skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed there would be a market for new aftermarket batteries but it hasn't developed at all. Theoretically a battery pack isn't the most complicated thing and electrical compatibility is a lot easier to achieve than for a ICE.
This is up front price, not TCO where it's already parity.

Also the 50% number is based on a bump in cathode material price in 2022 and 23 as can be clearly seen in the graph.

It's now returned to a long term trend and up front purchase price parity has been predicted for mid 2020s for about a decade now.

Here an article from 2017:

https://about.bnef.com/blog/electric-cars-reach-price-parity...

Anyone working on longer timescales should have been planning for this. China was, the West wasn't and now the cheaper and better cars of the future are Chinese made.
Reaching customers != conducting business. You can't sell things via Twitter like you can via other companies classified as gatekeepers.
Maybe, but it doesn't have anything to do with the "45M active users".
It's PC with Calibre app + USB cable + Kindle = books transferred (not just drag and drop if you thought this as the old fashioned way).

It's a step between but think of Calibre as your own book "store". It's an ebook management app that can automatically convert almost any ebook format into the one your device needs but at the same time also gives you the option to edit the ebook details and stuff like that. It's honestly great, I'd totally recommend it.
I’m not accusing you of this, but I will mark things as spam even if I signed myself up if what they’re delivering is just garbage.

It’s usually not newsletters for me, but small niche companies who sell very specific things and feel a weird urge to have a weekly newsletter. It’s like all they sell is 2 models of guitar capo, but they still feel the need to send me weekly updates on I don’t even know what.

The kind of things where I not only don’t want the emails, but I want to register that I feel I was misled when I signed up.
I've noticed a lot of this lately where someone is like this is an alternative to xyz and it does like 2% of what that service or application actually does.
Most games work, if it isn’t bundled with anti-cheat.
Same, but for VPN (either corporate or personal). Reddit blocks it completely, requires you to sign-in but even the sign-in page is "network restricted"; LinkedIn shows you a captcha but gives an error when submitting the result (several reports online); and overall a lot of 403's. All go magically away when turning off the VPN. Companies, specially adtechs like Reddit and LinkedIn, do NOT want you to browse privately, to the point they rather you don't use their website at all unless without a condom.
Yes, you can make a list of terrible acts committed by almost any military, especially if you go back 76 years to before it was a state. It is very clear that some soldiers in the IDF, like in any army, have committed war crimes.
This assumes efficient markets which doesn't exist when there is a monopoly on legitimate buyers. The value any one individual puts on a thing does not a market make.
> But why would Yooden Vranx have "lots of" chestnuts on his spaceship? And why "of course"?

If you want a good in-universe explanation, here’s one: in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Zaphod’s grandfather says that he was friends with Yooden Vranx. He would anticipate the kids would drop by.
> batteries (ICE's need them too)

I've replaced a few ICE batteries in my time. You can replace them at home in 5 minutes and they are a gazillion times cheaper than an EV battery. :)

> ICE has a very complex drivetrain with thousands of moving parts. Belts, transmissions, gears, fuel filter, oil seals and gaskets

This whole thing about ICE is FUD IMHO. Yes, complex, but on modern ICE vehicles is highly-reliable.

Also I would argue with EVs you are replacing ICE "complexity" with other complexity. For example, in EVs you now have individual motors on four wheels (i.e. potentially four points of failure), you have all the software in EVs etc. etc. etc.

I would also argue that the ICE "complexity" of what you speak is NOT where the bulk of ICE maintenance costs come from. Afterall, topping up the oil and replacing gaskets is kids work.

The bulk of ICE maintenance will ultimately be the same as EV maintenance, i.e. all the wear-and-tear parts I listed already, such as tyres.
Marketers everywhere will be sad to know they’re just doing a hobby, not real business.
My understanding is that every major attempt at getting to a two-state solution has been encumbered by pre-conditions set by Israel that have made the negotiations a non-starter.

For example, any deal that would have Israel give back territories it has been occupying since 1967 has never even been on the table.

The Oslo accords, perhaps the most serious of these, were deeply unpopular on both sides.

Also, any and all attempts by Palestinians to get formal recognition in the UN have been repeatedly vetoed by the United States.
the US gov't is finally doing something about giant pedestrian-killing SUVs
Yes, actually. The (Arch) Linux-based Steam Deck is brilliant for gaming. Much better than any Mac in my household.
> My keychain has two physical keys, and these change only every time I move.

How often they change is irrelevant, the point is how you would recover them.

> Of passkeys, I have quite a bit more, with new ones added at least every few weeks. That makes them much harder to physically or even logically replicate one by one.

But what is your plan if you lose them? either you plan to never lose them (3.), you have a way to replace them (2.) or you accept the risk to get locked out (1.)
I have spent years writing about and studying Lisp, including buying several books.

This is categorically not the case.

Let me paraphrase my own post from Lobsters a year or two back:

I hypothesise that, genuinely, a large fraction of humanity simply lacks the mental flexibility to adapt to prefix or postfix notation.

Algebraic notation is, among ordinary people, almost a metonym for “complicated and hard to understand”. I suspect that most numerate people could not explain BODMAS precedence and don’t understand what subexpressions in brackets mean.

I have personally taught people to program who did not and could not understand the conceptual relationship between a fraction and a percentage. This abstraction was too hard for them.

Ordinary line-numbered BASIC is, I suspect, somewhere around the upper bound of cognitive complexity for billions of humans.

One reason for the success of languages with C syntax is that it’s the tersest form of algebraic notation that many people smart enough to program at all can handle.

Reorder the operators and you’ve just blown the minds of the majority of your target audience. Game over.

I admire Lisp hugely, but I am not a Lisp proponent.

I find it fascinating and the claims about it intrigue me, but to me, personally, I find it almost totally unreadable.

Those people I am talking about? I say this became I am one.

I myself am very firmly in the camp of those for whom simple algebraic infix notation is all I can follow. Personally, my favourite programming language is still BASIC.
That, perhaps, is the end goal.
> But I imagine WordPress is far from being displaced, even after everything that has been going on.

Right. But this is because of a very simple, undeniable fact that is unpopular around these here parts:

There is nothing close to as good as WordPress at everything WordPress can be made to do.

No GUI-based CMS not built on PHP can be as flexibly hosted as one that is. PHP is easy and can be secured. There are no real PHP-based competitors for WordPress that are as easy to install, configure or use.

There are no CMSes that can get close to being as good for a bespoke mix of small ecommerce, member systems, digital downloads sales, form handling etc. Hosted or not hosted.

Say what you like about the block editor (personally I think it is an impressive but ultimately ten-year-plus project). But TinyMCE and shortcodes has proved painfully non-robust and there is no other block editor on an open source CMS that gets close to being open-ended enough for an extensible CMS. Gutenberg has some strengths over hosted solutions like e.g. the Squarespace editor.

There is no open-source CMS that rolls out security patches automatically the way Wordpress does, or can do so at the scale WordPress does.

HN people may dislike this, but it has not been out-competed because it is actually basically competent and extensible, and has no real jack-of-all-trades competitors at all. There's nothing with this level of contribution, extensibility, attention to detail, longevity or backwards compatibility.

Personally I think WP Engine needed a bit of a straightener; there are things they should not have done and there are things they could do. But this was not the way to go about it.

The damage Matt is doing, in particular with the "Secure Custom Fields" gaslighting bullshit is among the most depressing examples of willingly setting one's own hair on fire that I've ever seen.

(Edited for clarity, but sorry everyone, I'm waiting for a new coffee grinder to be delivered this morning)
Bitcoin currently is just incredibly unfriendly. On any exchange wallet, you now have multiple Bitcoin addresses - segwit, lightning, bitcoin, bep20/erc20, a separate taproot address, separate ordinals address

its honestly intimidating

this thing needs to be simplified, not made more complex

the stupid ordinals/runes stuff has made it even more complex
> "A single charge lasts up to eight (8) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13".

> So, it has 28 hours of actual use time, got it.

Reminds me of when Quorn sold 3 sausage rolls but labelled them as 12, arguing that if you cut each one in 4 you get 12. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42251481
And this image does not depict a pipe: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/MagrittePipe....

Giving WINE (originally WINdows Emulator) a cute backronym does not change the definition of the word emulator or whether Wine is one. Please check your favorite dictionaries for that.
There's not a lot to learn, desktop Linux is pretty much the same as windows was when it was still good.
So does the Itanium ABI (which is what most people would think of as the normal/standard/usual C++ ABI):

$ c++filt
_Z1fPFvPcE
f(void (*)(char*))

But I'm struggling to understand how this would cause things to break.
Actually, I am building that one, so probably the EU isn't Sauron after all.
It's crazy, people used to be excited when a new version of Windows came out. New features, prettier UI. People used to pay a lot of money for a new mayor OS version. I probably haven't payed more than 5 € for Windows in the last decade.

I think if Microsoft would focus on quality of life improvements and fix the mess that Windows UX often is, maybe implement a fancy new theme every once in a while, then they could get people excited about updates again.
For signed overflow it's fascinating, Herb Sutter (WG21 convenor, Microsoft employee) writes that checking would "incur unacceptable costs".

Now, C++ programmers, were you consulted about these costs? Herb insists they're "unacceptable" but he provides no further information as to what the cost actually was, or who decided whether that cost was acceptable, much less how this could generalize across a wide variety of domains and platforms.

What's Herb's answer? You might hope that Herb would say OK, we'll provide wrapping for these types by default, it's not checked arithmetic but at least it's not UB. Nope.
> That included one unnamed worker on a $400,000 salary, who said they had used their meal credits to buy household goods and groceries such as toothpaste and tea.

I bet that was really worth it...
Apple is currently fighting the EU over the DMA. https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/24/apples-app-store-breaches-...

Pretty sure you’re mixing up US and EU cases, as your description sounds more like the https://apnews.com/article/google-epic-android-app-store-d63... case.
Presumably hate speech is a hate crime in the many jurisdictions where hate speech is criminalised.
Melatonin isn't a sleep drug. It's something your brain makes naturally at the end of the day when it gets dark etc. As I understand it, it's part of your bio clock and is not much more than your brain telling your body it's time to go to sleep. But if you're on a plane and you're nervous about flying, you won't fall asleep any more than in any other situation where you're nervous and not lying in your bed. You don't necessarily need something stronger, you need something different.
“The government” isn’t a single entity. Agents within the bureaucracy have to within rules and policies. And the front door access methods have things like audit trails to prevent internal abuse.

There are many scenarios where the existence of an official investigation as evidenced by said audit logs is undesirable for a variety of reasons.
Zuck betted on metaverse being a thing and lost billions on it, that money must come from somewhere
You are talking out of your posterior. EVs are far more reliable and have less maintenance than ICE vehicles.
Thanks so much! Yeah this was also a key reason I like this approach. Quite often we end up with repeated values due to quantisation of signal or timing differences or whatever and we get exactly that problem you describe, either massive gradients or 0 gradient and nothing in betweeen. With the KF approach you can just strip out the repeated values and run the filter with them missing and its fine. In the quantisation case you can approximate the quantisation observation noise by using resolution*1/sqrt(12) and it also all just works nicely. If you have any sample data of some fun problems and don't mind sharing then let me know and we could add some demos to the library!
Until it is in my hands and I've paid that for it at that price, I remain hesitant. I think every early pricing prediction I've seen was to drive investment or interest rather than push costs down.
Games on linux now regularly get better frame rates than the same games under windoze. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/three-gaming-foc...

If you want to try out games on linux and make it easy, try out Lutris.
bc Is the Only Calculator You Need in Unix
> The bigger problem is Google et al make it very easy to waste money on their ads.

That's me in 2018. Spent a good amount of money in Google Ads and only attracted users that we did not want.

Just putting negative keywords wasn't sufficient, and even one miss was enough to waste all efforts.
> But with every new non-patch release, some part of the public API is changed and we have to adapt.

bumping only on major release is recipe for pain and misery. everyone project i'm familiar with bumps weekly against HEAD. much more manageable.
I saw a teenager on YouTube replace the battery on an early LEAF with a newer, higher capacity pack from a later model and (separately) a Chinese firm offering replacement packs for the same car at capacities never offered by the OEM.

Notably the kid said the hardest thing about the swap was sourcing the replacement battery.
I bought the slightly cheaper version with ads years ago and asked support to remove them because they „weren‘t relevant to me given where I am living“. I found out about this option on reddit or in the product reviews on some local retailer‘s site, so I assume it is/was a bit of an open secret.
This paragraph is directly taken from phoronix:

> Preparations are now underway to set the default C language version of GCC to GNU23 as the GNU dialect of C23. Or in other words, implying -std=gnu23 when no other C standard is specified.

In other words, if you don't pass `-std=c99` yourself, the compiler will default to `-std=gnu23`.
How to Use the Materialize Emulator
Yeah even the article says that X execs were the ones that pushed for this. Other than editorialised headlines this seems like a total win.
That is precisely the point he is trying to make....
For those who keep Windows for the games.. there is this -> https://bazzite.gg/
What is your opinion on Joomla?
You can boil a glass not a vr headset
> I say that as a member of the wg14 and the UB study group

Since you have experience in this area, do you know how likely it is that something like this could be resolved? I.e., if someone proposed "just make this defined", how likely would the C standards body be to agree and do so?
No one put a gun to his head though. Discomfort of English speakers isn't enough reason to not use your real name if that's your preference. Again, speaking from experience.
This is a strange comment. Majority of SWEs in FAANGs are Asian: https://www.statista.com/statistics/311815/google-employee-e... most of the software you like was probably written by Asians.
Magnet-free induction motor aims to nearly halve carbon emissions
Unchecked capitalism trys hard to turn into feudalism.
... until you need dx12 support.
You don't need anything at all. A reactor that has never been turned on is not radioactive. The only protection you need is to simply not start the reactor until it's on a planetary escape orbit, one that does not return.
That's how I use Next.js, as a static site generator. Any dynamic stuff goes on top of the static site with a dedicated API server. It makes things so much simpler to not run Next.js in production, other than on client side.
We need HouseX instead of SpaceX!
Moved to Fedora many years ago, and also AMD based kit for the usual reasons. Had zero problems, uptime of months, if not longer, and still gaming and developing. No random pauses, and everything, including search, just work.

Windows 11 - used it $day job$ and it's ok. That's as charitable as I can be. They're looking to move staff to Macs and Linux, and retire W11. It's only in use because of things like Office, Outlook, and the odd bit of software that's Windows only. Which is kind of ironic, because there are quite a few programs I've come across that download only for Mac or Linux which is the opposite to 20 years ago.

It's funny and a bit sad that Windows 11 is the kind of version of Windows I would have associated with Ballmer. A sort of in-your-face money making machine with all its ads and cruft. Yet, it's Nadella. Does Microsoft, at some level, have a 'we know Windows is dying' attitude? They have their other billion dollar 'pillars' of Azure, Office, XBox, and so on.
> It's not 99% of the same things, you have cherry picked.

No, I have not cherry picked.

Because the remaining 1%, topping-up oil, replacing gaskets, belts etc. is simply not where the bulk of ICE maintenance costs come from. This sort of stuff can be done cheaply and easily by your local garage.

The bulk of the ICE and EV maintenance costs is the same, the stuff that gets exposed to the wear-and-tear of the elements, i.e. your tyres, your windscreen, your shock-absorbers etc. etc.

An EV does not make you immune to getting nails in your tyres, chips in your windscreen, cracks in your shock-absorbers etc. ....

> Most manufacturers grantee their batteries , mine has a 10 year warranty

As with most things of this nature, I would be interested to see the wordings of such warranties, particularly the exclusion clauses. :)

> There's many studies comparing the cost...

And if we exclude studies funded/conducted by the EV companies or others with vested interests ? :)
> WordPress and Automattic as Subject to EU Legislation

I'm loath to defend Mullenweg but WordPress.com is not 43% of the internet. WordPress (the software) is used by 43% of websites, WordPress.com is used by a few million, making it smaller than Wix, Squarespace and even other WordPress hosts like WPEngine.com. Automattic has no relationship with a meaningful amount of end-user data.
Since Valve's Proton and Steam Deck (with companies targeting Steam Deck compatibility) Linux has become a very viable alternative.

Apple with its ARM CPUs and requirement for Metal isn't there really.
I think gp was being sarcastic and talking about made up news, I.e. a Rabbi spray paints a swastika on his temple and reports it as a hate crime. It’s quite common because it gets you a lot of attention. But you’re right about how silly the term is.
A few things make this effective: freedom to follow one's curiosity, personal responsibility, and intrinsic motivation over extrinsic.

I used to teach public middle school, and I developed a profound belief that how we educate students is entirely backwards.

The things that make an off year effective scales to an entire K-12 program! See the free democratic schools like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school I believe the majority of students would thrive in such a school, if they had the chance.

They have no formal classes, no teachers, no tests. Yet students still learn to read earlier, they read more and at a higher level. They graduate from college at higher rates, and have higher rates of entrepreneurship. I believe this model is a superior pedagogical model for the majority of the population.

"The Sudbury pedagogical philosophy may be summarized as the following: Learning is a natural by-product of all human activity. Learning is self-initiated and self-motivated.

The educational model states that there are many ways to learn and that learning is a process someone does, not a process that is done to him or her; According to the model the presence and guidance of a teacher is not necessary. "

Check out:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sudbury_schools

https://www.phillyfreeschool.org/why-it-works

The problem is we are stuck with our current model - even when alternatives have better outcomes, parents just say "well my kid would not do well with that, they are too lazy to even do what we ask." They do not realize that our current model is so broken that disinterest in a student is a perfectly rational response.

For example, I think video game addiction is a natural response to being forced to do something you hate 8-12 hours a day. The fact that the Philly Free School has very few students ever even playing video games at all (but they are allowed to all day if they want) paints a very clear picture that video games are a symptom not a cause.

And finally, a damning indictment of our current model; https://cantrip.org/gatto.html
Why would one expect those things to not be more expensive? Governments explicitly and intentionally manipulate currency so that prices (overall) are on an upward march.

Also, comparing changes in income deciles over time would be more useful than minimum wage changes, as legislatures are not necessarily reacting in real time.

> food, water, energy, shelter, clothes, health

Many of these are things where technological advances resulting in greater and greater economies of scale plateaued, or where technological advances mean that your expectation of the quality of goods or service greatly increased.

The former would be water/energy/shelter/food/clothes. The world has a lot more people competing for these resources, but there was no commensurate increase in supply.

The latter would be health, where the healthcare from your childhood is a greatly different product (at the advanced levels, not necessarily the routine checkup or flu visit).
Agreed the replacement rates have been lower than anticipated.

The only problems have been the predictable ones - bad designs like the early Nissan Leafs which had no thermal management.

That said, the amount of datapoints here should increase by orders of magnitude over the next 2-3 years as the first million Model 3s roll out of their 8 year battery warranty period.

I'm sure that once there is regular demand for battery replacements, the cost won't be much different than an engine rebuild.

So even the pessimist case for EVs today is "well the TCO is lower for the first decade but then..." and I think we will be solving the "but then.." soon.