skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original Nissan leaf was launched in the Uk with this model as a choice. I.e. you could buy car + battery or you could buy car for less and lease the battery for 10 years iirc.

The cars purchased on that lease model were punished in their resale values in the Uk, to the point that Nissan discontinued the program.
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My yahoo e-mail account was Yahoo-ed (one day, I logged in on it to find Yahho deleted all my e-mails (some of then important and others of sentimental value), due to account inactivity for a new arbitrary number of days not previously informed.
Where tourists seldom tread, part 7: five more UK towns with secret histories
CPU would, but I think GPU will remain a blob
Very interesting! Dale is anachronistic in English by now I guess. I've only read it literarily as in "over hill and dale" and otherwise thought of Tal as valley in German.
Google is a clear case for why you should pick a service because of it's business model.
> Most of Google is now mature products. Run it like a business -- maximize profits. It seems logical to me.

It is logical if all you want is to extract maximum short-term value from what was already built. To me, the logical conclusion of this path is irrelevance in the long term.
However bad the software is and however bad the software-related decisions at Fujitsu and the Post Office were, nothing should distract from the fact that the real culprit is really with the Post Office leadership who destroyed the lives of 900 people, ridiculed them, forced over 40 into suicide and countless others into falsely claiming guilty to bargain when faced with a lawsuit they had no hope to win at the time. Equally guilty is every politician and bureaucrat above them who failed to raise their voice or take action, as the case may be. Instead, the former head of the Post Office has moved on to the next sinecure (at NHS this time) and was awarded a CBE. Thankfully a recent High Court decision has condemned those in charge in no uncertain terms. The damage of this decade-long scandal for all of society is tremendous.
In English even its name may work against its adoption, because of the W.

Can you send me that as a "Pee-Double-You-Dee"?
I wonder how did you reason that? Because their madness looks similar to humans’?
Ever used IBM‘s CCM? You will WISH you could use Jira. Begging even I tell you.
> Intellect by itself does not cause good.

We aren’t interested in ‘good’, it’s more about the burn rate and the monetisation strategy.

Said mostly sarcastically.
No one mentioned yet but Smile Game Builder is also an option https://store.steampowered.com/app/483950/SMILE_GAME_BUILDER...
I reckon you rolled in the mud when you didn't have to here. In this comment you pulled in more material when what was there before was stronger.
I can't help but read this as a severely pessimistic take on the capabilities of markets, since we can trace trying to "optimize productivity" back to essentially the earliest things even remotely resembling the modern economy and most of the enormous amount of research, money, and effort that has been poured into this endeavor has been at best occasionally better than chance at consistently improving any kind of "productivity" in the long term through labor practices, unless we directly define the suffering of workers as "productivity."

Most meaningful gains in productive capacity come from either resource windfalls or technological progress, and general theories of how to reproducibly increase worker productivity via policy are more akin to sacred rituals than settled science.

To be clear, I personally do think that markets function as optimizers, though as with any optimizer this tends to function in a very narrow scope. Most extant companies, for example, are driven by capital markets, not consumer ones, which means that ROI for shareholders - even when that's driven by essentially marketing stocks or goosing metrics - is the main thing being optimized. Hypothetically, markets could optimize for organizational productivity in some other sense, but I think it's even pretty unclear whether there's a way to subdivide that usefully into any kind of apples-to-apples comparison of individual workers within organizations.
Perhaps you are only confused about being confused. Called JavaPC. It cost money and I don’t think it sold well, maybe you were the only customer. There was also a DOS port of Kaffe called KaffePC.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000613171121/http://www.sun.co...
I was looking recently at the German second hand market. My rough estimate was that Teslas lose about 50% of the value at year 4.
EU bans 'misleading' environmental claims that rely on offsetting
4. the central bank gets to decide how much "cash" each individual deserves to have at any given point in time. All of the proposals I've heard set that limit at less than one month's apartment rent in most EU cities. Therefore, this scheme is not competing with any form of money or payment besides coins-and-banknotes.

5. this "cash" has an expiration date, which is chosen at the whim of the central bank. If you stuff it in your mattress like paper cash, it becomes worthless. Therefore, this scheme is a massive step backwards in terms of central bank control over our lives, relative to coins-and-banknotes.

If this takes off, it will affect only a small slice of our economic relations, and it will affect that slice for the worse, not for the better.

I'm disappointed that Tanja Lange was willing to associate herself with this.
Models are new, and some manufacturers are unknown to the buyers. Used batteries are an unknown. That means the difference between buying a new car and a used one is bigger in terms of the percieved value to the buyer. If I buy a new ICE car I pay a premium of $5-10k for having the benefit of owning it the first couple of years with hall the warranties. It's peace of mind at a reasonable cost. The cost of that benefit is going to be bigger both in absolute (because of the higher price) and relative terms for BEVs for the foreseeable future. Especially for newer brands like the new chinese players, but also for Tesla which is still young.
Investors may have the memory of a goldfish but two or three crashes would surely rile up the media and end users enough to make a huge dent. Competitors and savvy investors might precipitate a sharp fall in stock price.

People value their own life a lot and it takes little to get a sizable portion of flyers to boycott the planes if there were crashes and loss of life. The airlines might decide it's better to sue boeing at that point.

Everything above is a speculation but I have a hard time imagining companies not being ruined after multiple airline crashes.
Modding her favorite game could proof a entry drug to the industry.
Opportunity to do what?
So we need higher fines to make bug fixing the cheaper solution
ISA's today don't need to be human understandable.

ISA's of old would have an "ADD" instruction that added two numbers.

New ISA's should have crazy complex instructions that implement things helpful to make javascript/python/whatever run fast.

We should set mostly-automated design-space-search programs off to consider millions of autogenerated new instructions and simultaneously figure out how that would impact compilers, CPU design, power consumption, performance, etc.
I agree that there is a lot of uncertainty about the longevity of batteries. However, it seems to me that the extra depreciation is driven by price cuts of new electric cars.
The article mentions an "electric car could expect to lose £24,000 in value over three years, while a similarly priced petrol car could lose £17,000" - Naturally, given that the sales price of the EV came down by £7,000 last year alone (i.e. Tesla Y).
Worth mentioning that The Telegraph (also known as the Torygraph) is a zealously anti-EV newspaper. They have a strong conservative bias and routinely publish borderline fake news regarding EVs.
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This seems to be in the complete opposite direction of other suggestions here, but the majority of my pre-teen gamedev experience was in the StarCraft I and WarCraft III map editors. These days the StarCraft II map editor would get my recommendation.

Why? Because you start from the base of a working game, and incrementally add the specifics of your desired gameplay. In other engines you'll start with more or less a blank slate, and not only is that intimidating for newcomers, but it also comes with a large delay between building something, and being able to interact with the result.

The Blzzard map editors are incredibly powerful. They've spawned multiple entire genres (Tower Defense and MOBAs both originated as custom maps).

They have an accesible scripting system that is kind of a blend between a visual and a text-based programming language. They have an extensive content library built in, so you don't have to learn 3D modelling before you get started on gameplay...
Thanks! I'll try it out soon. Looks exactly what I wanted, including the feature to order variants automatically (`dark:sm:... -> sm:dark:...` from the repo's readme).
Before you say it's absurd, have you read the rationale behind the changes requested? Chesterton's fence applies.
Yet many people clamour to consume bee vomit (from their honey stomach).
I think making a pico8 game is cool, there are many many guides for shmup games or rogue like games or adventure games, also lua is quite fun to learn, and there is a lot of fun in coming up with the assets for the game, making sounds and etc.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pico8+tutorial

Another option is to make a Roblox game, their studio is very accessible and the scripting is quite straight forward (e.g. if you step on this object it moves)

I have spent 2 years teaching my daughter and I thought python and pygame are nice, but we made lots of other games, and lots of turtle based generative art (you can also get some basic game ideas from there, like snake or tictactore or whereiswaldo):

https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...

I think the curve of excitement is quite steep at start, and then it gets super boring, so if you can reduce the scope as much as possible, and manage to get to some playable state its amazing, if you use godot or some other engine you can make the game playable on web so he can share it with his friends its really nice.
Battery swap would be a reverse Gresham's law: bad batteries would get withdrawn from service and repacked to maximise range profit.

EV should be redesigned around a common core swappable battery technology. As new battery chemistry comes online make it form factor and plug compatible.
But the EV needs asphalt for most of its roads.
I'd like to see more SaaS platforms selling themselves by showing off their clear invoicing or their live status page.
I am a bit sad with the timeline, it's "by 2026", why not just say "any material produced after April 2024" or so?

It's also as usual to be seen how/where it really applies, whether it is enforced, etc...

However, this right there IFF it lives up to the promise, should be what market liberals should love, shouldn't it? Make sure the playing field is level, and that customers get actual information (not just lies) to make their decisions.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. will do
It all started with a simple business decision: do we fix costly bugs, or send to jail a few folks?
I’m not sure “making sense” is a relevant criteria when discussing mythology. The fact remains that Jesus (or at least the author of Luke) interpreted it as Satan.
In Europe, Renault sold the Zoe and others on a battery lease basis, reducing the vehicle cost but with a recurring lease on the battery.

For me, as a used car buyer who wants to buy a car outright (not on finance) that rules it out. I don't want to commit to paying Renault monthly to lease a battery at a price that is more than I currently spend on petrol.

To be fair, that is not very logical on my part, it does not make financial sense for me to go electric as I do so few miles.
Fujitsu is also to blame.
Good have simply said that their software can't be trusted.
Ok this is where I'm going to whine about those 8 bit computers that booted to basic. They were perfect for 9 year old me - i just needed to be shown how to put pictures on screen and read the keyboard and then I went wild on my own.

>Joke aside, what can I do? This sounds like a great project for us to explore together and hopefully he can grow interest in software design and development.

Don't think so. Find a simple framework and let him experiment on his own. It will be very hard for you to abstain from teaching him everything you know and overwhelm him (source: various attempts on teaching my daughter everything i know :)

Personal opinion: scene graph (even if 2d) based frameworks that are targeted at amateur game developers, like gamemaker, are too complex and dedicated to productivity not ease of use. A beginning kid may be better served even by ... SDL. If you don't try to teach him metaprogramming and advanced data structures and just let him write BASIC in C++.

Edit: Oh I missed the 3D part. As others said, maybe convince him to start smaller. Or get him to do a mod for a 3d game with good tools...
> It's pleasantly surprising to see this model getting acceptance in the regulatory spheres.

The only way this gains regulatory acceptance is if the KYC/AML regulation is moved to the audited exchange - I.E. less friction for authorities to get transaction informations, not more.
If that were the case, it seems like it wouldnt have taken covid to tip the balance so much, and it would have tipped back much more quickly. I've never worked at a company that would come anywhere being classed as optimizing for productivity, there has always been a huge amount of wasted time and resources.
Ah my bad, misinterpreted it
That's an interesting perspective.

I think that for most people, commuting time is neither work time nor personal time: For most workers, it is just unpaid downtime that is (or at least was) necessary for work.

And especially for those who commute by driving: It's not really a good time to improve their skills, in particular because notetaking and sketching out problems and whatnot is kind of out of the question while performing the primary task of driving. It really is mostly just downtime and it can't (safely) be much more than that.

And now that many folks no longer have such an every-day downtime commute: Why should they use that new-found time to further their skillset, instead of do anything else that they might wish to do?

Is it wrong that they take some of that new time to prepare and cook a healthy, fresh, and delicious meal for lunch instead of packing a lunch or going out (or visiting the cafeteria or, in some workplaces, the breakroom's Wheel of Death)? Is it wrong that they spend the extra hour or two (or three, or whatever) that they've gained in a day with their families, or to enjoy nature by themselves, to goof around, or exercise, or work on a hobby (or a dumb game, or a good game) or to get ahead on housework, or to finally get a chance at a healthy amount of sleep?

Why is it even remarkable that when a person finds that they have an extra hour or two every day, that they don't immediately use that time for education and career-oriented self-improvement to directly boost their workplace productivity?

And I'm not saying that career-oriented skills should never be improved on one's own time, or that doing so is in any way an undesirable thing, either. There's absolutely nothing inherently wrong with doing that with one's own free time, either. And many do, as many always have.

But I am saying that I think the subset of folks who chose to use some of their personal free time educationally before the plague are likely to closely resemble the same subset of people who choose to use their time that way after the plague. And certainly, some do use their new time for more of that.

Subtracting a commute from a day doesn't necessarily change one's personal proclivities at all, I don't think, but it may enable some of them to actually be possible.

(This prompts another question. If some people who are predisposed to spend their free time learning are spending more of that time learning, and individually becoming more productive, then: Why is productivity still averaging flat?

Remote work can also allow for more opportunities for active slacking while on the clock for those who are predisposed for slack, for one example of a way in which the average can be brought down.

Mouse wigglers, anyone?)
See Databricks authors' paper: https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper17.pdf
Companies change CEOs all the time. There's weeks and months until the next one is coming in. Pick any company, just any, and you have your answer.
Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together
Another good article on interesting barcode use cases:
https://scanbot.io/blog/5-interesting-barcode-use-cases/
>I couldn't stop thinking to myself about how many smart people work there, and how much money the company has, yet still it was one of the worst online experiences that I've had.

Really feels like the product has been in 'maintenance mode' for a while. Probably the focus in the company has shifted to growing platforms and not declining ones. Once the grandparents are on the platform it dies.

Was it a video you uploaded? Have you considered doing a data request to see if your video is available that way?
>There are good reasons why 32-bit Arm failed to compete with Intel for performance, and why x86 has failed to displace Arm in low-power markets. The things that you want to optimize for at different sizes are different.

What if x86 CPUs werent designed for low power? e.g due to focus on competitivness in perf focused markets

Saying that one isa is faster or more energy efficient is like saying that c++ syntax is faster than java syntax.

While there are lang features that enable stuff, then almost everything is up to the implementation - compiler, libraries, runtime and the programs code.

One letters arent faster than the other. ISA doesnt imply perf. characteristics of the end product.

Read this:

https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...

Even if you start talking about decoders, then:

>Another oft-repeated truism is that x86 has a significant ‘decode tax’ handicap. ARM uses fixed length instructions, while x86’s instructions vary in length. Because you have to determine the length of one instruction before knowing where the next begins, decoding x86 instructions in parallel is more difficult. This is a disadvantage for x86, yet it doesn’t really matter for high performance CPUs because in Jim Keller’s words:
Unfortunately, its not that simple. From the car company perspective, all they want is to sell new cars and they are perfectly happy with scrapping the 8-years old EV with damaged battery.

Also, people keep talking about converting batteries to home energy storage but its not that simple to do on your own - in fact its borderline dangerous to do so on your own due to hundreds tricky mistakes you can make that will end up with fire completely burning your home. This will only make sense at industrial scale but that also means it wont be too cheap anymore (not to mention those 8-years old cars which are in good condition, just missing battery that is more expensive than new car).

Also, I do think people are scared way too much by those dying batteries. Some of them will fails, sure, but there are so many gasoline cars with engines which have like 50% failire rate between 90k-180k miles driven. That's also pretty expensive to fix where often the only choice is to buy another engine from crashed car. I assume it might be similar here - 20-30% batteries will fail soon after the 8y warranty and will be replaced by batteries from crashed cars, the rest will work just fine for 15+y

I own Mach-E EV and I am scared. It's a great car, I love it but looking at what tesla is doing to the EV market - both new and used - I can't even fantom how it will look in a few years.
I was going to post about game engines worth exploring to get this project off the ground (bevy, Godot), but then I read this post. OP, this guy gets it!
I've noticed a lot of FUD recently with electric cars - a lot of it coming from the same sources.
If I was more suspicious person I would say it's planned rhetoric.
If you have had the misfortune to open the default homepage in MS Edge recently, it is routinely a smorgasbord of anti EV rhetoric from the likes of the Telegraph, Express and Mail.

Someone somewhere is spending a lot of money on promoting those views to the sort of people who don't change their browser or their homepage.
I was the same 9 years old back in the 90s waiting to do 3d games, except my dad was not à technical person at all, so I was on my own. My memory is:
- 3d math was too complicated and not fun.
- a 3d game requires lots of 3d models/assets, which I wasn't able to create, buy or find.
- I still was able to follow à tutorial about directX to rotate a triangle with rainbow colors: not satisfying, I wanted to do games.
- What solved my frustration was Flash. Easy to understand and to make finished games (for a 9yo, we're not talking masterpieces)
- Today, making a 3d game is probably within reach using an engine such as Unity or Godot, and downloading free assets.

As a parent, don't do much more than exposing him to available options. If he's smart, he'll find a way to make a game. It only took me 20 years and a full career.
Flattr is closing down (2023)
you can also make games with Scratch eg https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/888899999/ . Another option is Replit that also has plenty of games ready https://replit.com/community/games
A contributor is currently working on this feature [0]
We are currently discussing which options to add to the rule on the Discord of Biome.
We expect to ship the feature with the next release (on February).
A nightly will be released earlier to gather feedback.

[0] https://github.com/biomejs/biome/pull/1362
The other way to read this is "Hooray! second hand electric cars are a bargain" :)
All 2nd hand cars in the UK are currently depressed. Battery 2nd hand have been depressed even during autumn 2022 when 1 year waiting lists for new models (combustion or ev) weren’t unheard of.

For example, a 3 year old Nissan leaf with higher mileage could be had for £15k during that time. A 3 year old higher mileage goes for £7.5k today. The model in question was circa £30k new.

If you’re in the market for an EV in the UK, today your money goes quite a bit further 2nd hand than you might expect. Low mileage Porsche Taycan Performance Pro’s (the 100+ kWh pack) are hovering around 50k at 2-3 years old. More than 60% depreciation.

Mercedes EQC market has been flooded for some reason, you can get a new lease (personal) for under £300/mo on a 3 month upfront/8k miles. Second hand these are trading similarly down like the Taycan.

You’d have to be mad to buy any of these new. A realistically priced lease would be the way to go if you want new but 2nd hand nearly new seems the better choice if you’re willing to wear the risk that these cars don’t have a floor (seems unlikely, even in basket-case-onomics uk 2nd hand car market)
No people don't expect to be caught or in this case don't expect the issues to have such an effect.
They're out there, but they often don't come with a desirable badge. Check this out as an example:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202311013531800

The car is almost brand new, has a realistic 180-200 mile range and a wealth of features. Total cost 12k.