cost you more.
I think I need to stop coming to this website.

HN is absolutely behind the curve about every new piece of tech now.

Just grumpy old boomers ranting about the good old days.

So long. And thanks for the memories
Their predictions are comically bad, year after year they massively under appreciate the growth of solar. Just look at this graphic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsX2rpPW0AIVORG.jpg?name=orig
But that took decades and millions of people contributing to how Linux can be empowering.

But then someone created systemd, the end.
Even the snapshots at archive.org are blank

I hope someone here has a valid link...
So basically only companies don’t get spied on now? Even paid accounts are subject to data collection by default?
Spending less time on the internet in general or perhaps hyper strict closed off walled garden social networks for humans only.
Like I said, I understand the sentiment in the abstract. But my actual experience is that many good quality essays are often preceded by a gimme-yer-email popup. That's not causal - popups don't make content better - but it does seem correlated, possibly because the writers who are too principled to try to build an audience without email lists already gave up.
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Ironically the fastest path to getting everyone connected was to have them talk to cloud data-centers/neo-mainframes.

So it both justifies the mainframe, but if you look at why we all went mainframe in the end, it was to, ironically, connect many computers together.

There's also the overwhelming issue of power and control. Moving computing back to the mainframe allow totalistic control over computing by the service provider. This is a good way to make money. But is it good for the world? And what would the world look like if we had reliable fast trustable interconnected system, instead of cloud mainframes/data keeps?

I'm forgetting which books but some of the books about early computing talked about protests against computerization, against the mass data ingestion (probably among others What The Doormouse Said?). For a while the personal computer was a friendlier less scary mass-roll-out of computing, but this cloud era has not seen many viable alternatives to staying connected while keeping computing personal. RemoteStorage was early in, and Tim Berners Lee trying a seemingly very reasonable Solid idea seem like very reasonable takes, or going full p2p with data/hyper and that world: none of these have the inertia where others can follow suit. The problem is much harder, but I think it's more path dependence and perverse incentives, that breaking out will be found to be quite workable and good and validated, but there's gross inaction on finding the moral, open ecosystem, protocols & standards based alternatives for connecting ourselves together as we might.
Small typos are much less disrespectful for a reader than an interposed sentence, inside parenthesis, inside an interposed sentence.
Can't wait for my 5 year old to start a sentence with "However, it's important to note that ..." ^^
> this is getting bogged down because of profit maximisation, reputation and patents

This gets worse when there's less competition, not better.
I know - but its just another step of effort...

top 100 games on some torrent sites tell the story of where games are landing

https://i.imgur.com/1rT2wCL.png

EDIT: YOU REPLIERS ARE KILLING MY PREMISE! MAKING HARD TO NOT INSTALL GAMES ON MY LINUX DISTRO! So by making it "insanely easy" you are promoting why I dont want to install them!!! xo :-)

Thanks for keeping the DNA of my comment alive!!!
Loss of use is is a huge cost for a rental company.

If you rent a vehicle out for $75 per day, and it needs a $1000 repair, and a repair takes 2 weeks, the loss of use is more expensive than the entire repair!

Repair times have been getting longer across the entire automotive industry, as parts availability hasn't been great, but Tesla vehicles are notorious for long wait times for parts availability and availability of the specialized labor sometimes required.
You do make some very good points, but I disagree on one.

>Now look at how few companies in the EU become worth 1B compared to the US. That low ratio also applies to smaller (and larger) companies.

Money is power/control, and not having a concentration of wealth is a good thing for society. Granted many of the ultra wealthy also support giving away their wealth - but (IMHO) the Benevolent dictator model for social change is indicative of a failure of government. I think there is wastage of allocated capital both when its done by elected officials and also with the ultra wealthy.
I saw the twitter post of what they're talking about.

It was just the way the car hit it I guess, CT was basically untouched, everyone was fine, but it was high enough speed to total the other car.

It's not really an indicator of anything, just an interesting happenstance.

CT didn't crumple because it wasn't hit where it needed to crumple.
They do art.

It’s just published on YouTube. Seriously the quality of diy videos and everything is sometimes PBS or BBC quality or better.
What you wrote is true only in the narrowest sense: of course people “can” rationalize. People also “can” fly to the moon. That doesn’t mean that is what people are doing, and it comes across as deeply unempathetic to express as a default assumption.